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this edition Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1988

(excerpted from the Bibliography for the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh: 1877-92
consult original bibliography for key to abbreviations and further information)


Name of Tablet Primary Sources Secondary sources: first key texts then supplementary texts
Lawh-i -Ibn-i -Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf) Published by Bahai-Verlag; trans. as Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Shoghi Effendi 1941. definition in Basic Baha'i Dictionary 78; mentions in ibid. 164, 213; date in A Basic Baha'i Chronology 120, 121 (dg16, 164); God Passes By 200-01, 219-20, 232, 238, 318; Promised Day is Come 117, 141 (pages 72-77); excerpt from Lights of Guidance #1586; Rev. of Baha'u'llah vol.2 206; vol.3 390; vol.4 368-412, 432-40; Baha'u'llah: King of Glory 213-14, 382-88, 391-92; Covenant of Baha'u'llah 73, 79, 142, 162, 309; Eminent Baha'is 45-47, 147.

Unpubublished study guide by Michael Sours, "The World Reformer is Come: A Study Guide to Baha'u'llah's Epistle to Shaykh Muhammad-Taqi, the Son of the 'Wolf'," 85 pages; passing observations in Michael Sours, The Station and Claims of Baha'u'llah, chapter 8 (pages 67-87) and notes; various meditations in Marzieh Gail, "Baha'u'llah's Epistle to the Son of the Wolf," in Dawn Over Mt. Hira 176-83; analysis of symbolism in Stephen Lambden "Sinaitic Mysteries..." in Studies in Honour of...H.M. Balyuzi (SBBR vol.5) 148-49, 153-55; mentions of Tablet in David S. Ruhe Door of Hope 81, 91, 108, 213; some Islamic symbols in Tablet in ibid. 125-26; literary analysis in "Narrative Perspective in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf" in John S. Hatcher The Ocean of His Words 41-45, 151-52; passing mentions in ibid. 79-80, 86, 147-48


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