Research Notes in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies Vol. 4, no. 1 (May 2000)

Heroes of The Second Nayriz Revolt

By: Ahang Rabbani

In the Spring-Summer of 1852, the Babis of Nayriz launched a second organized and massive revolt against the combined forces of national and provincial military. In the process, however, many hundreds of them perished in the battles fought with the army, tribal and irregular forces arrayed to suppress their uprising or died in the general massacre of the Babi men at conclusion of the war.

The following list of the Babi martyrs during the course of this revolt was assembled from the eyewitness narrative of Mulla Muhammad Shafi`, Fadil Mazandarani’s Tarikh Zuhuru’l-Haqq[1], and Muhammad Shaif`-Ruhani’s Lam`atu’l-Anvar[2]. As elaborated in my forthcoming book on this subject, with near certainty, the list in the Zuhuru’l-Haqq reflects the text of the unpublished history of Nabil Zarandi. Also, from the specifics information (and errors) in the text, it is clear that the Lam`atu’l-Anvar was relying exclusively on the information provided by Zuhuru’l-Haqq vol 4 and not on the narrative of Mulla Shafi`.

To facilitate future research, the sequence number in each source is provided against each name, (e.g., “`Abdu’llah, son of `Ali” is the 101st name in the narrative of Mulla Shafi`, and 109th name in Zuhuru’l-Haqq and Lam`atu’l-Anvar).

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Shafi	ZH4	LA2	Martyrs
101	109	109	`Abdu’llah, son of `Ali
134	114	114	`Abdu’llah, son of `Askar
71	105	105	`Abdu’llah, son of Karbala’i Akbar
120	113	113	`Abdu’llah, son of Mulla[3] Muhammad
92	108	108	`Abid, son of Mashhadi Muhsin
40	103	103	`Abid, son of Mulla Barkhurdar
31	102	102	`Abid Yar-kash[4]
125	112	112	`Abidin[5]
108	111	111	`Ali
60	146	146	`Ali, son of Karbila’i Baqir
107	110	110	`Ali, son of Mashhadi[6] Ahmad
151	161	18	`Ali, son of Mulla Qasim `Ashura
146	115	115	`Ali-Murad[7]
74	106	106	`Askar, son of `Ali
156	116	116	`Askar, son of `Ali Mulla Abu’l-Qasim
56	140	140	`Askar, son of Haji ibn Karbala’i Baqir[8]
135	13	13	Abu-Talib
34	4	4	Abu-Talib, son of Mir Ahmad
133	12	12	Abu-Talib, son of Mulla Zaynu’l-’Abidin
46	5	5	Ahmad Haji Abu’l-Qasim
102	10	10	Akbar, son of `Abdu’llah (son of `Ali)
88	7	7	Akbar Muhammad-Qasim
116	11	11	Akbar Muhammad-Shah
91	9	9	Akhund Mulla `Isa
25	1	1	Akhund Mulla Ahmad, son of Mulla Muhsin
26	2	2	Akhund Mulla `Ali Katib, son of Mulla `Abdu’llah
67	6	6	Aqa Shaykh Muhammad
29	3	3	Asadu’llah, son of Mirza `Ali
45	138	138	Asadu’llah, son of Mirza Mihdi
33	92	90	Baqir, son of Mir Ahmad
93	118	118	Ghulam-Rida Yazdi
69	101	101	Hadi, son of Khayri[9]
103	82	81	Haji Muhammad, son of Mulla `Ashura
104	83	82	Haji Naqi
66	91	91	Haji Shaykh `Abdu’l-`Ali[10]
55	145	145	Haji, son of Karbala’i Baqir
	165		Haji, son of Karbala’i Baqir
145	79	78	Hasan, son of Haydar Mulk
62	90	89	Hasan, son of Mashhadi[11] Muhammad
49	88	87	Hasan, son of Mirza
150	77	157	Hasan, son of Mulla Qasim `Ashura[12]
38	86	85	Hasan[13], son of Mulla Yaqub
152	75	75	Hasan-`Ali[14], son of Nuri
155	74	74	Hasan Mashhadi Safr
109	43	43	Husayn[15]
149	78	77	Husayn, brother of Karbala’i Rida
68	136	136	Husayn, son of Aqa Shaykh Muhammad
70	80	79	Husayn, son of Mashhadi Isma`il
	84	83	Husayn, son of Qasim-Sifr
48	87	86	Husayn, son of Rajab
113	85	84	Husayn, son of Ustad Ahmad
157	73	73	Husayn, son of Ustad `Ali
78	81	80	Husayn, son of Zaman
59	89	88	Husayn-`Ali[16], son of Mirza Aqa `Ali
83	125	125	Karam, son of Ustad[17] `Askar
105	104	104	Karbala’i `Askar Birq-Dar
20	129	129	Karbala’i Baqir
122	128	128	Karbala’i Baqir[18], son of Ustad Taqi
143	123	123	Karbala’i Hadi
84	126	126	Karbala’i Hasan, son of Mashhadi Sifr
50	132	132	Karbala’i Husayn, son of Haji
51	133	133	Karbala’i Isma’il, son of Mashhadi `Abidin[19]
43	130	130	Karbala’i Muhammad
141	124	124	Karbala’i Muhammad-Ja`far, son-in-law of Haji Muhammad-Taqi Ayyub
119	127	127	Karbala’i Qurban Sha`ban[20], son of ‘Abidin
148	122	122	Karbala’i Sadiq, son of Mashhadi Rajab[21]
44	131	131	Karbala’i Shamu’d-Din[22]
2	134

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Martyrs