Mullá Husayn

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Mullá Husayn-i-Bushru'i (1813–1849) (Arabic: ملا حسين البشرؤي‎), entitled Janáb-i-Bábu'l-Báb (gate of the gate), was the first Letter of the Living in the Bábí movement.

Born in 1813, he was for nine years a student of Siyyid Kázim and for five a follower of the Báb. He died at the Battle of fort Shaykh Tabarsi, on February 2, 1849.

Ruhollah Mehrabkhani's account of the life of Mulla Husayn in Spanish (Mulla Husayn: el primero que creyó en el Báb) and English (Mulla Husayn: Disciple at Dawn) is a famous popular narrative.

His title of Bábu'l-Báb was given him by the Báb

[edit] References

• Amanat, Abbas (1989). Resurrection and Renewal. Cornell University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 0801420989. 

• Nabíl-i-Zarandí (1932). in Shoghi Effendi (Translator): The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative, Hardcover, Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. ISBN 0900125225. 

• Smith, Peter (1999). A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1851681841. 

[edit] External links

• Glossary of the Kitáb-i-Íqán - includes a small biography of Mullá Husayn
• Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative Religion (London: Swann Sonnenschein), "The Bab", by Browne, E.G,pp. 335.