Theme · 113 papers

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Arts & Poetry

Poetry, music, and the arts in Bahá’í life and scripture.

• Ancient poems as a means of Revelation, in an early Tablet by Bahá’u’lláh Julio Savi, Faezeh Mardani · Session #146 · 2017 · PDF
• The Mathnaví by Rúhu’lláh Varqá, the martyr: A few notes on its historical context and poetical content Julio Savi, Faezeh Mardani · Session #146 · 2017 · PDF
• Poetry in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Writings and Utterances Julio Savi, Faezel Mardani · Session #138 · 2016 · PDF
• State of Meditation Mehrdad Ehsani · Session #137 · 2016
• The Transformative Power of the Maid of Heaven: An Exploration of Grammar, Gender and Poetics in Bahá’u’lláh’s Ode of the Dove Brian Miller · Session #137 · 2016
• Theology of Tahirih as Revealed in Her Poems Anthony Lee · Session #137 · 2016
• Memorials of the Faithful: Hagiography and Models to Set Examples in a Religious Community Iscander Micael Tinto · Session #132 · 2015 · PDF
• Provisional Translation of the Persian Tablet of Aá��mad and a Review of Its Contents Foad Seddigh · Session #130 · 2015
• Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self in One’s Spiritual Transformation, Powered by Love of God Bijan Ghafari · Session #128 · 2014
• On the Existence and Qualities of Human Soul Farjam Majd · Session #123 · 2014 · PDF
• Some New, Little-known, or Unstudied Writings of the Báb (1819-1850) Stephen Lambden · Session #123 · 2014
• Tablets of The Holy Mariner and their Integral Relationship with Lawh-i-Howdaj Habib Riazati · Session #128 · 2014
• The Concept of Politics in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Treatise on Politics Farhad Sabetan · Session #123 · 2014
• The Ode of the Nightingale (Qáá��ídíy-i-Varqá’íyyih): Its Significance and Similarities with Tá’íyyih Ibn-i-Fárid Foad Seddigh · Session #128 · 2014
• “At Dawn the Friend Came to my bed”�: An early fruit of the Supreme Pen Julio Savi · Session #118 · 2013 · PDF
• Conflict Transformation: A Case Study of the Universal House of Justice Messages to the Bahá’ís in Iran Mahyad Zaerpoor-Rahnamaie · Session #116 · 2013
• Man’s Station in the Universe: A Scientist’s Journey Mehrdad Ehsani · Session #116 · 2013
• Successorship and the Election of the Universal House of Justice: The Universal House of Justice 1963 —2013 Ali Nakhjavani · Session #118 · 2013
• The Last Refuge: Fifty Years of the Ministry of the Universal House of Justice Shahbaz Fatheazam · Session #116 · 2013
• The Last Refuge: Fifty Years of the Ministry of the Universal House of Justice Shahbaz Fatheazam · Session #121 · 2013
• `Abdu’l-Bahá in Chicago Arash Zare · Session #113 · 2012
• `Abdu’l-Bahá’ and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution Mina Yazdani · Session #109 · 2012
• The Inebriation of His Enrapturing Call Julio Savi · Session #111 · 2012 · PDF
• The Rise and Fall of the Bahá’í Settlements in the Jordan Valley, 1880s-1950s Shay Rozen · Session #111 · 2012
• Uniting Space and Time: Ritual and the Bahá’í Faith Moojan Momen · Session #111 · 2012
• Women’s poetry in early Qajar Iran: Some context to Táhirih’s poetry Dominic Parviz Brookshaw · Session #109 · 2012
• Abbás Effendí: Centenary of His Visit to Egypt (1910-1913) Nabil Fares · Session #107 · 2011
• Bahá’u’lláh’s Persian poems written before 1863 Julio Savi · Session #104 · 2011 · PDF
• On the Tablet of All Food Peyman Sazedj · Session #104 · 2011
• The Fragility of Goodness: Hexis and Praxis in the Historical Figure of `Abdu’l-Bahá Shahbaz Fatheazam · Session #102 · 2011 · PDF
• Valleys: Their representation in Bahá’í and other religious writings Moshe Sharon · Session #104 · 2011
• Ethical Economics for Today and Tomorrow Bruce Koerber · Session #100 · 2010
• Perfection and Refinement: Toward an Aesthetic of the Báb Moojan Momen · Session #97 · 2010 · PDF
• The Duty of Kindness and Sympathy Towards Strangers and Foreigners: As enjoined in `Abdu’l-Bahá’s Paris Talks and as reflected in the Italian “Charter on the Values and Significance of Citizenship and Integration” Julio Savi · Session #97 · 2010 · PDF
• Celestial Fire: Bahá’u’lláh as the Messianic Theophany of the Divine Fire (átar) in Zoroastrianism Farshid Kazemi · Session #88 · 2009 · PDF
