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Edward Granville Brown
Edward Granville Browne
Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion



MATERIALS

FOR THE STUDY OF

THE BÁBÍ RELIGION

COMPILED BY

EDWARD G. BROWNE

M.A., M.B., F.B.A., F.R.C.P.

Sir Thomas Adams' Professor of Arabic
and Fellow of Pembroke College in the University of Cambridge

Cambridge:

at the University Press
1918

Digitally Reprinted
East Lansing, Mi.: H-Bahai, 2002

CONTENTS

                                                            PAGE
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   vii

I. An epitome of Bábí and Bahá'í history to A.D. 1898,
translated from the
original Arabic of Mírzá Muhammad Jawád of Qazvín . . .   1



II. Ibráhím George Khayru'llah and the 
Bahá'í Propaganda in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   113


[Scanning for chapter III below is incomplete.]


III.  Further Notes on the Bábí, Azali and Bahá'í Literature,
 Oriental and Occidental, printed, lithographed
 and manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . .   173


[Chapters 4-7 may be accessed by clicking below].


[IV.   Five unpublished contemporary documents, Persian
 and English, relating to the Báb's examination at Tabríz
 in 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . .   245
V.    An Austrian Officer's account of the
 cruelties practized on the Bábís who suffered in the 
great Persecution of 1852. . . . . . . . . . . .   265
VI.   Two unpublished contemporary State
 Papers bearing on the removal of the Bábís from 
Baghdád to Turkey in Europe, dated May 10,
1862 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   273
VII. Persecutions of Bábís in 1888-1891 at Isfahán
 and Yazd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   289


[Chapters 8-11 may be accessed by clicking below.]


VIII. Account of the Death and Burial of Mírzá Yahyá 
 Subh-i-Azal on April 29,1912 . . . . . . . . . .   309
IX.   List of the Descendants of Mírzá Buzurg
 of Nur and Father both of Bahá'u'lláh and of 
Subh-i-Azal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   317
X.    Thirty heretical doctrines ascribed to the Bábís 
in the Ihqaqu'l-Haqq of Áqá Muhammad Taqí 
of Hamadán  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   323
XI.   Selected poems by Qurratu'l-'Ayn and Nabíl . . . .341




INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .   359


LIST OF OTHER WORKS BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK . . . . . .   381

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

'Abbás Efendi 'Abdu'l-Bahá . . . . . . . . . . . .  Frontispiece
                                                       To face p.
Invitation to centenary of Baha'u'llah's birth to be cele-  xxiv
    brated at Chicago on November 10--12, 1917 . . . . . .
Mushkín Qalam the Bábí calligraphist . . . . . . . . . . .    44
Portraits of ten notable Bábís . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    56
The North American of Feb. 16, 1902. . . . . . . . . . . .   151
The New York Times of Dec. 18, 1904. . . . . . . . . . . .   152
The Bahá'í News of Aug. 1, 1910. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   177
Fac-simile of document A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   249
       "       "       B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   256
       "       "       B1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   259
       "       "       A.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   277
       "       "       A.7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   279
Funeral of Mírzá Yahyá Subh-i-Azal . . . . . . . . . . . .   312
Subh-i-Azal and three of his sons. . . . . . . . . . . . .   322
Fac-simile of alleged autograph poem by Qurratu'l-'Ayn . .   344


                                 ERRATA

      The descriptions of Sections VIII and XI should stand as
   given in the Table of Contents on the preceding page, and not
   as in their respective titles on pp. 309 and 341.



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