BAB

Siyyid Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad (میرزا علی‌محمد in Persian) (October 20, 1819 - July 9, 1850), was a merchant from Shiraz, Persia, who at the age of 25, claimed to be a new and independent Manifestation of God, and the promised Qá'im, or Mihdi. After his declaration he took on the title of the Báb (باب), meaning "Gate" in Arabic, and 6 years later was shot by a firing squad in Tabriz.

References

Official Bahá'í resouces

• {{Book reference|Author=Effendi, Shoghi|Year=1974|Title=God Passes By|Publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois 60091|ID=ISBN 0-87743-020-9}} Available online here.
• {{Book reference|Author=Ferraby, John|Year=1975|Title=All Things Made New: A Comprehensive Outline of the Baha'i Faith|Publisher=Baha'i Distribution Service|ID=ISBN 8186953019}}
• {{Book reference|Author=Taherzadeh, Adib|Year=1987|Title=The Revelation of Baha'u'llah|Publisher=G. Ronald|ID=ISBN 0853980527}}
• {{Book reference|Author=Effendi, Shoghi|Year=1932|Title=Dawn Breakers - Nabil's Narrative|Publisher=Baha'i Publishing Trust|ID=ISBN 0900125225}} available online here

Other resources

• {{Book reference|Author=Amanat, Abbas|Year=1989|Title=Resurrection and Renewal|Publisher=Cornell University Press, 124 Roberts Place, Ithica, New York 14850|ID=ISBN 0-8014-2098-9}}
• Britannica (Eds.) Bahá'í Faith, 1988 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• British Broadcasting Corporation (2002). BBC Religion and Ethics Special: Bahá'í. Retrieved January 22, 2005.
• Gobineau, Conte (1864). Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l?Asie Centrale.
• Browne, E.G. (1889) "The Babis of Persia" in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, pp. 485-526 and 881-1009.
• Browne, E.G. (1891). A Traveller?s Narrative. Cambridge.
• Browne, E.G. (translator) (1893). The New History of the Báb. Cambridge.
• Kitab-i Nuqtat al-Kaf: Being the Earliest History of the Babis, ed. E. G. Browne. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1910