Manzikert
Manzikert , Turk. Malazgirt, village, E Turkey, SE of Erzurum. It was an important town of ancient Armenia. A council held there in AD 726 reasserted the independence of the Armenian Church from the Orthodox Eastern Church. There, in 1071, the Seljuk Turks under Alp Arslan routed the troops of Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV in a decisive battle that resulted in the fall of Asia Minor to the Seljuks.
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The messiah of Shiraz; studies in early and middle Babism.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 642 words
; ...of Shiraz; studies in early and middle Babism. MacEoin, Denis. BRILL 2009 738 pages...Islamic society for over a thousand years. Babism was a charismatic, millennial sect that...bibliography has also been updated. The story of Babism, told against the backdrop of the pressures...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1903: New Sect Spreads in Persia
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/28/2003; 190 words
; ...who has intervened energetically in favor of Babism and the despised adherents of the sect. Babism is a form of doctrine with a strange resemblance...Christianity and has made great progress in Persia. Babism has now reached a pitch of power in Persia...
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Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers.
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 5/1/1993; 700+ words
; ...sympathetic study of the poetess Taherah Qorratol'Ayn, a Babi disciple who in 1848 dramatically proclaimed the new faith of Babism, "and symbolically heralded the coming of the new era by her unveiling." She proved, according to the author, "that women...
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Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...account of the Baha'is (though writers such as Mangol Bayat have devoted some attention to the minority Azali offshoot of Babism). The book under review, therefore, helps to fill this lacuna by focusing on the Baha'i programs for social reform, attempts...
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Recurrent Patterns in Iranian Religions, From Mazdaism to Sufism: Proceedings of the Round Table held in Bamberg (30th September-4th October 1991).(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Existence in the Bab's Tafsir and the Perfect Man Motif," an insightful study, where the considerable impact of Islam on Babism is elucidated. This comparative analysis is successful in part because Lawson confines himself to a single motif (p. 83...
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Baha'i center plans free talk on world peace.
Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ); 6/15/2006; 476 words
; ...area followers and an estimated 150,000 in the United States. It is an outgrowth of an earlier religious movement called Babism, which was initiated by Mirza Ali Muhammad, who was referred to as the Bab. In 1844, the Bab prophesied that a divine manifestation...
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Suffocating the Baha'i
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 3/25/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...sponsored persecution to which they have there been subjected since the mid 19th century. Then tensions between the followers of Babism, the embryonic religion out of which the Baha'i faith developed, and Persia's clerical and civil establishment led to...
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The Baha'i faith and its relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: a brief history.
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Shi'a and the Babis, the ulama's attitude towards the Baha'is predictably hardened. Over time, "the clerical view of Babism-Baha'ism had become fixed and hostile. The movement was now unambiguously perceived as anti-clerical and heretical...
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Reclaiming the future: Women's strategies for the 21st century. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
Magazine article from: Resources for Feminist Research; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...confined to specialty journals, while scholarship on "cyberspace" either takes the form of knee-jerk Ludditism or techno-babism. However, schraefel's and Whitney's articles on "cyberspace" are not representative of either of these forms, but rather...
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Baha'i memorial set up.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/9/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...death is truly amazing.'' During his seven-year ministry, The Bab preached peace and harmony and sparked the beginning of Babism, the precursor to the Baha'i faith. Although more than 20,000 followers were believed killed when he was alive, The Bab...
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Babism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Babism , system of doctrines proclaimed in Persia in 1844 by Ali Muhammad of Shiraz. Influenced by the Shaykhi Shiite theology that viewed...
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Bahaʾi Faith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...relatives and disciples as the messianic figure promised in Babism, "He whom God shall make manifest." He was exiled to Istanbul...that he was the fulfillment of millenarian hopes, not only in Babism, but in Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and in other...
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Gender: Gender and Politics
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...Iranian history. Writer, poet, teacher, and religious rebel Qurrat al-Ayn (born in 1814, executed in 1852) preached Babism (a religious sect founded in 1844 by the Bab out of Shi ʿ i Islam and which gave birth to the Baha ʾ i faith...
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Baha Ullah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1817-92, Persian religious leader originally named Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri. One of the first disciples of the Bab (see Babism ), he and his half-brother Subhi Azal became the leaders of the Babi faith. In 1863, shortly before being exiled to Constantinople...
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Baha'i
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...xB7;i ) • n. ( pl. -ha·'is ) a monotheistic religion founded in the 19th century as a development of Babism, emphasizing the essential oneness of humankind and of all religions and seeking world peace. The Baha'i faith was founded...
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