The Báb — meaning "the Gate" — was born Siyyid ʻAlí-Muhammad Shírází in Shiraz, Iran, on 20 October 1819, into a family of merchants claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad. On the evening of 23 May 1844, at age 24, he declared to a young seeker named Mullá Ḥusayn that he was the promised Qáʼim (the "One Who Will Arise") expected in Shiʻa Islamic eschatology, and a Manifestation of God in his own right — the founder of an entirely new religious dispensation. The Bábí movement
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