all items, details

"Babi:" p. 124. "In Persia the Shah has narrowly escaped assassination. While he was hunting near Tehrân, on the 15th of August, six, 'ill-dressed' Persians belonging to the sect of Babi, a religious chief put to death some time since, approached the Shah with petitions. Having presented them, they demanded redress for the insult to their religion. Two seized the bridle of his horse; and before the attendants at a distance, came up, two of the assassins fired their pistols. The Shah was slightly wounded in the cheek and thigh, but retained his seat. His servants arrived at a gallop, cut down two of the assassins, and pursued and captured one. Three escaped; but they were afterward found in a well, and cut to pieces."

English

BABI FAITH; IRAN; NASIRI'D-DIN SHAH; ASSASSINATION; 1852

120–124

11.

BIB00196

A Short Chapter in the History of Bâbeeism in Persia

Proceedings of the Semi-Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, May 1863

Wright, Austin H.

American Oriental Society

1853

American Oriental Society

New Haven, CT

Book Section

"As I formerly informed you," says Dr. Wright [in a previous communication, giving an account of the …

English

AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY; WRIGHT, AUSTIN H.; HISTORY; BABI FAITH

10–11

11.

BIB00197

Letter from Dr. Wright, November 20, 1852

Missionary Herald (Boston, MA)

Wright, Austin H.

1853

March 1853

no publ.

Journal Article

"Bâbeeism": p. 77. "It is said that he [the Shah] has lost confidence in his Musulman guard, since the attempt on his life last summer by five or six persons of the Bâbee sect. They approached him while out on a hunting excursion, under pretence of having a petition to present. Not suspecting any evil design, he reined up his horse and stopped. The ruffians then drew forth pistols, which they had concealed under their garments, and discharged them at the King. He fell from his horse wounded, though not seriously. The affair was investigated; and wherever persons were found, who were suspected of belonging to the Bâbee sect, they were seized and put to death with every variety of torture. Several hundred persons were killed in this manner at the capital; and messengers were dispatched to various parts of the empire with orders to the local governors to show no mercy to those professing bâbeeism [sic]."

English

BABI FAITH; IRAN; NASIRI'D-DIN SHAH

76–77

11.

BIB00198

Dawnings of Light in the East : With Biblical, Historical, and Statistical Notes of Persons and Places Visited During a Mission to the Jews in Persia, Coordistan, and Mesopotamia

Stern, Henry A.

1854

Charles H. Purday : Wetheim and Macintosh

London

10.1391

Book

First book published in the West to mention the Báb.

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 261-262.

English

BAB; IRAN; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; JUDAISM; MISSIONARIES

BIB00199

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

Sheil, Lady

1856

John Murray

London

10.1327

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 175-181, 272-282.

English

IRAN; CUSTOMS; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS

xi, 402

BIB00200

Literary Record

The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion (New York)

no author

1856

Sept. 1856

no publ.

Journal Article

"Babeeism:" p. 287: "From a most interesting work, 'Glimpses of Life in Persia,' (sic) by Lady Shiel (sic) just issued from the London press, we take the following thrilling scene, which is strictly Oriental from beginning to end. It refers to what followed after the suppression of a Babee [with macron over the 'a'] conspiracy, in which an attempt was made on the life of the Shah when out hunting:" The remainder of the article is a lengthy excerpt of the persecutions of the Babis in 1852 (see Sheil, pp. 276-278).

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia / Lady Sheil -- London: John Murray, 1856.

English

BOOK REVIEW; HISTORY; BABI FAITH

286–287

10.1327

BIB00204

[Review]

Layard, A. H.

1857

Mar. 1857

no publ.

202

Journal Article

"We have from Lady Sheil an interesting account of the sect of Babees, whose doctrines, notwithstand …

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia / Lady Sheil. -- London : John Murray, 1856.

English

BOOK REVIEW; IRAN; CUSTOMS; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS

501–541

10.1327

BIB00202

[Review]

London Quarterly Review (New York)

Layard, A. H.

1857

Apr. 1857

no publ.

101 (202)

Journal Article

"We have from Lady Sheil an interesting account of the sect of Babees, whose doctrines, notwithstand …

"Babees": p.284.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia / Lady Sheil. -- London : John Murray, 1856.

English

BOOK REVIEW; IRAN; CUSTOMS; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS

273–294

10.1327 rev

BIB00201

A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc.

Binning, Robert B. M.

1857

W. H. Allen & Co.

London

10.206

Book

II:120
"The Ispahanees give themselves the credit of being a religious people . There are few So …

Bahá'í Faith: I: 403-408; II:120, 164.

English

IRAN; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; 19TH CENTURY

BIB00203

A Little Prose About Persia

Harper's Weekly (New York)

no author

1857

Jan. 24, 1857

no publ.

Journal Article

"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...."

English

IRAN

56–58

11.

