There exists in English, however, a literature about Persia
in the nineteenth century which will give the Western reader ample information
on the subject. From Persian writings which have already been translated, or
from books of European travellers like Lord Curzon, Sir J. Malcolm, and others
not a few, he will find a lifelike and vivid if unlovely picture of the Augean
conditions which the Báb had to confront when He inaugurated the Movement in
the middle of the nineteenth century.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘Introduction to ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’)
