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Show 40 Church and State, There thought. was ville, 1920:1-2). situations spiritual and temporal, As but a one society, not result of such a eventually become religious wholly foreign was two to mediaeval parallel societies" (Turber- condition, protests against existing and value protests and sects religious will arise. In the late was part of the eighteenth century established in Iraq and Iran. His central self very belief promise was was known as Shikhi Sheikh- (Iqbal, 1967: principles of the Shiah (Bakhtavar, 1961:400-413). After Sheikh-Ahmad'e death, one of his students, Rashti led the sect until 1843, the time of his death. of the was that the Hidden Imam would manifest him- He also criticized all five basic soon. sect of Shiah Islam The founder of this sect Ahmad Ahsa'i (1743-1826) and the sect 816). a new people were strongly opposed them resulted in hundreds of Shikhis to this new sect. Sayyid-Kazem The clergy and most Fighting between being killed, tortured and banished from their homes. The narrow wanted movement, because of its absoluteShiah nature and its and limited a goals and means, did not deep and vast change Babi revolution in the structure of the was an answer The founder of the Babi satisfy those people to such religion a desire for was who existing society. The change. Sayyid-Ali-Muhammad (1819- 1850) who proclaimed himself "Bah" (the gate), prophet and manifestation |