BIB00205

Voyage scientifique de M. Dorn dans le Mazandéran, le Ghilan, les provinces musulmanes du Caucase et dans le Daghestan

Journal Asiatique (Paris)

Khanikof, N.

1862

février–mars 1862

no publ.

ser. 5, 19

Journal Article

Dorn's travels as documented in this account by Khanikof led him to Mazandaran. Dorn left Saint -P� …

'Babis:' p. 217.

English

BABI FAITH; IRAN; MAZANDARAN

214–225

10.

BIB00207

no title

Papers

Heyman, Gertrude

1864

1864–1957

no publ.

Manuscript

Includes typescript of Bahá'í burial service.

English

HEYMAN, GERTRUDE; JUDAISM; BIOGRAPHY

1 linear foot

New York Public Library, Manuscripts & Archives Section

BIB00206

Journal of a Diplomate's Three Years' Residence in Persia

Eastwick, Edward B.

1864

Smith, Elder & Co.

London

10.458

Book

Bahá'í Faith: p. 206.

English

IRAN; 19TH CENTURY; DIPLOMATS

BIB00209

A Journey from London to Persepolis : Including Wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia and Persia

Ussher, John

1865

Hurst and Blacket

London

10.1484

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 627-629.

English

TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; IRAN; TURKEY, OTTOMAN; GEORGIA; ARMENIA

BIB00208

Bab i babidy : religiozno-politicheskiia smuty v Persii v 1844-1852 godakh

Kazem-Bek, Aleksandr

1865

V Tip. V.N. Maikova

S. Peterburg

Book

Russian

BABI FAITH

xi, 212

BIB00210

Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l’Asie Centrale

Gobineau, Joseph Arthur, comte de

1865

Didier & Cie

Paris

10.

Book

Bâbysme, Bâbys : p. 141-358, 461-543. This famous work by the Minister of France and ambassador to Persia introduced the Western world to the history and doctrines of the Babi Religion in Persia, inspiring many writers hence to honor the fortitude and courage of the martyrs of the Faith (Renan, Arnold, Palmer, Dods and others relied heavily, if not entirely, on Gobineau's work). For at least 24 years, it stood as the principal resource for the study of the Faith in the West. Shoghi Effendi includes large portions of the French text in his footnotes of the Dawnbreakers.

French

ASIA, CENTRAL; RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; IRAN; 19TH CENTURY

543

1st ed.

BIB00211

Persien - das Land und seine Bewohner : ethnographsiche Schilderungen

Polak, Jakob Eduard

1865

F. A. Brockhaus

Leipzig, Germany

Book

"Babi:" I:xii, 306, 320, 329, 350-353; II:36, 38, 88, 246, 261.
[I:353: Ich war Zeuge von der Hinrichtung der Gurret el Ayn, die vom Kriegsminister und seinen Adjutanten vollzogen murde; die schöne Frau erduldete den langsamen Tod mit übermenschlicher Stärke. Google Translation: I was witness to the execution of Gurret el Ayn, the murder carried out by the war minister and his aides, the beautiful woman endured the slow death with superhuman strength.]

German

TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; IRAN; 19TH CENTURY; ETHNOGRAPHY

2 v. (I: xiv, 389; II: 370)

BIB00213

Rapport sur les Travaux du Conseil de la Société Asiatiqué, le 28 Juin 1865

Journal Asiatique (Paris)

Mohl, Jules

1865

juillet 1865

no publ.

ser. 6, 6

Journal Article

"Babis:" p. 73n. Translation of title: Report on the Work of the Council of the Asiatic Society.
Footnote refers to a collection of 161 manuscripts given to the library of Saint Petersburg in 1864 by Mr. Khanikof (H. v. Chanykov) that includes the “Koran of the Babis,” presumably meaning the Arabic Bayan. The catalog of the collection, edited by von B. Dorn, and entitled, “Die Sammlung von morgenlaendischen Handschriften, welche die Kaiserliche öffentliche Bibliothek zu St Petersburg im Jahre 1864,” contains extracts from the Bayan. Jules Mohl writes the following about the Babis (rough translation): "This is a modern and extremely curious sect of the Persians. Officially, the movement does not exist, and its proponents are mainly exterminated today, but we will still hear it spoken of, because it is only one symptom of an interior work being done in the center of Islam. It appears that the quietism of Sufism no longer satisfies the spirits that revolt against Islamic doctrine…. One sees in the doctrines of the Babis and other secret sects of today a mixture of religious and political aspirations that make them very remarkable. We are still imperfectly informed of the doctrines of the Bab, and the extracts that Mr. Dorn gives are the first authentic data we have on them. It is significant that the Bab, though Persian of race and born in Shiraz, wrote in the Arabic language, thus proving that he was writing above all to the classes of well-read women. Soon we will know more in detail about this mysterious movement. Mr. Kazim Beg, in Saint-Pétersbourg, wrote of its history in Russian, and has prepared a French edition of this work; later he will publish the writings of Bab and other supporting documents [see #22919-22923]. On his side, the count Gobineau is at this moment publishing a work on modern Persia [see #20360], in which he will insert translations and analyze the dogmatic writings of the Babis."

