chooses site for Shrine of Báb, 191-2;
quotations from, 48, 174-5;
mentioned, 9, 27, 56, 78, 109, 120, 125, 128, 135, 138, 145, 154, 165, 183, 188, 235, 237, 240;
see also 'He Whom God shall manifest'

Baḥrayn, 1

Baḥru'l-`Ulúm, 36

Bakhtíyárí, 108, 109

Bandar-`Abbás, 224

Banú-Sakhr, 1

Báqir-Ábád, mosque, 78

Báqir, Mírzá, of Tabríz, 155

Báqir, Mullá, imám, 240

Báqir-i-Tabrízí, Mullá (Letter of the Living), 27, 151, 168, 174

Baqíyatu'lláh (Remnant of God), 78, 155

Baraghán, 230

Bárfurúsh (Bábul), 23, 172, 173, 176, 184, 239

Bashír an-Najafí, Shaykh, 60

Baṣrah, 104

Bavánát, 205

Bayán: Arabic, 152, 215, 231, 232;
Persian, 50, 71, 132, 154, 215, 232

Bázár-i-Murgh, 231

Bázár quarter, of Nayríz, 182

Beirut, 166, 191

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 230

Benjamin, S. G. W., 220

Bethune, Sir Henry Lindesay, 10, 211

Bible, 147, 235;
New Testament quoted, 127, 155, 156, 158-9

Birdwood, Capt. R. L., 223

Bísitún, 232

Black Standard, 171, 172, 176

Bombay, 37, 57

Bonaparte (Napoleon I), 7, 8

Bonnière, M. de, 115

Boré, M., 79, 80

British Museum, 233

Britain, British, 1, 8-10, 12, 58, 61, 63, 77, 79, 109, 186, 193, 194, 202, 203, 205, 209, 216, 223, 230, 233;
see also England

Browne, Edward Granville, 16, 141, 146, 152, 166, 186, 217, 235, 239, 240

Burgess, Mr., 80

Burújird, 93

Búshihr (Bushire), 2, 15, 16, 37, 39-41, 57, 71, 75, 77, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 87, 104, 105, 107, 223, 224, 230

Bushrúyih, 4

Buzurg, Ḥájí Mírzá, 96

Buzurg-i-Núrí, Mírzá (Mírzá `Abbás, father of Bahá'u'lláh), 54

Byron, Lord, 117


Cain (by Byron), 117

Campbell, Sir John, 10

Canning, Sir Stratford (first Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe), 6, 61, 63, 66, 67, 193

Carmel, Mount, 191, 192

Caspian Sea, 3, 9

Caucasus, 9, 117

Chahár-Lang, 108

Chashmih-`Alí (tribe), 190

Cheltenham College, 238

Cheyne, T. K., 32, 168, 230

Chihríq, 132, 134-7, 147-50, 153, 159, 167, 183, 185

China, 203

Chinár Súkhtih (quarter of Nayríz), 178, 182

Cholera, 104, 105

Chosroes I, 220

Christ, see Jesus

Christian, 147, 217

Communism (-istic), 214, 220

Congress, Act of (U.S.A.), 220

Constantinople (Istanbul), 5, 63, 66, 67, 79, 163, 193, 221, 234

Cormick, Dr., 145

Cox, Sir Percy Z., 223

Cyprus, 238


Dalá'il-i-Sab`ib (The Seven Proofs), 132

Dálakí, 84, 105

Damascus, 68, 182, 191

Dáráb, 90, 101, 178

Darius, 232

David, 127

Dawn-Breakers (followers of the Báb), 90, 161, 188

Dayyán (Asadu'lláh, Mírzá, of Khuy), 136, 237

Dayyáníyyih, 237

Declaration, of the Báb (anniversary), 20, 150

'Deliverer of the Latter Days', 3

Democratic Party (U.S.A.), 220

Dhikr (the Báb, also Dhikru'lláh-al-A`ẓam, Dhikru'lláh-al-Akbar, Ḥaḍrat-i-Dhikr), 46, 132, 231

