MODERNITY AND THE MILLENNIUM:
The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith 
in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East

Columbia University Press
distributed by Kalimát Press 
as Volume Ten of the series Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions

by Juan R. I. Cole

This is a pioneering and controversial work that seeks to place the beginnings of the Bahá'í Faith in their historical context.  An excellent piece of academic writing, it is the first book published by a university press on the life of Bahá'u'lláh since the time of 
E. G. Browne at the beginning of the twentieth century. 
     Cole examines Bahá'u'lláh's response to the pressing issues of his time--which are still the issues of our time: religious liberty, the separation of church and state, the need for peace and collective security, the rights of women, the dangers of unbridled nationalism, and so forth.  He demonstrates how the early teachings of Bahá'u'lláh both engage with and critic modernity.  
     The is an indispensable book for any scholarly study of Bahá'í history.  

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"No serious future studies in the history of modernity in western Asia, and in Persian in particular, can ignore what Cole has convincingly demonstrated in this book."
                    -- Amin Banani, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern History, UCLA

"Modernity and the Millennium is a highly sophisticated analysis of a significant and neglected body of writings in the context of the major intellectual trends of the latter part of the nineteenth century." 
                    -- Said Arjomand, Author of The Turban and the    
                                Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran

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