French

BABI FAITH; IRAN

11–112

11.

BIB00212

Travels in Central Asia : Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand Performed in the Year 1863

Vambery, Arminius

1865

Harper & Brothers

New York

10.

Book

Bahá'í Faith: p. 48. 'The next day we had to reach Sari, the capital of Mazendran. Not far from the wayside lies Sheikh Tabersi, a place long defended by the Babis (religious enthusiasts who denied Mohammed and preached socialism). They made themselves the terror of the neighborhood.'
The first edition was published a year earlier in 1864 by John Murray, London.

English

TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; IRAN; ASIA, CENTRAL

493, [2]

BIB00214

A History of Persia : From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1858

Watson, Robert Grant

1866

Smith Elder & Co.

London

10.1538

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 347-352, 360-362, 385-395, 407-410.

English

IRAN; HISTORY; 19TH CENTURY

BIB00221

A New Religion

The Nation (New York)

no author

1866

June 22, 1866

no publ.

Journal Article

English

BABI FAITH; HISTORY

793, 795

11.740a

BIB00219

Bab et les Babis : ou le soulèvement politique et religieux en Perse, de 1845 à 1853

Journal Asiatique (Paris)

Kazem-Beg, Mirza

1866

décembre 1866

no publ.

ser.6, 8

Journal Article

This is the fifth of five articles published in the Journal Asiatique in 1866, end of chapter III of Kazem-Beg's study of Babism.
See avril-mai 1866 issue for more details.

French

BABI FAITH; IRAN

473–507

11.

BIB00220

Bab et les Babis : ou le soulèvement politique et religieux en Perse, de 1845 à 1853

Journal Asiatique (Paris)

Kazem-Beg, Mirza

1866

juin 1866

no publ.

ser. 6, 7

Journal Article

This is the second of five articles published in the Journal Asiatique in 1866, the first part of Chapter II of Kazem-Beg's oft-cited study of Babism.
See avril-mai 1866 issue for more details.

French

BABI FAITH; IRAN

457–522

11.

BIB00218

Bab et les Babis : ou le soulèvement politique et religieux en Perse, de 1845 à 1853

Journal Asiatique (Paris)

Kazem-Beg, Mirza

1866

avril–mai 1866

no publ.

ser. 6, 7

Journal Article

This is the first of five articles published in the Journal Asiatique in 1866, comprising Kazem-Beg's study of Babism, a companion to Gobineau's more renowned Religions et les Philosophies dans l’Asie Centrale. Included in this article are the preface and first chapter of this oft-cited work.
Mirza Kazem-Beg was born in Rasht, 1802 and died in 1870; an orientalist of note, he was Prof. of Persian Literature at the Univ. of St. Petersburg (1849-60) and helped form the School of Oriental Languages of which he became dean in 1860.

French

BABI FAITH; IRAN

329–384

11.

BIB00223

Bab et les Babis : ou le soulèvement politique et religieux en Perse, de 1845 à 1853

Journal Asiatique (Paris)

Kazem-Beg, Mirza

1866

octobre–novembre 1866

no publ.

ser.6, 8

Journal Article

This is the fourth of five articles published in the Journal Asiatique in 1866, Chapter III of Kazem-Beg's study of Babism.
See avril-mai 1866 issue for more details.

French

BABI FAITH; IRAN

357–400

11.

BIB00217

Bab et les Babis : ou le soulèvement politique et religieux en Perse, de 1845 à 1853

Journal Asiatique (Paris)

Kazem-Beg, Mirza

1866

août–septembre 1866

no publ.

ser.6, 7

Journal Article

This is the third of five articles published in the Journal Asiatique in 1866, the continuation of Chapter II of Kazem-Beg's study of Babism.
See avril-mai 1866 issue for more details.

French

BABI FAITH; IRAN

196–252

11.

BIB00215

The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865.

no author

1866

D. Appleton and Company

New York

10.

1866

Book

This is perhaps the earliest encyclopedic reference to the Babi religion in English: "Of more recen …

Bahá'í Faith: V:696 at the end of article on Persia.

English

ENCYCLOPEDIA; IRAN

5 volumes

BIB00216

The Apostles

Origins of Christianity

Renan, Ernest

1866

Carleton

New York

10.

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 41, 299-301, 353.
See 10.1233.

English

RELIGION; JESUS CHRIST; CHRISTIANITY; BABI FAITH

353, [8]

v.2

1st ed.

BIB00222

The Apostles

The Radical : A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Religion (Boston)

Bowen, Daniel

1866

Nov. 1866

no publ.

Journal Article

"Babism:" p. 157. Publishers of the journal: Boston: Adams & Co.; New York: The American News Co.; London: Trübner & Co.

