The Báb: The Herald of the Day of Days - H. M. Balyuzi

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EXTRACTS FROM
Nabíl, The Dawn-Breakers
Copyright © 1932 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís
of the United States
Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By
Copyright © 1944, 1971 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís
of the United States
WORLD ORDER, A Bahá'í Magazine
Copyright © 1966 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís
of the United States

Printed by The Cromwell Press,
Broughton Gifford, Melksham,
Wiltshire SN12 8PH

Foreword		[ix]
A Note on the Construction of Persian Names		[xi]
Prologue		[1]
1.	All Hail Shíráz	[15]
2.	He Whom They Sought	[32]
3.	Ṭihrán	[48]
4.	The First Martyr	[58]
5.	Pilgrimage to Mecca	[69]
6.	Forces of Opposition Arrayed	[76]
7.	Belief and Denial	[85]
8.	The City of `Abbás the Great	[106]
9.	The Antichrist of the Bábí Revelation	[117]
10.	Where the Aras Flows	[124]
11.	The Grievous Mountain	[134]
12.	That Midsummer Noon	[148]
13.	The Dawn-Breakers	[161]
	Epilogue	[189]
APPENDICES
1.	The Siege of Karbilá	[193]
2.	The Martyrdom of the Báb	[202]
3.	Prelude to the Episode of Nayríz	[204]
4.	The Seven Martyrs of Ṭihrán	[206]
5.	The Episode of Zanján	[209]
6.	Lord Palmerston's Enquiry	[214]
7.	Myth-Making	[217]
	Bibliography	[225]
	Notes	[229]
	Index	[243]

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