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Browne, Edward. G.
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The Cambridge orientalist who studied and wrote about the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths and who met Bahá'u'lláh in 1890 at Bahjí. Browne wrote: 'The face of him on whom I gazed I can never forget, though I cannot describe it. Those piercing eyes seemed to read one's very soul; power and authority sat on that ample brow; while the deep lines on the forehead and face implied an age which the jet-black hair and beard flowing down in indistinguishable luxuriance almost to the waist seemed to belie. No need to ask in whose presence I stood, as I bowed myself before one who is the object of a devotion and love which kings might envy and emperors sigh for in vain!'
Disappointed that the Bahá'ís refused to become involved in Iranian politics, Browne transferred his interest to the Azalís. Browne recognized he had a unique opportunity to study and record at first hand the birth of a faith which 'whatever its actual destiny may be, is of that stuff whereof world-religions are made',22 although some of his colleagues belittled his interest in the subject. One judged Browne's translation of A Traveller's Narrative 'quite unworthy of the learning and labour which the author has brought to bear upon it . . .' and concluded: 'There are no signs that Mirzá 'Alí Muḥammad will leave any permanent mark on religious or political history . . . Time may vindicate the author: but for the present we can only record our belief that the prominence given to the "Báb" in this book is an absurd violation of historical perspective; and the translation of the Traveller's Narrative a waste of the powers and opportunities of a Persian scholar.'23
[BD 47]
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Edward Granville Browne
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