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Kamran Ekbal
- Daéna-Dén-Din: The Zoroastrian Heritage of the ‘Maid of Heaven’ in the Tablets of Baha’u’llah Session #1 · 1993
- The Koranic Roots of Some Legal and Theological Terms in the Kitab-i-Aqdas Session #2 · 1994 Great similarities exist between the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Koran, not only in relation to matters of style and structure but also in using legal terms and theological termini technici of Koranic origin. Many passages of …
- Bahá’i marriage laws in a historical perspective Session #4 · 1994 Bahá'i marriage laws in a historical perspective, especially regarding bigamy.
- انگیزۀ “حوریّه” یا “دئینا” و “دین” و ردّپای فکر مزدیسنا در لوح ملاحالقدس Session #6 · 1995
- Taqiyyih and Kitman: Reflections on the Practice of Dissimulation in the Babi and Baha’i Religions Session #8 · 1995 Enemies of the Baha'i Faith, sometimes even scholarly critics writing not necessarily in polemical terms in opposition to the Faith, often mingle true and correct information with false and incorrect information about th…
- Taiping and other Chinese Messianic Movements in the Nineteenth Century Session #14 · 1997 Bahá'i sources generally refer to an upsurge of messianic movements in the early part of the 19th century. The Seventh-Day Adventists in the USA and the German Templers who arrived in Haifa in 1868 are usually given as e…
- German Pietism and the Expectation of the Messiah, 1817 in the Caucasus Session #18 · 1998 In 1817, the year in which Bahá'u'lláh was born in the city of Núr on the shores of the Caspian, a large group of German Pietists from the State of Wurttemberg set out on a long and distressing journey to the Caucasus, e…
- Sociopolitical Conditions of the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century Session #18 · 1998 Ottoman Society in the nineteenth century was a society in transition. The modernization process initiated by the social and administrative reforms of the Tanzimat, changes in patterns of social and religious organizatio…
- Bahá’u’lláh’s Lawh-i-Hertik or the Tablet to Hardegg: Tablets to Christians, Part I Session #22 · 1999 · Lights Vol. 4 · PDF Lawh-i-Hertik, as the Tablet addressed to Georg David Hardegg is usually called, contains in an open and straightforward manner the proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh as the Promised One and the return of the Father to earth. T…
- The Most Great Prison: An Historical Outlook on the City of ‘Akká Session #22 · 1999 'Akká is one of the most ancient cities of the world, which has been inhabited without interruption since the early ages. Its strategic position on the military route connecting Asia with Africa, as well as its significa…
- Geistige und soziale Stršmungen in Deutschland zur Entstehungszeit der Baha’i-Religion Session #63 · 2005
- Abdu’l-Bahá and the Middle East Session #97 · 2010 The First World War led to major changes in the political landscape of the Middle East. The fall of the Ottoman Empire and its destruction by the allies, the October Revolution in Russia and the Soviet expedition to Gila…