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Author Ioannesi︠a︡n, I︠U︡liĭ Arkadʹevich.

Title The development of the Babi/Bahai communities : exploring Baron Rosen's archives / Youli Ioannesyan
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Series Iranian Studies
Iranian Studies
Contents A brief look at the Babi and Bahai Faiths as an object of study in nineteenth century Russia and Britain -- Baron V.R. Rosen's archive in the Russian Academy of Sciences and this book -- From A.G. Tumanski's correspondence with V.R. Rosen -- Official reports and private letters of Russian diplomats concerning the Babis/Bahai's -- Report by the Russian Charge d'Affaire in Tehran Mr. Zinovyev to Duke Gorchakov -- Babis in Adrionople. Report of Chief of the Consulate staff in Adrionople -- Information about the Babis presented by Persians living in Adrionople -- Information about the Babis by Yunus Mehdi Effendi, the qadi in Adrianople -- Report of the Russian Consul General in Adharbayjan Bezobrazov -- Anonymous diplomatic dispatch concerning an episode in Isfahan -- From G. Batyushkov's correspondence with V.R. Rosen -- From V.I. Ignatyev's correspondence with V.R. Rosen -- Sebastian Voirot's correspondence with V.R. Rosen -- Some separate transcripts in V.R. Rosen's archive -- From E.G. Browne's correspondence with Rosen -- I. Khayrulláh's letter to V.R. Rosen -- Abul-Fazl Gulpáygání's transcript
Summary Baron Rosen's Babi/Baha'i archives presents private letters and diplomatic correspondence from the nineteenth century, preserved among the prominent Russian scholar Baron Victor Rosen's materials in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch. The materials cast light on the first studies of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths, new religious phenomena which, in Baron Rosen's time, were emerging in Persia. Iran has always been a strategic concern of Russia's geopolitical interests and the traditional importance which has been given to Persia has manifested itself in h
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Includes Russian archival sources translated into English
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Subject Rozen, V. R. (Viktor Romanovich), 1849-1908 -- Archives
Rozen, V. R. (Viktor Romanovich), 1849-1908 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Rozen, V. R. (Viktor Romanovich), 1849-1908 fast
Subject Babism -- History -- Sources
Bahai Faith -- History -- Sources
Babism -- Study and teaching -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
Bahai Faith -- Study and teaching -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
Arabists -- Russia -- Correspondence
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Arabists
Babism
Bahai Faith
Bahai Faith -- Study and teaching
Russia
Genre/Form Archives
History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012038140
ISBN 9781136741487
1136741488
9780203568538
0203568532
9781299637627
1299637620