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ABSTENTION FROM POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT Yet another law upon which
Bahá ' u ' lláh placed great emphasis is the requirement that his followers strictly
abstain from political involvement of any kind . At a first glance , one might expect
...
ABSTENTION FROM POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT Yet another law upon which
Bahá ' u ' lláh placed great emphasis is the requirement that his followers strictly
abstain from political involvement of any kind . At a first glance , one might expect
...
Page 208
His liberal political sympathies were greatly intensified by nationalistic ones : the
Constitutionalists were viewed in British imperialist circles as natural allies
against Tsarist Russia which supported the Qájár Shahs . Because Browne
believed ...
His liberal political sympathies were greatly intensified by nationalistic ones : the
Constitutionalists were viewed in British imperialist circles as natural allies
against Tsarist Russia which supported the Qájár Shahs . Because Browne
believed ...
Page 209
It was these men , intensely ambitious for political careers and blocked by Bahá '
u ' lláh from using the Báb ' s legacy to this end , who provided Browne with the
documents on which he based most of his later research . 6 The effect was ...
It was these men , intensely ambitious for political careers and blocked by Bahá '
u ' lláh from using the Báb ' s legacy to this end , who provided Browne with the
documents on which he based most of his later research . 6 The effect was ...
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Contents
The Islamic Background | 1 |
Baháulláh | 28 |
The Succession to Leadership | 50 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion Reading rainbow book |
| Authors | William S. Hatcher, James Stevenson, James Douglas Martin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0060654414, 9780060654412 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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