The Báb

Front matter

Reading edition

`ABDU'L-BAHÁ The Centre of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh

BAHÁ'U'LLÁH The King of Glory

BAHÁ'U'LLÁH A brief life, followed by an essay entitled THE WORD MADE FLESH

KHADÍJIH BAGUM The Wife of the Báb

EDWARD GRANVILLE BROWNE AND THE BAHÁ'Í FAITH

EMINENT BAHÁ'ÍS IN THE TIME OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

MUḤAMMAD AND THE COURSE OF ISLÁM

THE BÁB The Herald of the Day of Days

by H. M. BALYUZI

GEORGE RONALD OXFORD

First published 1973 by George Ronald 46 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2DN Reprinted 1973 and 1974 Paper edition 1975 Reprinted 1994

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (except for fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956) without written permission from the publisher.

ISBN 0 85398 054 3

EXTRACTS FROM Nabíl, The Dawn-Breakers Copyright © 1932 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By Copyright © 1944, 1971 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States WORLD ORDER, A Bahá'í Magazine Copyright © 1966 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States

Printed by The Cromwell Press, Broughton Gifford, Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 8PH