BABI-BAHAI
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provenance
edition · Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab, Qayyum al-Asma' (Ahsan al-qisas), the commentary on the Sura of Joseph begun on the night of 22–23 May 1844 — manuscript, Iran National Baha'i Archives vol. 3, a copy given by Mulla Husayn Bushru'i; The Bab, al-Bayan al-Farsi (the Persian Bayan), written in Maku, 1847–48 — manuscript, Iran National Baha'i Archives vol. 24; The Bab, Panj Sha'n (پنج شان), with Sahifa al-Abhajiyya (صحیفه الابهجیه, as the title page spells it) and Sahifa min munajat arba'a 'ashar (صحیفه من مناجات اربعه عشر), listed on the volume's title page under the heading Hadrat-i Nuqta-yi Ula (حضرت نقطه اولی, the Bab) — manuscript, Iran National Baha'i Archives vol. 1; H-Bahai's index of the series ascribes the two sahifas of this volume to Mirza Yahya Nuri, Subh-i Azal; Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i Iqan (the Book of Certitude), written in Baghdad, 1861–62 — lithograph (Bombay: n.p., circa 1882), the first printed Baha'i book in Persian, probably calligraphed by 'Abdu'l-Baha, with owners' inscriptions on pp. 159–160 including one by 'Abdu'l-Baha; reprinted in facsimile by H-Bahai (1998); Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i Iqan (Bombay: n.p., 1893), the Persian text calligraphed by Mishkin Qalam — lithograph, reprinted in facsimile by H-Bahai (1998); Baha'u'llah, al-Kitab al-Aqdas (completed in 'Akka, 1873), ed. Aleksandr Tumanskii, Kitabe Akdes (Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg, 8th ser., vol. 3, no. 6; St. Petersburg, 1899), pp. 1–29 — the Arabic text, reprinted in facsimile by H-Bahai; ['Abdu'l-Baha], A Traveller's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Bab, ed. Edward G. Browne, vol. 1: Persian text (Cambridge: University Press, 1891) — facsimile of the Persian; Digital Library of India copy; Kitab-i Nuqtatu'l-Kaf, Being the Earliest History of the Babis, compiled by Hajji Mirza Jani of Kashan, ed. Edward G. Browne (E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series 15; Leyden: Brill; London: Luzac, 1910) — the Persian text, the history the Azali tradition keeps; Digital Library of India copy
license · payload: Public domain: the works are of 1844–1873; the manuscripts are nineteenth-century copies; the lithographs are of Bombay, c. 1882 and 1893; Tumanskii's edition (St. Petersburg, 1899) and Browne's editions (Cambridge, 1891; Leyden and London, 1910) were published before 1931. The Iran National Baha'i Archives volumes are photostat reproductions of manuscripts (issued in Iran in the 1970s, each with a typed title sheet); H-Bahai's digital reprints are facsimiles of those volumes and of the lithographs and states no licence of its own; a facsimile of a public-domain work adds no authorship. Internet Archive scans (Digital Library of India) of the Browne volumes. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · The second tradition of 1844: the Bab declared his mission in Shiraz on 22–23 May 1844, five weeks before Joseph Smith was killed; after the Bab's execution (1850) his followers divided between Subh-i Azal and Baha'u'llah, as the Latter Day Saints divided between the Twelve and Strang.