Ocean of Lights

Sahifa Baynu'l-Haramayn

Epistle Revealed between the Twin Shrines

13100 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. ان هذا کتاب قد نزلت علی الارض المقدسة بین الحرمین من لدن علی حمید

Translation:

Provisional translation

This Book was indeed sent down within the sacred land between the Two Shrines on the part of one Elevated, Praiseworthy.

Manuscripts (21)Publications (7)Translations (4)Notes (9)

INBA. Iranian National Bahá’í Archives volumes. Two-digit entries are from the 105-volume private printing, Iran, 1975. Digitally reprinted by the Afnan Library: https://afnanlibrary.org/inba/, with typed volumes available at https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/manuscripts-fa/. Four- digit entries suffixed by “C” are taken from SRC Appendix 1; 6007C can be found at http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/INBA.6007C.pdf

INBA50:073-106x

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v050/?page=75

INBA_4011C:179-252

Not yet online

INBA_6007C.348-413

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/INBA.6007C.pdf

PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47

PR03.058r22-068v23

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0045

PR04.115v04-164r03

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0105

CMB. Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, E.G. Browne collection. See BRHL for details. Link to catalog entries: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/subject_sh2009116570

CMB_F07

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CMB_Or943 ff.489-545

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BLIB. Manuscripts in the British Library, London, listed by Or number. For a handlist of works of the Báb see Chapter 25 of https://archive.org/details/descriptivelisto00brituoft/page/n3. Regarding manuscripts in the series Or16590 through Or15740, which together comprise half of all known works of Bahá’u’lláh, including some 4,000 items which are uniquely accessible in this series: These were the bequest of a descendent of the family of Bahá’u’lláh; were mostly transcribed by Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, and are likely to have been derived in part from the two stolen satchels of Bahá’u’lláh’s papers mentioned in GPB p.249 and MMK4#189 p.276. While included here owing to their importance, their degree of fidelity to the originals has not yet been ascertained

BLIB_Or0943

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BLIB_Or5325

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BN. Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Listed by manuscrits Arabe number. Searchable here by shelfmark: https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/advancedSearch/

BN_5804

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10032084c/f5.image

BN_6248

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b531647206/f5.image

LEID. Manuscripts at Leiden University, Netherlands, listed by Or number

LEID.Or4371

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LEID.UL2414

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MKI4499.069-118x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MKI-34-Ae-Arabi-4499.pdf

MKI4488.001r-028v

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MKI4511.029v-037v

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MKI-34-Ae-Arabi-4511.pdf

KB. Digital images of books and manuscripts orginally hosted at the Kitábkhániy-i-Bahá’í website (bahailib.com), now hosted at https://bahai-library.com/bahailib

KB_bayn

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/7.pdf

BYC. Manuscript images of Writings of the Báb hosted at www.bayanic.com. Polemical source

BYC_bayn

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/bayn

BYC_baynal

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Bayn-al

AEWB. Early works of the Báb (Sahifiy-i-A'mal al-Sana and others). Majlis Library, Iran. Kitabkhaniy-i-Baqir Naraqi, ms #12448. https://dlib.ical.ir/faces/search/bibliographic/biblioFullView.jspx?_afPfm=- lvp45vd4h; mirrored here: https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/aewb.pdf

AEWB.061-071x

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AEWB.116-135x

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HBAB. Muḥammad-Ḥusayní, Nuṣrat'u'lláh. Ḥaḍrat-i Báb. Canadian Association for Bahá’í Studies, 1995. Biography of the Báb. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/377.pdf

HBAB.727x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/377.pdf#page=740

HNMJ. Ḥaḍrat-i-Nuqtiy-i-'Ulá: Majmú`iy-i Munáját. BPT Iran, 1969. Prayers

HNMJ.006-008x

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HNMJ.009-011x

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HNMJ.011-016x

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HNMJ.016-018x

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HNMJ.019-020x

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OOL. “Ocean of Lights”. Website containing Bahá’í Writings and translations. https://oceanoflights.org/. Typescripts of individual named Tablets of the Bab: https://oceanoflights.org/table/the-bab-place-and-year-fa/, Baha’u’llah: https://oceanoflights.org/table/bahaullah-special-titles-fa/, and ‘Abdu’l-Baha: https://oceanoflights.org/table/abdul-baha-best-known-works-fa/

OOL.A004

https://oceanoflights.org/file/Bab-BKW-04.pdf

RBB. MacEoin, Denis. Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism. Cambridge, 1994. Monograph. https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism

RBB.093-096x

https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism

GOH. Saiedi, Nader. Gate of the Heart. Wilfrid Laurier, 2008. Exposition on the teachings of the Báb, with numerous provisional translations. http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf

GOH.056x

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=63

HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b

HURQ.BB14x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/741/

KSHK. “Kashkul”. Blog with provisional translations by W. McCants. Aug. 2010- . http://www.kashkul.org/. Translations of several dozen brief Writings of the Báb are posted at http://www.kashkul.org/brief-writings- of-the-bab/ (accessible via archive.org)

KSHK#01x

https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2010/08/22/babs-recipe-for-white-tea/

FHR. Kitáb-i-Fihrist of the Báb, index of contents as listed in SRC pp.50-53. Items on this list are all dated 1845 or earlier

FHR#07

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=12

DB. Nabíl Zarandí. The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá’í Revelation. Shoghi Effendi, ed. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1932. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/

DB.137x

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/db-26.html#pg137

BRHL. Browne, E.G. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts Belonging to E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932. Includes list of mss in the Cambridge “F” series. https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf

BRHL.59

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=81

MSBR. Browne, E.G. Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion. Cambridge, 1961. https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

MSBR.200-201

https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

AHDA. Afnán, Abu'l-Qásim. ‘Ahd-i A`lá. Oneworld, 1999. Biography of the Báb. https://oceanoflights.org/table/the-bab-published-03-fa (selected typescripts), http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf

AHDA.450.6

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=464

MMAH. Ḥisámí, Ḥabíbu'lláh. Manabi'-i-Maṭáli'-i-Amrí, Bakhsh-i-Avval: Áthár. n.p., n.d. Summaries of best-known Works, with sources. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf

MMAH.049

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=61

SRC. MacEoin, Denis. The Sources for Early Bábí Doctrine and History. Brill, 1992. https://books.google.com/books?id=xqV9-zmMxsUC. Appendix 1 contains the most complete previous inventory of the Báb’s Writings

SRC.060

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=17

SRC.198

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=48

GOH.031

http://chupin.ru/library/NaderSaiedi/Gate_of_the_Heart.pdf#page=38