Mahmoud Pasikhani
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Maḥmūd Pasīkhānī (Persian: محمود پسیخانی) was the founder of the Nuqtavi movement in Iran, an offshoot of the Hurūfī movement. He was born in Pasikhān, Iran in Gīlān. Pasikhānī claimed he was the reincarnation of Muḥammad on a higher plane. He declared himself Mahdī in 1397.
See also[edit]
- Mahdi
- Isma'ili
- Sufism
- Nāīmee
- Nasīmee
- Hurufiyya
- Shi'a Islam
- Nuktawiyya
- Murād Mīrzā
- Nuqta-yi Ula (Báb)
- List of Ismaili imams
- List of extinct Shia sects
References[edit]
- Hamid Algar: Nuqtavi Encyclopedia of Islam, 1994, p. 114-117
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