Bábí Faith

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The Bábí Faith was a 19th-century Persian religious movement founded by the Báb that proclaimed the imminent appearance of a new divine messenger and served as the immediate precursor to the Baháʼí Faith.

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Label Occurrences
Bábí Faith canonical 10
Bábism 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century religion
Islamic messianic movement
religious movement
alsoKnownAs Bábism
linked to: Bábí Faith
consideredAs heretical by many contemporary Shia clerics
coreBelief abrogation of certain Islamic laws
imminent appearance of a new divine messenger
progressive revelation
countryOfOrigin Persia
doctrine abrogation of Islamic sharia for its followers
new religious laws revealed by the Báb
emergedFrom Shia Islam
Twelver Shia Islam
linked to: Twelver Shia
experiencedEvent Bábí persecutions in Qajar Iran
Bábí uprisings
foundedBy the Báb
foundedInCity Shiraz
linked to: Shiraz, Iran
foundedInRegion Fars Province
geographicSpread Iraq
Ottoman Empire
Persia
hasCentralFigure the Báb
hasFounder the Báb
hasKeyFigure Baháʼu'lláh
linked to: Bahá'u'lláh

Mullá Husayn
linked to: Mullá Ḥusayn

Quddús
Táhirih
hasSacredFigureTitle the Báb
historicalPeriod 19th century
influenced Baháʼí Faith
linked to: Baha'i Faith
languageOfScripture Arabic
Persian
meaningOfName followers of the Báb
messianicExpectation appearance of "He whom God shall make manifest"
fulfilment of the Shia concept of the Mahdi
originatedIn Persia
Qajar Iran
persecutedBy Persian clerical establishment
Qajar authorities
linked to: Qajar Iran
relatedConcept Bábism
linked to: Bábí Faith
religiousText Arabic Bayán
Bayán
Persian Bayán
servedAs immediate precursor to the Baháʼí Faith
startDate 1844
successorMovement Baháʼí Faith
linked to: Baha'i Faith
theologicalRole forerunner to the Baháʼí revelation

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The Dawn-Breakers subject Bábí Faith
Nabíl-i-Zarandí religion Bábí Faith
Bábí Faith relatedConcept Bábism
linked to: Bábí Faith
Bábí Faith alsoKnownAs Bábism
linked to: Bábí Faith
Táríkh-i-Nabíl subject Bábí Faith
Nabíl’s Narrative subject Bábí Faith
Báb religion Bábism
linked to: Bábí Faith
Nabíl-i-Aʿzam religion Bábí Faith
Qayyúmu’l-Asmáʼ religiousTradition Bábism
linked to: Bábí Faith
Mullá Ḥusayn religion Bábí Faith
Mullá Ḥusayn veneratedIn Bábí Faith
Mullá Ḥusayn conversionTo Bábí Faith