Table of Contents  
    
 Preface.............................................................................i    

 Andalusí­ Theosophy: A Recontextualization
     J. Vahid Brown...................................................................1

 Out of Jewish Roots: Studies of Prayer Patterns in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Bahá'í­ Worship
     Ted Brownstein..................................................................29

 Chronicles of a Birth: Early References to the Bábí­ and Bahá'í­ Religions in Spain (1854-1876)
     Amí­n E. Egea....................................................................67

 The St. Petersburg 19th Century Orientalist Collection of Materials on the Bábí­ and
     Bahá'í­ Faiths: Primary and Other Sources
     Y.A. Ioannesyan.................................................................75

 Origins of the Bahá'í­ Concept of Unity and Causality:
     A Brief Survey of Greek, Neoplatonic, and Islamic Underpinnings
     B.R. Khadem....................................................................101

 Lawh-i-Hikmat, Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of Wisdom: Towards a Progressive Bahá'í­ Theology
     Wolfgang A. Klebel.............................................................119

 Further Explorations in Bahá'í­ Ontology
     Ian Kluge......................................................................163

 "The newly born babe of that Day": Mysticism in the Age of the Maturity of Humankind
     Julio Savi.....................................................................201

 Religion and Exclusivism: a Bahá'í­ Perspective
     Julio Savi.....................................................................221

 Seeds of Revelation and the Mystic Bond between The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh:
     An Exposition on Excerpts from the Persian Bayán
     James B. Thomas................................................................239

 The Bahá'í­ Faith in the Arabic Speaking Middle East: Part 1 (1753-1863)
     Ramsey Zeine...................................................................261

  Appendices

  Bibliography of Bahá'í­ Writings and abbreviations used in this book...............285

  Contents of Lights of 'Irfán Books One-Six........................................291

  Publications of the 'Irfán Colloquia..............................................299