Theme · 89 papers

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Eschatology & Return

Resurrection, return, the Day of God, and apocalyptic expectation.

• From the cave to the Khanqah: Baha’u’llah in Kurdistan, a reconsideration Ami Schrager · Session #146 · 2017
• Tablets of the Divine Plan - Heading the Call: The Early Travels of the Mother of the Bahá’ís of South America, Leonora Stirling Holsapple, 1921 to1927 Kristine Leonard Asuncion Young · Session #137 · 2016
• Twin Shining Lights, Part 1: Shaykh Ahmad ibn Zayn al-Din al-Ahsa’i Stephen Lambden · Session #137 · 2016
• Twin Shining Lights, Part 2: Sayyid Kazim al-Rashti Stephen Lambden · Session #137 · 2016
• A Comparative Study of Súriy-i-Sabr and Qayyúmu’l-Asmá: Clarification of References to Calf, Sámirí, Satan, and Idol Worshipers Foad Seddigh · Session #123 · 2014 · PDF
• 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
• Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh Gleaming through the Tablet of Patience Foad Seddigh · Session #121 · 2013
• Eyewitness Account of the Massacre of Bahá’ís in Nayriz on Naw-Ruz 1909 Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani · Session #113 · 2012
• The Rise and Fall of the Bahá’í Settlements in the Jordan Valley, 1880s-1950s Shay Rozen · Session #111 · 2012
• The Synopsis of the Shared Concepts and Themes in the Persian Bayán and the Kitáb-i-Iqán Habib Riazati · Session #109 · 2012
• Abdu’l-Bahá in New York 1912 : An Illustrated Narrative Hussein Ahdieh · Session #107 · 2011
• Abdu’l-Baha’s Commentaries on the Qur’an Vahid Rafati · Session #104 · 2011
• Apocalyptic Thinking and Process Thinking: A Baha’i Contribution to Religious Thought Moojan Momen · Session #104 · 2011 · PDF
• Fundamental Verities in the Writings of the Báb: 1. Unsealing the Sealed Wine -- Slaying the Dragon of Dogmatism in the Writings of the Báb Habib Riazati · Session #102 · 2011
• Orientals Meeting in the West: Foes Become Friends Mina Yazdani · Session #102 · 2011
• Overture to Universal Peace: An exposition based on the talk by `Abdu’l-Bahá, New York City, December 4, 1912 James Thomas · Session #102 · 2011
• Synopsis of the Shared Concepts and Themes in the Persian Bayán and the Kitáb-i-Iqán Habib Riazati · Session #107 · 2011
• A Brief review of `Abdu’l-Bahá’s visit to North America Robert Stockman · Session #100 · 2010 · PDF
• From al-Mulk (the Dominion) to al-Mu’minin (the Believers): Some Further Thoughts on the Surah Titles of the Qayyúm al-`asmá of the Báb Stephen Lambden · Session #95 · 2010
• From the Jabulqa of God’s Power to the Jabulqa of Superstition: The Twelfth Imam in the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and `Abdu’l-Bahá’ Omid Ghaemmaghami · Session #95 · 2010
• The Genesis of Bábí Ritual as Exemplified in the Khasa’il-Sab`a (‘The Seven Directives’) of the Báb Stephen Lambden · Session #95 · 2010
• Beginning a Conversation: Scriptural Reasoning and the Bahá’í Faith Ben Schewel · Session #88 · 2009
• Celestial Fire: Bahá’u’lláh as the Messianic Theophany of the Divine Fire (átar) in Zoroastrianism Farshid Kazemi · Session #88 · 2009 · PDF
• Early Ishmaelite Philosophy and the Bábí—Bahá’í Religions Farshid Kazemi · Session #89 · 2009
• Fortschreitende Gottesoffenbarung: Eschatologische Hinweise über das Kommen einer neuen Offenbarung im Koran Ata Enayati · Session #91 · 2009
• Gateways to the Qayyúm al-Asmá’ of the Báb: Some Introductory Notes Based on an Examination of its Surah Stephen Lambden · Session #88 · 2009
• Interpretations of Holy Texts Provided in Some Answered Questions: An Analytical Review Vahid Rafati · Session #93 · 2009
• Names and Attributes of God Stephen Lambden · Session #89 · 2009
• Neo-Platonism and the Bahá’í Faith Ian Kluge · Session #93 · 2009 · PDF
• Reality Concealed Behind the Veil Nadia Khazraee · Session #89 · 2009
• Resurrection: Hell and Heaven Ghasem Bayat · Session #88 · 2009
• The “Point of the Beginning” and the “Seal of the Prophets”: An analysis of the well-known Qur’anic verse (33:40) and of the consequences of its misinterpretation by Islamists Gloria Yazdani · Session #93 · 2009
• The Land of Za’farán (ard-i-za’farán) in the Bábí-Bahá’í Scriptures Farshid Kazemi · Session #89 · 2009
• And It Came to Pass: the Báb and the Fulfillment of Shí’í Islamic Messianism (Part 1) Stephen Lambden · Session #81 · 2008
• The Use of Metaphors in the Kitáb-i-Iqán and Some Answered Questions Muhammad-Ghasem Bayat · Session #81 · 2008
• Apocalyptic and the Bahá’í Writings Todd Lawson · Session #76 · 2007
• Millennial Expectation in Early Shaykhism: A review of the literature Ismael Velasco · Session #69 · 2006
• Concept of Truth-Seeking in the Course of History Babak Rod Khadem · Session #60 · 2005
• Letters of Sayyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi ‘the Báb’ to Muhammad Shah Qajar (Part I) Sholeh Quinn · Session #62 · 2005
