Traces from the Musk Scented Pen:

A Chronological survey of select Scriptural Tablets

BEING REVISED 2006-7

الواح القلم الأعلی من حضرت  بهاء اللّه 

Mīrzā Ḥusayn `Alī, Nūrī,  Bahā'-Allāh

(1817-1892)

THIS AND ASSOCIATED WEBPAGES WILL BE

CONSTANTLY REVISED AND  MASSIVELY UPDATED IN 2004-5

 PART I

 Introduction to the alwāḥ  (Scriptural Tablets) of Mīrzā Husayn `Ali, Bahā'-Allāh.

 

TB1

 Pt. 1 The  Persian years of the Bābī Period of Bahā'-Allāh's lifetime 1260-1269/ 1844-1853.

TB2A

 Pt. 2A The  early  Iraq years of the Bābī period of Bahā'-Allāh's lifetime,

(1269/ 1853-4) 

TB 2B

 Bahā'-Allāh  in Iraqi Kurdistan, 1260-1269/ 1844-1853 (= TB2B)

 TB 2C 

The  later Iraq  years of the Bābī Period of Bahā'-Allāh's lifetime,  

(1260-1269/ 1844-1853).

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WRITINGS OF THE ISTANBUL [CONSTANTINOPLE] PERIOD

1863

 TB 3

 The  1863 Istanbul (Constantinople) period- Introduction and overview

TB3

Bahā'-Allāh in Istanbul, the Ottoman capital, 12XX/ 1863

 

WRITINGS OF THE EDIRNE [ADRIANOPLE]  PERIOD 1863-1868.

THIS 5 YEAR PERIOD IS DIVIDED UP INTO THREE PERIODS

TB 4A-4C

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Pt 4-0

    The 1863-1868 Edirne period- Introduction and overview

TB4A

Bahā'-Allāh at Edirne 1

- Before the break with Mirza Yaḥyā (1863-March 1866)

TB 4B.

Bahā'-Allāh at Edirne 2 .

The second Edirne period, from the break with Mirzā Yaḥyā (March 1866) until the move to the House of  `Izzat Pasha (Aug. 1867).

TB4C

Bahā'-Allāh at Edirne 3.

The third Edirne period. From the move to the House of `Izzat Pasha   (Aug. 1867) until exile to Acre in Ottoman Palestine (Western Galilee, Aug. 1868).

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WRITINGS OF THE WEST GALILEAN  (ACRE =`AKKĀ') PERIOD 1285-1310 / 1868-1892

THIS 24 YEAR PERIOD IS DIVIDED UP INTO FIVE PERIODS

A modern view of Acre

(Click to enlarge)

(= TB 5A-5E)

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 Pt 5-0   

The 1868-1892 West Galilean period- Introduction and overview

  TB5A

 The West Galilean period 1 Bahā'-Allāh within the Acre prison

(August 1868- XXXX).

TB5AU:

some untitled alwāḥ of this period

 

TB5B:

The West Galilean period 2

Bahā'-Allāh

 TB5BU:

Some untitled alwāḥ of this period

  TB5C: 

 The West Galilean period 3 -- Bahā'-Allāh

TB5CU:

Some untitled alwah of this period

 

TB5D: 

The West Galilean period 4 - Bahā'-Allāh

 TB5DU: 

Some untitled alwah of this period

 

TB5E 

   The West Galilean period 5

Bahā'-Allāh 

TB5EU 

  Some untitled alwah of this period

PART  II

Towards an index of scriptural Tablets of Bahā'-Allāh addressed to Bābī adherents and notables

PART III

Towards an index of scripturalTablets of Baha'-Allah addressed to Hands of the Cause,

the Nineteen Apostles, and their families and their associates

 

PART  [IV]

 MISCELLANEOUS  BABI AND BABI-BAHA'I ADHERENTS ALPHABETICALLY ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO THEIR NAMES, 

 TITLES OR OTHER CIPHERS LISTED ACCORDING TO THE ARABIC-PERSIAN  ALPHABETS.

 

 

 PART   V

AN ALPHABETICAL  INDEX OF ALWAH (SCRIPTURAL TABLETS ) OF BAHA'-ALLAH (1817-1892)

ADDRESSED TO DIVERSE RELIGIOUS LEADERS  AND ADHERENTS OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS

TB-R1

Tablets addressed to Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrains and associated persons

TB-R2

Tablets addressed to Jews and Jewish Institutions  and associated persons.

TB-R3

Tablets addressed to Christians  and ecclesiastical leaders and Institutions.

TB-R4

Tablets addressed to Muslims scholars, clerics and various Islamic religious leaders and institutions

TB-5

Tablets addressed to Shaykhi leaders or expository of the Shaykhi doctrine as genrated by Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i and of Sayyid Kazim Rashti.

PART  VI

 SCRIPTURAL TABLETS OF BAHA'-ALLAH (1817-1892) ADDRESSED TO THE WORLD

AND ITS INHABITANTS, TO PERSIAN, OTTOMAN AND OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN RULERS, STATESMAN,

LEADERS AND INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING WESTERN SOVEREIGNS, RULERS, LEADERS.

Tablets addressed to the world and its peoples.

Tablets addressed to Persian Shi`i  rulers, ministers, governors, administrators,  clerics and institutions.

Qajar rulers

Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (r. 1848-1896)

Tablets addressed to  Ottoman Sultans, rulers, ministers and Institutions:

Ottoman Sultan `Abd al-Hamid II (r. 1876-1909),

Ottoman  Ministers

Tablets addressed to the West, western kings, leaders, Institutions and peoples.

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

PART VII

THEMATIC INDEX OF ALWAH SCRIPTURAL TABLETS OF BAHA'-ALLAH (1817-1892)

ADDRESSED TO VARIOUS  GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS, COUNTRIES AND LOCALITIES AND THEIR

BELIEVERS AND INHABITANTS

 LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Tablets to Caucasia (       )

 LOCATED IN PERSIA [IRAN]

 The Persian province of Khurasan Specific locations in Persia

Tehran (Land of Ṭā' = abjad 9)

Hamadan