The Apostles / Ernest Renan -- New York : Carleton, 1866.

English

BOOK REVIEW; RELIGION; CHRISTIANITY

156–164

10.

BIB00224

Meine Wanderungen und Erlebnisse in Persien

Vámbéry, Hermann [i.e. Arminius]

1867

Gustav Heckenast

Pest, [Austro-Hungarian Empire]

10.

Book

"Babis:" pp. [7], 74,-75, 286-302. Book title translation: "My Wanderings and Experiences in Persia." The title page indicates this book was translated from the original Hungarian: "Nach der ungarischen Originalausgabe," although it is not clear whether it was ever published in that language.

English

TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; IRAN; ger

[9], 364

BIB00225

New America

Dixon, William Hepworth

1867

J. B. Lippincott

Philadelphia

10.

Book

An account of the journey of the author, an Englishman, from St. Louis to Salt Lake City soon after …

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 191-2.

English

TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; AMERICA; MORMONISM; RACISM

495, [9]

3rd ed.

pages

BIB00226

Oriental Mysticism : A Treatise on the Sufiistic and Unitarian Theosophy of the Persians

Palmer, Edward Henry

1867

Deighton, Bell, and Co.

Cambridge

10.

Book

Bahá'í Faith: p. 44.
See 10.1123.

English

ISLAM; MYSTICISM; SUFISM; IRAN

xiv, 84

1st ed.

BIB00227

Philosophie et Religion

Franck, Adolphe

1867

Didier et Cie

Paris

10.

Book

"Les Bâbys:" pp. 283, 290, 302, 307-340 in Chapter VI: "Une Nouvelle Religion en Perse" ("A New Religion in Persia"): pp. 281-340.

English

BABI FAITH; RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; IRAN; 19TH CENTURY; fre

xv, 451, [1]

BIB00228

A Political Survey

Duff, Mountstuart E. Grant

1868

Edmonston and Douglas

Edinburgh

10.

Book

Bahá'í Faith: p. 60n.

English

POLITICS; ENGLAND

xv, 240, [1]

BIB00240

A New Religion

All the Year Round (London)

Evans, E. P.

1869

July 17, 1869

no publ.

Journal Article

English

BAB; BABI FAITH

149–154

11.380

BIB00242

Bab and Babism

Missionary Herald (Boston, MA)

Bliss, Edwin E.

1869

May 1869

no publ.

Journal Article

American missionary in Istanbul (1856-1892) refers to the Bahá'í community in Adrianople and the e …

English

BABI FAITH; EDIRNE (ADRIANOPLE); TURKEY; AKKA; EXILE

146–148

11.209

BIB00239

Bab and Babism

Hours at Home (New York)

Evans, E. P.

1869

Jan. 1869

no publ.

Journal Article

English

BAB; BABI FAITH

210, 222, 292

11.379

BIB00236

Mohammedanism

Methodist Quarterly Review (New York)

no author

1869

April 1869

no publ.

Journal Article

Babis: p. 297.

English

BABI FAITH; ISLAM

295–298

11.

BIB00241

Notes : Literary

The Nation

no author

1869

June 17, 1869

no publ.

207

Journal Article

'Babism' Perhaps underscoring the importance of the Bábi movement in the eyes of the editor(s) of The Nation, the following notice about Zell's Univeral Cyclopedia begins with a note about Bábism: "Those interested in the history and progress of Babism will find a résumé of the subject based on the very latest intelligence and appreciation of this remarkable sect, in the newest issue of Zell's Univeral Cyclopaedia, sub verbo. As this important work progresses in monthly parts, we have been pleased to see other evidences of a purpose to keep the articles abreast with the knowledge of the present time; and although there must needs be more or less coming short of this standard amid the numberless particulars of such a combination of dictionaries, the spirit in which the cyclopaedia is edited is what it should be, and the errors are, as we pointed out in our review of it, comparatively few and inconsiderable."
See #18003 & 12813 (10.371)

English

BABI FAITH; ENCYCLOPEDIA

472–475

11.

BIB00231

Philosophie et Religion

Franck, Adolphe

1869

Didier et Cie

Paris

10.

Book

"Les Bâbys:" pp. 283, 290, 302, 307-340 in Chapter VI: "Une Nouvelle Religion en Perse:" pp. 281-340 ("A New Religion in Persia"). The first edition was published in 1867.

French

BABI FAITH; RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; IRAN; 19TH CENTURY

xv, 451, [1]

2ème éd.

BIB00232

Resa i Persien

Vámbéry, Hermann [i.e. Arminius]

1869

J. L. Törnqvists Förlag

Landskrona

10.

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. [3], 57-58, 214-226. Swedish translation of Meine Wanderungen und Erlebnisse in Persien, 1867. The introduction to the German volume is not included in this Swedish translation.

