Lights of Irfan volume 11

Lights of `Irfán

Papers Presented at the
`Irfán Colloquia and Seminars

Book XI

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                         Table of Contents 
     
 Preface.....................................................................................i 
 
 Chronicles of a Birth Part III: Early References to the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions in 
       Spain (1873-1895)
       by Amín E. Egea.........................................................................1

 Reflections on Some Messianic Prophecies in Shaykhi Works
       Y. A. Ioannesyan.......................................................................21

 Textual Context and Literary Criticism: A Case Study based on a Letter from Shoghi Effendi
       Gerald Keil............................................................................55

 The Path of God
       Wolfgang A. Klebel.....................................................................99

 Neoplatonism and the Bahá'í Writings
       Ian Kluge.............................................................................149

 Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality (Lawh Basít al-Haqíqa)
       Moojan Momen..........................................................................203
       Lawh Basít Al-Haqíqa..................................................................213

 Dashavatara and Progressive Revelation
       Anupam Premanand......................................................................223

 Towards a Contextualization of Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i Qiná'
       Sholeh A. Quinn.......................................................................257

 The Indispensibility of Consultation for Ordering Human Affairs
       Ian Semple............................................................................271


 Elucidations
 
 Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice...........................................287

 Infallibility of the Universal House of Justice...........................................299

 Authority and Centrality of the Universal House of Justice................................301


 Appendices

 Bibliography of Bahá'í Writings and abbreviations used in this book.......................305

 Contents of Lights of 'Irfán Books One-Ten................................................306

 Publications of the 'Irfán Colloquia......................................................315