In Tabríz the Báb was brought before the Crown Prince, Náṣiri'd-Dín Mírzá, who was only seventeen years old and had recently been given the governorship of Á[_dh_]arbáyján. A panel of the prominent divines of Tabríz gathered to examine the Báb. The leading men of that panel were: Ḥájí Mírzá Maḥmúd, the Niẓámu'l-`Ulamá, who was the chief tutor of the Crown Prince; Mullá Muḥammad-i-Mámaqání, a disciple of Siyyid Káẓim and an outstanding figure among the [_Sh_]ay[_kh_]ís; Ḥájí Murtiḍá-Qulíy-i-Marandí, the `Alamu'l-Hudá; Ḥájí Mírzá `Alí-Aṣ[_gh_]ar, the [_Sh_]ay[_kh_]u'l-Islám;[DO] and Mírzá Aḥmad, the Imám-Jum`ih. The procedures of that high tribunal were frivolous from beginning to end. Here were the shining lights of the religious hierarchy of Tabríz, assembled to learn from a young Siyyid, who claimed to be the bearer of a Message from God, what the nature of His claim was and what proofs He could adduce to substantiate it. That they failed miserably to be just and to apply themselves to the problem before them need not be sought in the evidence of the followers of the Báb. Two of the best known Persian histories of the time plentifully provide that evidence. These are the _Nási[_kh_]u't-Tavárí[_kh_]_ by Muḥammad-Taqí [_Kh_]án of Ká[_sh_]án[5] and the Supplement to the _Rawḍatu'ṣ-Ṣafá_ of Mír[_kh_]und[DP] by Riḍá-Qulí [_Kh_]án-i-Hidáyat; both works were written during the reign of Náṣiri'd-Dín [_Sh_]áh. From these two histories, Edward Granville Browne prepared a version of the procès-verbal of that infamous tribunal for the Appendices to his translation of _A Traveller's Narrative_. He also used another book, the _Qiṣaṣu'l-`Ulamá_ (Chronicles of the Divines) written in 1873. Typical are these two questions, said to have been put to the Báb by Niẓámu'l-`Ulamá: 'As the Prophet or some other wise man hath said "Knowledge is twofold--knowledge of bodies, and knowledge of religions"; I ask, then, in Medicine, what occurs in the stomach when a person suffers from indigestion? Why are some cases amenable to treatment? And why do some go on to permanent dyspepsia or syncope [swooning], or terminate in hypochondriasis?' * * * * * 'The science of "Applications" is elucidated from the Book and the Code, and the understanding of the Book and the Code [the Qur'án and the Traditions] depends on many sciences, such as Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic. Do you who are the Báb conjugate _Ḳála_?'[DQ] [Footnote DO: Like the Imám-Jum`ih, the [_Sh_]ay[_kh_]u'l-Islám was a leading divine of a city, who enjoyed certain privileges. Although the sovereign appointed the [_Sh_]ay[_kh_]u'l-Islám, there were many instances when the position passed from father to son.] [Footnote DP: Also, Mír[_kh_]wand. He died A.H. 903, A.D. 1497-8.] [Footnote DQ: Qála, the third person singular of 'to say'.]