Bibliography: I9LVW5E7

key	I9LVW5E7
title	On Things Persian
author	Wills, C. J.
authority control	Charles James Wills
item type	Journal article
publication year	1896
date	1896-07-04
publication title	Littell's Living Age (Boston, Mass.)
abstract note	"Unfortunately for the sectaries of the Baab, there is a very simple means of recognizing them. A man being suspected of Baabism is requested to curse the Baab; if he be a Baabi, he invariably refuses to do this, though he knows full well that the refusal will assuredly cost him his life. Imprisonment, torture, death itself fail to shake the steadfast believers in the mission of the Baab. The writer saw a Baabi led to prison in 1880, the man was a priest (mollah) who had been denounced by his wife. He was an old man, and though he was imprisoned and severely bastinadoed, and offered life if he would curse the Baab, he replied [with defiance]." Regarding the assassination of the Shah, Wills recounts evidence exonerating the Babis.
pages	21-28.
issue	2713
volume	210
language	English
manual tags	IRAN; PERSECUTION