Bab-ed-Din
1819 – 1850
Iranian

Religious leader. He variously pronounced himself the forerunner of or the actual embodiment of the awaited 12th Imam of Shiite belief and was eventually executed for heresy. His sect was referred to as Babism. A follower, Baha-Allah, developed Bahaism.

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