Overview and context of two of the Bab's earliest writings and their relevance to Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsá’í and Siyyid Kázim Rashtí: a commentary on the Qur'an's Chapter of the Cow, and his famous Qayyúm al-Asmá, Commentary on the Chapter of Joseph.
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Mirrored with permission from Journal of Bahá'í Studiespast issues archive. First published in Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur’án, ed. Andrew Rippin (Oxford University Press, 1988); see lawson_interpretation_revelation_1988.pdf.