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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 Five unpublished contemporary documents, Persian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 Two unpublished contemporary State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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