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Mullá Husayn’s route from Shíráz to the province of Khurásán. Route outlined is an approximation as details of all stops are not known.42ACT3
In contrast to the other areas he had been through, Mullá Husayn found several of the most learned of the clergy in the province of Khurásán to be spiritually awakened. The base for his teaching work was the city of Mashhad. Mashhad is not just the most important city of the province of Khurásán, but also a place of special significance for all Shí’a. It is where Imám Ridá, the eighth of the twelve Holy Imáms of the Shí’a, is buried, and therefore a site of pilgrimage for the Shí’a. Because of this, over the years Mashhad had become a centre of Shí’a learning and an important commercial centre too. We will soon see that due to the success of Mullá Husayn’s teaching work, the first Bábí centre known as Bábíyyih is established in Mashhad.
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