Báb's handwriting and consists of a complete recantation and renunciation of any superhuman claim which he may have advanced or have appeared to advance.
<ul><li>"<i>The text of the recantation published by Browne also <b>merits the utmost reservation</b>. Undated and unsigned, the document hardly qualifies as the "sealed undertaking" in the official report. Moreover, its plain language and wording are highly distinct from the Bab's peculiar style. We can assume that if at all authentic, the recantation was prepared by the authorities but for reasons unknown - perhaps due to the Bab's refusal - remained unsigned.</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-amanat_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amanat-1">[1]</a></sup></li>
<li>"<i>This document, which was sent to Browne by French Baha'i Hippolyte Drefus, was apparently later traced in the Majlis Library in Tehran. Since its publication in 1918, it became part and parcen of all anti-Babi-Baha'i polemics and an effective weapon in the growing arsenal of <b>fictitious documentation</b>.</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-amanat_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amanat-1">[1]</a></sup></li></ul>
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<p><cite class="book" style="font-style:normal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Brown" class="extiw" title="en:Edward G. Brown"> BROWNEM, EDWARD G.</a>; Thomas Adams' Professor of Arabic and Fellow of Pembroke College in the University of Cambridge (1918)      <i> MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE BÁBÍ RELIGION</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cambridge" class="extiw" title="w:en:Cambridge"><span title="city in Cambridgeshire, England">Cambridge</span></a>:  at the University Press, pp. P. 256  <small></small></cite>
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<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-amanat-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-amanat_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-amanat_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="book" style="font-style:normal" id="Reference-Amanat-1989">Amanat, Abbas (1989)      <i> Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran</i>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ithaca" title="Category:Ithaca">Ithaca</a>:  Cornell University Press, pp. p. 392  <small></small></cite></span>
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