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 JosephNosratollah Mohammadhosseini3. Khutbat al-iftikharIntroduced and translated by Khazeh Fananapazir4. Colours in the Writings of the BabVahid Rafati (translated by Omid Ghaemmaghami)5. A Grammar of the Divine: Solecisms in the Arabic Writings of the Bab and His Thoughts on Arabic GrammarWilliam F. McCants6. Secrets Concealed by Secrets: Taqiyya as Arcanization in the Autobibliographies of the BabJ. Vahid Brown7. The Surat adh-Dhikr of the Qayyum al-Asma' (chapter 108): A Provisional Translation and CommentaryMoojan Momen8. The Surat al-'Abd of the Qayyum al-Asma' (Chapter 109): A Provisional Translation and CommentaryTodd Lawson9. The Khutba al-Jidda (The Literary Sermon at Jeddah) of the BabStephen Lambden10.Muhammad Shah Qajar in Four Early Writings of the BabSholeh A. Quinn11.A Youth of Medium Height: The Bab's Encounter with the Hidden Imam in Tafsir Surat al-KawtharOmid Ghaemmaghami12.Phenomenology of Occultation and Prayer in the Bab's Sahifiy-i Ja'fariyyihNader Saiedi13.The Bab's Panj Sha'n (Five Modes)John Walbridge14.Undermining the Foundations of Orthodoxy: Some Notes on the Bab's Sharia (Sacred Law)Armin Eschraghi15.Concealment and Burial of the BabTranslated and annotated by Peter Terry16. Collusion and Re-creation: Dogen and the Bab as Interpreters of ScriptureGary Fuhrman