The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá’í Revelation

				 Quraysh 
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			       ‘Abd-i-Manaf 
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		     Háshim                     ‘Abdu’l-sh-Shams 
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		‘Abdu’l-Muttalib                     Umayyih 
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			:                         Umayyad Caliphs 
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‘Abdu’lláh           Abú-Talíb          Abbás 
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Muhammad                :  
     :                   :  
  Fátimih             ‘Alí 
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   :                     :  
Hasan                Husayn 

Umayyad Caliphs, 661–749 A.D.
Abbásid Caliphs, 749–1258 A.D
Fatimite Caliphs, 1258–1517 A.D.
Ottoman Caliphs, 1517–19 A.D.
Birth of Muhammad, August 20th, 570 A.D.
Declaration of His Mission, 613–14 A.D.
His flight to Medina, 622 A.D.
Abú-Bakri’s-Siddiq-ibn-i-Ábí-Quhafih, 632–34 A.D.
Umar-ibn-i’l-Khattab 634–44 A.D.
Uthmán-ibn-i-’Affán, 644–56 A.D.
‘Alí-ibn-i-Ábí-Tálib, 656–61 A.D.