-Islamic Messianic in India and Iran: A Study on Mahdawīyya and the Nūrbakhshīyya

With the rising of Iranian Mahdīsts as the Nūrbak̲h̲s̲h̲īyya in the Tīmūrids era, similar movements were started in Indian sub-continent from late of the ninth century A.H. that the main goal of their leaders like Sayyid Muḥammad D̲j̲awnpūrī, the founder of Mahdawīyya Current who was close to the Sunnis, was to create social flow around their claims of Mahdīsm. The question of this research is what are the possible similarities and differences between the two Currents of the Mahdawīyya and the Nūrbak̲h̲s̲h̲īyya? In present article their beliefs, methods of social interaction and political and military actions have been compared and shows that in some cases, the leaders of the Mahdawīyya and the Nūrbak̲h̲s̲h̲īyya pretended to have the support of the leaders of Ṣūfism. Both sometimes promoted their conception of Ṣūfism instead of  some principles of their own tarāʾiḳa and formed armed groups. Yet, the efforts of the Mahdawīyya leaders to preventing disciples from learning science and communicating with Non-Mahdawīs and the belief of the Nūrbak̲h̲s̲h̲īyya to primacy of Sharīʿa over Ṭarīka and to kind of Transmogrification are most important differences between the two Currents.