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I am all the Prophets"

Author	Juan Cole
Title of item	I am all the Prophets"
Subtitle of item	The Poetics of Pluralism in Bahá'í Texts
Volume	14:3
Pages	447-76
Parent publication	Poetics Today
Date of this edition	1993 Fall
Language	English
Permission	author
Posted	1999 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/cole_poetics_pluralism
Abstract	Literary analysis of a passage from Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm) in which Bahá'u'lláh identifies Himself with all the past Prophets and their sufferings, depicting himself mortally wounded on the field of battle, like Imám Husayn.
Notes	Also available as a scan of the original article.
Tags	Archetypes; Cosmology; I am all the Prophets (phrase); Imam Husayn; Imams; Interfaith dialogue; Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude); Manifestations of God; Martyrdom; Pluralism; Poetry; Return; Suriy-i-Damm (Tablet of Blood); Unity of religion
Cross-references	See also Tablet of Blood (provisional translation by Juan Cole.
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Last edited	2023-01-15 01:50 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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