Based on author's 1979 thesis.
Foreword
Preface to 1979 thesis
Preface to the published edition
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Epigraph
Part one: From Shaykhism to Babism : a study in charismatic renewal in Shi'i Islam
Introduction
The religious background
Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā'ī
Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī
From Shaykhism to Babism
Some aspects of early Bābī doctrine
The Bābī da'wa among the Shaykhis and the break with Shaykhism
Part two: Reflections on Shaykhism and Babism
Changes in charismatic authority in Qajar Shi'ism
Early Shaykhī reactions to the Bāb and his claims
Hierarchy, authority and eschatology in early Bābī thought
Divisions and authority claims in Babism (1850-1866)
Trial of the Bāb: Shiʿite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image
The Babi concept of holy war
From Babism to Bahaʾism: problems of militancy, quietism, and conflation, in the construction of a religion
Nineteenth-century Bābī talismans
Bāb, Sayyed ʿAlī Moḥammad Shīrazī (1235/1819-1266/1850), the founder of Babism (q.v.)
Babism
Azalī Babism
Bābī schisms
Bayān (declaration, elucidation)
Aḥsāʾī, Shaikh Aḥmad B. Zayn-Al-Dīn, 1166-1241/1753-1826, Shiʿite ʾālem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhī school of Shiʿism in Iran and Iraq
Cosmogony and cosmology, theories of the origins and structure of the universe
Bālāsarī
Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century Shiʿism : the cases of Shaykhism and Babism
Deconstructing and reconstructing the Sharīʿa: the Bābī and Bahaʾ̄ī solutions to the problem of immutability
Bayān-i Fārsī exordium: translation.
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