Rejoice in My Gladness
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Acknowledgements
Preface: Her Defining Moment
1/ News of the Birth of a Female Child
Ṭáhirih’s names. Her antecedents, her hometown, her nation. Her birth. Her family’s Islamic female culture.
2 / Wine Cup in the Wilderness
The Arabian shaykh. The Youth from Bani-Hashem. Surmising salvation. The mischief of the envious one. Uncle Taqí and the saint. Love and nemesis.
3 / The Harp of Love and Pain
A love story. Poets and love. Love and insight. The education of a poet. Ṭáhirih’s beauty. The veil. Some outspoken sisters. Solemnity and silence.
4 / Drums of Ceremony
Socializing and philosophizing. Dawn prayer, Ramadan, and the drums of devotion. Muharram and the fascination of weeping. Naw-Rúz.
5 / Ideal Couple, Opportune Marriage, Irresistible Moon
A marriage made in heaven. Trouble in paradise. The Atabat. Ṭáhirih’s children. Progressive revelation. Claiming her path.
6 / 1844, Iraq
Absence and presence. Siyyid Kaẓim’s farewell. Mullah Ḥusayn’s leadership. Shiraz, City of Love. The pilgrim from Shiraz. Ṭáhirih’s leadership. The pact of “Yes, alas.”
7 / 1844, Europe and the United States
The Revolt of Islam. The Woman Clothed with the Sun. The Code and the Common Law. Female crusaders. Hijab in London. The Great Disappointment. Zion.
8 / 1844, Iran
Shiraz and its visitors. Civil (or uncivil) unrest. “Enter therein in peace, secure.” The Most Beautiful of Stories. The arrival of the brethren. Flooded by enlightenment.
9 / As a Slave Sitting Under a Sword
Telling the Most Beautiful of Stories. First news of the Bab in the Western world. Identifying the Bab. Khadtjih, His sweet love. Identifying Baha.
10 / Fire and Ice
Ṭáhirih’s “secret of secrets.” Mullah ‘Alí’s fate. Lost promise. The London Times reports. Al-Ṭáhirih’s command. The posterity of the Prophet. In the abode of the enemy.
11 / Murder
People of the Absolute. Debate and debacle. The Zindiq in the inimical city. The cutting edge. Sacrificial lambs, unappeased hunger. Flight.
12 / The Price of a Cashmere Shawl
The Báb in custody. Choler, cholera, a drink of water. The transformation of an oppressor. Vaḥíd. “The mountains of Azerbaijan too have their claims.”
13 / 1848, Iran—Love’s Amplitude
Refuge in Tehran. A providential garden. Pilgrimage of the great seeker to Mah-ku. A new “gate” in the city of the Eighth Imam. Onward to the Verdant Isle.
14 / 1848, Iran—The Golden Looking-Glass
The Conference of Badasht and its aftermath.
15 / 1848, Iran—Under the Tiger’s Eye
The Báb’s trial in Tabriz.
16 / 1848, United States and Europe
From tea table to speaker’s platform. “Bread or death.” Progressive Friends. Truth speaks. Improvisation. “Mankind is one and beats with one great heart.”
17 / “And I Will Bury My Soul With My Own Hand.”
Fugitive wanderings. The master-stroke. Ṭabarsí. Bahá’u’lláh in Amul. The death of Mullah Ḥusayn. The death of Quddús. Renewed captivity.
18 / Thralls of Yearning Love
Great Commander. Pivot of the Universe. “. . . that magic can only captivate the pure in heart...” The Plains of Karbala again. The death of the Báb. Women to the barricades.
19 / The Solitude of the Sun
“Lord of Love thyself proclaim . . .” The princess. Attempt on the life of the shah. “Candle decoration” and “retaliation by blood.” Eclipse. Diamonds. “Thee, and thee alone. . .”
