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Ṣaḥīfa bayn al-ḥaramayn ("The Treatise [written] between the Two Shrines")
Ṣaīfa bayn al‑ḥaramayn
from TBA. Ms. 6004c, 348.
During the course
of his pilgrimage the Bāb wrote several important works and a large number
of epistles, several of which are listed in his Kitāb al‑fihrist (add
URL). Foremost
among the writings of this period is the Ṣaḥīfa bayn al‑ḥaramayn (Epistle
between the two Shrines) datng to Muḥarram 1261/ mid‑January 1845. This
Arabic work was in part composed in reply to questions posed by Mīrzā
Muhammad Ḥusayn, Muḥīṭ‑ i Kirmānī (a prominent Shaykhī) ( ADD) to whom the
Bāb had announced certain claims near the ḥajar al‑aswad (black stone) in
the Ka`ba on the 15th of Dhu'l‑Ḥijja 1260 (December 25th 1844). In this work
the Bāb refers to himself as the dhikr Allāh (remembrance of God) and the
fatā al‑`arabī (Arabian youth) as well as the kalimat al‑`amā'ayn ("doubly
beclouded Word") and "the khaṭṭ al‑qā'im ("Upright trace") between the
worlds subject at all times to inspiration from the Spirit" (al‑rūḥ) (Ḥaramayn,
F7 (9): fol6f). Apart from discussions of such subjects as the paths of the
stars and the science of talismans, the Ṣāḥifa bayn al‑ḥaramayn contains a
fair amount of material illustrative of the Bāb's marked interest in `ilm
al‑fiqh (jurisprudence). Throughout his ministry the Bāb set forth in great
detail sometimes novel regulations to be observed by the (ultra‑) pious
adherent of what, by 1848. had evolved into the revolutionary new Bābī
shari`a.
Mīrzā Muḥīṭ‑ i Kirmānī,
Mīrzā Muḥīṭ‑ i Kirmānī, a one time tutor
to the two sons of Siyyid Kāẓim Rashtī, made an early and
somewhat unsuccessful bid for the leadership of the Shaykhīs in Karbalā and subsequently vacillated between his claim
to personal leadership and acceptance of the claims of his
nephew Karim Khān Kirmānī (see Zarandī, DB:95).
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Bibliography
0n the Ṣaīfa bayn al‑ḥaramayn refer, MacEoin, 1992:60‑1;
Amanat, 1989:246f.
