04 March 2026

The Bab, Two Hundred Years Later

Edited by Erfan Sabeti

This landmark volume brings together leading scholars and writers to commemorate the bicentenary of the Bab’s birth and to reassess the inventive power of his message two centuries on. The essays trace how the Bab’s uncompromising call for radical renewal — his insistence that true transformation required revolution rather than reform - continues to echo through Iranian history and thought.