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Sacralizing the Secular: The Proclamatory Aqdas as a Response to Modernity   e Christopher Buck English 5 The preeminent Baha'i scripture "The Most Holy Book" exhibits a certain textual and ideological extensibility through the phenomenon of "re-revelation"-a term coined by Taherzadeh (Revelation 4:372). This study will examine the Tablet of Glad-Tidings (Lawh-i-Bisharat) as an extension of the Most Holy Book for purposes of proclamation. A source-cri...  
Tablet of Glad-Tidings as a "Proclamatory Aqdas," The   e Christopher Buck English 38 On 22 January 1891, Baha'u'llah ordered the Tablet of Glad-Tidings (Lawh-i-Bisharat) to be sent to E. G. Browne at Cambridge. The prefatory note by one of Baha'u'llah's sons, Mirza Badi`u'llah, written on folio 1a of F.25(9) in the Browne Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library, states: "These Divine ordinances and commands formerly revealed in s...