Suggested Abbreviations

for select mss.  and published writings of the Bab In Progress and being corrected 2005-6.

last updated March 2005

Ar-Bayan    =   al-Bayān al-`arabī.   

[1] INBMC 43:1.68;

[2] Ḥusaynī, al.Bābiyyūn, 82.107  ADD

Ar-Dala'il  =

  • in Dalā'il-i sab`ih. np.nd.  [Azal ī ed. Tehran, 196?] [pp.](alif. nūn );

  • [1] IBA (? = Nicolas ms.106),102a..104b.

  • [2]

K- = Kitab = Book ...

  • K-Asmā’ =  al-Kitāb al-asmā' . [1] INBMC 29. [2] Uncat. mss. Marzieh Gail Coll. Bosch Bahā’ī Library (USA)

  • K. Fihrist = Kitāb al.fihrist INBA. Ms 6007C:339.348.

  • K. Panj.S = Kitāb.i panj sha'n. np.nd. [Tehran Azali ed. 196?]

  • K. Haykal= Haykal al.dīn. np.nd [Tehran, Azalī ed. 196?]

  • K. `Ulamā’ = Kitāb al.`ulamā' INBMC 67:206.16; Afnan 2000:107.111.

  • K. Rūḥ = Kitāb al.rūḥ [incomplete]. Haifa mss.

Kh- = Khutbah = Sermon/Oration ...

Kh.Ḥuruf = Khuṭba on `ilm al.ḥurūf INBA 91; INBA6004C: 209.213.

Kh. Jidda = Khuṭba at Jeddah. INBA 91: 61.81

Kh .Qahriyya. = Khuṭba.yi qahriyya. INBMC 64:127.150.

 

P. Bayan. = Bayān.i farsī np. nd.  [Tihran, Azali ed.]

QA = Qayyūm al.asmā’.  Afnān Lib. ms.5

Q. Maḥfuz = Su`āl `an al-lawḥ al-maḥūẓ. (Q.85:22) , TBA. mss. 6006C:79.80.

Q. Zavarih = Reply to the three questions of Mīrzā Muhammad Sa`īd Zavārih on Basīṭ al.ḥaqīqa and other matters INBMC 69:419.437.

R- = Risalih = Treatise ...

R. Dhah. = Risāla Dhahabiyya. (cf. Afnān, 2000:449). INBMC 86:70.98.

R. Jasad. = Risāla fī’l. jasad al.nabī (= Sharḥ kayfiyyat al.mi`rāj)  INBMC 69:416.418.

R. Nubuwwat = Risāla fī' al-nubuwwa al-khāṣṣah INBMC 14:385.

R. Sulūk = Risāla fī al-sulūk. TBA., Ms. 6006C: 73.74..

S. B-al-Haramayn = Ṣaḥīfa bayn al-ḥaramayn.

[1] Camb. Univ. Lib. Browne Or. Ms. F 7(9):1.125;

[2] TBA. ms. 6007C, 348.413.

S. Ja`far = Sāḥīfa.yi Ja`fariyya. INBMC 98:48.108; INBMC 60:57.154.

Shu'unK = Shu`ūn.i khamsa al.fārsī (= Persian K.Panj.?) INBMC 82:78.133.

T- = Tafsir = Commentary...

T. Akhi = Tafsīr ḥadīth `allamanī akhī rasūl.Allāh. INBAMC 14:410.417.

T-`Ama’ = Tafsīr, ḥadīth al.`amā’.

[1] TBA. Ms 6007C:1.16..

T-`Asr = Tafsīr sūra wa'l.`aṣr. (Q.110) INBMC 69:21.119

T-Baqara = Tafsīr sūrat al.baqara (Q.2 ) INBMC 69: (1ff) 157.294+377.410.

T-Basmala = Tafsīr (ḥurūf ) al.basmala. TBA ms. 6014C: f. 301.370..

T-Ha’ (1) = Tafsīr al.Hā’ (1) INBMC 14:221.283; INBMC 67:4.52.

T-Ha’ (2) = Tafsīr al.Hā’ (2) INBMC 14:284.320. INBMC 67:53.85

T-Hamd = Tafsīr Sūrat al.ḥamd (Q.1). INBAMC 69:120.153.

T-Kawthar = Tafsīr Sūrat al.kawthar. EGB Coll. Ms. Or. F10 [7].

T-LaylatQ.= T.Laylat al.qadr, (Q.97) INBMC 69:14..21.

T-Kumayl = Tafsīr Ḥadīth Kumayl ibn Ziyād al-Nakhā’ī.   [1] INBMC 53:63.8.

T-Man = Tafsīr ḥadīth man `arafa nafsahu faqad ` arafa rabbahu. INBAMC 14:468.477; [2] INBMC 40:46.53.

T-Wajh = Tafsīr Naḥnu wajh Allāh. TBA 6006C: f.69.70; INBMC 53:56.8.

Wasiyya = Waṣiyyat.nāma. INBA 64:95.102; BWC: Haifa Ms. (unpaginated)

Azalī editions of writings of the Bāb.

Per-Bayan = Bayān.i Fārsī. Tehran, n.d.

Per-Dala’il     = Dalā’il.i Sab`ah. Tehran: n.d.

Qismati   = Qismati az alwāḥ.i khaṭṭ. i nuqṭa.yi ūlā wa Sayyid Ḥusayn Kātib (n.p. [Iran] n.d.).

Translations of A. L. M. Nicholas (1864-1939)

P. Béyan = Le Béyan Persan, trans. A. L. M. Nicolas, 4 vols. Paris: Librarie Paul Geuthner, 1911.14

Ar. Béyan = Le Béyan Arabe, Le Livre Sacré Bábyse. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1905

S. Prev. = Le Livre des Sept Preuves de la mission du Bab. Paris: Maisonneuvre, 1902

Translations of the Baha'i World Centre (Haifa, Israel).

SWB = Selections from the Writings of the Bab ([= SWB] trans. by Habib Taherzadeh ( et al.). Haifa: BWC,1976.

SWB* = Muntakhabati az ªthªr.i hadrat.i Nuqtih.i ƒlª. Wilmette: BPT, 1978.