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Answer to Mulla Asadu’llah-i-Qazvini
OOL 03 00161 Phelps: BB 00154
BB 00154•The Báb•Arabic
Answer to Mulla Asadu’llah-i-Qazvini
1200 words

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله الذی ابتدع الابداع لا من ابداع قبله و اخترع الاختراع لا من اختراع بعده ثم جعل القدر

Translation:
Provisional translation
Praised be to God Who originated the Formative Genesis (ibtida` al-ibda`), not from any prior formative genesis
PR. Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series (William McElwee Miller Collection). https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47
PR07.040v-042v
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_F21.115.18-120.16#18
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TZH. Mázandarání, Fáḍil. Táríkh-i Ẓuhúr al-Ḥaqq (9 vols.). Vols. 3 and 8 published in Iran 1941/42 and 1975/76; vols. 3 and 4 republished 2008 and 2011 by Bahá’í-Verlag. Encyclopedic history of the Faith. https://www.h- net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/mazand1.htm (ms images) and https://oceanoflights.org/chapter/historical-works-fa (typed volumes)
TZH3.013.02-016.11
https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/497.pdf#page=19
HURQ. Lambden, Stephen. Academic website with texts, provisional translations, and notes. https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal- writings-b%C4%81b
HURQ.BB27x
https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/4061
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
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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.095
http://www.loomofreality.org/sources/SRC.pdf#page=34