Item record: Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (<I>Lawh-i-Ta'wíl)

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Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl)

Author	Bahá'u'lláh
Title of item	Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl)
Pages	279-86
Parent publication	Iqtidarat
Editor, translator, etc.	Juan Cole, trans
Publisher of this ed.	Tehran: Bahá'í Publishing Trust
Date of this edition	n.d.
Language	English
Permission	translator
Posted	1998 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Provisional translations
URL	bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_tawil_cole
Abstract	Tablet on "the legitimacy of figurative scripture interpretation."
Notes	This translation and its introduction were adapted, with permission, from posts to an email discussion list.
Tags	Bahaullah, Writings of; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Islam; Kitab-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Lawh-i-Tawil (Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture); Laws; Quran; Scripture (general); Sufism
Locations	Akka
Cross-references	See also Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Ta'wíl) (by Mehran Ghasempour, 2001).
Page views	10877 hits since 1998
Edit quality	medium: minimally proofread or edited
Format quality	medium: lightly formatted
Phelps inventory	Partial Inventory catalog ID no: BH00013, see bahai-library.com/phelps_loom_reality
Last edited	2022-06-20 12:57 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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