Eminent Bahá’ís in the time of Bahá’u’lláh

Eminent Bahá’ís in the time of Bahá’u’lláh  (1985)  by Hasan Balyuzi

Contents

Foreword

Preface

PART I

Prologue

1. Ismu’lláhu’l-Aṣdaq

   A Notable Survivor of Shaykh Ṭabarsí

2. The Story of Two Ashrafs
3. Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn

   The Twin Shining Lights

4. Lamentation of the Most Exalted Pen
5. The Vazir of Khurásán
6. The Nightingale
7. Vargá, The Silver-Tongued Nightingale
8. The Gourmet Who Was a Saint
9. Nabíl-i-Akbar
10. The Nobleman of Tunukábun

    Conqueror of India

11. Na‘ím of Sidih, A Poet Superb
12. An Eminent Grandson of Fatḥ-‘Alí Sháh
13. A Stalwart Teacher of the Faith
14. Ibn-i-Aṣdaq
15. The Honest Merchant of Mashhad
16. Samandar

    He Who Lived in Fire and Was Not Consumed by It

17. Núri’d-Dín
18. The Angel of Mount Carmel
19. The Great Mujtahid
20. The Apostles of Bahá’u’lláh

PART II

21. On the Shores of the Caspian Sea

22. The Story of Ṭabaristán

23. The Ancestry of Bahá’u’lláh

24. The Testimony of Ahl-i-Ḥaqq

25. The Land of Ṭá

Appendix: The Village of Qúch-Ḥiṣár

Bibliography

Glossary

Index