Through Persia on a Side-Saddle
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TextProducer: London : A. D. Innes & Co. 1898Subject(s): Abstract: "It is supposed that the crime, that cut short the life of Persia's king, originated with the Babis, those followers of the Bab (Gate of Truth), as Mirza Ali Mohammed, the Mollah from Shiraz, designated himself, who was shot at Tabriz and his adherents cruelly suppressed some fifty years ago. It is said that Babi-ism would have infused life and spirit into the set ceremonial of Mohammedanism, although no true believer could well have yielded to the pretensions of the Bab, who claimed to be divine. Throughout Persia many men of the highest rank are credited with being Babis, but the sect keeps very quiet, and is seldom heard of."
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"It is supposed that the crime, that cut short the life of Persia's king, originated with the Babis, those followers of the Bab (Gate of Truth), as Mirza Ali Mohammed, the Mollah from Shiraz, designated himself, who was shot at Tabriz and his adherents cruelly suppressed some fifty years ago. It is said that Babi-ism would have infused life and spirit into the set ceremonial of Mohammedanism, although no true believer could well have yielded to the pretensions of the Bab, who claimed to be divine. Throughout Persia many men of the highest rank are credited with being Babis, but the sect keeps very quiet, and is seldom heard of."