Denis MacEoin's sources

I must also express my very deep thanks to my supervisor, Professor Laurence Elwell-Sutton, for so kindly undertaking the supervision of my work at a remove of several hundred miles and for his patient understanding of my aims and methods; to the Northern Ireland Department of Education for their financial support during the first three years of my research; to the trustees of the E. G. Browne Memorial Fund and the Spalding Trusts for research grants relative to my visit to Iran in 1977; to the Universal House of Justice for permitting me to examine materials in the International Bahaʾi Archives in Haifa in 1976; to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʾis of Iran for permission to use manuscripts in their archives in Tehran; to Mr. Fuʿād Sānaʾī for his assistance there; to the late Mr. Ḥasan Balyuzi for his advice, encouragement, and generous loan of materials; to Ḥājī ʿAbd al-Riḍā Khān Ibrāhīmī (d. 1979) for his exceptional generosity in providing me with the publications of the Shaykhi community of Kirman and for granting me several interviews; to Mrs. Fakhr-Tāj Dawlatābādī, Mr. Nūrī Naẓarī, and other Azalī Babis in Tehran for supplying me with books and information; to Ḥājī Shaykh ʿAbbūd al-Ṣāliḥī for his information on the Baraghānī family of Qazvīn; to Dr. Moojan Momen for all our discussions over the years and for letting me make use of the fruits of his indefatigable researches in the Public Record Office and elsewhere; to Mr. [now Dr.] Peter Smith for providing ideas and suggestions over many years and for his help with my sociology (the many errors in which remain very much my own); to Mr. [now Professor] Abbas Amanat for invaluable help during the early stages of my work; to Allen Purvis, my wife, and all the other staff of the manuscript reading room of Cambridge University Library for their kindness and assistance in coping with my many requests; to Mr. Wilfred Lockwood of the Oriental Department of Cambridge University Library for his many recommendations and untiring help in locating elusive materials; to King’s College, for providing funds to assist in the preparation of the dissertation; to the Ashraf-Saysānī family of Tehran for their very great kindness and hospitality during my last stay there, and above all, to the memory of ʿAlī Ashraf Saysānī, whose death so soon after my return was a blow to us all.

(The Messiah of Shiraz - Studies in Early and Middle Babism by Denis Martin MacEoin)