Swedish

TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; IRAN

[4], 272, [2 color plates]

BIB00233

Satires et Chants

Barbier, Auguste

1869

E. Dentu

Paris

10.

Book

"Gourret-Oul-Ayn:" p. 426. Poem of Qurratu'l-Ayn/Tahirih written in 1852 according to Gobineau, in a compilation of poems and prose. Page numbering ends at p. 380.

"Elle avait dit : Demain, à midi, on mettra le feu à mon bûcher et moi, par ma mort, je rendrai témoignage à Dieu et à Son Altesse." Le ministre de France à Téhéran

"Persane aux longs sourcils, fille des anciens mages,
Qui, sans voile, du jour buvais les purs rayons,
Toi que l'on appelait des plus aimables noms,
La consolation des coeurs et des visages;

"De féroces mollahs sous un bloc de chiffons
Étouffèrent ta vie, exemple des vrais sages,
Brûlèrent ton beau corps et, de leurs mains sauvages,
En jetèrent la cendre à tous les horizons.

"Et pourquoi? pour avoir avec des cris de flamme
Ranimé chez tes soeurs la dignité de l'âme
Et maudit du harem les barreaux oppresseurs!

O toi qui de l'Islam réprouvais la doctrine,
Et pour un seul hymen voulais de libres coeurs,
Sois bénie en mes vers, ô grandeur féminine!"

French

BABI FAITH; POETRY; TAHIRIH

436

BIB00229

Satires et chants

Barbier, Auguste

1869

E. Dentu, Editeur, Libraire de la Société des gens de lettres

Paris

Book

Elle avait dit: "Demain, à midi, on mettra Ie feu à mon bûcher et moi, par ma mort, je rendrai t� …

Poem "Gourret-oul-Ayn" 1852, p. 426.
19 cm

French

TAHIRIH; POETRY

436

Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée

BIB00234

Studies in the Evidences of Christianity

Bulfinch, Stephen G.

1869

William V. Spencer

Boston

10.

Book

Rev. Bulfinch (b. 1809) died Oct. 14, 1870 at his residence in Cambridge, Mass at age 61, only one y …

"Babism:" pp. vii, 129-140.

English

CHRISTIANITY; BABI FAITH

vii, 274

BIB00238

The "Isms" of Central Asia

The Nation

no author

1869

Feb. 18, 1869

no publ.

190

Journal Article

Literary Review of Gobineau's Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l’Asie Centrale:
"M. de …

English

ASIA, CENTRAL; RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; IRAN; GOBINEAU, JOSEPH ARTHUR COMTE DE; BABI FAITH; HISTORY; 19TH CENTURY

134–135

11.

BIB00235

The Apostles

Renan, Ernest

1869

N. Trübner & Co.

London

10.

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 31, 283-284.
See 10.1233.

English

RELIGION; JESUS CHRIST; CHRISTIANITY; BABI FAITH

vii, 288, [4]

BIB00243

The Bab and Babeeism

Contemporary Review (London)

Arbuthnot, Robert H.

1869

Oct. 1869

no publ.

Journal Article

Distillation of information from Gobineau's Les religions et les philosophies dans l'Asie centrale a …

Part 2.

English

BAB; BABI FAITH

245–266

11.53

BIB00237

The Bab and Babeeism

Contemporary Review (London)

Arbuthnot, Robert H.

1869

Aug. 1869

no publ.

Journal Article

Distillation of information from Gobineau's Les religions et les philosophies dans l'Asie centrale a …

Part 1.

English

BAB; BABI FAITH

581–601

11.53

BIB00230

Une Nouvelle Religion en Asie

L'Année Philosophique : Études Critiques sur le Mouvement des Idées Générales dans les Divers Ordres de Connaissances : Science des Religions

Pillon, F.

1869

Librairie Germer Baillière

Paris

Book Section

"Babys:" pp. 181-216. Essay on the work of Gobineau, Kazem-Beg, and Franck.

French

RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; BABI FAITH; CRITICISM

vi, 504 p.

181–216

10.

BIB00247

Mission to Persia : Visit to Hamadan

Missionary Herald (Boston, MA)

no author

1870

Nov. 1870

no publ.

Journal Article

"Babees" p. 377 (passing reference to June 1870 article).

English

BABI FAITH

374–377

11.

BIB00246

The Ali Illahees (or Nusairys) and Bâbees of Persia

Missionary Herald (Boston, MA)

Labaree, Benjamin , Jr.

1870

June 1870

no publ.

Journal Article

This remarkably sympathetic account of the Babi Faith by an American Protestant missionary residing …

English

BABI FAITH; MISSIONARIES; BADI

180–184

11.

BIB00244

The Apostles

Origins of Christianity

Renan, Ernest

1870

Carleton ; Paris : Michel Levy Freres

New York

10.

1866

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 41, 299-301, 353.
See 10.1233.

