Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: Islamic ritual. Part 2 Babi ritual observances: early ritual; later Babi ritual - prayer (salat), invocations, supererogatory prayers, and reading of scriptural texts, talismans, rings, engraved stones and tattoos, fasting (sawm, siyam), pilgrimage (haji and ziyara), ritual purity and impurity, rites of birth, death and marriage, festivals, rites connected with him whom God shall manifest (man yuzhiruhu 'llah), ritualism in scriptural texts; Babi ritual practice. Part 3 Baha'i ritual observances: "salat" and associated observances - salat, wudu', qibla, sundry regulations; other salats, invocations, supererogatory prayers, reading of scriptural texts, and salutations; talismans and rings; fasting (sawm, siyam); pilgrimage (haji and ziyara); ritual purity and impurity; rites of birth, death and marriage; festivals; the 19-day feast; the "Mashriq al-adhkar"; dress; Baha'i ritual practice; appendices.