• Mary Magdalene and the Resurrection of Jesus: Some ancient and modern traditions and Baha’i and Perspectives Stephen Lambden · Session #60 · 2005
• Some Aspects of the Tafsir al-Bismillah from Abdu’l-Baha Sasha Dehghani · Session #62 · 2005
• The Newly-Born Babe of That Day: Mysticism in the age of the maturity of humankind Julio Savi · Session #62 · 2005 · PDF
• The Return of Apologetics: Apologetics parallels in the early Christianity, Islam and Bahá’í Faith Babak Farrokhzad · Session #62 · 2005
• A Review of the Bahá’í Writings on the Concept of Reincarnation Sateh Bayat, Vafa Bayat · Session #53 · 2004 · PDF
• Beauty and Wonder from a philosophical and spiritual point of view Iscander Micael Tinto · Session #54 · 2004
• Textual Resurrection: Book, Imam, and Cosmos in the Qur’án Commentaries of the Báb J. Vahid Brown · Session #53 · 2004 · PDF
• The Báb’s Tablets to Muhammad Shah Sholeh A. Quinn · Session #58 · 2004
• 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 Images of Christ in the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: (cross-published as Occasional Papers Vol. 1) Maryam Afshar · Session #46 · 2003 · PDF
• The Long Obligatory Prayer: A linguistic and theological exploration Ismael Velasco · Session #48 · 2003
• Súrih-yi-Vafá (Tablet to Vafá) Azadeh Mohandessi-Fares · Session #40 · 2002
• Tablet of Bismilih Muin Afnan · Session #40 · 2002
• Tablet to the Pope Koorosh Zaerpoor · Session #40 · 2002
• A Prolegomenon to the Study of Babi and Bahá’i Scriptures: The importance of Henry Corbin to Babi and Bahá’i Studies Ismael Velasco · Session #36 · 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
• Kitáb-i-`Ahdí (Bahá’u’lláh’s Book of Testament) Ghasem Bayat · Session #38 · 2001
• Lawh-i- Karmil (Tablet of Carmel) Sateh Bayat · Session #38 · 2001
• Tablets Muin Afnani · Session #38 · 2001
• Perception Into Faith: A Radical Discontinuity Within Unity William Barnes · Session #32 · 2000 · PDF
• Some of the Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed in Akká Muin Afnani · Session #30 · 2000
• Tablet of Bahá’u’lláh to the Christians Sateh Bayat · Session #32 · 2000
• The Lawh-i-Amváj (“Tablet of the Waves” [Billows]) of Bahá’u’lláh, Alwáh-i-Mustagath, Lawh-i-Baqá Stephen Lambden · Session #28 · 2000
• A Study of the Meaning of the Word “Al-Amr” in the Qur’án and in the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh Moojan Momen · Session #22 · 1999 · PDF
• Bahá’u’lláh’s Lawh-i-Hertik or the Tablet to Hardegg: Tablets to Christians, Part I Kamran Ekbal, Stephen Lambden · Session #22 · 1999 · PDF
• 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
• The Book of Revelation Revealed in Glory: A Summary of Glorious Revelation William John Ridgers · Session #24 · 1999 · PDF
• The Concept of Sacred Justice in Hebrew Eschatology Gary Selchert · Session #24 · 1999 · PDF
• Unsealing the Significance of Allegories in the Bible Using the Book of Certitude (Kitáb-i-Iqán) Brent Poirier · Session #26 · 1999
• A Comparative Study of Christianity and the Bahá’í Faith Gary Selchert · Session #20 · 1998
• Introducing Kitáb-i-Badí’ Nader Saiedi · Session #20 · 1998
• The Best of Stories (Ahsan al-Qasas): Joseph Motifs and the Bábí-Bahá’í Interpretation of the Joseph Narrative Stephen Lambden · Session #18 · 1998
• The Tablet of the Fear of God [Righteousness, Piety...] Stephen Lambden · Session #18 · 1998
• Buddy, Can You Spare a Paradigm?: The Bahá’í Faith and the New Age Movement Paul S. Dodenhoff · Session #15 · 1997
• 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
• Salvation: Staticity into Motion Joan Sheppard · Session #15 · 1997
• Taiping and other Chinese Messianic Movements in the Nineteenth Century Kamran Ekbal · Session #14 · 1997
• Millennialism in the Bahá’i Faith: Progressive and Catastrophic Themes Robert Stockman · Session #12 · 1996
• The New World Order and the Convergence of Religious and Secular Opposition Behrooz Sabet · Session #9 · 1996
• E.G. Browne’s Misconceptions Nicola Towfigh · Session #8 · 1995
• Eschatology and Messianic Hope in Hinduism: A Bahá’í Perspective Ali K. Merchant · Session #5 · 1995
• Redefining a Social Contract Rama Ayman · Session #5 · 1995
• The Model of Penology in the Kitab-i-Aqdas John Hatcher · Session #5 · 1995
• Entombed in a Dead Language: The Saints Raising out of their Graves Thomas May · Session #2 · 1994
• Mythoi: Stories of the Origin, Fall, and Redemption of Man William Barnes · Session #2 · 1994
• Resurrection of Divine Wisdom: A Study of the Ontology of Greek Philosophical Theology and Jewish Theology in the Context of Wisdom Revelation and its Realization in the Bahá’i Religion Michael McCarron · Session #2 · 1994
• The Tree of Peace and the Coming of Bahá’u’llah Aram Gomez · Session #2 · 1994