Robe of Light
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Contents[edit]
INTRODUCTION: THE GREAT SOUL AND HIS HOUR
- The cast of characters
- Leadership and character of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí, Bahá’u’lláh
- Perspective on a Supernal Soul for the truth-seeker
- To the student and seeker
- Backwater Iran and Iraq in the nineteenth century: Memories of a great past
- A new voice is heard in Karbilá, Holy City of the Imám Ḥusayn: Shaykh Aḥmad
- The journey of Shaykh Aḥmad to Shíráz in 1817
- Shaykh Aḥmad in Yazd; Arrival of Siyyid Káẓim from Rasht
- Shaykh Aḥmad to Mashhad and visit to Fatḥ-‘Alí Sháh in Teheran
- To Kirmánsháh and to Karbilá in 1821; Death of Shaykh Aḥmad in Mecca in 1826
- Siyyid Kázim takes leadership of the Shaykhís
- He describes the new Prophet soon to be known
- He recognizes the Qá’im among his disciples: 1842
- Rebellion in Karbilá is crushed by Turkish troops in January 1843
- Siyyid Káẓim alludes to the coming of the Prophet; prepares his followers
- Warned in Káẓimayn of imminent death, he dies in Karbilá on 31 December 1843
CHAPTER 2: THE CELESTIAL TREE GROWS
- Ancestry and birth of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí of Núr on 12 November 1817
- Legends of a great teacher and dominant ideas in nineteenth-century Persia
- The family and properties of Mírzá ‘Abbás Buzurg
- Early childhood of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí in Teheran and Núr
- Mírzá ‘Abbás’s vicissitudes; dreams of his son’s future
- Learning without schooling: precocious knowledge of the boy Ḥusayn-‘Alí
- Two divines, and the head shepherd
- Marriage of half-brother Mírzá Áqá; The court puppet show
- Mountain rides from Tákur to Afchih and Teheran
- Early youth: Yálrúd and Shaykh Muḥammad-Taqí’s school
- Dreams of Shaykh Muḥammad-Taqí concerning Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí
- Yálrúd, home of Ásíyih Khánum, the daughter of Vazír Ismá’íl
- The mountains of Núr, and the capital city, Teheran
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí, family and years of youth
- Vazír ‘Abbás Buzurg, statesman, his prosperity and tribulations
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí and Prime Minister Áqásí
- Marriage of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí and Ásíyih Khánum: 24 September–22 October 1835
- Destruction of Tákur Mansion and ruin of Vazír Buzurg; his death in 1836
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí refuses any government position
- Mirza Ḥusayn-‘Alí frustrates Áqásí, devotes his energies to good works
- The Ṣúfí and the young man of the kuláh
- Family leadership and life in the capital city, Teheran
- Children of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí and Lady Ásíyih
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí: His preparation for leadership
CHAPTER 4: THE FIRST HIGH PROPHET
- The quest of Mullá Ḥusayn and Mullá ‘Alí: To Shíráz
- Encounter by Mullá Ḥusayn at the Kázirún Gate of Shíráz
- The young Siyyid ‘Alí-Muḥammad asserts to Mullá Ḥusayn His identity as the Qá’im and the Báb
- The Báb declares His Mission and reveals the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá on 22–23 May 1844
- Birth in Teheran of ‘Abbás (‘Abdu’l-Bahá), son of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí: 23 May 1844
- Seventeen additional Letters of the Living discover the Báb
- The Báb’s Message and charge to His disciples
- Missions given to three leading Letters of the Living
