Review of chp 5 of Amanat’s ‘Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shiʿism’ (2009)

In this podcast I briefly review and analyze chapter five of Abbas Amanat's APOCALYPTIC ISLAM AND IRANIAN SHI'ISM wherein he discusses Babism and underscore several of his errors which Hamid Algar did not pick up in his own 2011 review of this book. 

-- See, Algar's review  

The Book of the Five Grades (kitab-i-panjsha'n)  

6 lines before the end of the page in the lithograph edition, pp.314-15 (Bayanic.com version pp. 317-8). 

…All of the Divine Names belong to Him and to Him belongs the Name; and all of the descriptive modalities are His descriptive modality and to Him belongs the modal descriptive. His inner reality is the logoic-word “there is no god but God” and His appearance in the Distinction (i.e Furqān, Islām) is Muhammad the Messenger of God; and in the Bayān, the Essence of the Seven Letters; and in the Gospels, Jesus the Spirit of God; and in the Psalms, David the Chosen of God; and in the Torah, Moses the Speaker with God; and after the Bayān, He whom God shall make Manifest; and after He whom God shall make Manifest, the One whom God shall make Manifest; and after the One whom God shall make Manifest, the One whom God shall make Manifest; and after the One whom God shall make Manifest, the One whom God shall make Manifest; and after the One whom God shall make Manifest, the One whom God shall make Manifest; and after the One whom God shall make Manifest, the One whom God shall make Manifest; and after the One whom God shall make Manifest, the One whom God shall make Manifest; and after the One whom God shall make Manifest, the One whom God shall make Manifest…my trans.