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Babist
Babism Bab"ism, Babiism Bab"i*ism, n. The doctrine of a modern religious pantheistical sect in Persia, which was founded, about 1844, by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik (1820 -- 1850), who assumed the title of Bab-ed-Din (Per., Gate of the Faith). Babism is a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. -- Bab"ist, n.
Babist
Babist Bab"ist, n. A believer in Babism.

Meaning of Babist from wikipedia

- This article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Bábism (Persian: بابیه, romanized: Babiyye)...
- Muslims. It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used in this way by Bábists, Baháʼís, Mandaeans, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Sephardi Jews...
- Bábism. The Bábist movement began following the 1850 execution of Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, known as the Báb. Several thinkers among the Bábists were very...
- rumours that the Báb recanted. The Shaykh al-Islām, a champion of the anti-Bábist campaign, not at the Báb's trial, issued a conditional death sentence if...
- was born in Kerman in 1847, he was the second son of one of the prominent Bábist figures of Kerman. In Kerman, he married one of Subh-i-Azal's daughters...
- especially in Le Charivari, either in series (Robert Macaire, 1836-1838; Babists, 1839; Gods of Olympus, 1841; People of Justice, 1845-1848; Tenants and...
- of the Babist sect as revealed by a woman". The Inter Ocean. Chicago, Illinois. 1 Dec 1901. p. 48. Retrieved April 25, 2015. "Visit to the Babist Chief"...
- Publishing Trust. p. 75. ISBN 0-87743-020-9. "Miss Arlene Peck and the Babists". The Inter Ocean. Chicago, Illinois. 7 Jul 1901. p. 36. Retrieved Nov...
- a Cyclopedia begun in 1853. The 1895 edition of Vol 1 had an entry on "Babist". Henry Edward Plantagenet wrote a brief piece of his encounter with Baháʼí's...
- by the Qajars, with the Báb and many of his followers being executed. Babists subsequently took up an underground struggle against the Qajar monarchy...