The execution of The Bab in Tabriz in 1850. The Báb, birth name Sayyed ʿAli Muhammad Shirāzi, 1819 – 1850. Founder of Bábism, new religious movement which signaled a break with Islam, it was however suppressed by the Iranian government, leading to the persecution and killing of between two and three thousand of his followers, called Bábís. In 1850, at the age of thirty, the Báb was shot by a firing squad. After the painting by Margaret Dovaston, (1884-1954). From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915

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