This temporary website is in the process of being setup to share
work in the fields of Biblical, Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī Studies. Many of
the text files posted here as written with Unicode fonts, Arial Unicode
MS font (51,160 glyphs and 23Mb) which exist within Microsoft’s
operating systems including Windows XP / Vista etc as well as versions
of Office 2000/03/4/07 and
FrontPage 2000-3 onwards. Arial Unicode MS (or another comprehensive Unicode)
font should be added to the non-XP/Vista Windows font directory to make
visible the academic transliteration used on this Website. Numerous
Unicode fonts include many or all the characters used in the
expression and transliteration of Arabic, Persian and the biblical
languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek) as well as that of key scriptural
languages of major world religions. For the academic transliteration
used here the Unicode font should contain: Basic Latin; Latin-1; Latin
Extended-A; Latin Extended-B and Latin extended Additional. For Arabic
and Persian and certain of the scriptural languages (Hebrew and Greek,
etc) this Website makes use of an expanded Unicode version of Times New
Roman.
Provisional translations of Bābī-Bahā'ī primary sources in Persian
and Arabic dating from 1978 until today will be selectively set forth
here as will translations of various Islamic, Shi`i , Shaykhī and
related texts. In this connection I would be delighted to receive
critical suggestions for improvement, preferably communicated by
email to my UK + USA address = slambden@ucmerced.edu
In addition to the Web publishing of revised versions of portions of my
work, the now 25 year old periodical
Bahā'ī Studies
Bulletin (BSB) will be partially revised and (re-)
published here :
http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BSB-WEBr/BSB%20COVER%20PAGE.htm
By summer 2010 this will be superseded by a renned on-line periodical
entitled
Syzygy: A Journal of
Bābī-Bahā'ī Studies
(UC-Merced + Newcastle
upon Tyne: Hurqalya Publications). This journal will initially be an
on-line periodical but may also, in due course, be fully printed in hard
copy.
Most of the academic papers, translations and files on this
Website are in constant states of revision and correction pending their
upgrading by 2010 to a more polished PDF oriented website.
