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PAPERS AND NOTES
IN PROGRESS 2007-8
WITHIN BIBLICAL, ISLAMIC & BĀBĪ-BAHĀ'Ī
STUDIES
Mīrzā Abū'l-Faḍl Gulpaygānī (1844-1914
CE).
Sharḥ āyāt-i muvarrikih
("Commentary
upon the Chronological Testimonia")
Hamadan (Iran), 1305/1887-8.
trans. Stephen Lambden (1982).
Thomas .K. Cheyne
(1841-1915) Biblical Scholar and Bahā'ī
خطبة الطتنجية
[I]
INTRODUCTION
The Khuṭbat
al-ṭutunjiyya [taṭanjiyya] ("Sermon
of the Gulf")
[II]
TEXT AND ANNOTATED TRANSLATION
The Khuṭbat al-ṭutunjiyya
[taṭanjiyya] ("Sermon of the Gulf")
كثيب الاحمر
Some
Notes on the Islamic Background and
Bābī-Baha’i use of
the phrase
Arḍ kathīb al-aḥmar
("The Land of the Red Sand-Dune").
παρακλητος
PROPHECY IN THE JOHANNINE FAREWELL DISCOURSE:
THE ADVENTS OF THE PARACLETE, AḤMAD AND COMFORTER
(MU`AZZĪ).
The Sinaitic Mysteries
PDF =
1988 > Revised Web edition 2007
Notes on Moses/Sinai
Motifs in Babi and Baha'i Scripture
Studies and Notes on the Jawāhir
al-asrār (Gems of the Mysteries) and Kitāb-i īqān (The Book of
Certitude)
of Mirza Ḥusayn `Alī Nūrī,
Bahā'-Allāh (1817-1892)
The texts of the
Biblical citations in the Jawāhir al-asrār (Gems
of the Mysteries)
and Kitāb-i īqān (Book of Certitude).
قائم
و قيوم
Qā'im (Ariser) and Qayyūm (Deity Self-Subsistent) :
the background and
significance of twin messianic advents in Bābī-Bahā’ī scripture.
The Bābī-Baha’i
Demythologization of Shī`ī messianism:
On the question of the reality of
the twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi,
the alleged son of the 11th
Imam, Ḥasan al-`Askarī (d. 260/874) and Narjis Khanum.
أَصْحَابَ الْكَهْفِ
Some Notes upon
the Bābī and Bahā'ī Interpretations of portions of the Qur'ānic Sūrat al-Kahf
(Surah of the
Cave), Q. 18.
دعاء البهاء
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي
أَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ بَهَائِكَ بِأَبْهَاهُ
...وَكُلُّ
بَهَائِكَ بَهِيٌّ، اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِبَهَائِكَ كُلِّهِ
The Du`ā
saḥar [al-bahā'] (Ramadan Dawn Prayer) of Muhammad al-Bāqir.
The Background and Centrality of
Apophatic Theology in Bābī-Bahā'ī Scripture
The Du`ā' yawm al-mubāhala
("Supplication for the Day of Mutual
Execration"):
Sidrat al-Muntaha
سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى
IN PROGRESS 2007-8
Part One
Some aspects of their Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī Interpretations
Part One
The Sidrah (Lote-Tree)
and Sidrat al-muntahā (The Lote-Tree of the
Extremity).
Some aspects of their Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī Interpretations
AL-TABARĪ
The
Sidrat al-Muntahā in the Tafsīr of
Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/922)
and its Persian recreation.
The Sidrat al-Muntahā in
Islamic Mi`raj and related writings.
The Sidrat al-Muntahā in
the Tafsīr of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1209).
IBN AL-`ARABĪ AND HIS "SCHOOL"
The
Sidra and Sidrat al-Muntahā in the writings of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-'Arabī
(d. 638/1240) and select followers.
`Abd al-Karim al-Jilī on the Sidrat al-Munahā
Part Two
SHAYKHĪ AND BĀBĪ-BAHĀ'Ī INTERPRETATIONS
The
Lote Tree and Sidrat al-Muntahā in the early Shaykhism.
The
Shaykhī and Bābī
Interpretations of the Lote-Tree Motif
Part Two
The Bābī
and Bahā'ī interpretations of the
Lote-Tree and Sidrat al-Muntahā
The Sidrah (Lote-Tree)
and Sidrat al-muntahā (The Lote-Tree of the
Extremity):
The
Lote-Tree and Sidrat al-Muntahā in the
the writings of the Bāb.
