[EM] Afshárid Nádir Sháh (1736-47) and the Zand ruler, Karím Khán (1750-79).
[EN] Known both as Rashtí and Shaftí.
[EO] In a book which the Muftí, Maḥmúd al-Álúsí, wrote, he spoke of Qurratu'l-`Ayn with great admiration.
[EP] These included Siyyid Ṭáhá and Siyyid Muḥammad-Ja`far.
[EQ] Yet only two years before they had refused to hand over Mullá `Alí to the Persian Government, that he might reach safety.
[ER] Mullá Ilyáhú and Mullá Lálizár.
[ES] The first Jewish Bahá'í was Ḥakím Masíḥ, a doctor (later to become court physician to Muhammad Sháh) who met Ṭáhirih in Baghdád, and was deeply impressed by her eloquence and masterly exposition. Years later, while attending his son, he met Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas, a survivor of Shaykh Ṭabarsí, to whom Bahá'u'lláh had given the designation of Ismu'lláhu'l-Aṣdaq (the Name of God, the Most Truthful). This encounter led Ḥakím Masíḥ to embrace the Bahá'í Faith. He was the grandfather of Dr. Luṭfu'lláh Ḥakím. (See Balyuzi, `Abdu'l-Bahá, p. 78n.)
[ET] They were Shaykh Muḥammad Shibl and his son, Áqá Muḥammad-Muṣṭafá, and Shaykh Sulṭán-i-Karbilá'í.
[EU] Mullá Ḥusayn's sword is in the International Archives of the Bahá'í Faith.
[EV] It is of interest that Shaykh Ṣáliḥ, martyred in Persia, was a native of `Iráq, while the first martyr of the Bábí Faith, Mullá `Alíy-i-Basṭámí, was a Persian who met his death in `Iráq.