Lights of Irfan volume 13

Lights of `Irfán

Papers Presented at the
`Irfán Colloquia and Seminars

Book XIII

Papers published in Lights of 'Irfán represent the views of their authors.
Reproductions from this compilation are permitted provided
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General Editor Iraj Ayman
Manuscript Edited by Charles Nolley and Omid Nolley
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169 B.E. 2012 C.E.
ISBN 978-3-942426-12-1

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                         Table of Contents 
     
Preface and title pages...................................................... i 
 
The Fragility of Goodness
     Shahbaz Fatheazam ...................................................... 1

I Know Not How to Sing Thy Praise
     Wolfgang A. Klebel .................................................... 23

The Bahá'í Writings and Kant's 'Perpetual Peace'
     Ian Kluge ............................................................. 71

The New Atheism �" A Bahá'í Perspective
     Ian Kluge ............................................................ 137

The Choice of the West for 'Abdu'l-Baha's Epoch-making trip
     Baharieh Rohani Ma'ani ............................................... 205

Apocalyptic Thinking and Process Thinking
     Moojan Momen ......................................................... 243

'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity
     Wendi Momen .......................................................... 273

Interpretation and Elucidation
     Ali Nakhjavani ....................................................... 309

Bahá'u'llah's Persian Poems Written before 1863
     Julio Savi ........................................................... 317

Clouds and the Hiding God
     Moshe Sharon ......................................................... 363

`Abdu'l-Bahá's Visit to North America, 1912
     Robert H Stockman .................................................... 381


Elucidations
 
Authority and Centrality of the Universal House of Justice ................ 401 

Whether the Apostle Paul was a "False Teacher" ............................ 409

The Religion of the Sabaeans and African-based Religions in the Americas .. 415

Supreme Tribunal (Mahkamiy-i-Kubra) 
     Ali Nakhjavani ....................................................... 423

 
In Memoriam
 
Ian Semple (1928–2011) .................................................... 427 


Appendices

Bibliography of Bahá'í Writings and Their Abbreviations ................... 437 

Contents of Lights of 'Irfán Books One-Twelve ............................. 438 

Publications of the 'Irfán Colloquia ...................................... 449