Sayyid `Ali Muhammad "the Bab" Shirazi. Bayan-i Farsi: (Persian Bayan) Azali Publication: Tehran, 1946. East Lansing, MI: H-Bahai, 1999.
References: MacEoin, Sources for Early Babi Doctrine and History, pp. 83-84. Abbas Amanat, Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 409-410; E.G. Browne, "Summary of the Persian Bayan," in E.G. Browne, Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne on the Babi and Baha'i Religions, ed. Moojan Momen (Oxford: George Ronald, 1987), pp. 316-406
Notes: MacEoin remarks: "The most important work of this period [1847-1850]--indeed, the central book of the entire Babi canon--is the Persian Bayan, a lengthy but incomplete work of nine wahids ("unities"), each consisting of nineteen abwab, except for the last, which has only ten . . . Begun in Maku, this book more than any other, contains the mature doctrine of the prophet of Shiraz set out in as near an approximation to a system as could be hoped for . . ."
