1. 2025-08. Epistle of the Báb to Muḥammad Sháh Revealed at Síyáh-Dihán, The. The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. . A Tablet revealed in the village Síyáh-Dihán, as the Báb journeyed under escort to the fortress of Máh-Kú, about His divine authority and the transcendent power of His Revelation. Translations.
2. 2025-07. First Epistle Revealed by the Báb to Mírzá Áqásí, The. The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. . First of four epistles sent to the Prime Minister of Iran, in which the Báb admonishes Áqásí to renounce worldly ambition and uphold justice. Translations.
3. 2025-07. Third Epistle Revealed by the Báb to Mírzá Áqásí, The. The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. . The third of four epistles sent to the Prime Minister of Iran denounces Áqásí in searing terms, likens his obstinacy to Pharaoh's and characterizes him as a rebellious tyrant devoid of shame or insight. Translations.
4. 2025-07. Fourth Epistle Revealed by the Báb to Mírzá Áqásí, The: Tawqīʿ-i-Qahriyyih (The Epistle of Divine Wrath). The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. . This epistle to the Prime Minister indicts his complicity in the Báb’s sufferings and his failure to respond to the Divine summons, denounces the injustices inflicted by Ḥusayn Khán governor of Fárs, praises Manúchehr al-Dawlah, and warns of retribution. Translations.
5. 2025-07. Wrathful Voice of Divine Justice, The: An Exposition on the Fourth Epistle of the Báb to Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí. Mohammad Norozi. On the central themes, structure, and theological dimensions of this "most unrestrained and awe-striking expression of divine wrath" in the Writings of the Báb; divine transcendence; apocalyptic imagery; detachment and the vindication of the Prophet. Essays.
6. 2025-06. Hájí Mírzá Áqásí: A Portrait of a Tyrannical and Ignorant Prime Minister With a Translation of His Letter Addressed to the 'Ulamá of Isfahán. Mohammad Norozi. Analysis of a letter by Áqásí to the divines of Isfahán, which incited clerical opposition to the Báb; context of the Báb's 6-month sojourn in Isfahán under the protection of Manuchehr Khan. Áqásí claimed the Báb was a heretic who should be exiled. Essays.
7. 2018/2024. Profitable End, A: A History of the Zabihi Family. Zia'u'lláh Zabihi, Foad Seddigh, ed, Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh, trans. . Detailed account of the life of ‘Abdu’l-Vahháb Dhabíḥí and his family, including bios of 17 martyrs — a vivid portrait of the early Bahá’í community in Yazd and beyond. Incl. extensive endnotes, historical documents, rare family materials, translations. Books.
8. 2018/2024. عاقبت بخیر: شرح حیات عبدالو ه اب ذبیحی، بستگان و آباء و اجداد (Blessed End: A History of the Zabihi Family). Zia'u'lláh Zabihi, Foad Seddigh, ed. . Story of the life of Abdu'l-Vahhab Dhabihi, as narrated by his son. Books.
9. 2009. Aqasi, Haji Mirza ('Abbas Iravani). Sholeh A. Quinn. On the prime minister of Iran under Muhammad Shah Qajar from 1835 to 1848, regarded by Bahá’ís as the Antichrist of the Bábí dispensation. Encyclopedia.
10. 1997. Notes on the Christian "Antichrist" and Titles of Christ. Dann J. May. Intro for a Bahá'í-Christian dialogue on the meaning of the antichrist, titles of Jesus in the Bahá'í Sacred Writings, and brief compilation of Bahá'í writings. Essays.
11. 1969. Bábism, Bahá'ism and the Ulama. Hamid Algar. On the differing approaches by the Iranian state and the clergy to the Bábí movement. Excerpts.

1. 1783-00-00 — Birth of Mírzá `Abbás-i-Irivání, later Prime Minister Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, in Máh-Kú.