• Distributive Justice: A Bahá’í Perspective Farhad Sabetan · Session #88 · 2009
• Early Writings of Bahá’u’lláh: Where was God before Creation? The Origins of Some Terms Moshe Sharon · Session #89 · 2009
• Reality Concealed Behind the Veil Nadia Khazraee · Session #89 · 2009
• The Path of God: Declaration Towards a Global Ethic and the Bahá’í Faith, Parts 1 and 2 Wolfgang Klebel · Session #88 · 2009 · PDF
• A Commentary on Fire Tablet Nadia Khazraee · Session #83 · 2008
• Glimpses into the Life of Laura Dreyfus-Barney: Part 1 Mona Khademi · Session #83 · 2008 · PDF
• Identifying Roots and Mechanisms of Religious Prejudice: Bahá’u’lláh’s Writings on the 12th Imám Armin Eschraghi · Session #83 · 2008
• In the Heart of All that is: Part 1 Wolfgang Klebel · Session #81 · 2008 · PDF
• In the Heart of All that is: Part 2 Wolfgang Klebel · Session #81 · 2008 · PDF
• Last Tablet of `Abdu’l-Bahá for the Bahá’ís in America: A Commentary Katayoun Khazraee · Session #83 · 2008
• Peace: Building a New Science on Classical Foundations Kimberly Syphrett · Session #83 · 2008
• The Concept of Holy and Sacred anonymous · Session #83 · 2008
• Sacred Feminine at the Heart of the Bahá’í Faith: Multimedia presentation Nadema Agard · Session #76 · 2007
• Baron Rosen’s archives in the Russian Academy of Sciences Youli Ioannesyan · Session #72 · 2006 · PDF
• Taking the Metaphors in the Bahá’í Writings to Heart Keyvan Geula · Session #67 · 2006
• The Presence of the Heroic in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi and Nabil Jack McLean · Session #72 · 2006
• Art of Rhetoric in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi Jack McLean · Session #60 · 2005 · PDF
• Bahá’í Faith in the Arabic Speaking Middle East, Part I (1753-1863) Ramsey Zeine · Session #62 · 2005 · PDF
• Englishing Scripture in the 21st Century: Comparative strategies for translating Bahá’u’lláh’s poetry Franklin Lewis · Session #65 · 2005
• General introduction to the English and Persian/Arabic Writings of Shoghi Effendi: Summary of the major themes Muin Afnani · Session #60 · 2005
• New circusí as metaphorical embodiment of the mystical and the aesthetic with special reference to La Cirque du Soleil Roger Prentice · Session #62 · 2005
• Seeds of Revelation and the Mystic Bond Between the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh: An Exposition on Excerpts From The Persian Bayán James B. Thomas · Session #60 · 2005 · PDF
• Some Aspects of the Tafsir al-Bismillah from Abdu’l-Baha Sasha Dehghani · Session #62 · 2005
• Tahirih: A Portrait in Poetry Amin Banani · Session #60 · 2005
• The Arts and The Sacred in Native America Nadema Agard · Session #65 · 2005
• Beauty and Wonder from a philosophical and spiritual point of view Iscander Micael Tinto · Session #54 · 2004
• Chinese Tea and Spiritual Wayfaring in the Early Writings of the Bab William McCants · Session #58 · 2004
• The Báb’s Dalá’il Sab`ah (Seven Proofs): Some Introductory Notes Stephen Lambden · Session #54 · 2004
• From Secret of Divine Civilization to Treatise on Politics Muin Afnani · Session #46 · 2003
• Logic Chopping or Mystical Union: In what direction might Bahá’í-inspired philosophy of education go? Roger Prentice · Session #48 · 2003
• Panel Presentation on “Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’” Muin Afnani, Stephen Lambden, and Habib Raizati · Session #46 · 2003
• Pantheism: A Crossroads of Science and Religion Enoch N. Tanyi · Session #48 · 2003
• The Approach of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the Problem of Tolerance Erfan Sabeti · Session #48 · 2003
• The Ocean of Acceptance LeRoy Jones · Session #40 · 2002
• “For The Love of My Beauty”: Love, Art and Attainment in the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh Brian Miller · Session #34 · 2001
• A Short Review of the Mystical Meanings of Some of the Terms Used in Bahá’u’lláh’s and Rumi’s Mathnavis Moozhan Khadem · Session #38 · 2001
• Cherubim, Seraphim and Demythologization: Some aspects of Babi-Bahá’i angelology and the mala’ al-a`la (Supreme Concourse) Stephen Lambden · Session #36 · 2001
• Hallowing of the critical and the blessedness of creativity: via `spiritualization as dialectical process’ as the mystical heart of education Roger Prentice · Session #36 · 2001
