The Genesis of the Bábi-Bahá'í Faiths in Shíráz and Fárs

This book relates the story of the evolution of the Babi-Baha'i community, beginning with the birth of the Bab and then traced over the next century and a half in the city of his birth, Shiraz. This fascinating history - the first of its kind on the development of local Baha'i communities of Iran - is lucidly translated for the first time into English by Dr. Ahang Rabbani, and is carefully annotated and supplemented with many details and scholarly notes about key personalities and places of inte