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JUAN R. I. COLE, Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha⊃i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). Pp. 275. $20.50 paper, $50 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2001

Ervand Abrahamian
Ervand Abrahamian
Affiliation:
Department of History, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, N.Y.
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Abstract

Conventional scholarship views Baha⊃ism and its precursor, Babism, as intrinsically rooted in traditional Shi⊂ism—in both Shi⊂ism's central doctrines of messianism, millennarianism, and imamism, and its less important features of Neoplatonism, numerology, esoteric knowledge, ecstatic worship, and obedience to religious hierarchy. In short, Babism and Baha⊃ism have been treated as historic relics from a traditional worldview rather than birth pangs of the modern age.

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BOOK REVIEW
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , May 2000 , pp. 302 - 304
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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