Persian work composed by Baha's son, 'Abbas Efendi, edited, translated and
annotated by E. G. Browne (Cambridge, 1891). More recent works
are:--Browne, _The New History of the Bab_ (Cambridge, 1893); and
"Catalogue and Description of the 27 Babi Manuscripts," _Journal of R.
Asiat. Soc._ (July and October 1892); Andreas, _Die Babi's in Persien_
(1896); Baron Victor Rosen, _Collections scientifiques de l'Institut des
Langues orientales_, vol. i. (1877), pp. 179-212; vol. iii. (1886), pp.
1-51; vol. vi. (1891), pp. 141-255; "Manuscrits Babys"; and other important
articles in Russian by the same scholar; and by Captain A. G. Toumansky in
the _Zapiski vostochnava otdyeleniya Imperatorskava Russkava
Archeologicheskava Obshchestva_ (vols. iv.-xii., St Petersburg, 1890-1900);
also an excellent edition by Toumansky, with Russian translation, notes and
introduction, of the _Kitab-i-Aqdas_ (the most important of Baha's works),
&c. (St Petersburg, 1899). Mention should also be made of an Arabic history
of the Babis (unsympathetic but well-informed) written by a Persian, Mirza
Muhammad Mahdi Khan, _Za'imu'd-Duwla_, printed in Cairo in A.H. 1321 (=
A.D. 1903-1904). Of the works composed in English for the American converts
the most important are:--_Baha'u'llah_ (The Glory of God), by Ibrahim
Khayru'llah, assisted by Howard MacNutt (Chicago, 1900); _The Three
Questions_ (n.d.) and _Facts for Bahaists_ (1901), by the same; _Life and
Teachings of 'Abbas Efendi_, by Myron H. Phelps, with preface by E. G.
Browne (New York, 1903); Isabella Brittingham, _The Revelations of
Baha'u'llah, in a Sequence of Four Lessons_ (1902); Laura Clifford Burney,
_Some Answered Questions Collected_ [in Acre, 1904-1906] _and Translated
from the Persian of 'Abdu'l-Baha_ [_i.e._ 'Abbas Efendi] (London, 1908). In
French, A. L. M. Nicolas (first dragoman at the French legation at Tehran)
has published several important translations, viz. _Le Livre des sept
preuves de la mission du Bab_ (Paris, 1902); _Le Livre de la certitude_
(1904); and _Le Beyan arabe_ (1905); and there are other notable works by
H. Dreyfus, an adherent of the Babi faith. Lastly, mention should be made
of a remarkable but scarce little tract by Gabriel Sacy, printed at Cairo
in June 1902, and entitled _Du regne de Dieu et de l'Agneau, connu sous le
nom de Babysme_.

(E. G. B.)

BABINGTON, ANTHONY (1561-1586), English conspirator, son of Henry Babington
of Dethick in Derbyshire, and of Mary, d