Release the sun
This book tells the story of the Bab, the Prophet-Herald of the Bahai Faith. In Persia, on May 23, 1844, a twenty-five-year-old merchant from Shiraz, later titled "The Bab," announced that he was the bearer of a divine Revelation destined to transform the spiritual life of the human race. Against the backdrop of wide-scale moral decay in Persian society, this declaration aroused hope and excitement and the Bab quickly attracted tens of thousands of followers including influential members of the clergy - and the brutal hand of a fearful government bent on destroying this movement that threatened to rock the established order.--From back cover
Biography
xiii, 323 pages : map ; 22 cm
9781931847094, 1931847096
55133012
First ed. published in 1957