From the Jabulqa of God's Power to the Jabulqa of Superstition: The Twelfth Imam in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá' e |
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Omid Ghaemmaghami |
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Employing radical hermeneutics, Baha'u'llah asserts in His Gems of Divine Mysteries that the Bab appeared "from the Jabulqa of God's power and from the Jabulsa of His mercy," glossing these arcane names as "cities of the unseen in the supernal realm," exploding in the process over a millennium of belief in their literal portrayal as cities on eithe... |
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