English

RELIGION; JESUS CHRIST; CHRISTIANITY; BABI FAITH

353, [8]

v.2

BIB00245

Colange, L.

1870

T. Ellwood Zell

Philadelphia, PA

10.

1869

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 190-192.
See 10.371.

English

ENCYCLOPEDIA

2 volumes

BIB00251

A Persian Passion Play

The Cornhill Magazine (London)

Arnold, Matthew

1871

no publ.

Journal Article

English

BAB; BABI FAITH; GOBINEAU, JOSEPH ARTHUR COMTE DE

668–687

11.57

BIB00248

A Sketch of the Persia Mission

Shedd, John H.

1871

Mission House

New York

Book

Bábís: p. 7.
by J.H. Shedd.
illustrations, map ; 23 cm
"Books on the missionary work in Persia:" p. i .
Bound with American Oriental Society Proceedings, October, 1871.
American Oriental Society Proceedings, October 1871.

English

MISSIONS; IRAN; BABISM

20, xvi

BIB00250

Babi, or Babists

Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

M'Clintock, John and Strong, James

1871

Harper & Brothers

New York

Book Section

Erroneously numbered as 10.491a in first published edition of Collins bibliography.

English

ENCYCLOPEDIA; RELIGION; BABI FAITH

I:593–594

10.941a

BIB00249

Babi, or Babists

Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature

no author

McClintock, John and Strong, James

1871

Harper & Brothers

New York

Book Section

English

BABI FAITH; ENCYCLOPEDIA; BIBLE; THEOLOGY

I:593–594

10.941a rev

BIB00252

The Apostles

Origins of Christianity

Renan, Ernest

1871

Carleton ; Paris : Michel Levy Freres

New York

10.

1866

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 41, 299-301, 353.
See 10.1233.

English

RELIGION; JESUS CHRIST; CHRISTIANITY; BABI FAITH

353, [7]

v.2

BIB00255

no title

Papers

Bourgeois, Louis J. and Pemberton, Alice Bourgeois

1872

1872–1931

no publ.

Manuscript

Louis Bourgeois was the architect of the House of Worship in Wilmette, Ill. The papers consist of c …

English

ARCHIVES; ARCHITECTURE; MASHRIQUL-ADHKAR; UNITED STATES; WILMETTE; ILLINOIS

3 boxes

Bahá'í National Archives, Wilmette, Ill.

BIB00253

A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia

Mounsey, Augustus H.

1872

Smith, Elder & Co.

London

10.1032

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 103-107.

English

IRAN; CAUCASUS; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS

BIB00257

A Persian Passion Play

Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art (New York)

Arnold, Matthew

1872

Feb. 1872

no publ.

Journal Article

Bahá'í Faith: p. 158.
See 11.57 and 10.77.

English

BAB; BABI FAITH; GOBINEAU, JOSEPH ARTHUR COMTE DE

157–171

11.

BIB00256

Missionary Journey to Galilee

The Jewish Intelligence (London)

Neil, James

1872

Dec. 1872

no publ.

Journal Article

'Abdu'l-Bahá: pp. 300-301.

English

'ABDU'L-BAHA; MISSIONARIES; PALESTINE

299–307

11.734

BIB00254

The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865

no author

1872

D. Appleton and Company

New York

10.

1866

Book

Bahá'í Faith: V:696 in article on Persia. This article, originally published in 1866, likely contains the earliest encyclopedic reference to the Bábi religion in English: 'Of more recent origin is the sect of the Bâbis, whose history forms one of the most interesting episodes both of the modern history of Persia and recent history of Mohammedanism.' A brief history of the Faith based primarily on Gobineau's work follows, including the following: 'Among them [the Báb's desciples] was the most learned woman of Persia, to whom the name Gurrat-el-Ain [sic] ('Delight of the Eye') was given, and who subsequently with numerous other followers suffered death for her faith..' The article ends with the following: '...the general opinion of those best acquainted with Persian affairs is, that Bâbism is not yet extinct, but still has large numbers of followers.'

English

ENCYCLOPEDIA; IRAN

5 volumes

BIB00258

The Bâbys

The Church Missionary Intelligencer (London)

no author

1872

June 1872

no publ.

Journal Article

English

HISTORY; IRAN

161–175

11.66

BIB00260

no title

Correspondence

Webber, Frank and Farmer, Sarah Jane

1873

1873–1915

no publ.

Manuscript

Three letters from Sarah Jane Farmer.

English

ARCHIVES

3 items

Bahá'í National Archives, Wilmette, Ill.

BIB00261

no title

Papers

Farmer, Sarah Jane

1873

1873–1948

no publ.

Manuscript

Sarah J. Farmer (1847-1916) founded the Green Acre lectures in Eliot, Maine in 1894. Miss Farmer be …

English

ARCHIVES; GREEN ACRE BAHA'I SCHOOL

8 boxes

Bahá'í National Archives, Wilmette, Ill.

