Babism was the precursor of Baha’ísm, but unlike its now very widespread successor it began as a highly chiliastic and militant affair during Iran’s Qajar dynastic period, even bent on waging holy war to secure the abrogation of the Islamic order and bring in a new messianic (Mahdist) dispensation. Centered on Sayyid ‘Alī Muhammad Shīrāzī, the Bāb (1819–1850) or the “Gate” foreshadowing the coming of “He whom God shall make manifest” (The Twelfth Imam), the original core group of converts in his new dispensation from Spring, 1844, were all middle- or low-ranking ‘ulamā (clerics) recruited exclusively from the ranks of the semi-heterodox Shaykhi school of Shi’ism, to which the Bāb himself was affiliated.
(Denis M. MacEoin, Gnosis in Babism and Gnostic Signs in Babi Talismans, 2018)
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