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020 _a9781474451680
040 _cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
100 _91135
_aGeoffrey Nash
245 _aReligion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aEdinburgh
_bEdinburgh University Press
_c2022
300 _avii, 334 pages 24 cm.
440 _91136
_aEdinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
500 _aAnalyses modernity and Orientalist discourses in Iranian millenarian movements Employs historical and discourse analysis to probe the conflict between orthodox and heterodox religious movements in 19th- and 20th-century Iran Links the conflict between orthodoxy and heterodoxy to the impact of modernity on Iran’s society and religion and to colonisation on India’s Muslims Broadens the scope of this conflict to include Palestine, Central Asia and Turkey Presents a postcolonial analysis of the new movements and their broader relationship to the Islamic world during the age of imperialism Religion, Orientalism and Modernity 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. It gives fresh insights into the writings that defined these innovatory movements, penned on the one hand by their proponents, and on the other by western interpreters. Comparing these movements shows that, together, they define important aspects of Islamic modernity. A focus on two case studies (Babis and Baha’is in Iran, and Ahmadis in India) reveals similarities and differences in their responses to a perceived need for change and renewal of religious authority.
650 0 _aNineteenth Century
_vBaha'i Faith
_zIran
_9490
650 0 _9733
_aMillennialism
_vBaha'i Faith
650 0 _aAhmadiyya
_vIslam
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651 0 _9372
_aIran
_vBaha'i Faith
700 _91138
_aStephanie Cronin
_eSeries Editor
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