A study of the Báb's two earliest works, partial commentaries on the Qur'an entitled "Tafsír súrat al-baqara" and "Tafsír súrat Yúsuf" (aka The Qayyum al-Asma), in an attempt to appreciate the Bab's attitude towards the Qur'an.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. Later published by Routledge as Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam: Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Bábí Religion (2012).
