Author : Peter Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1987-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521301289
The development of the Baha'i Faith provides a vivid example of religious change in the modern world.
Author : Moojan Momen
Publisher : George Ronald Publisher Limited
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Some contemporary Western accounts of the early B b and Bah ' religions.
Author : Edward Granville Browne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521043425
First published in 1918, this book provided readers with access to previously unpublished material on the Bábí religious movement.
Author : Hussein Ahdieh
Publisher : Baha'i Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781618510297
An inspiring account of the brutal religious persecutions that took place in 1850, 1853, and 1909 in the town of Nayriz, Iran, against its Babi and Baha'i residents. During this time, the town's citizens, spurred on by a corrupt Muslim clergy and government, launched several waves of bloodshed against the Babis - and later Baha'is - who lived there. This type of persecution continues today in present-day Iran toward the Baha'is - on a more subtle level - and the history of the Babis and Baha'is in Nayriz serves as a reminder of what can happen when religious fanaticism and paranoia are allowed to replace rational thinking and tolerance.
Author : Peter Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521862515
Peter Smith explores the history, beliefs and practices of the Baha'i faith.
Author : Edward Granville Browne
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Lee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004206841
One million Baha'is live in africa. This is the first academic volume to explore the history of this movement on the continent. The book discusses the diverse and contractivory American, Iranian, British, and African contributions to this new religious movement.
Author : Fereydun Vahman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1786079577
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.
Author : John Danesh
Publisher : Kalimat Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781890688325
Author : Christopher Buck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791497941
In a novel approach that the author terms "symbolic paradigm analysis," Paradise and Paradigm offers a "theoretically modular" systematic comparison of two "Persian" religions: early Syriac Christianity as the foundation of the East Syrian "Church of the East" (the Nestorian Church of Persia) and the Baha'i Faith, a new world religion. The author compares the hymns of the greatest poet of early Christianity, Saint Ephrem the Syrian, and the richly imagistic writings of the founder of the Baha'i religion, Baha'u'llah. The book employs an original analytic technique in the creation of "symbolic profiles" constructed on Ninian Smart's dimensional model of religion. As Buck skillfully demonstrates, formal similarities between any two religions are best comprehended in terms of paradigmatic differences, which nuance all parallels through a process of symbolic transformation. Buck also shows the communal reflexivity of paradise imagery in representing the ideal faith-community in both traditions.
