Arresting the Eschaton: Mirza Husayn Tabarsi Nuri (d. 1902) and the Babi and Baha’i Religions*
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Stories of encounters between the concealed Shi‘i messianic saviour known as, inter alia , the Hidden Imam, and his privileged devotees (mostly from the ranks of the ulama) during the period that is known as his occultation ( ghayba ) occupy a recurring theme in many of the works dedicated to this figure. The encounter topos was revivified in the late nineteenth century by the prolific Shi‘i scholar Mirza Husayn Tabarsi Nuri (d. 1902). Nuri lived at a time in which many of the messianic and eschatological tensions concerning the Hidden Imam — tensions that had remained unresolved for a thousand years — exploded onto the religious landscape, due in most part to the birth of the Babi religion and its metamorphosis into the Baha’i Faith. This article will focus on Nuri's relationship with and links to the Babi and Baha’i religions in an attempt to understand his own motives for promoting stories of contact with the Hidden Imam.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".