Bibliography: BIB00085

Key	BIB00085
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	A Little Prose About Persia
Journal	Harper's Weekly (New York)
Year	1857
Date	Jan. 24, 1857
Issue	4
Volume	1
Notes	"Babees:" p. 57. Much of the account of the Babis is taken from Lady Sheil's Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, although an extract from the Teheran Gazette about the persecutions of 1852 is included: "The Mollahs, priests, and learned men slew Mollah Sheik Ali, the deputy of Bab. The Princes slew Leyed Hassan, of Khorassan, a man of noted profligacy, with pistol-shots, swords, and daggers. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, full of religious and moral zeal, took the first shot at Mollah Zeyn-ul- Abedeen, of Yezd, and the secretaries of his department finished him, and cut him in pieces...."
Language	English
Keywords	IRAN
Pages	56–58
Legal note	11.