Dhi'l-Ḥijjah, month of, 70, 71

Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, The, 167

Díván-Khánih (the Court), 81

Divine origin, Divinity, 215

Dolgorukov, Prince Dimitri Ivanovich, 131, 206, 209, 210, 241


East India Company, 233

Ecbatana, see Ḥamadán

Echo (English publication), 217

Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, 77

Eliot, T. S., 58

England, English, 80, 145, 203, 210, 214, 217;
see also Britain

Erivan, see Íraván

Esther, 165

Ethiopian servant, of the Báb, 17, 49, 57, 71, 84

Euphrates, 108, 182, 193

Europe, European, 146, 209, 217


Fará'id (by Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl), 39

Farmán-Farmá, see Firaydún Mírzá and Ḥusayn-`Alí Mírzá

Farrant, Lt.-Col. T., 5, 135, 173, 193, 195-9, 201, 229

Farrásh (farrásh-báshí, lictor), 145, 146, 156, 157

Fárs, 49, 109, 169, 178, 199, 205, 234

Farsakh (farsang), 114

Fasá, 104, 205, 240

Fatḥ-`Alí Sháh, 7, 8, 9, 138, 200, 229, 234

Fatḥu'lláh, Mír (great-grandfather of the Báb), 230

Fáṭimih (daughter of the Prophet Muḥammad), 47, 74

Fáṭimih-Bagum (mother of the Báb), 33, 103

Faylí (a clan), 82

Finkenstein, treaty of, 8

Firaydún Mírzá (the Farmán-Farmá), 80, 81

Firman (royal edict), 81, 234

Fírúz Mírzá, Prince (the Nuṣratu'd-Dawlih), 180

Fírúzábád, 82

'Five Martyrs', of Sárí, 239

Flandin, M., 80, 234

Foreign Ministers, British, see Aberdeen, Palmerston

France, French, 1, 7, 8, 79, 80, 194, 217, 234

Futúḥ-ar-Rasúl (boat), 69


Galata, 79

Gandum-Pák-Kun, see Ja`far, Mullá

Gardanne, General, 7, 8

Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, 223

George III, 8

Georgian, 108

'Geramees', 6, 196, 198

Ghulát, 236

Gílán, 237

Gobineau, Count, 217

Golgotha, 127

Gordon, Sir Thomas Edward, 221, 223

'Great Sophy', 107

Greeks, 124

Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, see Shoghi Effendi

Gulistán, treaty of, 8

Gulpáygán, 4

Gurgín Khán, 116, 117


Ḥabíbu'lláh (the Prophet Muḥammad), 46

Ḥabíbu'lláh Khán-i-Afghán, 174

Ḥabíbu'lláh-i-Afnán, Ḥájí Mírzá, 32, 34, 35, 39, 41, 45, 71, 96, 98

Hádí, Mírzá, 167

Hádíy-i-Nahrí, Mírzá, 51, 102

Hádíy-i-Qazvíní, Mírzá (Letter of the Living), 27

Ḥaḍrat, 231

Ḥáfiẓ, 15, 16, 35, 69, 124

Hagar, 184

Haifa, 191

Ḥajar al-Aswad (The Black Stone), 72

Ḥájí (the Báb), 87

Ḥájí-Bábáy-i-Afshár, Mírz (Ḥááíj Bábá, Mírzá), 9

Ḥajj, 70, 71

Ḥajj-i-Akbar, 70

Ḥakím, Dr. Lutfu'lláh, 165

Ḥakím Masíḥ, 165

Hamadán, 12, 102, 164, 165

Ḥamzih Mírzá (the Ḥishmatu'd-Dawlih), 152, 153, 170, 171, 172

Ḥanafí, 13

Ḥanbalí, 13

Hand of the Cause, 139, 189

Ḥaram, see Masjid

Ḥasan, servant of Vaḥíd, 205

Ḥasan, Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid (brother-in-law of the Báb), 46

Ḥasan, Siyyid, 124, 128, 129, 146, 156

Ḥasan al-`Askarí, Imám, 41, 119, 142

Ḥasan Ja`far, Siyyid, 60

Ḥasan-`Alí, Ḥájí Mírzá (uncle of the Báb), 33

Ḥasan-`Alí Khán (Aga Khan I), 122

Ḥasan-`Alí Mírzá (the Shuja`u's-Salṭanih), 229

Ḥasan-i-Bajistání, Mullá (Letter of the Living), 27

Ḥasan-i-Núrí, Mírzá, 112

Ḥasan-i-Vazír, Mírzá, 190

Ḥasan-i-Zunúzí, Shaykh, 103, 104, 115, 120, 129, 132, 137, 143, 153

Háshim, Háshimite, 44, 59, 74, 86

Ḥaydarí (Ḥaydarí-Khánih), 82, 234

'He (Him) Whom God shall make manifest' (Man-Yuẓhiruhu'lláh), 154, 191, 237;
see also Bahá'u'lláh

Hebrew, 136

Hennell, Captain (later Colonel) Samuel, 79, 81, 83, 104, 109

Ḥijáz, 49

Ḥikmatu'l-`Arshíyyah, 113, 236

Ḥillah, 200

Hirát, 230

Ḥishmat, poet, 103

Hizárih, tribe, 102

Holy Land, 139, 191

Ḥujjat (Ḥujjat-i-Zanjání, Ḥujjatu'l-Islám), 100, 125, 147, 185-7, 209-12

Hulákú Mírzá, Prince, 199

Ḥurúf-i-Ḥayy (Letters of the Living), 24;
see also Letters of the Living

Ḥusayn, Imám, 1, 6, 32, 41, 43, 111, 182, 193, 194, 197-200

Ḥusayn, Siyyid, of Nayríz, 182

Ḥusayn Khán (Ájúdán-Báshí, Niẓamu'd-Dawlih, Ṣaḥib-Ikhtíyár), 68, 79, 83, 85, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 97, 98, 104, 105, 123

Ḥusayn Khán, Mírzá (the Mushíru'd-Dawlih), 234

Ḥusayn Khán, Siyyid (Syed Hussein Khan), 81

Ḥusayn-`Alí, Mírzá, see Bahá'u'lláh

Ḥusayn-`Alí Mírzá (Hoosein Ali Meerza, the Farmán-Farmá), 199, 229

Ḥusayn-`Alíy-i-Iṣfahání, 191

Ḥusayn-i-`Arab, Shaykh (the Náẓi-mu'sh-Shárí`ih, Ẓálim), 78, 89, 97, 98, 99

Ḥusayn-i-Bushrú'í, Mullá (Bábu'l-Báb):
mission from Siyyid Káẓim, 4, 7, 13, 15, 16;
meeting with Báb and His declaration, 17-22;
encounters Quddús, 23-4;
Letter of the Living, 26;
mission to Bahá'u'lláh, ch. 3;
returns to Shiráz, 102;
visits Máh-Kú, 131;
description of, 166;
Báb sends to rescue Quddús, 171-3;
besieged at Shaykh Ṭabarsí, 173-4;
death and Bahá'u'lláh's tribute, 174-5;
mentioned, 149, 150, 168, 170, 239