History and Doctrines of the Babi Movement:
by Maulana Muhammad Ali
History and Doctrines of the Babi Movement [PDF
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Table of Contents:
- Part I - History of the Babi Movement:
- 1. Mirza Ali Muhammad Bab:
- The Shaikhis and the Imam Mahdi
- Mirza Ali Muhammad as Head of the Shaikhi Sect
- Assuming the Title of Bab
- His First Attitude towards Islam
- His Claim to be the Mahdi and his Plans
- The Bab at Isfahan and Conversion of Mutamid-ud-Daula
- The Bab at Tabriz: his Second Recantation
- The Bab's Third Recantation in his own Handwriting
- The Bab Taught and Practised the Doctrine of Taqiyya
- Bab's Secret Organisation
- Mulla Husain of Bushraweh
- Mulla Muhammad Ali of Barfurush
- Qurrat-ul-Ain
- The Badasht or Shahrud Conference
- Respect for Law and Order
- Mulla Husain's Advance on Barfurush with an Armed Force
- Babis Fortify Themselves at Shaikh Tabrasi
- Babi Depredations and Appointment of Mahdi Quli Khan to Deal with the Insurrection
- Babis Break the Terms and make a Night Attack
- The Babis Surrender
- Some Remarks on the Tabrasi Insurrection
- The Niriz Rebellion
- The Zanjan Rebellion
- Some Remarks on the Nature of the Babi Movement
- Execution of the Bab
- 2. Mirza Yahya, Subh-i-Azal:
- Bab Appoints Mirza Yahya as his Successor
- Mirza Yahya's Uncontested Leadership
- Dhabih's Claim to Divinity
- The Claim of Basir
- Babi Attempt on the Shah's Life
- Consequences to the Babis
- Headquarters of Babi Movement Removed to Baghdad
- He whom God shall Manifest
- Asadulla's Claim
- Other Claimants to the Office of 'he whom God shall manifest'
- Bahaullah's Voluntary Exile into the Sulaimaniyya Mountains
- Bahaullah Matures his Plans for a Higher Claim
- Persian Government's Fresh Anxiety on Account of Bahaullah's Activities
- Babi Leaders Removed to Adrianople
- Relations of Subh-i Azal and Bahaullah
- Alleged Attempt to Murder each other
- Bahaullah's Followers Murder Four Azalis
- Azali Leaders Murdered one after another by Bahais
- True Nature of the Movement Revealed
- Bahaullah Deported to Akka, and Azal to Cyprus
- End of Subh-i-Azal
- 3. Mirza Husain Ali, Bahaullah:
- Why Bahaullah was not Chosen as his Successor by the Bab
- Choice of Azal as the Head a Farce
- Bahaullah at Acre
- Babis Persecuted and put to Death
- Assassination of Syed Muhammad and two other Azalis by Bahais
- Assassination Justified
- Nature of the Babi Movement as Revealed by its Assassinations
- The End of Bahaullah
- Bahaullah's Children
- Position of Bahaullah in the Babi Movement
- 4. After Bahaullah:
- Abbas Effendi Succeeds Bahaullah
- A Dissension
- Hatred between the Two Sections
- Repetition of the History of the Azali-Bahai Differences
- Spread of the Movement to America
- Methods of Preaching Adopted by Dr. Khairullah
- Form of Initiation into the Movement
- Wild Statements about Bahaullah
- Abbas Effendi as Reappearance of Jesus Christ
- Abbas Effendi as Incarnation of Falsehood
- Khairullah Deserts Abbas
- Extent of the Success of the Babi Movement
- Part II Teachings of Babism:
- 1. The Manifestation:
- Importance of the Doctrine of Manifestation in the Babi Movement
- Theory of the Manifestation Summed up
- Two Different Conceptions of the Reformer
- The Babi Manifestation is God in Flesh
- Bab's Claim to Divinity
- Babi and Sufi Doctrines of Divinity in Man
- Bahaullah's Claim to Divinity
- Both Bahai Sections are agreed on Bahaullah's Divinity
- Bahai Propaganda in America based on Baha's Divinity
- Bab and Bahaullah as Distinguished from other Manifestations
- The Great Sinlessness
- God and Man in one
- The Idea of Revelation according to Baha
- Relation of the Two Manifestations, Bab and Baha
- Bab as Forerunner of Baha, an Idea of Later Growth
- Bab's Prophecy about the New Manifestation
- Universal Acceptance of Babism was a Condition Precedent to the Appearance of the New Manifestation
- Baha gives 1,000 Years as Minimum Limit for Appearance of a Manifestation after him
- The Two Pillars of the Babi Movement, Bab and Bahaullah, cannot Stand together
- 2. The Laws of Bab and Bahaullah
- 3. The Sources of Babism
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