Shaykh Ṭabarsí
Shaykh Ṭabarsí, Mázindarán, Iran
2 stories took place here — most often featuring Mullá Ḥusayn, Quddús and the Báb.
Shaykh Ṭabarsí (today: Shaykh Ṭabarsí, Mázindarán, Iran)
Stories at this place
Bábí period (1844–1853) · 2 stories
The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí
Following the Báb's instruction sent from Máh-Kú, Mullá Ḥusayn left Mashhad in the summer of 1848 wearing the Báb's own green turban, the Black Standard unfurled before him. He was, the Master had told him, to march to *the Verdant Isle* — Mázindarán — and the seventy-two companions who would die at his side were already gathering.
The Last Charge: Mullá Ḥusayn Falls at Ṭabarsí
Nabíl's chronicle records the death of Mullá Ḥusayn-i-Bushrú'í, first of the Letters of the Living, in the closing months of the siege of the shrine of Shaykh Ṭabarsí in Mázindarán. He led the final sortie at dawn on February 2, 1849, and fell with a musket-ball to the chest in the same charge that broke the Imperial line.