Contents

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Invited Commentary

Only One True Religion?

    John Hick

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Paper

Alain Locke: Bahá’í philosopher

    Christopher Buck

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Surveys of Methodology
“First we speak of logical proofs” : discourse of knowledge in the Bahá’í writings
    Franklin Lewis

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Methodology in Bahá’í studies

    Moojan Momen

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Bahá’í apologetics?

    Udo Schaefer

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Methodology and Bahá’í studies: the bridge between realities

    John Hatcher

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Unfreezing the frame: the promise of inductive research in Bahá’í studies

    Will van den Hoonaard

 

Provisional Translation

‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Turkish commentary – an introduction

    Necati Alkan

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Provisional translation of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá ’s commentary on the Sura of the Fig

    Necati Alkan

Sounding
Early European social activism
    Rob Weinberg

Commentary
Stephen Lambden’s “Catastrophe, Armageddon and Millennium"
    William P Collins

Books
Nader Saiedi’s Logos and Civilization
    Seena Fazel and Dominic Brookshaw

Scripture and Revelation (edited by Moojan Momen)
    Brian Miller

Christopher Buck’s Paradise and Paradigm
    William P Collins

David Piff’s Unofficial Bahá’í Lore
    Iarfhlaith Watson

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Khadem’s Shoghi Effendi in Oxford and Marcus’s Queen Marie

    Lil Abdo

Obituary
Alessandro Bausani
    Heshmat Moayyad

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Compilation

Introduction

    Rob Weinberg

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Bahá ’í extracts on writers and writing

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Bibliography: Academic Bahá’í materials 1998-2000

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Author Biographical Notes