Table of Contents 
     
 Preface.................................................................iii     
       
 A Journey through the Seven Valleys 
       Ghasem Bayat..........................................................1 

 The beginning that hath no beginning: Bahá'í Cosmogony 
       Vahid Brown..........................................................21 

 Knowledge, Certitude and the Mystical Heart: 
 The Hidden Essence of God's Word 
       LeRoy Jones..........................................................41 

 The Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God 
       Todd Lawson..........................................................49 

 From Adam to Bahá'u'lláh: The Idea of a Chain of Prophecy 
       Zaid Lundberg........................................................59 

 The Wronged One: Shí'í Narrative Structure in Bahá'u'lláh's 
 Tablet of Visitation for Mullá Husayn 
       William McCants......................................................83 

 The Mystical Dimensions of the Bahá'í Administrative Order 
       Kavian Milani........................................................95 

 Mysticism and the Bahá'í Community 
       Moojan Momen........................................................107 

 The Lawh-i-Mánikjí Sáhib: introduction and provisional translation 
       Ramin Neshati.......................................................121 

 The Seven Valleys and the Scientific Method 
       Robert Sarracino....................................................129 

 Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East 
       Oliver Scharbrodt...................................................139 

 Mysticism in African Traditional Religion and in the Bahá'í Faith: 
 Classification of Concepts and Practices 
       Enoch Tanyi.........................................................155 

 An Exposition on the Fire Tablet by Bahá'u'lláh 
       James Thomas........................................................173 

 The Influence of Bábí Teachings on Ling Ming Tang 
 and Nineteenth-century China 
       Jianping Wang.......................................................185 
     
 Appendix 
       contents of previous volumes of Lights of 'Irfán....................201