Contents
Foreword
A Note on the Construction of Persian Names
PROLOGUE I
CHAPTER 1 ALL HAIL SH IRAZ
CHAPTER 2 HE WHOM THEY SOUGHT
CHAPTER 3 ?IHRAN
CHAPTER 4 THE FIRST MARTYR
CHAPTER 5 PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA: THE HOUSE OF KA`BAH
CHAPTER 6 FORCES OF OPPOSITION ARRAYED
CHAPTER 7 BELIEF AND DENIAL
CHAPTER 8 THE CITY OF `ABBAS THE GREAT
CHAPTER 9 THE ANTICHRIST OF THE BABI REVELATION
CHAPTER 10 WHERE THE ARAS FLOWS
CHAPTER 11 THE GRIEVOUS MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER 12 THAT MIDSUMMER NOON
CHAPTER 13 THE DAWN-BREAKERS
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX I THE SIEGE OF KARBILA
APPENDIX 2 THE MARTYRDOM OF THE BAB
APPENDIX 3 PRELUDE TO THE EPISODE OF NAYRIZ
APPENDIX 4 THE SEVEN MARTYRS OF ?IHRAN
APPENDIX 5 THE EPISODE OF ZANJAN
APPENDIX 6 LORD PALMERSTON'S ENQUIRY
APPENDIX 7 MYTH-MAKING
FOOTNOTES:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
Transcriber's Notes:
THE BÁB
The Herald of the Day of Days
by
H. M. BALYUZI
GR
GEORGE RONALD
OXFORD
First published 1973 by George Ronald
46 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2DN
Reprinted 1973 and 1974
Paper edition 1975
Reprinted 1994
© H. M. BALYUZI 1973
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (except for fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956) without written permission from the publisher.
ISBN 0 85398 054 3
EXTRACTS FROM
NabÍl, The Dawn-Breakers
Copyright © 1932 National Spiritual Assembly of the BahÁ'Ís
of the United States
Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By
Copyright © 1944, 1971 National Spiritual Assembly of the BahÁ'Ís
of the United States
WORLD ORDER, A BahÁ'Í Magazine
Copyright © 1966 National Spiritual Assembly of the BahÁ'Ís
of the United States
Printed by The Cromwell Press,
Broughton Gifford, Melksham,
Wiltshire SN12 8PH
