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It wasn't that bad, I just thought you downplayed the Bab by making him a reformer and putting him on an equal level with some guy from Kirman that really did nothing. That's exactly what I would expect Maulana to do. As far as academics, Maulana and The Dawnbreakers are opposite extremes, and you were leaning toward Maulana.
I think we should mention that 6 million people consider Shaykh Ahmad as part of their spiritual heritage. It sets him apart from just some no-name Arab guy from 2 centuries ago. Cunado19 00:09, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Oh I agree, he's mentioned in the Dawn-breakers actually a few times I remember. He tried to publish work and asked Siyyid Kazim to approve of it, which he didn't. I think he's important enough to mention. Anyway I like the article how it is now, I don't plan on spending any more time here since there's 50 other articles I want to work on. Cunado19 00:02, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey all. I just did a medium-ish rewrite of several pieces, mostly within Succession, as well as did more referencing. I converted the Cole references and spread specific Nabil references throughout various areas of the text. I'd love it if we had other sources that could balance Nabil (see above conversation), but at least it's verifiable source material. -- Christian Edward Gruber 21:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
there is no language tag to the Arabic article. You should add the link, or post it here and I'll add it. Cuñado - Talk 15:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
This article is written as if the Shaykhi movement is dead. I would have thought it is very active even today - many many people in Kerman belong to it. Refdoc 08:53, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
This is probably the most braindead answer I had so far on any question here... If there are many people who describe themselves as Sheikhis/Shaykhis then the movement is very much alive. AFAIK large poarts of Kermani population are Sheikhis. Their leadership had some trouble under Khomeini, but nothing widespread and significant. The article appears to be grossly biased towards a Shaykhi-as-pre-Bahai POV. Refdoc 16:34, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Jeff. I apologise for my "braindead" comment, must say though if Goodwin is brought in within the very first response a sensible discussion becomes hard. Sheikhi/Sheykhi/Shaykhi - I do struggle with literature. Google is pretty dead as a source - apart from the links leading to Bahaism. What I know would all fall down under "original research" and is therefore not useful for here. Essentially it seems to me (and this is from conversations with non-sheykhi Kermani friends) that large numbers of modern day Kermanis are Sheykhis, that there is no (obvious) connection to Bahaism, that the movement is very secretive and quietistic (hence little or no lieterature in th eWest) , that the movement owns large parts of the modern Kermani infrastructure, that there had been some serious trouble at the begin of the revolution for the leader of the movement (killed?) and that it is still going strong. Now this is my personal knowledge, but in this form it can not enter the encyclopedia, obviously. Something big is missing but so far I can not verify it. Hence my initial question. And my upset with silly Nazi quotes. Refdoc 17:36, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes, the Shaykhi movement is very much alive today and there is some significant scholarship in Western languages on contemporary Shaykhis in various parts of the Muslim world. A number of articles on contemporary Shaykhism can be found in Rainer Brunner and Werner Ende, eds., _The Twelver Shi’a in Modern Times_, Leiden: Brill, 2001. There are significant Shaykhi communities in Iran, `Iraq, the Indian Subcontinent and elsewhere, with very large collections of Shaykhi materials maintained at European and North American libraries. I agree with Refdoc about the Baha'i bias, something which has been a continual pattern in Wiki articles relating in any way to the history of the Baha'i religion. Wikipedia is not a "teaching opportunity." Masarra 20:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Just looked at the book mentioned above, and there's plenty here in this one book in the way of verifiable and reliable reference on contemporary Shaykhism in various parts of the Muslim world. One article with a particularly contemporary focus is Syed Hussain Arif Naqvi's "The Controversy About the Shaykhiyya Tendency Among Shia 'Ulama in Pakistan," pp. 135-49. The article notes that Shaykhism is nearly as old in the Subcontinent as in Iran, a student of Kazim Rashti having introduced the school to Lucknow in the first half of the 19th century. The article is interesting for a number of other reasons, including the fact that the controversies surrounding Shaykhism had little or nothing to do with the characteristics of Shaykhism emphasized in Baha'i writings, such as Shoghi Effendi's Dawnbreakers. The central issue in this case was that of tafwid, which indeed was the cause for the opposition to Shaykh Ahmad during his own lifetime. It is also interesting to note that the defenders of Shaykhi tenets in Pakistan in the 1960s argued that the opponents of Shaykhism were covertly missionizing for Wahhabism and that their disdain for the Shaykhi view of the status of the Imams was Wahhabi-inspired. Masarra 20:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
To be perfectly straight - I did not insinuate anything when I said the article is biased. Bias as such is a neutral term describing a fact of an incomplete and lopsided article. I most certainly do not and did not accuse Baha'is as introducing bias - which would be an unfair accusation. I think if everyone mentions what they know, this will lead over time to good articles - with intermittent periods of bias and lopsidedness, quite naturally.
I am grateful for Massara's quote and contribution because this is the kind of thing I was looking/asking for. Are there any internet links as I am far from any library? Refdoc 09:03, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank, Tomhab. I wouls suggest two things 1) separation of the Shaykh Ahmad article from a new article on Shaykhis in general and 2) expansion of the latter to introduce material on current state.
Refdoc
14:26, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Cunado, my minor change had nothing to do with Baha'i spelling conventions. Shi'a or Shi'ah is a collective noun meaning, in CNN terms, "the Shi'ites" (it can also of course have a more general meaning, "the partisans," "the followers"). Shi'i (but never Shi'ih, as there's no ta marbuta or ha' here) is an adjective meaning "Shi'itic" and a noun for a single member of the Shi'a. Ahmad al-Ahsa'i's movement was Shi'i, i.e. it was Shi'itic in character. Masarra 22:03, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I followed the link to Iranica, and they seem to have removed the article on Shaykh Ahmad (unless I am particularly obtuse today). J S Ayer ( talk) 00:58, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
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