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Bab  (bäb, bb), the Title of Ali Mohammad of Shiraz. 1819-1850.
Persian founder of Babism.
Bab [bɑːb]
n
(Biographies / Bab, the (1819-1850) M, Persian, RELIGION: religious leader) the. title of Mirza Ali Mohammed 1819-50, Persian religious leader: founded Babism; executed as a heretic of Islam
[from Persian bāb gate, from Arabic]


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I do not like speaking about myself, as may have been noticed, but in the cause of humanity I on this occasion will do so, and will confess that at one time I was, as the young man in the Bab Ballad says, "the shyest of the shy," and "whenever I was introduced to any pretty maid, my knees they knocked together just as if I was afraid.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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