Ustad `Ali Akbar Banna's History of the Baha'is of Ashgabat (`Ishqabad)
Ustad `Ali Akbar Banna Tarikh-i `IshqabadHistory of the Baha'is of Ashgabat
Ustad `Ali Akbar Banna. Tarikh--i `Ishqabad.
(History of the Baha'is of Ashgabat [Turkmenistan]). East Lansing, Mi.: H-Bahai, 2000.
Notes: Chronicle of the Babi and Baha'i faiths in the city of Ashgabat (`Ishqabad, Ashkhabad) in the Russian Empire (now Turkmenistan) from the 1880s until the early twentieth century, by an artisan who resided there. Vol. 94 of the Iran National Baha'i Archives Private Printing, Tehran, c. 1978.
References: Moojan Momen, "The Baha'i Community of Ashkhabad: Its Social Basis and Importance in Baha'i History." In Shirin Akiner, ed.,
Cultural Change and Continuity in Central Asia.
London: Kegan Paul International, 1991, pp. 278-305; Anthony Lee, "The Rise of the Baha'i community in `Ishqabad," Baha'i Studies 1977, 5:1-13.