CONTENTS Preface by Fereydun Vahman The Bab, a Sun in a Night Not Followed by Dawn Fereydun Vahman, University of Copenhagen 19 The Worldview of the Bab: The Reconstruction of Religion and Society. Nader Saiedi, University of California UCLA 91 The Shaping of the Babi Community: Merchants, Artisans, and Others Abbas Amanat, University of Yale. 119 Interpretation as Revelation, the Qur’án Commentary of the Bab, (1819-1850.) Todd Lawson, University of Toronto. 179 The Bab and the Imam Mahdi: Managing Millennialist Violence Moojan Momen, independent scholar. 221 The Babi-State Conflicts of 1848–1850 Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam, independent scholar 253 Qurrat al-‘Ayn, the remover of the veil Abbas Amanat, University of Yale 329 From Babi movement to the Baha’í Faith: Some observations about the evolution of a new religion Armin Eschraghi, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) 387 “The hand of God is not chained up”: Notes on two salient themes in the prose writings of Ṭáhirih Qurratu’l-‘Ayn. Omid Ghaemmaghami, State University of New York (SUNY) 415 Babi-Baha’i Books and Believers in E. G. Browne’s A Year amongst the Persians. Sholeh A. Quinn, University of California, Merced. 433
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