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Evidence that #Hashiya writing is alive and well in #ToddLawson much delayed publication of his revised #PhD from 1988 with some caveats #Babi #ShiiTafsir #Shaykhis #Bahais 1/ 
As with most of #ToddLawson writing it is elegantly composed and insightful not least on the very notion of #tafsir as the mystical encounter with the divine in which the letters express the #deus_revelatus of the 14 #impeccables of the #Shii tradition 2/
Two recent editions by #Haydar_al_Hirz of polemics between the two branches of the #Shaykhiyya #MirzaBaqirUskui (d. 1884) against #MuhammadKarimKhanKermani (d. 1871) 1/
The #Shaykhiyya or perhaps rather the followers of #ShaykhAhmad_alAhsai (d. 1826) and then his successor in #Karbala #SayyidKazimRashti (d. 1843) split into two groups that polemically attacked each other 2/
Both were Persophone - one group settled around the Qajar notable #MuhammadKarimKhanKermani and his family and his major work #al_Fusul 3/
