biography
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Bab-ed-Din
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(Arabic ‘gateway of righteousness’), known as al-Bab, popular name of Mirza Ali-Muhammad
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pronunciation:
[babuhdin]
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| lived:
| (1819–50)
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| biography:
| Religious leader, born in Iran. In 1844 he declared himself the Bab (‘Gateway’) to the prophesied 12th Imam, then claimed to be the Imam himself. He was imprisoned in 1847, and later executed at Tabriz. The religion he founded (Babism) was the forerunner of the Baha'i faith. |
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