A Most Noble Pattern

1. A General Introduction to the Qayyum al-Asma'

Muhammad Afnan (translated by Omid Ghaemmaghami)

2. The Commentary on the Sura of Joseph

Nosratollah Mohammadhosseini

3. Khutbat al-iftikhar

Introduced and translated by Khazeh Fananapazir

4. Colours in the Writings of the Bab

Vahid Rafati (translated by Omid Ghaemmaghami)

5. A Grammar of the Divine: Solecisms in the Arabic Writings of the Bab and His Thoughts on Arabic Grammar

William F. McCants

6. Secrets Concealed by Secrets: Taqiyya as Arcanization in the Autobibliographies of the Bab

J. Vahid Brown

7. The Surat adh-Dhikr of the Qayyum al-Asma' (chapter 108): A Provisional Translation and Commentary

Moojan Momen

8. The Surat al-'Abd of the Qayyum al-Asma' (Chapter 109): A Provisional Translation and Commentary

Todd Lawson

9. The Khutba al-Jidda (The Literary Sermon at Jeddah) of the Bab

Stephen Lambden

10.Muhammad Shah Qajar in Four Early Writings of the Bab

Sholeh A. Quinn

11.A Youth of Medium Height: The Bab's Encounter with the Hidden Imam in Tafsir Surat al-Kawthar

Omid Ghaemmaghami

12.Phenomenology of Occultation and Prayer in the Bab's Sahifiy-i Ja'fariyyih

Nader Saiedi

13.The Bab's Panj Sha'n (Five Modes)

John Walbridge

14.Undermining the Foundations of Orthodoxy: Some Notes on the Bab's Sharia (Sacred Law)

Armin Eschraghi

15.Concealment and Burial of the Bab

Translated and annotated by Peter Terry

16. Collusion and Re-creation: Dogen and the Bab as Interpreters of Scripture

Gary Fuhrman