Baha’ism in View of Researchers

 

By: Davoud Mehrvarz

 

Iranian historians and researchers have expressed two different views concerning the ties between Bab and the early babism to the colonialist centers.

A group of them relying on a group of historical evidences and witnesses which cannot be ignored easily, has introduced and involved colonialist powers in the genesis and establishment of the original babist movement, and the other group considers babism to be a spontaneous movement fundamentally and believes that the arrogant powers involved in this movement after its genesis and expansion.

However, typically these historians and researchers are almost unanimous about involvement of colonialist states in creation of Baha’ism (or at least its consolidation and progress) and even those who termed \"Baha’ism\" as a so-called popular and revolutionary movement have made it clear that \"baha’ism\" basically had a colonialist root.

Dr. Mohammad Javad Sheikholeslami  remarking  on the support by the  British ambassador  for them said during  the recent   century the Babists and bahaists have always followed the British  political policy in  the east and the praise of the British ambassador  for them  is quite natural.

Ahmad Kasravi, too, believed the  Bahaist leadership was tied and  bound to tsar Colonialism at the beginning, whereas they  joined the British Empire in the following ages(particularly late in the World War I) .

Esmaeil Raeen in a similar comment believed that during the developments and fractions which took place after the murder of Ail Mommad Bab among his followers and supporters, the Bahaists emerged as the portion of the Tsar Russia and the Azalis particularly after domination of Britain over Cyprus (and seizing it from the Ottomans) emerged as the portion of London.

Dr. Fereidoun Adamiyat has a highly negative outlook particularly toward Bahaists. In his opinion the two Bahasit and Azali creeds, derived from Babism are two political religions which have been connected to the Russian and British colonialism in the history and supported by them. The view of Mommad Reza Fashahi about the Bahaist sect is basically too negative.

Meanwhlie, Ehsan  Tabari does not have a positive interpretation of the opposition of Hosseinali  Baha to \"national and  religious prejudices\" which is a pride  by Bahasits, and  believes that this teaching causes closure of  any uprising and  war and deviation of  nations  from their  social-political struggles.

Briefly, researchers with different intellectual and political tendencies have reached  a consensus  about  such common viewpoints, Rohama reported.

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