2. 1834-09-09 —
   The end of the reign of Fath-`Alí Sháh and the accession of his grandson, Muhammad Sháh. [B7; BBD83, 164; BBR153, 482]
   • Fifty–three sons and 46 daughters survived Fath-`Alí Sháh. [B7]
   • After his accession Muhammad Sháh executed the Grand Vizier, the Qá'im Máqám, the man who had raised him to the throne. He then installed his tutor, Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, to the position (1835). During his first year in office Hájí Mírzá Áqásí succeeded in removing most of the supporters of the previous prime minister from power, filling their positions with his own appointees from Máh-Kú. Among those removed from power was Mírzá Buzurg Núrí, Bahá'u'lláh's father. [B10–11]
   • See BBD164 for picture.
   • See B11–122 for the relationship between the Sháh and his new Grand Vizier, Hájí Mírzá Áqásí.
   • For details on the life of Hájí Mírzá Áqásí see BBD19.
   • For an example of Hájí Mírzá Áqásí's machinations against Bahá'u'lláh and others see DB120-122.
3. 1835-11-00 —
   Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, the former tutor of the Shah became the Prime Minister of Persia. His inexperience in administration and finance combined with entrenched corruption, incompetence and a soaring budget deficit in the government nearly bankrupted the country making it ripe for revolution.
   • Seefor a brief history of this man.
4. 1847-03-28 — The Báb and His escort arrived at the fortress of Kinár-Gird, 28 miles from Tihrán. Muhammad Big, the head of the escort, received a message from Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, the prime minister, telling him to take the Báb to Kulayn to await further instructions. Bab119; DB225–6; GPB16]
5. 1847-04-00 — The Báb received a courteous message from the Sháh, who, on the advice of his prime minister, Hájí Mírzá Áqásí, assigned Him to the fortress of Máh-Kú in the province of Ádharbáyján. The Báb was taken to Máh-Kú via Tabríz. [Bab121–2, 124; DB229–32; GPB16; TN11–12]
6. 1848-04-09 —
   The Báb was removed from Máh-Kú. Prior to this He had communicated His higher claims to His followers.
   • Hájí Mírzá Áqásí was alarmed by the developments at Máh-Kú and ordered that the Báb be moved to Chihríq. [Bab131; DB259; GPB1920]
   • The Báb's presence in Máh-Kú, so close to the Russian frontier, was also a cause for concern for the Russian government. Prince Dolgorukov, the Russian Minister in Tihrán, asked that He be removed. It is likely that this request was made in 1847 but not carried out until this time. [Bab131; BBR72; TN13]
   • The Báb had been in Máh-Kú for nine months. [DB259]
7. 1848-08-00 —
   The Báb was taken back to Chihríq, where He remained until June/July 1850. [Bab147; DB322; TN15]
   • Bab147 says He must have arrived in the first days of August.
   • On His return the Báb wrote a denunciatory letter to Hájí Mírzá Áqásí. The epistle was given the name Khutbiy-i-Qahríyyih (Sermon of Wrath). He sent it to Hujjat in Tihrán, who delivered it personally. [Bab147; DB323; GPB27]
   • The Báb completed the Arabic Bayán. [BBR45; GBP25]
8. 1848-09-04 —
   The death of the chronically ill Muhammad Sháh whom Shoghi Effendi described as bigoted, sickly and vacillating. [BBR153–4; GPB4; Encyclopædia Iranica]
   • This precipitated the downfall of the Grand Vizier, Hájí Mírzá Áqásí because many of Tehran's elite arose against him. [Bab147; BBD19; BBR156]
   • For details of his life, fall and death in Karbila on the 1st of August, 1849, see BBR154–6 and BKG52–5.
   • The edict for Bahá'u'lláh's arrest was rendered null. [BKG50; BW18:381; DB298-300] iiiii
   • See Aqasi, Haji Mirza ('Abbas Iravani)
9. 1849-08-01 —
   Death of Hájí Mírzá Áqásí at Karbalá. [Bab147; BBD19; BBR156]
   • The Báb, in a letter to the Sháh called him "manifest darkness" and "the devil whom thou hast appointed as thy Chancellor". [SWB26]
   • Shoghi Effendi designated him as the "Antichrist of the Bábí Revelation" and called him a "vulgar, false-hearted and fickle-minded schemer". [GPB164, 4]

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