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The
Bahā'ī Studies Bulletin
(= BSB)

Stephen N. Lambden (ed.).
[University of
Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK]
Ohio University, Athens Ohio, USA.
Exact duplicates or slighly revised versions of articles
which originally appeared in the periodical
Bahā'ī Studies Bulletin
(= BSB,1982-1993) will be
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the pagination may occasionally be altered. In due course issues
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Syzygy: A Journal of Bābī-Bahā'ī
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 1
No. 1 June 1982

CONTENTS
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Editorial |
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Moojan Momen |
Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920, Part I : Iran
by ['Alī Muhammad] Ibn-i Aṣdaq and
Azīzu'llāh Varqā’
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4
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Denis MacEoin |
Some
Bahā’ī and Shaykhī Interpretations of 'the Mystery of
Reversal'.

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11 |
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Robert Parry |
`Not Weighing God's Book
with Standards Current Amongst Men - One Perspective -
Some Provisional Theological Discussion Notes

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24 |
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Stephen Lambden |
"My
God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? or My God, my
God! How thou hast glorified me?

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NOTES,
REVIEWS, COMMUNICATIONS  |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 1
No. 2 September 1982

CONTENTS
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Editorial |
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2 |
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Moojan Momen |
Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920, Part
II :
Turkistan, by [Mīrzā
'Alī
Muhammad]
Ibn-i Aṣdaq
[c.1850-1928].

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4
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Robert Parry |
`Not Weighing God's Book
with Standards Current Amongst Men - One Perspective -
Some Provisional Theological Discussion Notes Continued. 
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Stephen Lambden |
Antichrist - Dajjāl:
Some Notes on the Christian and Islamic Antichrist traditions and their Bahā'ī
interpretation. Pt. 1 
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14 |
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Lesley Zanieh
Trans. |
R. Mielck, Vom Bahaismus in
Deutchland...
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NOTES,
REVIEWS, COMMUNICATIONS  |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 1
No. 3 December 1982

CONTENTS
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Editorial |
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2 |
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Stephen Lambden |
Antichrist - Dajjāl:
Some Notes on the Christian and Islamic Antichrist traditions and their Bahā'ī
interpretation. Pt.
II.

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3
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Denis
MacEoin |
Problems of Scholarship in a
Bahā'ī
Context. 
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44 |
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Stephen Lambden |
MacEoin's Problems of
Scholarship in a Bahā'ī
Context. 
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69 |
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NOTES,
REVIEWS, COMMUNICATIONS  |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 1
No. 4 March. 1983

CONTENTS
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Peter Smith |
A Note on Bābī-Bahā'ī
Numbers in Iran
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3 |
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Moojan Momen |
Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920', Part
III :
America by Albert
Vail.

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8 |
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Robert Parry |
Rational-Conceptual
Performance: The
Bahā’ī
Faith and Scholarship, A
Discussion Paper.

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13 |
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Stephen Lambden |
An Episode in the Childhood
of Sayyid `Alī Muhammad, the
Bāb.
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22 |
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Kent Beveridge |
Seven Manuscripts Attributed
to Bahā'-Allāh
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33 |
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Moojan Momen |
Seven Manuscripts Attributed
to Bahā'-Allāh, Some Further
Comments.

A Response to MacEoin's
`Problems of Scholarship'.
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52
57 |
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Denis MacEoin |
A Critique of Moojan Momen's
Response to my 'Problems of
Scholarship in the Bahā'ī
Context'
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66 |
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NOTES,
REVIEWS, COMMUNICATIONS |
81 |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME
2
No. 1 June 1983

CONTENTS
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Moojan Momen (ed.) |
Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920', Part
IV :
India by Mīrzā Maḥmūd
Zarqānī. |
3 |
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Graham Hassall |
`The
Bahā'ī Faith in Australia,
1920-1934 : Some Notes
on John and Clara Hyde-Dunn.

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8 |
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Stephen Lambden |
A Tablet of
Bahā'-Allāh
to Georg David Hardegg, The
Lawḥ-i Hirtik (Lawḥ-i
Hardegg).

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32 |
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Peter Khan |
Bahā'
Scholarship, A compilation

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38 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
73 |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME
2
No. 2 September 1983

CONTENTS
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Moojan Momen (ed.) |
Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920',
Part V :
Germany by Alma
Knobloch.
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3 |
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Denis MacEoin |
Bahā'-Allāh’s
al-Qaṣīda al-Warqā'iyya
(Qaṣīda-yi Varqā'iyya:
An English
translation.

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7 |
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Stephen Lambden |
The Islamo-Bahā’ī
Interpretation of
Deuteronomy 33:2.

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22 |
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Moojan Momen |
The Bahā'ī Influence on the
Reform Movements of the
Islamic World in the 1860's
and1870's.

