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Qayyūm al-asmā
1844 book, first long work of the Báb / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Qayyūm al-asmā or Qayyúmu'l-Asmá' (Arabic: قيوم الأسماء; transl. "The Self-Subsisting Lord of All Names") is the first long work of Siyyid ʻAlí Muhammad Shírází (Arabic: سيد علي محمد شيرازي), the Báb after his declaration.[1] Also known as the Tafsir Surat Yusuf (Commentary on the Surah of Joseph), this is an essay that was written as a commentary to Surah 12 in the Qurʼan: Surat Yusuf (سورة يوسف). This composition is similar in its structure to the Qurʼan itself: it contains 111 chapters (Surahs), each of which contains 42 verses.