Rituals in baism and baha'ism
A comprehensive account of the religious rituals and practices of Babism and Bah'ism. The text provides detailed descriptions of such practices as prayer, pilgrimage, the use of talismen, ritual purity, birth, marriage and death, festivals and fasting.
Print Book, English, 1994
British Academic Press an imprint of I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., Londres, 1994
XVI, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
9781850436546, 1850436541
1123556462
Part 1 Introduction: Islamic ritual. Part 2 Babi ritual observances: early ritual; later Babi ritual - prayer (salat), invocations, supererogatory prayers, and reading of scriptural texts, talismans, rings, engraved stones and tattoos, fasting (sawm, siyam), pilgrimage (haji and ziyara), ritual purity and impurity, rites of birth, death and marriage, festivals, rites connected with him whom God shall manifest (man yuzhiruhu 'llah), ritualism in scriptural texts; Babi ritual practice. Part 3 Baha'i ritual observances: "salat" and associated observances - salat, wudu', qibla, sundry regulations; other salats, invocations, supererogatory prayers, reading of scriptural texts, and salutations; talismans and rings; fasting (sawm, siyam); pilgrimage (haji and ziyara); ritual purity and impurity; rites of birth, death and marriage; festivals; the 19-day feast; the "Mashriq al-adhkar"; dress; Baha'i ritual practice; appendices.