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SOME FURTHER
WRITINGS OF THE
THE BĀB
(1819-1850) The following pages will attempt to identify, introduce and offer a summary of the contents of certain of the the major and minor Arabic and Persian writings of Sayyid `Alī Muhammad Shirazi who came to be known as the Bāb. He was born a Sayyid or descendent of the Prophet Muhammad (through the 3rd twelver Imam Ḥusayn, d. 61/ 680) on the 1st Muḥarram 1235 AH or October 20th 1819. This within a Shī`ī Muslim mercantile family resident in Shiraz (Fars) Persia (modern day Iran). His father Siyyid Muhammad Riḍā (c.1778?‑ c.1820/1826/7??) was a merchant in the Shiraz Bazaar (K. Fihiist 6006C:339‑40) and his mother named Fāṭimah Bāgūm ( ADD). When his father passed away the youthful Bāb (then perhaps 5‑6 years old?) was supervised by his maternal uncle Ḥājjī Mīrzā Siyyid `Alī, later known as the (Per.) Khāl‑i A`ẓam (greatest uncle) who died a Bābī martyr in Tehran in 1850.
حرُوفات الحَي Tablets of the Bāb to the Ḥurūfāt al-Ḥayy ("Letters of the Living")
A Tablet of the Bab to the 13th Letter of the Living Mullā Muhammad Baqīr-i Tabrīzī
The Khuṭba al-Jidda (Oration at Jeddah).
لَوْحٍ مَحْفُوظ Reply to a question about the Lawh Maḥfūẓ ("The Preserved Tablet")
كِتاَب الرُوح The Kitab al-rūḥ (The Book of the Spirit)
كتاب الفَهرست The Kitāb al-fihrist (Book of the Index)
The Tafsīr Ḥadīth al-haqīqa or Ḥadīth Kumayl
Reply to Questions posed by Mīrzā Muhammad Zavarih
("THE SUPPLICATION OF THE FERVENT PLEA") OF THE BĀB
AN ACROSTIC PRAYER AND OTHER DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS OF THE BAB
ANOTHER ACROSTIC PRAYER OF THE BAB FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF ONE'S WISHES
Risāla fī'l-Nubuwah al-khaṣṣah (The Treatise upon the specific Prophethood [of Muhammad])
(The commentary upon the Light Verse = Q. 24:35).
An Early Arabic Epistle of the Bāb addressed to Muhammad Shah Qajar (r. 1836-1848)
دلائل سبعه بسم الله الافرد الافرد Dalā’il-i sab`ih, The Persian Seven Proofs of the Bāb
دلائل سبعه بسم الله الافرد الافرد
The Arabic Seven Proofs of the Bāb
کتاب پنج شأن
An Introduction to some Theological, Mystical and Esoteric dimensions of the Kitāb-i Panj Sha`n (Book of the Five Modes)
Translations from the Kitāb-i Panj Sha`n (Book of the Five Modes)
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