Mahmoud Pasikhani

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Maḥmūd Pasikhānī (محمود پسخاني) was the founder of the Nuqtavī movement in Iran, an off-shoot of the Ḥurufī movement. He was born in Pasikhan, Iran in Gilān. Pasikhānī claimed he was the reincarnation of Muhammad on a higher plane. He declared himself Mahdi in 1397.

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• Hamid Algar: Nuqtavi Encyclopedia of Islam, 1994, p.114-117