- Mullá Ḥusayn is sent to Teheran
- Mullá Muḥammad of Núr delivers to Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí a scroll from the Báb
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí and brother Mírzá Músá recognize the Báb to be the Qá’im
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí’s mission to Núr to proclaim the new Faith
- Conversions in Nur of disciples of Shaykh Muhammad, the chief divine
- Confrontation of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí with Shaykh Muḥammad
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí encounters a mendicant Ṣúfí poet, Muṣṭafá Big
- Mullá ‘Alí Bastámí proclaims the new Faith in Iraq; in April 1845 sent to die in Constantinople
- The Báb with Quddús visits Mecca; returns March 1845
- Arrest of the Báb in Shíráz; proclamation of His Station in the Mosque of Vakíl
CHAPTER 5: EPICENTER OF THE BÁBÍ CAUSE
- The Báb escapes death as cholera strikes Shíráz; is expelled from the city 22 September 1846
- The Báb wins asylum in Isfahán with the Imám Jum‘ih and Governor Manúchihr Khán
- Banishment to Máh-kú and incident at Kulayn en route: April 1847
- Attempted rescue of the Báb from guards by Bábís of Zanján near Milán
- Forty days in Tabríz’s Citadel, thence to Fortress Máh-kú
- Further imprisonment in Fortress of Chihríq in Persian Kurdistán
- Arrest in Qazvín of the Bábí poetess Qurratu’l-‘Ayn (Fáṭimih, Ṭáhirih) in mid-August 1847
- Bábís of Qazvín held in Teheran, Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí briefly confined
- Rescue of Fáṭimih by Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí; her concealment in his mansion in October 1847
- Journey to Sháh-rúd by Ṭáhirih and Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí during May–June 1848
- The Bábís gather at Badasht in Khurdsdn province: June-July 1848
- Epic meeting at Badasht: Severance from Islám; Fáṭimih now entitled Ṭáhirih, casts off the veil
- Harmonization of the Bábís after the stormy Bábí reformation
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí, now entitled Bahá, departs for Núr; incident at Niyálá in mid-July 1848, and his journey to the Caspian Sea
- Death of the Sháh on 4 September 1848, invalidating order of arrest for Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí
CHAPTER 6: CLASH: THE BÁBÍS AND REFORM OF SHI‘ITE ISLÁM
- The Báb brought from Chihríq through Urúmíyyih to Tabríz for trial
- Public Declaration of the Báb as the Qá’im in Tabríz in late July 1848
- The Báb’s Sermon of Wrath delivered to Prime Minister Áqásí by Ḥujjat
- Raising of the Black Standards in Khurásán by Mullá Ḥusayn on 21 July 1848
- The siege of Fort Shaykh Ṭabarsí begins: 12 October 1848
- Visit of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí, Jináb-i-Bahá, and liberation of Quddús from Sárí
- Jináb-i-Bahá seeks to return to Shaykh Ṭabarsí, is captured at Ámul, confined, bastinadoed, released in early December 1848
- Fort Shaykh Ṭabarsí falls, survivors massacred: May 1849
- Ṭáhirih is captured, taken to Teheran in January 1850
- Sayyáḥ in Teheran meets Siyyid Yaḥyá, Vaḥíd, on 23 January 1850
- Ṭáhirih’s encounter with Siyyid Yaḥyá, Vaḥíd: winter of 1850
- Role given by the Báb to Mírzá Yaḥyá, half-brother of Jináb-i-Bahá
- Seven Bábís martyred in the Sabzih-Maydán, Teheran on 19–20 February 1850
- Vaḥíd and followers martyred in Nayríz on 29 June 1850
- The Báb sends His precious personal possessions to Jináb-i-Bahá
- Martyrdom of the Báb in Tabríz on 9 July 1850
