The Dawnbreakers

The Dawn-Breakers The Dawn-Breakers Historical account of the early Bábí and Baháʼí Faiths written by Nabíl-i-Aʻzam The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl's Narrative of the Early Days of the Baháʼí Revelation (Maṭāleʿ al-anwār)[1] or Nabíl's Narrative (Táríkh-i-Nabíl) is an account of the early Bábí and Baháʼí Faiths written in Persian by Nabíl-i-Aʻzam in 1887–1888. The English translation by Shoghi Effendi was published in 1932.[2] The book relies mainly on the memoirs of surviving early Bábís, and Nabíl himself was a participant in many of the scenes which he recounts. Many of the photographs of the Baháʼí historical sites in Iran that illustrate the book were made by Effie Baker. She was requested to do so by Shoghi Effendi in the early 1930s, and…

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