Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . ^ H provinces of Khorassan and Mazanderan and in the cityof Zenyan, the Babis, assumed a fierce and defiant frontcoming into violent collision with the local ^s ministers, as the first steps toward checking-the rising- tide of revolution, ordered the Bab to beremoved from Ispahan to Tabriz and there secluded insome safe place. This was in the year 1847, only fouryears since the youthful Ali Mohammed first announcedhis prophetic mission. On arriving at Ta1)riz he wasd


Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . ^ H provinces of Khorassan and Mazanderan and in the cityof Zenyan, the Babis, assumed a fierce and defiant frontcoming into violent collision with the local ^s ministers, as the first steps toward checking-the rising- tide of revolution, ordered the Bab to beremoved from Ispahan to Tabriz and there secluded insome safe place. This was in the year 1847, only fouryears since the youthful Ali Mohammed first announcedhis prophetic mission. On arriving at Ta1)riz he wasdespatched b} order of the g-overnor to the fortress ofMaku, held by a semi-independent chieftain, situated atthe base of Mt. Ararat, three or four days to the north-west of Tabriz ; but his confinement there was not soclose as to prevent the access of his friends and an activecorrespondence with distant and industrious interrupt this freedom of communication, he wasremoved to the fortress of Cherick near Salmas, twodays from Oroomiah. The quiet of his retirement herelasting- two years and


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