• Lawh-i- Karmil (Tablet of Carmel) Sateh Bayat · Session #38 · 2001
• Mystical Themes in Bahá’í Obligatory Prayer Ghasem Bayat · Session #34 · 2001
• Tablets with Mystical and Philosophical Themes: Hikmat (Wisdom), Ru’ya (Dream), and Burhan (Reason) Muin Afnani · Session #34 · 2001
• The Mystical Heart of Knowing: Toward a worthy, Baha’i-inspired, epistemological model Roger Prentice · Session #38 · 2001
• The Parable of Majnun and Layli Jack McLean · Session #36 · 2001
• Perception Into Faith: A Radical Discontinuity Within Unity William Barnes · Session #32 · 2000 · PDF
• Point, Pillar and Manifestation: Parallels That Never Met? Kabbalah and the Bábí-Bahá’í Faiths Moshe Sharon · Session #28 · 2000
• Theological and Rhetorical Significance of Mathnavíy-i-Mubárak Frank Lewis · Session #30 · 2000
• A Journey Through The Four Valleys Ghasem Bayat · Session #24 · 1999
• A Journey Through The Seven Valleys Ghasem Bayat · Session #24 · 1999 · PDF
• Developing Criteria for a Fair Comparison of Religions in Inter-religious Dialogues Christoph Wagner · Session #22 · 1999
• Mystical Themes in the Tablets Revealed During the Baghdad Period: Gems of Mysteries, Maid of Heaven, Ode of Varqá’íyyih, Tablet of All Food Muin Afnan · Session #26 · 1999
• Seven Valleys of Bahá’u’lláh and Farid ud-Din Attar Sheila Banani · Session #26 · 1999 · PDF
• Tablets with Mystical and Philosophical Themes Muin Afnani · Session #24 · 1999
• The Fire Tablet (Lawh-i-Ihtiraq) and the Tablet of the Land of Ba (Lawh-i-Arz-i-Ba) Moojan Momen · Session #22 · 1999
• The Ode of Varqá’íyyih Brian Miller · Session #26 · 1999
• Unsealing the Significance of Allegories in the Bible Using the Book of Certitude (Kitáb-i-Iqán) Brent Poirier · Session #26 · 1999
• Introducing Kitáb-i-Badí’ Nader Saiedi · Session #20 · 1998
• Religion and the Arts: The Cyclical Theory in the Bahá’í Faith Moojan Momen · Session #18 · 1998
• The Tablet of the Fear of God [Righteousness, Piety...] Stephen Lambden · Session #18 · 1998
• The Third Copernican Revolution: “Transparent Dialogue and Relational Theology” — Unity and Diversity and The Development of a Global Vision of God’s Relationality Christopher Jones · Session #20 · 1998
• New Age Movement and the Bahá’i Faith Zaid Lundberg · Session #14 · 1997 · PDF
• Qa’im (Ariser) and Qayyum (Deity Self-Subsistent): The background and significance of twin messianic advents in Babi-Bahá’i scripture Stephen Lambden · Session #14 · 1997
• Scripture in the Perspective of Comparative Religion and the Bahá’i Faith Robert Stockman · Session #14 · 1997
• Sectarianism and the Bahá’i Faith Iraj Ayman · Session #14 · 1997
• Sectarianism and the Bahá’í Faith Iraj Ayman · Session #15 · 1997
• Taiping and other Chinese Messianic Movements in the Nineteenth Century Kamran Ekbal · Session #14 · 1997
• The Hidden Treasure Mozhan Khadem · Session #15 · 1997
• Discordant World Views within Bahá’í Studies and the Detraction They Encourage Richard Harmsen · Session #9 · 1996
• Immortality and the Afterlife: Some Christian, Bahá’i, and Modern Western Secular Perspectives Fariba Hedayati · Session #12 · 1996
• Considerations Relating to the Inheritance Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Some Sen McGlinn · Session #5 · 1995
• Paradoxes and Facts of the Anti-Baha’i Polemic on the Territory of the European Part of the Former U.S.S.R. Marina Pavlova · Session #8 · 1995
• Possible Criticisms of the Baha’i Faith from a Feminist Perspective Lil Abdo · Session #8 · 1995
• Sacralizing the Secular: The Proclamatory Aqdas as a Response to Modernity Christopher Buck · Session #5 · 1995
• The Limits of Discourse in the Baha’i community and their Consequences Robert Stockman · Session #8 · 1995
• The Model of Penology in the Kitab-i-Aqdas John Hatcher · Session #5 · 1995
• Experience of Taking the Most Holy Book to the Masses Using Structured Educational Material, On The Vadim Nomokonov · Session #4 · 1994
• Inheritance Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas S Fazel · Session #4 · 1994
• The Tree of Peace and the Coming of Bahá’u’llah Aram Gomez · Session #2 · 1994
• The Validity and Value of An Historical-Critical Approach to the Revealed Word of Bahá’u’llah John Hatcher · Session #2 · 1994