al-Lawāmi` al-Badī`
("The Wondrous Brilliances")
The
al-Lawāmi` al-Badī` ("The Wondrous Brilliances") of the Bab was
written at the request of Mulla `Ali Tabrizi who asked the Bab to compose an
a single ishrāq (Brilliance) in the style of the al-Lawāmi` al-Ḥusayniyya
("The Husaynid Brilliances") of Sayyid Kazim Rashti (d.1259/1843), the one
time teacher of the Bab and second leader of the Shaykhi movement whom the
Bab claimed to succeed, initially as the messianic representative of the
hidden Imam.
