Lights of Irfan volume 4

Lights of `Irfán

Papers Presented at the
`Irfán Colloquia and Seminars

Book IV

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                         Table of Contents 
     
 Preface...................................................................iii     

 An Epistle of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad 'the Báb' to Sultan Abdulmecid
       Necati Alkan...........................................................1
		 
 The Aristotelian Substratum of the Bahá'í Writings
       Ian Kluge.............................................................17
		 
 The Call into Being: Introduction to a Bahá'í Existentialism
       Ian Kluge.............................................................79
		 
 The Tablet to Hardegg (Lawh-i-Hirtík): A Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh 
       to the Templer Leader Georg David Hardegg
       Stephen Lambden and Kamran Ekbal......................................97
		 
 The Tablet of the Bell (Lawh-i-Náqús) of Bahá'u'lláh
       Stephen Lambden.......................................................111
		 
  The Tablet of Maqsúd (Lawh-i-Maqsúd): Guidance on Human Nature 
       and Leadership
       Ramin Neshati.........................................................125
		 
 The Uses of Genealogy and Genealogical Information in Select Persianate 
       and Bábí/Bahá'í Sources: A Preliminary Survey
       Sholeh A. Quinn.......................................................131
		 
 An Exposition of the Tablet of the World (Lawh-i-Dunyá)
       James B. Thomas.......................................................141
	 
 Bahá'u'lláh's First Tablet to Napoleon
       Ismael Velasco........................................................151
	 
 Elucidations

 Inmates of the Celestial Pavilion
       Research department of the Bahá'í World Centre........................163

 Letters of the Quranic Dispensation
       Research Department of the Bahá'í World Centre........................165
		 
 The 'Akká Traditions in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
       Moojan Momen..........................................................167
 
 "Thee" and "thee" in the translation of the Súrih of the 
       Temple (Súriy-i-Haykal)
       Khazeh Fananapazir....................................................179
		 
 Appendix
 
 Contents of previous volumes of Lights of 'Irfán...........................181
 
 English-Language Publications of 'Irfán Colloquium.........................183