THE FIRST WEST GALILEAN
(ACRE
=`AKKĀ')
PERIOD,
TB-5A
WITHIN THE AKKĀ' PRISON
(1868--> 1873).
ALWAH
DATING TO THIS PERIOD IN LOOSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
TB5A-- 001 Lawḥ-i ra'īs ("The Tablet to the Chief") [Ar.]
> Mehmed Emin `Alī Pāshā (d. 1871),
Also
addressed to Ḥajjī Muhammad Ismā'īl-i Kāshānī.
Written en route to
Gallipoli August 1868. MAM:75-102.
TB5A- 02 Lawḥ-i ra'īs II
("The Second Tablet to the Chief") [P]
> as above. Late 1868
or early 1869. MAM:102-116.
TB5A- 03 Lawḥ-i [Shaykh] Kāf. Zā.
> Kāẓim-i Samandar (d. );
also known as
Lawḥ-i ibn-i Nabīl ("Tablet to the son
of Nabīl [= Muhammad]")
and
Lawḥ-i Fu'ăd
("Tablet to Kececazade Mehmed Fuad Pāshā (d. Nice 1868).
Text: SH:210-214
TB5A- 04 Lawḥ-i Nāpulyūn II
("Second Tablet to Napoleon III [ ])" c.1869. AMR:95- 117.
TB5A- 05 Lawḥ-i Malik-i Răs
("Tablet to Nicolaevitch II, Czar of Russia [d.1881]") c.1869 AMR:121-128.
TB5A- 06 Lawḥ-i
malika ("Tablet to Queen Victoria of England [d.1901]") c. 1869 AMR:131-141.
TB5A- 07 Lawḥ-i pāp
("Tablet to Pope Pius IX [d. ]") c.1869 AMR: 73-90.
TB5A- 08 Sūrat al-sulṭān
("The Sūrah of the Sulṭān") c.1869-70 AQA4:154-180.
TB5A-? 09 Sūraht al-haykal
("The Sūrah of the Temple") c. 1288 A.H. / 1871-2? SH: 1-49ff. AQA 4:268-300.
TB5A- 010 Lawḥ-i qinā'
("The Tablet of the Veil") Ar. c.1870-1
An epistle containing comments
upon statements of
the Shaykhī leader Karīm Khān-i Kirmānī (d. 1870)
in a letter to "Mulla Jamal the Babi" or Mulla Jamāl-i Burujirdī (d. 1870
) who had sent him a communication containing a Tablet of Baha'-Allah and posed
various questions relating to the Kitab-i iqan (Refer Kirmani Fihrist,
). ADD DETAILS
A passage from the
writings of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i commenting upon the phrase "the Qa'im exists
in the loins" and mentioning the sirr al-tankis li-ramz al-ra'is ("The mystery
of reversal before the symbol of the Ruler") is also cited and introduced. Refer
Arabic text first
published in Majmu`a-yi alwah-i mubaraka (Cairo, 1920, rep. Wilmette,
Illinois: BPT., 1978), 67-87.
Trans. SNL and Quinn
Website
TB5A- 011 Lawḥ-i
pisar-i `amm ("The Tablet to the Cousin") [P]
> in honour of Mīrzā
Ḥasan
Māzindarānī, a cousin of Bahā'-Allāh. c. 1870-71. IQ:174-182
TB5A- 012 Lawḥ-i qad itiraq al-mukhliṣūn
("The Tablet of `It hath been set ablaze') or (Eng.) "The Fire Tablet")
Ḥajjī Sayyid `Alī
Akbar-i Dahajī, late 1871.
TB5A- 013 Lawḥ-i
anta al-kafi` ("The Tablet of `Thou art the Healer [Long Healing Prayer])"
c.1871-2
TB5A- 014 Lawḥ-i ṭibb ("The Tablet of Medicine")
> Mīrzā Muhammad
Riḍā' Ḥabīb Yazdī.
MAM:222-227. c.1871-2
(?).
The Lawh-i ṭibb was
first published in Majmu`a-yi alwah-i mubaraka (Cairo, 1920, rep. Wilmette,
Illinois: BPT., 1981, 222-226.
TB5A- 015 Lawḥ-i
?? ("The Tablet of the Fulfillment of the Signs") cited in two recensions
Ishrāqāt tr.TB:117-9 & ESW tr. SE 131-4 = Cairo text,151-4.
TB5A-? 016 Sūraht al-a`rab
("The Sūrah of the Arabs") > Bahā'īs of
Baghdad and surrounding villages. AQA
4:215-220.
TB5A-? 017 Lawḥ al-quds
("The Holy Tablet") > Arab Bahā'īs of Baghdad. AQA 4:325- 327.
TB5A- 018 Lawḥ-i Hirtīk
("Tablet to Georg David Hardegg [d. 1879]") Late 1871- early 1872. BWC. Haifa
Typescript + BSB
TB5A- 019 Lawḥ-i abāb
("Epistle to the beloved ones") > ism allāh al-adaq + various
Bahā'īs. c.
1871-2? AQA 1:96f
TB5A--020 Lawḥ-i ruyā
("The Tablet of the Vision") Describes a vision of a celestial maiden. 1290 AH
1st March 1873.
TB5A- 021 al-Kitāb al-aqdas [A] ("The Most Holy Book") the
main repository of Bahā'ī Law. early 1873? Bahā'-Allāh XX: + Tumanski 1899 : + al-Ḥasani,
19XX : 109-130
TB5A- 022? Risāla su'āl wa jawāb
[P] ("Treatise of Questions and Answers") a compilation of Bahā'-Allāh's responses to
(largely) legalistic issues raised by verses of the above complied by Mullā Zayn
al-`Abidīn/al-Muqarribīn. Bahā'-Allāh 63 [incomplete text; 100 questions and answers].
Exact date uncertain but obviously after the above.
TB5A-? 023 Lawḥ-i
Riḍwān al-`adl
(Tablet of the Paradise of Justice) > Sayyid Muhammad Riḍā Shahmīrzārdī. AQA
4:245-258.
