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Mulla Rajab `Ali Qahir

Kitab-i Qahir

Mulla Rajab `Ali Qahir. Kitab-i Qahir. MS. British Manuscript Project, University of Michigan, 748
(5). Published in digital facsimile.

Notes: E.G. Browne, 'Catalogue of Manuscripts,': "Mulla Rajab `Ali, called Qahir (the numerical equivalent of
both names being 315) was a promenent follower of the Bab, and afterwards of Mirza Yahya Subh-i Azal. He is
said to have been murdered by some of Baha'u'llah's followers at Baghdad or Karbala. See my Traveller's
Narrative . . .vol. II, pp. 356, 359, 363, 371. This book, written partly in Arabic but chiefly in Persian, comprises
four chapters, beginning on ff. 7b, 17b, 31b and 66b respectively. [Double folio numbers for page numbers
below.] It contains allusions to Mirza Yahya Subh-i Azal . . .the Dala'il-i Sab`ih or "Seven Proofs" . . . and Mirza
Asadu'llah called Janab-i Dayyan . . ." For citations from this work see Denis MacEoin, "Divisions and Authority
Claims in Babism (1850-1866)." Studia Iranica 18, 1 (1989):93-129.

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