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URL: Papers delivered by Stephen Lambden at UK Academic seminars, 1970s-2005.

Select participants in the first Irfān Colloqium,

Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), December 3rd->5th 1993.

 

2003  

Newcastle upon Tyne. Academic Seminar December 5th-7th.

                Stephen Lamden,

  • "Tablets of Bahā'-Allāh to Jews in Iran, Iraq, Ottoman Palestine and elsewhere."

ABSTRACT.

2004

ABS RELIGIOUS STUDIES SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP, BI-ANNUAL SEMINAR

 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, December10-12, 2004

Stephen Lambden,

  • "The Commentary of Sayyid Kāzim Rashtī upon the Graphical Form of the Mightiest Name of God

ABSTRACT.

  • "Bahā'-Allāh the Tetragrammaton,   יהוה Y-H-W-H : Some Aspects of Judaism and the Bahā’ī Faith.               

ABSTRACT

 


SELECT OTHER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS

Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1999

 

Stephen Lambden,

  • "Some Aspects of the word bahā'  (= splendour, glory, beauty) and the al-ism al-a`ẓam  (the Mightiest Name of God) in Bābī- Bahā'ī Scripture". 

ABSTRACT


Oxford University (UK)

Baha'i Studies Conference

ABSTRACT


University of Copenhagen 2001

 

Conference, `Baha'i and Globalisation' held by RENNER (Research Network on New Religions) and University of Copenhagen, Dept. of the History of Religions. Held at Tune Landboskole, Grevevej 20, DK 2670 Greve.

        Stephen Lambden,

  • "The Messianic roots of  Bābī-Bahā'ī Globalism".  Now published see above

         Abstract

 


ABS-ESE. Conference on Fundamentalism.

London 2002. 

  • Scriptural Fundamentalism, Hermeneutics, Religions of the Book.

        Abstract

 


Baha'i Faith

`IRFAN COLLOQUIA, USA

Bosch Bahá'í School, Santa Cruz, CA USA

2002-7

2002   USA. XX-X, Louhelen Baha'i School, October 11-14 2002
 

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2003 

May July 10-11. Bosch Baha'i School (California, USA), Irfan Colloquium.

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2004 

May July 10-11. Bosch Baha'i School (California, USA), Irfan Colloquium.

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2005

May Bosch Baha'i School (California, USA), Irfan Colloquium.

Stephen Lambden

  • "Mary Magdalene and the resurrection of Jesus"

ABSTRACT

  • "Scriptural Taḥrif ("falsification") and its transcendence in the Babi-Baha'i religions. 

ABSTRACT

2006

Bosch Baha'i School Santa Cruz, California (USA), May   25th-229th  Irfan Colloquium.

  • The Sidrah (Lote-Tree) and the Sidrat al-Muntaha (Lote-Tree of the Extremity): Some Aspects of their Islamic and Babi-Baha'i Interpretations. 

ABSTRACT

  • A Comparative Study of Two Istidlāliyyah (Proof Centered) Texts: The Bāb's Dalā'il-i sabah (Seven Proofs) (c. 1848 CE)  and Baha'u'llah's Kitāb-i īqān" (c. 1862 CE).
     

ABSTRACT

 

2007

Bosch Bahá'í School: Santa Cruz, CA, USA. May 24-27, 2007.

 

ABSTRACT

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  • A Tablet of Baha'u'llah about Mirza Yaḥyā  Nūrī, Subḥ-i Azal  (d. Famagusta, 1914 CE).

ABSTRACT

2008

Bosch Bahá'í School: Santa Cruz, CA, USA. May 29-June 1st, 2008.

The Khuṭbas or literary "Sermons" of the Bab.

ABSTRACT

And it  Came to Pass:  the Bāb and the fulfilment of Shī`ī  lslamic  messianism.

ABSTRACT

 

 


Louhelen Bahā'ī School, Michigan, USA

 

2006

`Irfan Colloquium, October  6-9th, Louhelen Baha'i  School ( Michigin,  USA), .

 

  • The Grandeur of Islam and the magnificence of the Qur'ān: Islamic dimensions of the Dalā'il-i Sab`ah (Seven Proofs) of the Bāb and the Kitāb-i īqān (Book of Certitude) of Bahā'u'llāh.

ABSTRACT

  • Some Aspects of the Shi`i-Shaykhī universe and of the Persian and Arabic writings of Sayyid Kāẓim al-Husaynī al-Rashtī (d. 1243/1843).
     

ABSTRACT

2007

`Irfan Colloquium, October  5-8th, Louhelen Baha'i  School ( Michigin,  USA).

ABSTRACT

  • An examination of Jihād ("Holy war") in the Qur'an, Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī Sacred writings.  

ABSTRACT

 


  Italy, Acuto, (July 10-13,  2003):  Irfan Colloquium 2003

Group Photo from, Acuto 2003

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Stephen Lambden

  •  "The word ḥaqq and its use in Islamic and Babi-Baha'i literatures"

(Largely done without Notes).

  •  "An Introduction to the Ḥadīth al-ḥaqīqa ("Tradition concerning Ultimate Reality") or Hadīth Kumayl and its Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Interpretations".

ABSTRACT

  • "Kaleidoscope: some aspects of angelology, throne and color mysticism in Abrahamic and Babi-Baha'i literatures"

ABSTRACT.

 

 


  Italy, Acuto, (July  2005):  Irfan Colloquium 2005

 

Stephen Lambden

`Mysteries within Mysteries : an Introduction to some Theological, Mystical and Esoteric dimensions of the Kitāb-i Panj Sha`n (Book of the Five Modes) of the Sayyid `Alī Muhammad, the Bāb (d. Tabriz, 1850 CE).

