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    Amsterdam University Press
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    June 2018
    ISBN:
    9789087283070
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9789400603202
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    Iranian Studies Series
    Subjects:
    Islam, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Religion, South-East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
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Iranian Studies Series
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Islam, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Religion, South-East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
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This book presents three of the works of Abdu'l-Bahá, son of the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, dealing with social and political issues. In The Secret of Divine Civilization (1875) Abdu'l-Bahá supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirza Hosayn Khan, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abdu'l-Bahá gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among these intellectuals, indeed most of his appeals are directed specifically to them. A Traveller's Narrative (1889/90) is an authoritative statement of the broad lines of Bahá’í social and political thinking. The Art of Governance (1892/93) was written as Iran entered a pre-revolutionary phase, and ideas that we recognise today as the precursors of political Islam were spreading. It sets out the principles underlying the ideal relationship between religion and politics and between the government and the people. In addition to presenting the first parallel text translations of these works, the Persian texts incorporate notes on variants in the early published sources. An introduction outlines the intellectual and political landscape from which Abdu'l-Bahá. wrote, and in which his expected readers lived.

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