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Falling within the disciplines of postcolonial religious and literary studies this book examines the colonial dimensions behind the development of three modern mahdi movements: the Babis and Baha’is of Iran and the Ahmadiyya from South Asia. The book attempts to evaluate western interest in these religious movements according to key thematic paradigms: Orientalism, race, and the politics of empire. It questions whether movements with mahdi claims and reform agendas emerging in the Islamicate world in the period in question adopted the Orientalist discourse of the coloniser, and if so, why? The main objective of the study is to situate the rationale for deployment of Orientalist discourse in Baha’i narratives and to probe their connections to categories of empire and modernity. This is in turn linked to ideas about the revival of religion in the Islamicate domains and beyond, the relationship between religion and modernity and, in particular, the way in which European notions about the backwardness of Muslim states in relation to their indigenous minorities was inscribed into Baha’i literature in English

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Author

Nash, Geoffrey;

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474451680

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Islam