ISBN10: 9004170545, ISBN13: 9789004170544, [publisher: Brill Academic Publishers] Hardcover
[Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]

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Leiden: Brill, Date: 2008. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. xix, (3), 404pp. Indices and bibliography. Pictorial buckram with black spine lettered in white. Illustrated with several photographs and a map. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). The Bábí and Baháʾí Faiths represent two of the most important religious movements of modern times. This book relates the story of the evolution of the Bábí-Baháʾí community, beginning with the birth of its founder, Siyyid ʾAlí-Muhammad, known as the Báb, in 1819 and then traced over the next century and a half in the city of his birth, Shíráz. Its author, Mírzá Habíbuʾlláh Afnán, was himself born in the house of the Báb, reared by the widow of the Báb, who shared with him many stories of the Báb's life, then spent nearly a year with Baháʾuʾlláh in the ʾAkka-Haifa area, and some ten years in close proximity to Baháʾuʾlláh's son ʾAbduʾl-Bahá. He served for the next half century as the hereditary custodian of the house of the Báb, and as such was uniquely qualified to tell the story of the Bábí-Baháʾí Faiths in the city of Shíráz in remarkable and moving detail. (Publisher) Contents: Foreword by translator --; Notes on the present translation --; Acknowledgments --; Text : translation of Táríkh amrí Fárs va Shíráz.; The childhood and early life of the Báb ;; Commerce and marriage ;; The burning bush ;; ...

ISBN10: 9004170545, ISBN13: 9789004170544, [publisher: Brill, Leiden] Hardcover First Edition Octavo. xix, (3), 404pp. Indices and bibliography. Pictorial buckram with black spine lettered in white. Illustrated with several photographs and a map. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). The Bábí and Baháʾí Faiths represent two of the most important religious movements of modern times. This book relates the story of the evolution of the Bábí-Baháʾí community, beginning with the birth of its founder, Siyyid ʾAlí-Muhammad, known as the Báb, in 1819 and then traced over the next century and a half in the city of his birth, Shíráz. Its author, Mírzá Habíbuʾlláh Afnán, was himself born in the house of the Báb, reared by the widow of the Báb, who shared with him many stories of the Báb's life, then spent nearly a year with Baháʾuʾlláh in the ʾAkka-Haifa area, and some ten years in close proximity to Baháʾuʾlláh's son ʾAbduʾl-Bahá. He served for the next half century as the hereditary custodian of the house of the Báb, and as such was uniquely qualified to tell the story of the Bábí-Baháʾí Faiths in the city of Shíráz in remarkable and moving detail. (Publisher) Contents: Foreword by translator --; Notes on the present translation --; Acknowledgments --; Text : translation of Táríkh amrí Fárs va Shíráz.; The childhood and ...

Brill Academic Pub 2009 Annotated. Hardcover New Illustrated edition annotated edition. 404 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches.