Bábism
A tradition no longer extant within Bábí–Baháʼí tradition. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Bábism is recorded within Bábí–Baháʼí tradition and is no longer extant. Also written Bábí Faith, Bayání religion.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Sayyid ʿAlí Muhammad Shírází, the Báb (1819–1850). Founding date given as 1844. Mírzá ʿAlí Muhammad (1819–1850) declared himself the Báb ('gate') in 1844, founding the Bábí religion in Iran; he was executed in 1850. Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions gives these dates. After his death the community fractured over succession, and by the later nineteenth century most Bábís had become Baháʼís.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Bábism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-babism.
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title = {Bábism},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.