روايت طبري از واقعه شيخ طبرسي

A Tabari Account of the Babi Incident at Shaikh Tabarsi

A mid-nine teen th-century Mazandarani document on the Babi-state conflict at Shaikh Tabarsi is the subject of this study. Collected in 1860 in the town of Barfurush from an eyewitness of the incident, the text was published five years later, in Persian script, by the great German-Russian scholar Bernhard Andreevich Dorn. It is the first known prose document based on natural speech in the modern Tabari language. The text is meant to contribute to the study of the language of Mazandaran, particularly to its development since the composition of the text. It may also serve as a supplementary historical document for the historic incident it narrates.