CHAPTER 7: BANISHMENT AND FIRST RECOGNITION
- Retrieval and concealment of the Báb’s remains under direction of Jináb-i-Bahá
- Mírzá Áqá Khán of Núr becomes a High Minister of the Government; prediction of his future eminence by Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí
- Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí meets Mírzá Taqí Khán, the Prime Minister
- Mullá Muḥammad-‘Alí, Ḥujjat, and the Siege of Zanján: his death on 8 January 1851
- Jináb-i-Bahá assumes organizational and spiritual leadership of the Bábís
- The Prime Minister exiles Jináb-i-Bahá to Iraq in June 1851
- Incident in Kirmánsháh: Prince Ildirim and Mírzá Aḥmad
- Jináb-i-Bahá in Karbilá on 28 August 1851, wins a new company of Bábís
- Shaykh Ḥasan of Zunúz fulfills his mission, recognizes the Promised One on 5 October 1851
- Murder of Prime Minister Mírzá Taqí Khán in the spring of 1852
- Mírzá Áqá Khán of Núr becomes Prime Minister, invites Jináb-i-Bahá to return to Teheran
CHAPTER 8: THE TORRENT AND THE MAIDEN
- Jináb-i-Bahá returns to Teheran in May 1852
- Plot by ‘Aẓím, attempt on the life of the Sháh on 15 August 1852
- Arrest of eighty-one Bábís of Teheran, their consignment to the Black Pit
- Jináb-i-Bahá in Afchih, rides to Zargandih and Níyávarán
- Arrest of Jináb-i-Bahá and imprisonment in the Black Pit
- Jináb-i-Bahá in prison with twenty other Bábís
- The fugitive family of Jináb-i-Bahá
- Grim but historic days in the Black Pit with fellow Bábís
- Mass massacre of Bábís on 15 September 1852
- Yaḥyá flees Teheran, contributes to destruction of Tákur and its Bábí community
- Yazd, Nayríz and Shíráz suffer terrible persecutions of their Bábí communities
- Ṭáhirih is martyred in the Ilkhání Garden: August–September 1852
- ‘Aẓím confesses and is martyred; Jináb-i-Bahá survives the blood bath
- Intimations of High Prophethood: The Torrent and the Maiden
- The Call to Divine Mission in the Síyáh-Chál: October–November 1852
CHAPTER 9: EXILE AND EXPATRIATE
- The Momentous ‘Year Nine’ begins: 15 October 1852
- Efforts intensify to obtain release of Jináb-i-Bahá by friends and relatives
- Russian Consul Prince D. F. Dolgorukov intervenes
- Jináb-i-Bahá’s release from the Black Pit on 15 or 16 December 1852
- The Prime Minister orders nationwide relief from persecution for the Bábís
- Decree of life banishment for Jináb-i-Bahá; his choice of Iraq rather than Russia
- Recovery of Jináb-i-Bahá from prison privations; family preparations for exile
- Jináb-i-Bahá writes His first poem: the ‘Rashḥ-i-‘Amá’
- His departure with family and escort from Teheran on 12 January 1853
- Through Hamadán, Kirmánsháh and Karand in mid-winter
- Beyond the Zagros Mountains to a Naw-Rúz celebration in Khániqayn: 21 March 1853
- Arrival in Baghdad on 8 April 1853; briefly to Káẓimayn
- To Old Baghdad, to the little House of Ḥájí ‘Alí Madad
- 1 Persian Names and Titles
- 2 Sources of Information
- 3 The Shi‘ites of Islám
- 4 The ‘Ascent’ of Muḥammad
- 5 The Qájár Dynasty of Persia
- 6 The Súfís of Iran
- 7 Mullá ‘Alí of Bastám, Valiant Disciple
- 8 Fáṭimih, Qurratu’l-‘Ayn, Ṭáhirih: A Womanly Phenomenon
- 9 The Báb, An Autobiographical Life Summary
- 10 Ṭáhirih and the Sháh
- 11 The Báb’s Letter to Mírzá Yaḥyá, His Shield Role
- 12 The Maid of Heaven
- 13 The Recognition of Mission
- 14 The Challenge of Ṭáhirih
- 15 The Garden of Eden
- 16 Baha’u’llah’s Recollection of the Bábí Tragedies
- 1 The Báb’s Message to the Letters of the Living
- 2 Poems of Ṭáhirih: a Taste of Her Genius
