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Principles for Progress : Essays on Religion and Modernity by `Abdu'l-Bahá.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Iranian Studies SeriesPublication details: Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2018.Description: 1 online resource (418 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9400603207
  • 9789400603202
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Principles for Progress : Essays on Religion and Modernity by `Abdu'l-Bahá.DDC classification:
  • 206.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.L42 .A238 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Intro; ‎Contents; ‎Preface; ‎General Introduction; ‎Bābis and Bahāʼis; ‎Reformists Writing in Persian; ‎The Religious Intellectuals; ‎Intellectual Position of Azali Authors; ‎Ottoman and Arabic Reformist Writers; ‎Newspapers; ‎Masonic Lodges and Sufi Orders; ‎Introductions to the Works of Abduʼl-Bahā; ‎The Secret of Divine Civilization; ‎A Traveller's Narrative; ‎The Art of Governance; ‎The Secret of Divine Civilization; ‎Translator's Notes to The Secret of Divine Civilization; ‎A Traveller's Narrative written to illustrate the history of the Bāb
‎Translator's Notes to Selections from A Traveller's Narrative‎The Art of Governance; ‎Translator's Notes to The Art of Governance; ‎Further reading; ‎References; ‎Index
Summary: This book presents three of the works of Abduʼl-Bahā, son of the founder of the Bahāʼi Faith, dealing with social and political issues. In The Secret of Divine Civilization (1875) Abduʼl-Bahā supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirzā Hosayn Khān, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abduʼl-Bahā gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among these intellectuals, indeed most of his appeals are directed specifically to them. A Traveller's Narrative (1889/90) is an.

Print version record.

Intro; ‎Contents; ‎Preface; ‎General Introduction; ‎Bābis and Bahāʼis; ‎Reformists Writing in Persian; ‎The Religious Intellectuals; ‎Intellectual Position of Azali Authors; ‎Ottoman and Arabic Reformist Writers; ‎Newspapers; ‎Masonic Lodges and Sufi Orders; ‎Introductions to the Works of Abduʼl-Bahā; ‎The Secret of Divine Civilization; ‎A Traveller's Narrative; ‎The Art of Governance; ‎The Secret of Divine Civilization; ‎Translator's Notes to The Secret of Divine Civilization; ‎A Traveller's Narrative written to illustrate the history of the Bāb

‎Translator's Notes to Selections from A Traveller's Narrative‎The Art of Governance; ‎Translator's Notes to The Art of Governance; ‎Further reading; ‎References; ‎Index

This book presents three of the works of Abduʼl-Bahā, son of the founder of the Bahāʼi Faith, dealing with social and political issues. In The Secret of Divine Civilization (1875) Abduʼl-Bahā supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirzā Hosayn Khān, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abduʼl-Bahā gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among these intellectuals, indeed most of his appeals are directed specifically to them. A Traveller's Narrative (1889/90) is an.