Arabic and Persian
Texts Related to
The Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Movements

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Bibliographies

• Arabic, Persian and Ottoman books and xeroxes on the Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Movements in the library of Juan R. I. Cole (Note: This list does not exhaust the titles to which I have access, but only notices those I actually have copied. I am glad to trade photocopies).

• The Eshraghieh and Mahmoud Rabbani Arabic/Persian Book Collection at Bosch Baha'i School Library

• Leiden List of Baha'u'llah's Named Tablets




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Works of the Bab




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Works of Tahirih Qurratu'l-`Ayn

• "Ay Ankih ("O Thou to Whose pure and unique quintessence praise is owed"). Prayer. From Qurratu’l-`Ayn: Bi-yad-i sadumin sal-i shahadat (Qurratu'l-`Ayn: In Commemoration of the Centennial of her Martyrdom) (Tehran, 1949), pp. 36-37



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Babi Chronicles

• Baghdadi, Muhammad Mustafa. Ar-Risalah al-Amriyyah. (Treatise on the Cause).. Appended to Ahmad Suhrab. Ar-Risalah at-Tis` `Ashariyyih. Cairo: Matba`at as-Sa`adah, 1919/1338. Pp. 102-128. Reprinted, Lansing: Mi.: H-Bahai, 1998

• Kitab-i Nuqtat al-Kaf: Being the Earliest History of the Babis, ed. E. G. Browne. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1910

• Account of the Martyrdom of Mulla Husayn Bushru'i by Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Zavarih-`i

• "Letter of `Abdu'l-Karim Qazvini to Sayyid Javad Karbarla'i concerning Baha'u'llah in Iraq, dated August, 1851." `Andalib, vol. 16 [no. 62] (Spring, 1997):30-31.
  [Reference: Juan R.I. Cole. "A Letter from `Abdu'l-Karim Qazvini to Sayyid Javad Karbala'i concerning Baha'u'llah in Iraq, dated August, 1851: Text, Translation, Commentary." Translations of Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Texts no. 8 (October, 1997).]




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Texts by Baha'u'llah

• Alvah al-Muluk (Tablets to the Kings). Online.

• Halih Halih Ya Bisharat ("Hallelujah, Hallelujah, O Glad Tidings": late Baghdad period)

• al-Kalimat al-Maknunah (The Hidden Words, Arabic). Kalimat-i Maknunih (The Hidden Words, Persian). (c. 1858)

• al-Kitab al-Aqdas (Most Holy Book, 1873.)

• Kitab-i Iqan (Book of Certitude), Bombay: n.p., 1893.

• La'ali al-Hikmah. Vol. 1. Ed. Vaheed Behmardi. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Baha'i-Brasil, 1986.

• Tablet of Fuad (Commemorates death of Ottoman Foreign Minister Kececizade Fuad Pasha, 1869)

• Lawh-i Ghulam al-Khuld ("Tablet of the Deathless Youth"). Written in the early 1860s in Baghdad in commemoration of the Bab. This version published in `Abdu'l-Hamid Ishraq-Khavari, ed., Ayyam-i Tis`ih (Tehran: Mu'assasih-'i Milli-yi Matbu`at-i Amri, 1973), pp. 92-99.

• Lawh-i Jamal (Tablet to Aqa Jamal Burujirdi) (Akka Period)

• Lawh-i Ta'vil ("Tablet on Figurative Interpretation"). `Akka period, probably around 1881. This version published in Baha'u'llah, Iqtidarat (Tehran: Mu'assasih-'i Milli-yi Matbu`at-i Amri, n.d.) , pp. 279-286.

• Majmu`ih-'i Athar-i Qalam-i A`la ("Collected Letters of Baha'u'llah"). Volume 23. Iran National Baha'i Archives Private Printing: Tehran, 1976. Reprinted, H-Bahai: Lansing, Mi., 1998.

• Majmu`ih-`i az Alvah-i Jamal-i Aqdas-i Abha kih ba`d az Kitab-i Aqdas nazil shudih. [Supplements to the Aqdas]. Hofheim-Langenhain: Baha'i-Verlag, 1980.

