Figures for Smith, "The Routinization of Charisma?
Dominant Figure/Period Motif |
1. Shaykhis | 2. The Bab: 1844-48 | 3. The Bab 1848-50 | 4. 1850-1856 | 5. Baha'u'llah 1856-167 | 6. Baha'u'llah 1867-1892 | 7. `Abdu'l-Baha 1892-1921 | 8. Shoghi Effendi 1921-1937 | 9. Shoghi Effendi 1937-1957 | 10. The Hands 1957-1963 | 11. The Universal House of Justice 1963 - |
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A. POLAR | Strong, but mediated by Traditional Intermediaries | Ditto | Ditto (New Qutb) | Fragmentation | New Qutb | Ditto | Almost Universal recognition of designated successors--"The Covenant" | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto |
B. MESSIANIC | An Strong Expectation Among Some |
Islamic Messianic expectation, fulfillment |
Qiyama The Messianic Age |
Despair and Doctrine of |
Confusion MYH |
Work A Second Messianic Age |
Towards `Abdu'l-Baha regarded as |
a Christlike |
future | millennium | continues |
C. LEGALISTIC | Islamic But messianic |
Shari`ah expectation |
Babi Shari`ah | Babi Shari`ah (Antinomian |
Babi Shari`ah Tendencies) |
Baha'i Law | Baha'i Law The |
Baha'i Law Development of |
Baha'i Law Baha'i |
Baha'i Law Administration |
Baha'i Law Continues |
D. ESOTERIC- GNOSTIC |
VERY - |
STRONG subordinate |
throughout to messianic motif |
this Much speculation |
period but now |
increasingly - |
a subordinate (though initially important |
motif in the West) |
increasing | independence and | distinctiveness |