Bâbis, a modern Persian sect founded in 1843, their doctrines a mixture of pantheistic with Gnostic and Buddhist beliefs; adverse to polygamy, concubinage, and divorce; insisted on the emancipation of women; have suffered from persecution, but are increasing in numbers.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Babes in the Wood * Babœuf, François Noel