BIB00264

Nebulae

The Galaxy (New York)

Church, William Conant

1873

March 1873

no publ.

Journal Article

In the March 1873 issue of The Galaxy, p. 435, the editor of the journal, William Conant Church, ref …

"Babism": p. 435.

English

BABI FAITH; UNITED STATES

433–436

11.

BIB00265

Notes sur les Sectes dans le Kurdistan

Journal Asiatique : ou Recueil de Mémoires D'extraits et de Notices Relatifs a L'Histoire, a la Philosophie, aux Langues et a la Littérature des Peuples Orientaux : Publié par la Société Asiatique

Gilbert, M. T.

1873

Oct. (Octobre), 1873

no publ.

Journal Article

'Babis:' pp. 394-5. Septième Série, Tome II, Paris: A L'imprimerie Nationale.

French

BABI FAITH; IRAN

393–395

11.

BIB00259

Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion : India

Johnson, Samuel

1873

James R. Osgood and Co.

Boston, Mass.

10.

1872

Book

Bâbism: p. 487f, 507f. Footnotes in Ch.. 5 on "Incarnation:" "This is fully recognized even in Bâbism which Gobineau describes (p. 326) as definitely affirming that God has not willed humanity to believe that revelation had reached its limit, or that its own revelation was shut up within a single personage." "This is, as I have said, recognized in Bâbism, which affirms eighteen personal manifestations of God in history, and looks forward to a future Bâb.

English

RELIGION; COMPARATIVE RELIGION; INDIA

vi, [2], 802

2nd ed.

BIB00263

Persia and Her Kings (I)

The Sunday at Home : A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading (London)

Lake, R. E.

1873

July 12, 1873

no publ.

1002

Journal Article

"Babyism:" (with a macron over the 'a') pp. 439-440 "...indications are not wanting that Mahommedanism is as a house divided against itself. As an instance of this, we may refer to the rise and progress of the religion of the Babys, which although now proscribed in Persia, reckons its followers by thousands, and even by hundreds of thousands. The founder, Syud Ali Mahommed, although claiming descent from the prophet Mahomet, was the son of a grocer of Shiraz.... In a short time the Babys became so numerous that in the reign of Mahommed Shah a decree was issued by the chief religious authorities in Persia making it a capital crime for any one to profess the tenets of the false prophet, Ali Mahommed.... Desperate was the courage displayed by the Babys in the defence of Zinjan, and the women, like the maidens of Saragossa, vied with the men in deeds of valour; but all was in vain, for, after many months, the Babys were overcome, and all the defenders who survived -- men, women, and children -- were ruthlessly butchered by the royal troops.... The result of all this cruelty was to create a feeling of sympathy for the Babys, whoso crime [attempt on the life of the Shah] was lost sight of in the cruel punishment inflicted upon them. And Babyism is by no means extinguished in Persia; it only smoulders in secret to burst out some day in an open flame."
From part I of a four-part article spanning weekly issues from July to Sept. 1873.

English

IRAN; KINGS AND RULERS; MISSIONS; MISSIONARIES

436–440

11.

BIB00262

Persia and Her Kings (II)

The Sunday at Home : A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading (London)

Lake, R. E.

1873

August 2, 1873

no publ.

1005

Journal Article

"Babys:" (with a macron over the 'a') p. 485 (passing mention in this second part of a four-part article spanning weekly issues from July to Sept. 1873).

English

IRAN; KINGS AND RULERS; MISSIONS; MISSIONARIES

484–487

11.

BIB00266

A General Sketch of the History of Persia

Markham, Clements R.

1874

Longmans, Green & co.

London

10.963

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 495-496.

English

IRAN; HISTORY; BABI FAITH

BIB00267

Gurret-ül-Eyn : Ein Bild aus Persiens Neuzeit : in sechs Gesängen

Najmájer, Marie von

1874

L. Rosner

Wien [Austria]

Book

Poem about Táhirih (Qurratu'l-Ayn) by an Austrian writer, based on the works of Mirza Kazem Beg, Gobineau and Polak. Rough translation of title: "Qurratu'l-Ayn : A Picture of Persia in Modern Times : in six Compositions."

English

POETRY; BABI FAITH; TAHIRIH; ger

[6], 211

BIB00268

Mohammed and Mohammedanism

Smith, R. Bosworth

1874

Smith Elder & Co.

London

10.1350

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. xiv, 218.

English

ISLAM; MUHAMMAD

BIB00269

Persia Ancient and Modern

Piggot, John

1874

J. S. King & Co.

London

10.1158

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 99-100, 104-106, 109-110, 159-161.

English

IRAN; HISTORY

BIB00270

Bâbi or Báby

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Garnett, Richard

1875

Adam and Charles Black

Edinburgh

Book Section

English

INTRODUCTION; ENCYCLOPEDIA

III: 180–181

9th ed.

