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Erotic Imagery in the Allegorical Writings of Baha'u'llah

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Author	John Walbridge
Title of item	Erotic Imagery in the Allegorical Writings of Baha'u'llah
Date of this edition	1997
Language	English
Permission	author
Posted	1997 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Unpublished Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/walbridge_erotic_allegory
Abstract	Mystical symbolism in early Baha'i poetry.
Notes	For related work, see the author's Sacred Acts, Sacred Space, Sacred Time (Oxford: George Ronald, 1996), 158-165. See also Bahá'u'lláh's Symbolic Use of the Veiled Ḥúríyyih (2020) and Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism (1996).
Tags	Lawh-i-Ghulamul-Khuld (Tablet of the Immortal Youth); Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden); Love (general); Maid of Heaven; Sufism; Suriy-i-Bayan (Tablet of Utterance); Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple); Veils
Page views	16724 hits since 1997
Edit quality	medium: minimally proofread or edited
Format quality	medium: lightly formatted
Last edited	2020-12-31 01:41 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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