Mullā Ḥusayn

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Mullā Ḥusayn

Islamic religious leader

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the Bāb
…they, especially Sayyid Kāẓim’s disciple Mullā Ḥusayn, seem to have encouraged his proclamation of himself as the Bāb. Traditionally, the Bāb had been considered to be a spokesman for the 12th and last imām, or leader of Shīʿite Islam, believed to be in hiding since the 9th century; since that…
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…they, especially Sayyid Kāẓim’s disciple Mullā Ḥusayn, seem to have encouraged his proclamation of himself as the Bāb. Traditionally, the Bāb had been considered to be a spokesman for the 12th and last imām, or leader of Shīʿite Islam, believed to be in hiding since the 9th century; since that…
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