Bibliography 2: #BIB00087

Key	BIB00087
Reference type	Book
Title	A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc.
Author	Binning, Robert B. M.
Year	1857
Date	1857
Publisher	W. H. Allen & Co.
Place published	London
Issue	10.206
Abstract	II:120 "The Ispahanees give themselves the credit of being a religious people . There are few Soofees among them , and the Bâbee heresy met with little countenance in this quarter." II:164 "The Bâbees have lately been defeated by the Shah's troops at Zenjân, and that town has been taken and dismantled . The small band of the Bâbees who garrisoned it, behaved with great determination and bravery; and for several months held out against six regiments of the royal army, till they were starved into a surrender. After the town had yielded, the troops, according to Persian custom, proceeded to wreak a savage vengeance on the conquered, as punishment for their brave and obstinate resistance. The whole Bâbee population was brought out into the plain outside of the town, and there they were all, men, women, children, and infants, deliberately bayonetted to death. The soldiery also dug up the bodies of some who had fallen in the course of the siege, and hacked them in pieces; rejoicing in all manner of savage barbarities, such as only the veriest brutes and cowards could commit. The persecution of the Bâbees is still carried on; but tempered with mercy. Every one of this sect, when arrested, is invited to recant and return within the pale of Islâm: if he complies, he is at once freely pardoned, but in case of his refusal, he is forthwith decapitated."
Notes	Bahá'í Faith: I: 403-408; II:120, 164.
Language	English
Keywords	IRAN; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; 19TH CENTURY
Number of volumes	2

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