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47 |
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Steven Scholl |
More Problems or a Total
Hermeneutic

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66 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
83 |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 2
No. 3 December 1983

CONTENTS
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Graham Hassall
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Some New Notes on Ibrahim
Kheiralla |
3 |
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Denis MacEoin |
al-Qaṣīda
al-Warqā'iyya (Qaṣīda-yi
Varqā'iyya) :
Further Comments.
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68 |
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Steven
Scholl |
The Remembrance of God:
An Invocation Technique in Sufism and the Writings of the Bāb and
Bahā'-Allāh.
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73 |
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Stephen Lambden |
A Tablet of
Bahā'-Allāh of the late Baghdad period: Lawḥ-i Halih Halih Halih, Yā Bishārat
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107 |
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NOTES,
COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
113 |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 2
No. 4 March 1984

CONTENTS
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Moojan Momen
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The Psychology of Mysticism and its Relationship to the
Bahā'ī Faith |
4 |
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Ruhullah Mehrabkhani
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Some Notes on
Fundamental Principles: Western Scholarship and the Religion of the
Bāb.
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22 |
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Juan R. Cole and Denis MacEoin |
Exchanges on
Bahā'-Allāh's al-Qaṣīda al-Warqā'iyya (Qaṣīdi-yi Varqā'iyyih)
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44 |
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William Collins and Stephen Lambden |
Exchanges
on `An Episode in the Childhood of the Bāb'.
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53 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY
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65 |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 3
No. 1 June 1984

CONTENTS
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Stephen Lambden |
A Tablet of Mīrzā
Ḥusayn 'Alī Bahā'-Allāh of the Early Iraq period, The Tablet of All Food (Lawḥ-i Kull
al-Ṭa`ām).
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4 |
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Moojan Momen (ed.) |
`Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920',
Part VI :
Egypt by Shaykh Faraju'llāh, and Japan by Agnes
Alexander (?)
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 3
No. 2 September 1984

CONTENTS
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 3
No. 3 September 1985

CONTENTS
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Moojan Momen
(ed.) |
Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920, Part
VII :
Iraq
by Mīrzā Muhammad Ḥusayn Wakil.
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5 |
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Moojan Momen
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The Social Location of
the
Bābī
Movement: A Preliminary Note.
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8 |
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Anthony A. Lee |
Bahā'ī Values and Historical Inquiry : Musings on the
Continuing Discussion of Ethics and Methodology.
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27 |
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Stephen Lambden |
Some Thoughts on the Establishment of a Permanent Bahā'ī
Studies Centre and Research Institute.
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Denis MacEoin |
A
Permanent Bahā'ī Studies Centre and Research Institute:
Further Considerations.
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88 |
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Graham Hassall |
Martha Roots Tours, 1924, 1929.
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92 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 3
No. 4 December 1985

CONTENTS
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Moojan Momen |
'Abdu'l-Baha's
Commentary on the Islamic Tradition: "I was a Hidden Treasure . . ." (Kanz-i
Makhfi)
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4 |
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Sources of Quotations in 'Abdu'l-Bahā's
Commentary.
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36 |
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The Text of 'Abdu'l-Bahā's
Commentary.
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38 |
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William Collins |
Library and Archival Resources at the Bahā'ī World
Centre
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65 |
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Stephen Lambden |
At the Shore of the
Black Sea: The Lawḥ-i Hawdaj / Samsun of
Mīrzā
Ḥusayn 'Alī Bahā'-Allāh.
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84 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 4
No. 1 March 1986

CONTENTS
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Moojan Momen
(ed.) |
Esslemont’s
Survey of the Bahā’ī Community 1919-1920,
Part VIII :
Miscellaneous.
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4 |
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Kent Beveridge |
From Adrianople to 'Akkā',
The Austrian Lloyd.
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8 |
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Stephen Lambden |
The Mysteries of the
Call of Moses: Translation and Notes on part of a Tablet of Bahā'-Allāh
addressed to Jināb-i Khalīl.
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33 |
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Graham Hassall |
The Influences of Mark Tobey.
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80 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 4
No. 2 JANUARY 1990

CONTENTS
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Moojan Momen |
The Bābī
Upheavals, 1848 -1853. |
4 |
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Keven Brown |
A
Brief Discussion of the Primal Will.
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22 |
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PART TWO |
The Newcastle upon Tyne Bahā'ī Studies
Seminar, December 6-7, 1986, and letter from the
Universal House of Justice
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28 |
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Submission on the Development of
Bahā'ī Studies at an Academic Level: From a Committee appointed by the
Universal House of Justice, dated November 19th, 1988
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30 |
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The Newcastle upon Tyne Bahā'ī
Studies Seminar, June 23rd-25th, 1989
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33 |
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The 100th Annivarsary
of the First Public Mention of the Faith in the West
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34 |
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Letters of the Universal House of
Justice: Ṭāhirah+ Miscellaneous Subjects+ Peace Issues
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35 |
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Extracts from the Bulletin of the
Association of Bahā'ī Studies, No. 31, June 1989
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50 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 4
No. 3-4 APRIL 1990

