Az Shīrāz tā Ḥayfā: taṣḥīḥ-i kitāb-i Miftāḥ bāb al-abwāb dar sarguzasht-i Bāb va Bahā

Written by Muḥammad Mahdī Za‘īm al-Dawlah Tabrīzī, this significant historical text, entitled Az Shīrāz tā Ḥayfā, provides a critical examination of the emergence and development of the Bābī and Bahā’ī faiths within Īrān. The author, a contemporary observer of many of the events described, offers a detailed refutation of the claims made by the Bāb and Bahā’u’llāh. Originally composed in Arabic as Miftāḥ bāb al-abwāb, this Persian translation by Ḥasan Farīd Gulpāyigānī covers the theological and historical progression of these movements, from their inception in Shīrāz to their eventual establishment in Haifa. The work includes chapters on the "Seven Religions of the World", the specific history of the Bāb, the laws of the Bābī faith, and the subsequent rise of Bahā’u’llāh, analyzing their doctrines through a critical lens. This edition, published by Hilāl in Tihrān, serves as a resource for those studying the polemical history of religious movements in nineteenth-century Īrān.