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Modernity and the MillenniumJuan R. I. Cole

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Modernity and the Millennium

The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East

by Juan R. I. Cole

Cole examines Bahá'u'lláh's writings in the context of Ottoman and Iranian debates about constitutionalism, nationalism, the rights of women and religious reform. He presents the early Bahá'í Faith as part of Middle Eastern modernity. An important intellectual history.

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