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H.M. Balyuzi : Edward Granville Browne and The Baha'i Faith
Edward Granville Browne and The Bahá'í Faith
by Hasan Balyuzi
Acknowledgements

The author wishes to express to the Cambridge University Press sincere gratitude for their kind permission to quote from five published works by Edward Granville Browne which bear upon the theme of this book: A Year Amongst the Persians, A Traveller's Narrative, Tarikh-i-Jadid or New History of the Báb, The Persian Revolution of 1905-1909, and Materials for the Study of the Bábi Religion. He feels especially indebted to the Hon. Sir Patrick Browne and Mr Michael Browne for their generous consent to his use of this essential material, and for their permission to quote from letters addressed by Edward Browne to 'Abdu'l-Bahá and to the author's father.

Acknowledgement is also made in warmest terms to the Gibb Memorial Trust for permission to quote from Kitáb-i-Nuqtatu'l-Kaf; to the Royal Asiatic Society for the use of extracts from articles by Edward Browne published in their Journal in the years 1889, 1892, and 1922; to Messrs Faber and Faber for the right to reprint four short quotations from Both Ends of the Candle by Sir Denison Ross; to Messrs William Heinemann for a brief extract from An Indian Diary by Edwin Montagu; to G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for some lines from Abbas Effendi, His Life and Teachings by Myron Phelps; to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States for kindly permitting the quotation of passages from Epistle to the Son of the Wolf by Bahá'u'lláh, God Passes By by Shoghi Effendi, and Bahá'í World, vol. IV; and to the Bahá'í Publishing Trust, London, for the use of quotations from their editions of Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and the Kitáb-i-Iqan by Bahá'u'lláh, The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh by Shoghi Effendi, and The Bahá'í Revelation, a compilation of Bahá'í Scripture.

Full details of the works mentioned are given in the bibliography. Quotations are reproduced in their original form, even though differing from the spelling and transliteration of Persian words adopted in this book; except that extracts from Bahá'í Scripture are not italicized. Translations from Persian sources are by the author unless otherwise attributed.

Sincere thanks go also to Mr Farhang Jahanpur of Pembroke College, Lector in Persian at Cambridge University, for his assistance in obtaining material included in the collection of Professor Browne's papers in the University Library at Cambridge; and to Mr Horst W. Kolodziej for the care he has taken in photographing original documents reproduced in this book. Finally, to those who have assisted in reading the proofs -- Mr R. H. Backwell, Mr Farhang Jahanpur, and Mr Rustom Sabit -- the author makes his grateful salute.                      http://www.bahairesearch.com/english/Baha'i/Baha'i_Studies/H.M._Balyuzi/Edward_Granville_Browne_and_The_Baha'i_Faith.aspx