ABSTRACT

Stephen Lambden

 

Some Aspects of the Khuṭba al-ṭutunjiyya (Sermon of the Gulf) ascribed to Imam `Alī (d. 40/661) and its Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Interpretations.

ABSTRACT

 

  Italy, Acuto, (July 7-10th 2006):  Irfan Colloquium 2006

Stephen Lambden

 

The Babi-Baha'i transcendence of  the Islamic notion of taḥrīf (“scriptural falsification”), the Biblical citations attributed to  the Bāb,  and those cited by Baha'u'llah.

        ABSTRACT

        Stephen Lambden

 Biblical echoes in the Du`a al-simāt (Prayer of the Signs) with some notes on the Commentary of Sayyid Kāẓim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī (d.1259/1843) and Bābī-Bahā'ī Intertextualities.

        ABSTRACT

  Italy, Acuto, (July 6-9th 2007):  Irfan Colloquium 2007

Stephen Lambden

 

Bahā’ al-Dīn al-`Āmilī (d. 1030/1621): A Bahā'ī before Bahā'u'llāh and an initiate of the al-ism al-a`ẓam (“The Greatest Name of God”)?

     ABSTRACT

 

The Lawḥ-i Hartīk (Tablet to Hardegg) of  Bahā'u'llāh : An introduction to the scriptural Tablet addressed to Georg David Hardegg (1812-1879), one-time leader of the  Protestant Christian Templelgesellschaft ("Temple Society").

ABSTRACT


  Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conferences

USA

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies
 

MESA 2000 34th Annual Meeting Nov. 16th-19th Orlando Florida (USA)

-- Thursday, November 16, 7:00-9:00 p.m. in Fiesta room, 


Programme :

William Hanley (Oxford, Univ.), `Babism in Butrus al-Bustani's Encyclopedia'

Mohamed Tavakoli-Targhi, (Illinois State Univ.)  'Islamism and Counter-Baha'ism'

Stephen Lambden (Newcastle Univ. UK), 

  • `The Ḥurufāt al-Muqaṭṭa`āt (Isolated Letters) in the writings of the Bāb with special reference to the Qayyūm al-Asmā'.

 Abstract  

Discussant:  Audience

35th MESA 200Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco (USA),

California, November 17-20, 2001. 

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies

Panel discussion will be held on Saturday, November 17, 5:00-7:00 p.m. in Grand Ballroom B.


 

MESA 2001 San Francisco (USA)

Left to Right:

Juan Cole + Stephen Lambden+ Todd Lawson+ Ernest Tucker +  Brian Miller.

Programme

Todd Lawson, "Shaykhi Motifs in Bahai Teachings:  Knowledge and Power"
 
Brian Miller, "Blessed Beauty: Aesthetics, Writing, and Revelation in Selected Works by Baha'u'llah"
 

Stephen Lambden,

  • "The alleged citations from the Bible in the writings of the Bāb and according to the Cambridge orientalist E. G. Browne (d.1926).

ABSTRACT

 
Discussant:  Audience

 

MESA  2002 WASHINGTON (USA)   

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies

MARRIOTT WARDMAN PARK HOTEL WASHINGTON, DC.
Panel, Sat. 11/23, 4:00pm-6:00pm, Truman R oom

MESA 2002
SOCIALIZING IN WASHINGTON

SBBS 2002 Program.

Shamil Jeppie, (University of Cape Town), `"Remembering Joseph Perdu: a Baha’i Missionary in South Africa?"
Stephen Lambden, (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), `"The Roots and Significance of the Babi-Bahai Concept of the Mightiest Name of God.'
Will McCants, (Princeton University), `"Murataḍa al-Ansarī in Babi / Baha’i Historiography"
Necati Alkan, (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), `"The Eternal Enemy of Islam": Abdullah Cevdet and the Baha’i Religion"


MESA  2003 WASHINGTON (USA)   

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies
Panel, Sat. 11/23, 4:00pm-6:00pm, Truman

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        SBBS 2002 Program.

 


 

MESA  38TH ANNUALMEETING, NOVEMEBER 20-23 2004   

HYAT REGENCY, SAN FRANCISCO (USA)

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies
Panel, Sat.  Nov. 20, 8:00-11:00 pm, Marina, Bay Level Room

 

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Sholeh Quinn (Chair).

SBBS 2004 Program.

  • Houchang Chehabi (Boston Univ.), `The Shaykhis of Kerman in the Islamic Republic of Iran'.

  • Todd Lawson (Univ. Toronto), `Suluk according to Ahmad Ahsa'i and Kazim Rashti'.

  • Stephen Lambden, (Ohio Univ. at Athens),

    `Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī's (d.1259/1843) `Commentary upon the Graphic form of the Mightiest Name of God (al-ism al-a`ẓam)'.

ABSTRACT

  • Brian Miller, (Univ. Cal. Santa Cruz), `The Faculties of Mystical Perception: Thoughts on Translating `Heart', 'Mind', 'Soul', 'Spirit'.

  • Susan Maneck, (Jackson State Univ.) `The Islamic Context for Baha'i Concepts of Religion and State'.  

 

MESA  2005  ADD  (USA)   

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies
Panel, Sat. 11/23, 4:00pm-6:00pm, 

SBBS 2005 Program.

 

 

MESA  2006  ADD (USA)   

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies
Panel, Sat. 11/23, 4:00pm-6:00pm, 

        SBBS 2006 Program.

 

MESA  2007  add (USA)   

Society for Shaykhī, Bābī and Bahā'ī Studies
Panel, Sat. 11/23, 4:00pm-6:00pm, 

 

 

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