Principles for Progress : Essays on Religion and Modernity by `Abdu'l-Bahá.
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 organ...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press
2018.
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| Series: | Iranian Studies Series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv30hx4dq |
Table of 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