September 10, 2012

List of the Báb’s Best-Known Works – identified by Shoghi Effendi in ‘The Dawn-Breakers’

1. The Persian Bayán
2. The Arabie Bayán
3. The Qayyúmu’l-Asmá
4. The Sahifatu’l-Haramayn
5. The Dalá’il-i-Sab‘ih
6. Commentary on the Súrih of Kawthar
7. Commentary on the Súrih of Va’l-‘Asr
8. The Kitáb-i-Asmá’
9. Sahifiy-i-Makhdhumíyyih
10. Sahifiy-i-Ja’faríyyih
11. Zíyárat-i-Sháh-’Abdu’l-’Azim


12. Kitáb-i-Panj-Sha’n
13. Sahifiy-i-Radavíyyih14. Risaliy-i-’Adlíyyih
15. Risaliy-i-Fiqhíyyih
16. Risaliy-i-Dhahabíyyih
17. Kitábú’r-Rúh
18. Suriy-i-Tawhíd
19. Lawḥ-i-Hurúfat
20. Tafsír-i-Nubuwat-i-Khassih
21. Risáliy-i-Furú-i-‘Adlíyyih
22. Khasá’il-i-Sab‘ih
23. Epistles to Muḥammad Sháh and Ḥájí Mírzá Aqásí

N.B. The Báb Himself states in one passage of the Persian Bayán that His writings comprise no less than 500,000 verses. (Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers)