An Analysis and a Critique on the Historiography of Alphonse Nicolas; the missing link of Babi Historiography

It was long time that we would see the name of the French writer A.L.M. Nicolas who has some works about Babism and Sheikism, however, we knew so little about him. Even we did not know his complete name in order to compile his biography. It was in 1998 that for the first time a collection of documents belonging to Alphonse Nicolas was revealed. This collection belonged to the Iranian Studies Institute at Sorbonne University and the president of this institute, Charles-Henri de Fouchécour, delivered these documents to Homa Nategh few months before his retirement in 1994. In these newly found documents there are some new points about Babi historiography that undermine the creation of this sect and revealed the attempts made by this sect to present a fake history.