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‘Irfán Colloquium #28 (English)
Mysticism and the Bahá'i Faith

London School of Economics: London, England

July 14-6, 2000.

PROGRAM


Friday

19:30-20:30
Defining Bahá'í:
A Sect, a New and Independent World Religion, or the Changeless Faith of God?

Zaid Lundberg

20:30-21:30
Religious Unity Towards the Challenge of Religious Diversity
Anne-Sophie Lamine

21:00-22:00
Fundamentalism and the Bahá'í Faith:
The Chapter Karen Armstrong Might Have Written in Her Book The Battle for God

Roger Prentice


Saturday

10:00-11:00
Three Stages of Divine Revelation, The
Guy Sinclaire

11:30-12:30
Concept of the "Perfect Man" (Pole) in Sufism and the Bahá'í Notion of the Manifestation of God, The
Youli Ioanessian

14:00-15:00
Mysticism East and West
Farhang Jahanpour

15:00-16:00
'Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary on the Qur'ánic Verses Concerning the Overthrow of the Byzantines:
The Stages of the Soul

Moojan Momen

16:30-17:30
British Bahá'ís and the Western Mystical Tradition
Lil Abdo

19:00-19:45
Persianate Historiography and Family Trees:
The Use of Genealogy in Safavid Chronicles and Select Bábí-Bahá'í Sources

Sholeh Quinn

19:45-20:45
Solution to the Ethnic Identity Problems in Swedish Schools with the Help of Bahá'í Material, A
Per Akerdahl


Sunday

10:00-11:00
Background and Significance of Bábí-Bahá'í Interpretations of hurufat al-muqatta'at, the Mysterious Arabic Letters of the Qur'án, The
Stephen Lambden

11:30-12:30
Point, Pillar and Manifestation:
Parallels That Never Met? Kabbalah and the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths

Moshe Sharon

14:30-16:00
Lawh-i-Amváj ("Tablet of the Waves" [Billows]) of Bahá'u'lláh, Alwáh-i-Mustagath, Lawh-i-Baqá, The
Stephen Lambden     read online

9:00-10:00
Apophatic Scholarship:
When the Pen Breaks and the Ink Leaves but a Blot

Ismael Velasco


papers offered but not presented

Firm Cord of Servitude, The
Theo Cope

Human Intellect, The:
A Bahá'í-Inspired Perspective

Adrian John Davis

Justice, Fairness and the Meekness of God
Susan Maneck



 
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