Bibliography: BIB00179

Key	BIB00179
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	[Review]
Journal	The Nation (New York)
Year	1883
Date	Aug. 30, 1883
Issue	948
Volume	37
Notes	"Baabism:" p. 190. 'Concerning some "sectaries of the Baab," whom he calls an impostor, and of whose communistic religious tenets he says only that they are very difficult to get at, he relates the following: In 1880 a priest of Ispahan was denounced by his wife as a Baabi. Thrown into prison by order of the Governor, a son of the Shah, he avowed his Baabism, and refused to retract, while denying the crimes laid to his charge. He was led in chains to a place of execution, and bastinadoed, but offered his life if he would curse Baab. He replied: "Curses on you, your Prince, your King, and all oppressors," and suffered death. A few days after his execution three brothers, intimate acquaintances of Dr. Wills, were arrested as guilty of Baabism....' A second example of 'cruel oppression and fierce barbarism' against the Babis follows. See #17452
Reviewed item	In the Land of the Lion and Sun; or Modern Persia / C. J. Wills, M.D. -- London & NY: Macmillan & Co. 1883.
Language	English
Keywords	BOOK REVIEW; HISTORY; BAB; BABI FAITH
Pages	189–190
Legal note	10.