FROM IRAN EAST AND WEST:
Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í History, Volume 2
Edited by Juan R. Cole and Moojan Momen
This impressive scholarly volume is the second in the series on Bábí and
Bahá'í history. Six scholars have, through painstaking
research, brought to light aspects of that history which were
previously unknown. Included are articles on the Bábí and
Bahá'í religions in India, Iran and America. The first three essays are
concerned with Iran. Juan R. Cole provides new insights into Bahá'u'lláh's
interaction with the Sufi orders in Sulaymániyyih during
his two-year withdrawal from the Bábí community, 1854-1856.
Susan Stiles analyzes the first non-Muslim conversions to the
Bahá'í Faith among Zoroastrians in Yazd, Iran. Peggy Caton discusses Bahá'í influences on the master musician
Mírzá 'Abdu'lláh, who was a Bahá'í. Two essays deal
with the history of the American Bahá'ís. Richard Hollinger adds
substantially to our knowledge of Ibrahim George Kheiralla who first brought the
Bahá'í Faith to the West. Peter Smith traces the
development and eventual demise of Reality magazine, a
Bahá'í periodical. Finally, William Garlington examines the
conversion of villagers in Central India to the Bahá'í Faith
and compares it to other mass conversion movements in that country.
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