Babism

American  

[bah-biz-uhm] / ˈbɑ bɪz əm /

noun

1. Bābī.

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Babism British  

/ ˈbɑːbɪzəm /

noun

1. a pantheistic Persian religious sect, founded in 1844 by the Bab, forbidding polygamy, concubinage, begging, trading in slaves, and indulgence in alcohol and drugs Compare Baha'í Faith

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Other Word Forms

• Babist noun

Etymology

Origin of Babism

First recorded in 1840–50; Bāb(ī) ( def. ) + -ism

Example Sentences

Babism, therefore, was a political as well as a religious movement.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham

Babism has its roots in Shiahism, a soil impregnated with the doctrines of the Imamate and Mahdiism.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham

This charge is found in the "Hasht Behesht," a history of Babism, by Aga Sayid Javad,502 a prominent Mullah of Kirman and a leading disciple of the Bab.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham

To all these must be added Babism and Bahaism.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham

Disloyalty was an essential corollary of Babism and not a consequence of the repression and persecution which it met.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham