LETTERS AND ESSAYS, 1886-1913
By Mírzá Abú'l Fadl Gulpaygání,
Translated by Juan R. I. Cole
Here are collected the letters and scholarly
treatises of Mírzá Abú'l Fadl, famed as the greatest and most learned
of all Bahá'í scholars. Included are commentaries, essays and correspondence
written in Iran, Russia and Egypt over a period of almost thirty years.
The letters
written from 1886-1888, in Southwestern Iran, are among the few documents which throw
light on Abú'l Fadl's early Bahá'í career. Also available for the
first time in English is "A Treatise for Alexander Tumansky," written for the noted
orientalist--a major work which provides an invaluable summary of the life of
Bahá'u'lláh, as well as unique information on the controversial histories
Táríkh-i Jadíd and Naqtatu'l-Káf. There is the
courageous defense of the Bahá'í Faith that Abú'l Fadl was able to
publish in the Egyptian press, the first article of its kind.
And finally, the letters
collected from the last years of his life that show his scholarship at its most profound
and most mature. The startling modernity of Abú'l Fadl's thought is as challenging
today as it was when first written. This book is required reading for any serious student
of the Bahá'í religion.
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