Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam

by Shahzad Bashir

A revealing look at a fifteenth-century messianic movement and its continuing relevance to Islamic sectarianism

Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions tells the story of the Nurbakhshiya, an Islamic messianic movement that originated in fifteenth-century Iran and central Asia and survives to the present in Pakistan and India. In the first full-length study of the sect, Shahzad Bashir illumines the significance of messianism as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570034958
• ISBN13: 9781570034954
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"