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- Persianate Historiography and Family Trees: The Use of Genealogy in Safavid Chronicles and Select Bábí-Bahá’í Sources Session #28 · 2000 · Lights Vol. 4 · PDF In 1501, Shah Ismá'íl (r. 1501-1524) proclaimed Twelver Shi'ism the official state religion of Iran and at the same time, established the Safavid ruling dynasty. Over the next two centuries, the Safavids proclaimed their…
- References to Karim Khan Kirmani and the Irshád al-’Avám in Bahá’u’lláh’s Kitáb-i Íqán Session #48 · 2003 · Lights Vol. 5 · PDF This paper will provide an introduction to Karim Khan Kirmani, his life, and his works, in order to contextualize his complex relationship to the Bábá and Bahá'í religions and their founders. The topic will be narrowed d…
- An Introductory Review of Bahá’u’lláh’s Lawh-i-Qina’ Session #51 · 2003 · Lights Vol. 11 · PDF In 1867–68, Bahá'u'lláh addressed Karim Khan Kirmání in his Lawh-i Qiná` (Tablet of the Veil) in response to Kirmání's Risálah dar Javáb-i Su'alát-i Mulla Jamal-i Bábí (A Treatise in Response to Mulla Jamal-i-Bábí's Ques…
- From the Surat al-mulk to the Surat al-muluk, Part 1: Kingship and Religious Authority in Two Babi-Bahai Texts Session #72 · 2006 · Lights Vol. 9 · PDF See also Part 2 and Part 3. The opening chapter of the Bab's Qayyum al-asma' (early 1844), one of his earliest writings, is known as the Surat al-mulk, or the Surah of the Dominion. In this weighty text, the Bab addresse…