The Herald and His Heroes

The Herald and His Heroes  (2017)  by Hitjo Garst

Contents

Introduction

1. Mullá Ḥusayn’s Quest
2. Shaykh Aḥmad, the Forerunner
3. The Hidden Twelfth Imam
4. Two Wonderful Events
5. A Mysterious Young Man
6. Nobody Arose to Search
7. He Will Come on a Cloud!
8. The Evening of All Evenings
9. The Gate of the Gate
10. The Letters of the Living
11. The Address to the Letters of the Living
12. The Youth of the Báb
13. ‘The Gate to the Promised One has been Opened’
14. The Secret in Tehran
15. The First Martyr
16. On Pilgrimage to Mecca
17. No Visit to Karbila
18. As if Lightning had Struck
19. Back in Shiraz
20. Another Trial
21. Bahá’u’lláh Proclaims the Revelation of the Báb
22. The Representative of the Shah
23. ‘Abdu’l-Karím, Are You Seeking the Manifestation?
24. Driven from the City of His Birth
25. Khadíjih Bagum (I)
26. Honoured in Isfahan
27. Manúchihr Khán’s Trick
28. Invited by the Shah
29. The Spiteful Minister
30. Muḥammad Big
31. Enthusiastic Welcome in Tabriz
32. The Distant Prison of Máh-Kú
33. Imam Husayn — Prince of Martyrs (I)
34. Imam Husayn — Prince of Martyrs (II)
35. The Persian Bayán
36. If Only She’d Been a Boy
37. A Murder with Terrible Consequences
38. A Mysterious Escape
39. A Pilgrimage on Foot
40. God’s Hidden Treasure
41. The Bab is Taken from Máh-Kú to Chihríq
42. Bábíyyih – The Babi House
43. Badasht – A Shock like an Earthquake
44. The Portrait of the Báb
45. ‘I Am, I Am, I Am the Promised One’
46. The Vision of Anís
47. With the Black Standard to the Fore
48. Attacked by the People of Barfurush
49. ‘We Are Approaching Our Karbila’
50. Building Fort Tabarsi
51. Bahá’u’lláh Visits Fort Tabarsi
52. Quddús is Freed
53. Bahá’u’lláh is Imprisoned in Amul (I)
54. Bahá’u’lláh is Imprisoned in Amul (II)
55. Defeated by Rain and Snow
56. ‘Mount Your Steeds, O Heroes of God!’
57. The Martyrdom of Mullá Ḥusayn
58. The Attacker is Again Repulsed
59. The Immortal Heroes of Fort Tabarsi
60. Prince Mihdí-Quli Mírzá’s Cowardly Betrayal
61. Quddús is Killed
62. The Seven Martyrs of Tehran – Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid ‘Alí
63. The Seven Martyrs of Tehran – Mírzá Qurbán ‘Alí
64. The Seven Martyrs of Tehran – ‘If We Fail to Proclaim the Advent of the Qá’im...’
65. Vaḥíd in Yazd
66. The Battle near Nayriz
67. Chihríq, ‘The Grievous Mountain’
68. ‘Not Until I Have Said All Those Things That I Wish To Say...’
69. That Day in Tabriz
70. Ḥujjat and the Mullas from Zanjan
71. Courageous Zaynab
72. ‘We Are Not Conducting Holy War’
73. Ḥájí Mírzá Karím Khán – The Pseudo-scholar
74. Only to Divert Attention
75. The Attack on the Shah
76. The Martyrdom of Ṭáhirih
77. The Year Nine
78. As If It Had Been In Vain
79. The Year Nineteen
80. The Gate Between Two Historical Cycles
81. The Breaker of the Covenant of the Báb (I)
82. The Breaker of the Covenant of the Báb (II)
83. Khadíjih Bagum (II)
84. The House of the Báb
85. The Long Journey of the Mortal Remains of the Báb
86. The Queen of Carmel

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