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Kitabu’l-‘Ulama I (Bushihr)

2000 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی نزل الکتاب علی من یشاء من عباده و انه لا اله الا هو الغنی الجمیل و انه کتاب لا ریب فیه فصل فی حکم باطن القران

Translation:

Provisional translation

Praised be to God who sends down the Book upon whomsoever He willeth among His servants. He, verily, no God is there except Him.

Manuscripts (10)Publications (3)Translations (4)Notes (8)

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

INBA67:206-216

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v067/?page=208

INBA91:082.02-094.10

https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v091/?page=84

INBA_4011C:318-328

Not yet online

INBA_6007C.452-463

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

INBA_4012C.083-092

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

PR03.063r10-065r26

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

PR04.106v02-115v02

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

PR07.049v-052v

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0145

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_F21.224.02-232.13#32

Not yet online

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

BYC_collect5

http://bayanic.com/lib/scan/sacred/Point/Collection5/ketab_olama.pdf

HNU. Fayḍí, Muḥammad-'Alí. Ḥaḍrat-i Nuqṭih-yi Úlá. Bahá'í-Verlag, 1994. Biography of the Báb. https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/167.pdf

HNU.085x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/167.pdf#page=89

HNU.134x

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/167.pdf#page=138

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.107

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=121

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.148fn1

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/

DB.129fn2

https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/

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

HURQ.BB22x

https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/731/

RR. Amanat, Abbas. Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran 1844-1850. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. https://archive.org/details/resurrectionandrenewalthemakingoft

RR.121x

http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RERE.pdf

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#03.03

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

GPB. Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1944. History of the first century of the Bahá’í Faith. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/shoghi-effendi/god- passes-by/

GPB.024

Not yet online

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.62

https://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/56/59/00001/PDF.pdf#page=84

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

MSBR.208-209

https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi

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.034

https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=46

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.074

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=23

SRC.098

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=35

SRC.189

http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=44