Bibliography 2: #BIB29986

Key	BIB29986
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Sankt-Peterburgskaia kollektsiia materialov po babizmu i religii bakhaĭ (XIX-nachalo XX v.)
Journal	Pis'mennye Pamiatniki Vostoka
Translated title	St.-Petersburg Collection of Texts relating to the Babi and Bahai FaithS
Author	Ioannesian, IU. A.
Year	2005
Date	Vesna–Leto 2005
Issue	1 (2)
Abstract	The Russian Empire during the 19th century was highly interested in the current events and political changes which were developing in Persia, especially those events surrounding the appearance of the Babi and Baha’i Faiths. Persia has always been a strategic concern of Russia’s geopolitical interests and this traditional importance, which has been given to Iran has materialized itself in hundreds if not thousands of documents and writings collected by the pre-revolutionary Russian government. Among these materials, which were constantly flowing into the Russian Empire was information about and original Writings of these two emerging religions . Fortunately, this information was supplied regularly and systematized by the Russian diplomats and scholars working in Persia. Among these Russian diplomats were trained Orientalists, who could rightly ascertain their significance. The majority of Babi and Baha’i materials collected during the 19th century ended up in St.-Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire. Eventually, these materials were distributed between the following three learning centers: The St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly the Asiatic Museum), the National Library (formerly the Public Library) in St. Petersburg and the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. The largest of these collections is in the above mentioned St.-Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, which for the most part this paper concerns. It is a brief introduction to these materials. The most significant of them can be divided between (1) the Writings of the Bab, the Prophet-Founder of the Babi Faith who was Baha’u’llah’s Forerunner and (2) the Writings of Baha’u’llah, the Founder of the Baha’i Faith. We can further distinguish the materials into two broad groups: manuscripts or publications of manuscripts of the Writings (with and without translations) of the central figures of the Babi and Baha’i Faiths, and manuscripts and publications of other materials like eyewitness accounts and historical documents about the Babi and Baha’i Faiths, defined in this paper as other sources.
Language	Russian
Keywords	MANUSCRIPTS; SAINT PETERSBURG; RUSSIA; IRAN
Pages	304–320
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