Recently Azali movement has been revived by the Iranian scholar Dr Wahid Azal

The Qiyamat has been proclaimed (I believe) twice in Shiite history; first in 1164 at Alamut by the Assassin Pir Hasan II – "The chains of the Law have been broken" - (described so beautifully in Henry Corbin's book 'Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi'); second, 1848, in Iraq and Persia, by the Bab, Sayyid Ali Mohammed Shirazi. As the self-proclaimed "Gate" Bab) of the Hidden Imam, he had already initiated a schism in the Shaykhi School of esoteric Shiism (which was written about with great enthusiasm by Corbin); now the Bab broke with Islam altogether and precipitated a violent revolution against the Qajar dynasty; but the revolt failed. 

The Bab was martyred in 1850 by the Qajars, as were thousands of Babis, including his extraordinary disciple the poetess Qurrat al 'Ayn, who had first announced the Qiyamat. The Bab's chosen successor Mirza Yahya Nuri ("Prince John the Light") known as Subh-i Azal ("Dawn of Eternity'), a precocious teenager from Tehran, managed to escape and eventually ended up in Cyprus where he died in 1912. His half-brother Baha'u'llah meanwhile had split from the Azali ("Bayani") Babi sect and founded his own religion - the Baha'is. From the Azali point of view Baha'ism is considered a betrayal of real Babism.

The Azali cause was memorialized by the great English scholar, E. G. Browne, who described his friendship with wild antinomian Azali dervishes in his 'A Year Amongst the Persians.' But the Azali movement declined after Subh-i Azal's death, and almost vanished. Recently however it has been revived by the Iranian scholar Dr Wahid Azal, founder of the "post-Islamic" Fatimi Sufi Order and editor of the Bayani corpus. His system owes aspects to esoteric Shiism, Sufism, and Ayahuasca ritualism.

(Peacock Angel, The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis By Peter Lamborn Wilson, page 76-77)

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