Bibliography: BIB00072

Key	BIB00072
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic
Journal	The Illustrated London News
Year	1850
Date	August 10, 1850
Issue	440
Volume	XVII
Abstract	"Accounts from Tabreez, in Persia, to the 30th of June, announce the removal thither, on that morning, from his place of captivity, of the soidisant Prophet Bale [i.e. the Báb], whose followers have become so numerous as to threaten the overthrow of the established religion. The government had condemned him to be publicly executed, by discharging him from a mortar, on the 1st July. He is represented as a very handsome young man, but decidedly non compos mentis." Possibly the second-earliest known notice about the Báb in English that explicitly mentions the name of the Báb or Bábís. The handwritten report received by the journal misread Bab as Bale. It also reports a July 1 execution date by means of being discharged from a mortar and repeates the canard that the Báb was insane.
Language	English
Keywords	BAB; MARTYRDOM; PERSECUTION; IRAN; BABI FAITH
Pages	119 (column 1)
Legal note	11.
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