Table of Contents 
     
 Preface.............................................................................i     

 Andalusí Theosophy: A Recontextualization
     J. Vahid Brown...................................................................1

 Out of Jewish Roots: Studies of Prayer Patterns in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Bahá'í Worship
     Ted Brownstein..................................................................29

 Chronicles of a Birth: Early References to the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions in Spain (1854-1876)
     Amín E. Egea....................................................................67

 The St. Petersburg 19th Century Orientalist Collection of Materials on the Bábí and
     Bahá'í Faiths: Primary and Other Sources
     Y.A. Ioannesyan.................................................................75

 Origins of the Bahá'í Concept of Unity and Causality:
     A Brief Survey of Greek, Neoplatonic, and Islamic Underpinnings
     B.R. Khadem....................................................................101

 Lawh-i-Hikmat, Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of Wisdom: Towards a Progressive Bahá'í Theology
     Wolfgang A. Klebel.............................................................119

 Further Explorations in Bahá'í Ontology
     Ian Kluge......................................................................163

 "The newly born babe of that Day": Mysticism in the Age of the Maturity of Humankind
     Julio Savi.....................................................................201

 Religion and Exclusivism: a Bahá'í Perspective
     Julio Savi.....................................................................221

 Seeds of Revelation and the Mystic Bond between The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh:
     An Exposition on Excerpts from the Persian Bayán
     James B. Thomas................................................................239

 The Bahá'í Faith in the Arabic Speaking Middle East: Part 1 (1753-1863)
     Ramsey Zeine...................................................................261

 Appendices

 Bibliography of Bahá'í Writings and abbreviations used in this book...............285

 Contents of Lights of 'Irfán Books One-Six........................................291

 Publications of the 'Irfán Colloquia..............................................299