TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
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PART ONE: WRITINGS OF THE BAB AND THE BABI HIERARCHY:WORKS OF ANTI-BABl
POLEMIC
INTRODUCTION
I. THE FATE OF THE WORKS OF THE BAB
Autograph compositions
The Bab's secretaries
The transcription of the sacred text
The extent of the Babl canon
Dissemination of the canon in Iran and Iraq
Government Circles in Iran
Iraq
Kerman, Qazvln, and elsewhere in Iran
The preservation of the canon
Text transmission after 1850
Babl Manuscript Collections
1. Manuscripts presented to/purchased by E. G. Browne
2. The British Museum/British Library
3. The Bibliothfeque Nationale
4. St. Petersburg collections
5 Leiden University Library
6 Collection of A. L. M. Nicolas
7. Bahal archives in Tehran
8. Bahal archives in Haifa
9. Azall manuscripts
Authenticity
IL EARLY WORKS
1. Works written before Jumada 1 1260/May 1844
Early compositions in BOshihr
Early compositions after the return to Shlraz
Risala fi 'l-suluk
Risalafi 'l-tasdid
Ziyara jami'a kablra
Tafsir Surat al-baqara
2. Works written between May 1844 and September 1846
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The earliest titles
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Evidence of early tides in the Kitab al-fihrist
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Qayyum al-asma'
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Tcfsir Hadith al-jariyya
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The ziyaratnama for cAlI
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Letters to Muhammad Shah, Hajl Mlrza Aqasi, and others...58
The Du'a-yi $af)Tfa
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al-$affifa bayna 'l-haramayn
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Kitab al-ruf}
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Khasa'il-i sal/a
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Khufbas
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To/sir al-basmala
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Second letters to Muhammad Shah and Hajl Mlrza Aqasi ....64
$alfifa (Kitab) aemal al-sana
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Kitab al-fihrist
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$af}Tfa-yi Ja'fariyya
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Difa-yi alf
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§ah~ifa-yi 'adliyya and Risala furu' al-eadliyya
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Tqfslr Surat al-kawthar
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Other commentaries
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Kitab al-'ulama'
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Other short works
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M . LATER WORKS
Works written between September 1846 and March 1847
Tafsir Sura wa 'l-ea$r
Risala f i'l-nubuwwa al-kha^a
Minor works
Works written between March 1847 and July 1850
Works written en route to Maka
The Persian Bayan
The Arabic Bayan
The Persian Dala'il-i satfa
The Arabic Dala'il sabfa
Qur'an commentaries
The Lawh-i hurufatlKitab-i haykallKitab-i hayakil
The Haykal al-din
The Kitab al-asma'
The Khufba-yi qahriyya
The Kitab-i panj sha' n (Shu'un-i khamsa)
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Letters and short pieces
Further letters to Muhammad Shah
The 'Tawba-nama'
The Tafsir Du'a al-$abaf}
Letters to the ulama
Ziyaratnamas
Amulets and talismans
Devotional writings
Conclusion
IV. WRITINGS OF THE BABI HIERARCHY
1. Mulla Muhammad cAlI BarfurOshI Quddas
2. Qurrat al-cAyn QazvhnI (Tahira)
3. Mulla Muhammad cAlI Zanjanl Hujjat
4. Sayyid Yahya Darabl Vahld
5. Mulla Muhammad Husayn Bushrfll, Bab al-Bab
6. Other BabTs
V. WORKS OF ANTI-BABI POLEMIC
Works of KaiTm Khan Kirmaffi
Other Shaykhl Polemics
Other Muslim Polemics
Ihqaq al-haqq
Miftaf} bob al-abwab
Rajm al-shayfan
Manuscript polemics
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PART TWO: SOURCES FOR BABI HISTORY
INTRODUCTION
VI. THE KITAB-INUQTAT AL-KAF
The Kashf al-ghifa
Theories of cAbbas Effendi
The provenence of Suppl. Persan 1071
Other manuscripts
The prologue and the date
Authorship
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vn. THE TARIKH-IJADID AND OTHER BABL
SOURCES
TarTkh-i jadid
The Tarikh-i jadidand Nuqfat al-kafcompared
Recensions
Other Babl Sources
Accounts of the Shaykh TabarSI Uprising
Accounts of the Nayrtz Uprising
Accounts of the Zanjan Uprising
The History of al-Qatll ibn al-Karbalal and other early
accounts
Late accounts by early Babls
The TarTkh-i Samandar
The Tarikh-i Nabll
Maqala-yi shakhfi sayyah
Mujmal-i badie
Ietirifat-i siyasi (Alleged Memoirs of Dolgorukov)
vm. LATER HISTORIES
Works in European Languages
Persian Histories
The Kit5b-i ?uhiir al-haqq
The Tarikh-i MuTm al-Salfana
Two Minor Histories
Tdrlkh-i shuhada-yi amr
Histories of Nayrt z
Two Histories by Mubammad cAll Faytjl
Qurrat al-eAyn and Jahira
Regional Histories
TarTkh-i NayrTz
Mukhta$ar-i waqayi?-i Zanjan
Waqayi'-i Zanjan
Manafir-i tarikh-i nalrfat-i amr-i Baha'i dar Khurasan
Tdrlkh-i amrl-yi Adharbayjan
TarTkh-i amrl-yi Nur
Tarlkh-i amrl-yi Hamadan
Tarlkh-i amrl-yi Shlraz
Tarikh-i amrl-yi Kashan
TZrlkh-i Jadhdhab
Tarlkh-i mukhta$ar-i Zanjan
Sharh-i hal-i Mulla eAbd al-ffusayn Qazvlrii
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Tarlkh-i Sangsar
Tdrlkh-i amrl-yi Bihnamlr
Iqtim-i NUr
Khafirat-i Aqa Sayyid eAbd al-Rafflm Isfahan!
Khafirat-i Sayyid Jawad Mu^arrir
Tarlkh-i amrl-yi Adharbayjan
Waqdyi'-i Tihran
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Manuscripts of the Bab's Writings and their Locations
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Sayyid Husayn Yazdl
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APPENDIX HE: Mlrza Abd al-Kartm Qazvlnl
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APPENDIX IV: The Risala-yi dhahabiyya
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APPENDIX V : Contents of Browne F.25, item 3:'Shu'un-i khamsa' (extracts)
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APPENDIX vi: Contents of INBA 6007C, Ziyaratnamas
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APPENDIX vn: The Tehran and Haifa Manuscripts of the Kitab-i nuqfat alkaf and their divergence from the Paris text
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APPENDIX vm: Historical Manuscripts
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APPENDIX IX: The Sources for the Tarlkh-i Nabll
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APPENDIX X : Sources reproduced in the Kitab-i fuhur al-f}aqq
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APPENDIX X I : Index of First Lines to the Writings of the Bab
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APPENDIX xn: Index of Titles of the Writings of the Bab
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APPENDIX I:
APPENDIX N:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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