Siyyid Husayn Yazdí
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Yazd (today: Yazd, Iran)
He accompanied the Báb as His secretary during His imprisonment in Mákú and Chihríq. He became known as Kátib (the Amanuensis).
** Siyyid Husayn Yazdí, Letter of the Living**
Siyyid Husayn Yazdí was the seventh Letter of the Living. He accompanied the Báb as His secretary during His imprisonment in Mákú and Chihríq. He became known as Kátib (the Amanuensis). He was later executed during an outbreak of persecutions in 1852 that followed an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the shah by a small group of Bábís seeking revenge for the execution of the Báb.
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