Nash, Geoffrey.

Religion, orientalism and modernity : Mahdi movements of Iran and South Asia. Geoffrey Nash - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. ©2022. - 1 online resource (345 pages) - Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World Ser. . - Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World Ser. .

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Geoffrey Nash explores the emergence of the revolutionary Babis and reformist Baha'is and their conflict with mainstream Shi'a Muslims in Iran, and of the parallel Ahmadi movement in North India. Comparing these movements shows that, together, they define important aspects of Islamic modernity.

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Bahaismus
Babismus
Ahmadiyya
Mahdi


Iran
Südasien



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