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This fascinating history a " the first of its kind on the development of a local BahAE3/4A- community in Iran a " is lucidly translated for the first time into English by Dr. Ahang Rabbani, is carefully annotated and supplemented with many details and scholarly notes about key personalities and places of interest to students of Iranian history.
Worldwide in its membership and increasingly being recognized as the youngest of the world religions, the Baha’i Faith is enjoying rapid expansion. In this captivating book, Moojan Momen gives a brief survey of the life, the works, and the teachings of Baha'u'llah, its founder. Covering the resistance he encountered - including successive forced exiles and vitriolic opposition - this is a carefully constructed account of the eventful life of this influential nineteenth-century religious figure. Comprehensive and yet concise, this is a perfect book for anyone interested in knowing more about the Baha’i Faith and its founder.
In 1844, a young merchant from Shiraz called Sayyid ‘Ali-Muhammad declared himself the ‘gate’ (the Bab) to the Truth and, shortly afterwards, the initiator of a new prophetic cycle. His messianic call attracted a significant following across Iran and Iraq. Regarded as a threat by state and religious authorities, the Babis were subject to intense persecution and the Bab himself was executed in 1850. In this volume, leading scholars of Islam, Baha’i studies and Iranian history come together to examine the life and legacy of the Bab, from his childhood to the founding of the Baha’i faith and beyond. Among other subjects, they cover the Bab’s writings, his Qur’an commentaries, the societal conditions that underlay the Babi upheavals, the works of Babi martyr Tahirih Qurratu’l-‘Ayn, and Orientalist Edward Granville Browne’s encounters with Babi and Baha’i texts.
The Garden of Reality contemplates the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and multireligious mysticism. Its transreligious approach aims at a future multireligious, peaceful society in an ecological and cosmic context. It proposes that the future of humanity is bound to conviviality with itself and the Earth, that the deepest religious motivations of existing together are relative to one another, and that transreligious relativity is essential to the conviction of religions that their motivations, experiences, and conceptualities are meaningful, real, and true. By engaging diverse voices from poststructuralism to Sufism, Dzogch...
Based throughout on original Persian and Arabic sources, most in manuscript, this is an exhaustive overview of Babi history and doctrine. Alongside Amanat's "Resurrection and Renewal," this distillation of a lifetime's work on the movement brings Babi studies into the twentieth century.
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Nabi Muhammad SAW merupakan Rasulullah dan penutup para nabi. Yang artinya tidak akan ada nabi sesudah beliau. Namun begitu banyak jaman Rasulullah SAW maupun sesudah masa beliau, yang mengaku bahwa mereka adalah nabi sesudah Nabi Muhammad. Atau sering kali kita dengar pengakuan palsu bahwa mereka adalah nabi pengganti dari Nabi Muhammad SAW. Mereka adalah pendusta. Membuat aliran baru yang diatas namakan Islam. Beberapa penyimpangan yang dilakukan mulai dari jaman Rasulullah hingga saat ini diantaranya adalah adanya nabi palsu yang menghapuskan kewajiban untuk berzakat. Selain itu ada pula yang melaksanakan sholat hanya 3 waktu saja dalam sehari, lalu ada juga yang membuat ayat tandingan da...
Comparing paradise imagery in two Persian religions, early Syriac Christianity and the Baha'i Faith, this work contributes to religious studies methodology by introducing "symbolic paradigm analysis."
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