Modernity and the Millennium The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Modernity and the Millennium The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780231110815

ISBN-10: 0231110812

ISBN-13: 9780231110815

Edition: 1998

Authors: Juan Cole

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Modernity and the Millenniumis the first book to chart responses in the Muslim Middle East to modernity through an examination of the evolution of the Baha'i faith--a millenarian movement led by the nineteenth-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah ("the Glory of God"). This volume illuminates the complexity and ambiguity that characterized the changing relationship of Baha'u'llah and his followers to modernity, considered as a transnational and fluid political and cultural field of contestation. The insights presented here into these responses to modernity illuminate not only the genesis of a new world-religion but also important facets of Middle Eastern-particularly Iranian-social and…

Book details

Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Map and Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Religious Liberty and Separation of Religion and State



Baha'u'llah and Ottoman Constitutionalism



"Erelong Will the Reins of Power Fall Into the Hands of the People": Reform in Iran



Disciplining the State: Peace and International Collective Security



The Earth Is But One Country



"Women Are as Men": Gender in the Making of the Baha'i Religion


Conclusion


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index