• Munajat (Prayers and Meditations). Rio de Janeiro: Editora-Baha'i Brasil, 1981. 244 pp.

• al-Qasidah al-Warqa'iyyah ("Ode of the Dove") (c. 1855)

• Sahifih-'i Shattiyyih (c. 1857)

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Baha'i Historical Texts

• Petition of Baha'is of Baghdad, March, 1867, to U.S. Government: Text, Translation, Commentary." Translations of Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Texts, no. 3, July, 1997 (Presented by Robert B. Stauffer and slightly edited and digitally enhanced by Juan R. I. Cole from a photocopy of a microfilm from "Petition from the Persian Reformers," United States National Archives Record Group 59 [State Department]) T 367 Roll 5
  

  References: Rev. Henry Harris Jessup, Fifty-three Years in Syria (New York and Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910], Volume I, p.329.

• Ustad Muhammad `Ali Salmani, Sharh-i Hal (Autobiography and memoir of Baha'u'llah) (Lansing, MI: H-Bahai, 1997) at http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/bharab.htm#Ustad.

  Aqa Husayn Ashchi, Tarikh-i Vaqa'i`-i Baghdad va Islambul va Edirne va `Akka (Lansing, MI: H-Bahai, 1997) at http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/bharab.htm#Aqa Husayn. 149 pages

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Texts by `Abdu'l-Baha

• `Abdu'l-Baha on the Establishment of the First Iranian Parliament in August, 1906 Page 1; Page 2

• Majmu`ih-'i Makatib-i Hadrat-i `Abdu'l-Baha ("Collected Letters of `Abdu'l-Baha"). Volume 13. Iran National Baha'i Archives Private Printing: Tehran, 1976. Reprinted, H-Bahai: Lansing, Mi., 1997.

• Min Makatib Hadrat `Abdu'l-Baha. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Baha'i-Brasil, n.d.

• An-Nur al-Abha fi Mufawadat `Abdi'l-Baha. New Delhi: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1983. (Persian of Some Answered Questions).

• Risalih-'i Madaniyyih (Secret of Divine Civilization)

• Risalih-'i Siyasiyyih (Treatise on Leadership)

• Tafsir-i 'Kuntu Kanzan Makhfiyan (Commentary on the Saying "I was a Hidden Treasure)

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Compilations

Ishraq-Khavari, `Abdu'l-Hamid, ed. al-Ayyam at-Tis`ah. Hofheim-Langenhain: Baha'i-Verlag, n.d. (Abridged edition with Arabic texts only; tablets of Baha'u'llah, `Abdu'l-Baha and works by others relating to the nine Baha'i holy days.).

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Baha'i Histories and Chronicles

• Kashf al-Ghitá' by Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani and Mirza Mihdi Gulpaygani, Tashkent, 1919.

  Malik Khusravi, Muhammad `Ali, Manabi`-i Tarikh-i Amr Ahang-i Badi`, No. 326 (1974-75/131 B.E.):11-35. Reprinted. (Lansing, MI: H-Bahai, 1998).

  Mazandarani, Asadu'llah Fadil. Collected Works. Includes Tarikh-i Zuhur al-Haqq volumes. Reprinted. (Lansing, MI: H-Bahai, 1998).

  Qazvini, Mulla Ja`far. Tarikh [Brief autobiographical chronicle of the Babi movement, including Fort Shaykh Tabarsi]. Published as addendum to Kazim Samandar, Tarikh-i Samandar (Tehran: Baha'i Publishing Trust, n.d. [first edition]), pp. 446-498.

• Suhrab, Ahmad. Ar-Risalah at-Tis` `Ashariyyih (The Treatise of Nineteen). Cairo: Matba`at as-Sa`adah, 1919/1338. Pp. 2-101. To which is appended Muhammad Mustafa Baghdadi. Ar-Risalah al-Amriyyah.. Pp. 102-128. Reprinted, Lansing: Mi.: H-Bahai, 1998.
  N.B.: This text may have been heavily revised or even co-authored by `Abdu'l-Baha