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Martyrium und Messianismus: Die Geburtsstunde des Bahā'ītums

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Diskurse der Arabistik ; 17Publication details: Wiesbaden Harassowitz Verlag 2011Description: xiv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 978-3-447-06547-4
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  • Martyrdom and messianism: The birth of the Bahā'ī religion
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Although the emergence of the religion of the Baha'i, Baha'iism, is increasingly understood as a paradigm of a monotheistic genesis of religion, it has not yet been scientifically researched. This applies in particular to the German-speaking academic world and even more so when it comes to research into the first decade of Bahaiism, the Babitum episode. Sasha Dehghani closes this gap with his study Martyrdom and Messianism, in which he describes the emergence of the Bábítum as a late religious-historical and at the same time significant messianic movement, which ultimately experiences collective martyrdom as a result of its post-Islamic claim to revelation. Persian and Arabic reports and representations, as well as European testimonies, are used to work through their genesis. some of which is also supplemented with unknown material from our own archive studies. The actual novelty of the investigation, however, does not lie in the historical research of the Babis, but in the hermeneutic and figurative interpretation of the Babi self-testimonies and their comparative religious contextualization: Dehghani not only reads the Babi movement as a daughter religion of Shiite Islam, but also takes into account continuities and discontinuities Christian and Jewish beliefs.
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Obwohl die Entstehung der Religion der Bahai, des Bahaitums, zunehmend als Paradigma einer monotheistischen Religionsgenese begriffen wird, ist sie noch wenig wissenschaftlich erforscht. Dies gilt insbesondere für den deutschsprachigen akademischen Raum und umso mehr, wenn es um die Erforschung der ersten Dekade des Bahaitums, der Episode des Babitums, geht. Sasha Dehghani schließt diese Lücke mit seiner Studie Martyrium und Messianismus, in der er die Entstehung des Bábítums als eine religionsgeschichtlich späte und zugleich bedeutsame messianische Bewegung zeichnet, die schließlich in Folge ihres post-islamischen Offenbarungsanspruches ein kollektives Martyrium erfährt. Zur Aufarbeitung ihrer Genese werden persische und arabische Berichte und Darstellungen, wie auch europäische Zeugnisse herangezogen, denen zum Teil auch unbekanntes Material aus eigenen Archivstudien hinzugefügt wird. Das eigentliche Novum der Untersuchung liegt jedoch nicht in der historischen Erforschung des Babitums, sondern in der hermeneutischen und figurativen Deutung der Babi-Selbstzeugnisse und ihrer religionsvergleichenden Kontextualisierung: Dehghani liest das Babitum nicht nur als Tochterreligion des schiitischen Islams, sondern berücksichtigt ebenfalls Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten zu christlichen und jüdischen Glaubensvorstellungen.

Although the emergence of the religion of the Baha'i, Baha'iism, is increasingly understood as a paradigm of a monotheistic genesis of religion, it has not yet been scientifically researched. This applies in particular to the German-speaking academic world and even more so when it comes to research into the first decade of Bahaiism, the Babitum episode. Sasha Dehghani closes this gap with his study Martyrdom and Messianism, in which he describes the emergence of the Bábítum as a late religious-historical and at the same time significant messianic movement, which ultimately experiences collective martyrdom as a result of its post-Islamic claim to revelation. Persian and Arabic reports and representations, as well as European testimonies, are used to work through their genesis. some of which is also supplemented with unknown material from our own archive studies. The actual novelty of the investigation, however, does not lie in the historical research of the Babis, but in the hermeneutic and figurative interpretation of the Babi self-testimonies and their comparative religious contextualization: Dehghani not only reads the Babi movement as a daughter religion of Shiite Islam, but also takes into account continuities and discontinuities Christian and Jewish beliefs.

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