Ocean of Lights

Ziyarat Jami’atu'l-Kabira

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم [بسمه المکنون الرؤف]. الحمد لله رب العالمین و انما الصلوة علی محمد رسول الله و خاتم النبیین ... و اذا اردت زیارت حبیب الله او احد من ائمة الدین طهر ادلا جسمک

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praised be to God, the Lord of all the worlds. And may prayerful devotion [peace] be upon Muhammad, the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets.

Manuscripts (7)Publications (1)Translations (1)Notes (5)

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

INBA50:001-072

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v050/?page=3

INBA_5019C:132-145

Not yet online

INBA_6009C:173-219

Not yet online

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

PR02.090r01-093v09

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0002

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_F22.019b

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MKI4499.049

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

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.145-170

Not yet online

ASAT. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Asráru’l-Áthár (5 vols.). BPT Iran, 1973. Encyclopedic glossary of Bahá’í terminology.
Vol. 1: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf, Vol. 2: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf, Vol. 3: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf, Vol. 4: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf, Vol. 5: https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf

ASAT3.074x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=39

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

HURQ.BB34x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/1931/

JRAS. Browne, E.G. “Catalogue and Description of 27 Bábí Manuscripts”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Cambridge, 1892. https://bahai- library.com/browne_catalogue_manuscripts_one

JRAS.445

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/b/browne_catalogue_manuscripts_one.pdf#page=14

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.63

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=85

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

MSBR.204-205

https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

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.045

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=9

SRC.202

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=50