BIB00272

Encyclopaedia Britannica

no author

1875

Adam and Charles Black

Edinburgh

Book

Bahá'í Faith: III: 180-181; XVIII: 650-651; XXII: 665-666.

English

INTRODUCTION; ENCYCLOPEDIA

9th ed.

BIB00273

Essays in Criticism

Arnold, Matthew

1875

Macmillan & Co.

London

10.

Book

"Bâbism": pp. 262-264.
This 1875 edition (1st ed. 1865) is the first of many subsequent editions to include the article "A Persian Passion Play" (pp. 259-307) in which Arnold introduces the Báb and quotes Gobineau's work. The essay was first published in The Cornhill magazine (London), 1871.
See 11.57, 10.77.

English

BAB

xv, [1], 440, [32]

3rd ed. rev. & enl.

BIB00274

Journey in the Caucasus, Persia and Turkey in Asia

Thielmann, Max von

1875

John Murray

London

10.1422

Book

Bahá'í Faith: I: 262; II: 52, 90-91.

English

CAUCASUS; IRAN; TURKEY; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS

BIB00275

Mohammed and Mohammedanism

Smith, R. Bosworth

1875

Harper & Bros.

New York

10.1351

Book

Bahá'í Faith: p. 244.

English

ISLAM; MUHAMMAD

BIB00271

The New Hyperion : From Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine

Strahan, Edward

1875

J.B. Lippincott & Co.

Philadelphia,

10.

Book

LCCN 03012596.
With over three hundred illustrations from designs by Gustave Doré and others.
illustrations 24 cm
Báb and Babism: pp. 59-60.

English

EUROPE; DESCRIPTION; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; BABI FAITH

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00206668064

271

BIB00276

The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries

Heckethorn, Charles William

1875

Richard Bentley and Son

London

10.

Book

Bahá'í Faith: II: 287. '"Babism--This religious sect, tinctured with political tendencies, exists among the Persians; and is connected with Freemasonry, introduced from France." Heckethorn's 2nd revised and enlarged edition presents a more informed account of the Babi movement than what is presented here.
See 10.677.

English

ORGANIZATIONS, SECRET

2 volumes

1st ed.

BIB00277

Colange, L.

1875

T. Ellwood Zell

Philadelphia, PA

10.371

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 190-192.

English

ENCYCLOPEDIA

BIB00278

Eastern Persia : An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission, 1870-71-72

India. Persian Boundary Commission

1876

Macmillan and Co.

London

10.754

Book

Bahá'í Faith: I: 108.

English

IRAN; 19TH CENTURY

BIB00279

Mohammed and Mohammedanism

Smith, R. Bosworth

1876

Smith Elder & Co.

London

10.1352

Book

Bahá'í Faith: p. 319.

English

ISLAM; MUHAMMAD

2nd ed.

BIB00280

Persia in 1876

Contemporary Review (London)

Arnold, Arthur

1876

June 1876

no publ.

Journal Article

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 50-51: "...there is now a man named Behar imprisoned in Arabia by the Turkish Government, who, saying that the Bab was his forerunner, gives himself out to be God the Father. He has, in this monstrous and absurd language, addressed several of the Powers, as Mahommed did, to beware how they neglect his presence upon earth; and it is a fact that this miserable delusion has found believers and followers even among the well-to-do classes in Ispahan, where, however, such opinions must be kept secret, for heterodoxy in Persia is punishable with death."

English

IRAN; 19TH CENTURY

27–53

10.

BIB00281

Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ : Four Lectures on Natural and Revealed Religion.

Dods, Marcus

1877

Hodder and Stoughton

London

10.

Book

"We cannot, e.g., cite in proof of the superiority of Christianity the fact that for defence of its …

Babism: p. 195.

English

COMPARATIVE RELIGION; ISLAM; BUDDHISM; CHRISTIANITY

vii, 240.

1st

BIB00284

The Koran and the Bible (VI. - Conclusion)

The Leisure Hour (London)

Robertson, Professor

1877

Dec. 15, 1877

no publ.

1355

Journal Article

Part VI of a 6 part article spanning the months of July through December 1877 in this weekly periodi …

"Babees:" p. 789. "The religion [Islam] must have no little power that welded the lawless Arabs into a compact commonwealth... It cannot want adaptability if it... keeps together the empire of the luxurious Persian and sustains the sway of the degenerate Turk. It must have wonderful comprehensiveness to embrace among its votaries the frantic Darweesh and the contemplative Sufi, to claim for its own the sullen fanaticism of the Wahhabees, the self-inflicted tortures of the Babees, as well as the comfortable formalism of the orthodox Muslim...."

English

ISLAM; QURAN; BIBLE

788–792

11.

BIB00282

Through Persia by Caravan

Arnold, Arthur

1877

Harper & Bros.

New York

10.76

Book

Bahá'í Faith: pp. 278-280.

English

IRAN; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; BABI FAITH

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