Contents

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Invited Commentary

Knowledge and the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh

    Ian Semple

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Papers

Infallible institutions?

    Udo Schaefer

Jamál Effendi and the early spread of the Bahá’í Faith in South Asia
    Moojan Momen

Catastrophe, armageddon and millennium
    Stephen Lambden

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Poetry as revelation

    Franklin Lewis

Provisional Translation
Bahá’u’lláh’s Mathnavíy-i Mubárak
    Franklin Lewis

Soundings
Some reflections on Juan Cole’s Modernity and Millennium
    Amin Banani

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Historical research and Bahá’í scholarship

    Sholeh Quinn 

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Indigenous rights and women’s rights in Samoa

    Maureen Sier

Commentaries
Franklin Lewis’ paper “Translating the Hidden Words”

Dominic Brookshaw

 

Bryan Graham’s paper “The Bahá’í Faith and Economics”
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

 

Books and Art
John Hatcher’s Ocean of God’s Words
    Sen McGlinn

Peter Smith’s Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá’í Faith
    William P Collins

Revisioning the Sacred (edited by J. McLean)
    David Piff

Mettlemen’s Lua Getsinger and Chapman’s Leroy Ioas
    Rob Weinberg​

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Moojan Momen’s Phenomenon of Religion

    Christopher Buck

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Alec Dinwoodie on the Apocalypse of Faith
Simon Mawhinney on Bahá’í music
Jonathan Ledgard on Danish cinema
Rob Weinberg on Bernard Leach and his pottery

Obituary
AM Davudi
    Novin Doostdar 

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James Heggie

    Graham Hassall

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Compilation

Introduction

Dominic Brookshaw

References to the Hidden Words by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi

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Author Biographical Notes