CONTENTS
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Juan R. Cole |
Bahā'-Allāh's "Commentary on the
Surah of the Sun", Introduction and
Translation
PDF

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4 |
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Farzin Froughi and Stephen Lambden |
A
Tablet of
Bahā'-Allāh
Commenting on that Verse of the Most Holy Book (al-Kitab
al-Aqdas) About the Need for an International Language
and Script.
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28 |
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Moojan
Momen |
The Integration into the
British Bahā'ī Community of Recent Iranian Bahā'ī Migrants.
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28 |
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Stephen
Lambden |
The Sinaitic
Mysteries: Supplement 1.
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50 |
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PART
TWO |
Letters of the Universal House of Justice, Research
Department.
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54 |
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The Protection of Diversity.
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67 |
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Remarks by H. B. Danesh.
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71 |
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Extracts from the Bulletin of the
Association of Bahā'ī Studies.
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81 |
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The Association of Bahā'ī
Studies, English-Speaking Europe.
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84 |
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Bahā'ī
Cassette Tapes.
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87 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 5
No. 1-2 JANUARY 1991

CONTENTS
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Khazeh Fananapazir |
A Tablet of
Mīrzā
Ḥusayn 'Alī Bahā'-Allāh
to Jamal-i Burujirdī
: A Full Provisional Translation |
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Moojan Momen |
The Bahā'ī
System of Transliteration.
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13 |
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Stephen Lambden |
Modern Western, Arabic-Persian, Academic Transliteration
Systems.
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56 |
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Iain Palin |
Letter in Brita Esperantisto by Giorgio Silfer
Translated into English
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70 |
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PART
TWO
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 5 Nos. 3-4 -> 6
No.1 JUNE 1991

CONTENTS
|
Juan R. Cole |
Bahā'-Allāh's "Surah of
the Companions" (Surat al-Aṣḥāab): An Early Edirne Tablet of Declaration
(c. 1864), Introduction and
Provisional Translation.
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4 |
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Stephen Lambden |
Some Notes on
Bahā'-Allāh
's Gradually Evolving Claims of the Adrianople/Edirne
Period
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75 |
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Moojan
Momen |
The
Cyprus Exiles
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84 |
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John Walbridge |
The Previously Unknown
Persian Text of a Talk by 'Abdu'l-Baha
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114 |
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Seena
Fazel
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The First Western
Language Encyclopedia Article of the Babi Religion
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121 |
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TWO |
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135 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 6 Nos. 2-3
FEBRUARY 1992

CONTENTS
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B. Todd Lawson |
The Structure of
Existence in the Bāb's Tafsīr and the Perfect Man Motif.
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4 |
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Stephen Lambden |
The Seven Valleys of
Bahā'-Allāh (Haft Vadi)
: A Provisional Translation with Occasional Notes
- Part 01
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26 |
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PART TWO |
Notes, Communications and Bibliographical Miscellany.
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75 |
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Seena
Fazel
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Some Observations Regarding Bibliographic Citations
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86 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 6 No.4 - 7
No. 2 OCTOBER 1992

CONTENTS
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Juan R. Cole |
Redating the Surah of
God (Sūratu'llāh): An Edirne
Tablet of 1866? -- Provisional
Translation Appended.
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4 |
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Khazeh Fananapazir and
Stephen Lambden |
The Tablet of Medicine (Lawh-i
Ṭibb) of
Bahā'-Allāh
: A Provisional Translation.
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Robert
Parry |
Philosophical Theology
in Bahā'ī Studies, Methods and Foundations: A Note Towards an Orientation of
Bahā'ī Theology.
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66 |
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Robert Stockman |
The American Bahā'ī
Identity, 1894-1921.
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92 |
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PART
TWO |
Letters from the Universal House of Justice; Short Notes
and Studies; Reviews and Bibliographical
Miscellany
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113 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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BAHĀ’Ī STUDIES BULLETIN
VOLUME 7 Nos. 3-4
JUNE 1993

CONTENTS
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Shahrokh Monjazeb |
The Tablet of Bahā'-Allāh to Queen Victoria (Lawḥ-i
Malikih) : An Introductory Note and Completed
Translation.
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4 |
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Stephen Lambden |
A
Further Tablet of
Bahā'-Allāh to Fāris the Physician.
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22 |
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Shahriar Razavi |
The Tablet of the Seven Questions
of
Bahā'-Allāh
(Lawḥ-i Haft pursish)
: An Introductory Note and Provisional Translation.
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48 |
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PART
TWO |
Letters of the Universal House of Justice; Short Notes
and Studies; Reviews and Bibliographical Miscellany
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69 |
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NOTES, COMMUNICATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MISCELLANY |
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