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The '''Kitabu'l-Asmá'''' or '''Book of Divine Names''' (also known as the ''Chahar Sha`n'' (''The [Book of the] Four Grades''))<ref name="lambden">Lambden, Stephen (2018). ''[http://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/3681 Kitab al-asma' - The Book of Names]''.</ref> is a book written by the [[Biography:Báb|Báb]], the founder of Bábi religion, in [[Social:Arabic language|Arabic]]<ref name="Smith-book-names">{{cite encyclopedia |last= Smith |first= Peter |encyclopedia= A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith |title= Names, Book of |year= 2000 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |location= Oxford |isbn= 1-85168-184-1 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pYfrAQAAQBAJ |pages= 258}}</ref> during his imprisonment in Máh-Kú and Chihriq in [[Religion:Iran|Iran]] (1847-1850). With a total volume of more than 3,000 pages, it is the largest revealed scripture in religious history.<ref name = "saiedi36">{{Harvnb|Saiedi|2008|pp=36}}</ref> At least twenty-six manuscripts exist,<ref name="lambden" /><ref>{{cite book |author = Denis MacEoin |year = 1992 |title = The Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History |publisher = Brill |location = Leiden |isbn = 90-04-09462-8 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xqV9-zmMxsUC |pages = 91–92}}</ref> and much of the text has not yet been located.<ref name = saiedi36 /> Some extracts are available in English in the volume ''[[Religion:Selections from the Writings of the Báb|Selections from the Writings of the Báb]]''.<ref name="Smith-book-names" /><br />
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==Contents==<br />
The text is divided in nineteen unities (Vahid) and 361 gates (Báb; chapters).<ref name = "saiedi36" /> and consists largely of "lengthy variations of invocations of the names of God'.<ref name="Smith-book-names" /> Each name is discussed in four different parts, each part written in a different 'mode of revelation':<ref name="saiedi45" /> divine verses, prayers, commentaries, and rational arguments.<ref name = saiedi337>{{Harvnb|Saiedi|2008|pp=337}}</ref> The 361 chapters symbolize "all things" (Kull-i-Shay’) and the days of the year of the Badi' calendar.<ref name = saiedi336>{{Harvnb|Saiedi|2008|pp=336}}</ref> Where the materials about the calendar are located in the Kitabu'l-Asmá' is needs further research.<ref name="lambden" /><br />
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The Báb gives explanations about many divine names and attributes<ref name="saiedi45">{{Harvnb|Saiedi|2008|pp=45}}</ref> and describes how humanity can be spiritualized by recognizing the Manifestation of God.<ref name = saiedi36 /><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite book | title = Gate of the Heart | first = Nader | last = Saiedi | publisher = Wilfrid Laurier University Press | location = Waterloo, ON | isbn = 978-1-55458-035-4 | year = 2008 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XTfoaK15t64C}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book<br />
|author=The Báb<br />
|year=1976<br />
|title=Selections from the Writings of the Báb<br />
|publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust<br />
|location=Wilmette, Illinois, USA<br />
|isbn=1-931847-30-4<br />
|pages=129–149<br />
|url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/tb/SWB/<br />
}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
Online manuscripts (only a fraction of the size of the complete work):<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/Kitabul-Asma Kitabu'l-Asma'] (2010; 481 pages)<br />
* [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/bab/G-L/K/asma/asma.htm Kitab-i-Asma'] (2005; 481 pages)<br />
* [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/INBA/INBA029.pdf INBA, Vol. 29 Tablets of the Bab - "The book of Names - Kitab-i-Asma"] (336 pages)<br />
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