The Bahā'ī interpretations of the
Lote-Tree and Sidrat al-Muntahā
The
Lote-Tree and Sidrat al-Muntahā in the writings of
the Baha'-Allah and his successors.
The
modern Bahā'ī interpretations of the Lote-Tree and Sidrat al-Muntahā
.
Select
bibliography Sidra (Lote-Tree) and Sidrat al-Muntahā .
THE ISOLATED LETTERS OF THE QUR'AN
الم-المر
A Note upon the year 1844/1260 and the
Bābī-Bahā'ī interpretation
of
The
isolated letters
of the Qur'ān.
THE MIGHTIEST OR GREATEST NAME OF GOD
Three Essays relating
to the motif of eschatological divine splendor and the Mightiest or
Greatest Name of God
IN PROGRESS AND REVISION 2007-8
(1)
الاسم الاعظم
THE
ISLAMO-BIBLICAL MIGHTIEST NAME OF GOD MOTIF AND BĀBĪ-BAHĀ’Ī CONCEPTS OF THE ISM
ALLĀH AL-A`ẒAM .
(2)
ESCHATOLOGICAL
DOXOPHANY:
The
Motif of the Divine theophanic Radiance and its Messianic Associations.
(3)
بهاء
[1]
The word Baha' : Quintessence of
the Greatest Name of God 1 : Pre-Islamic and Islamic-Shaykhī Literatures.
[2]
The word Baha'
:
Quintessence
of the Greatest Name of God
2
: The writings of the Bāb and leading Bābīs.
[3]
The word Baha'
:
Quintessence
of the Greatest Name of God
3
: The writings of Bahā'-Allāh and his successors.
The child Jesus, the
Alphabet and the Basmala in the Abrahamic and Babi-Baha'i
religions
IMMORTAL HEROINES
A paper
delivered at the first UK Gender Studies conference, convened in
Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), 1997
NO VEILING SAVE LIGHT:
Some aspects
of
Bābī-Bahā'ī
theological-aesthetics
KALEIDOSCOPE:
Some Aspects of Angelology, Light, the Divine Throne and Color Mysticism in Bābī
and Bahā'ī Scripture
ISLAMO-BIBLICA
AND BEYOND:
Some Biblical
and Isrā'īliyyat themes and motifs in Bābī-Bahā'ī primary Sources
IT CAME TO PASS
Biblical and Islamic
Prophecy and fulfillment in Babi and Baha'i literatures
Alchemy
Alchemical Gnosis in Bābī-Bahā'ī
Scripture
Cherubim, Seraphim and Demythologization:
Some aspects of Bābī-Bahā'ī angelology
and the malā' al-a`lā (Supreme Concourse).
A Paper read at the Ifran Colloqium
London, 2001.
Abstract.
Babi-Baha'i Angelology
Jawāhir al-asrār
("The Gems of the Mysteries")
Thomas Kelly Cheyne
(1841-1915),
Biblical scholar and Bahā'ī.
"Progressive
Revelation":
Some Thoughts on a Bābī-Bahā'ī
Doctrine of the Succession of Divine Religions
Wisdom
ABRAHAM MEETS
MELCHIZEDEK
Melchizedek
A Tablet of `Abd al-Baha' commenting upon
Qur'an 53:11:
مَا كَذَبَ الْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَى
"The inmost heart (al-fū'ād) lieth not
about what it envisions".
The Mysteries of the
Light Verse (Q. 24:35) in Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī literatures.
Dimensions of
Bahā’ī Soteriology:
Some Notes on the
Bahā’ī theology of the Salvific and Redemptive role of
Bahā'-Allāh,
A Survey of Eastern and
Western Bābī-Bahā’ī
Istidlāliyya (“Scriptural Testimonia”)
writings
Henley on Thames 1970s -
Newcastle 1996- Ohio 2007
Some Christian rooted doctrines in the writings of
the Bab (1819-1850): Trinity and Incarnation, Sonship and the
form-symbol of the cross.
مشية
Some notes on the Arabic
term Mashiyya and associated Cosmogonical-theological hypostases
in Shī`ī-Shaykhī and
Bābī-Bahā'ī literarures
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