Bibliography: BIB17498

Key	BIB17498
Reference type	Book
Title	Letters and Essays, 1886-1913
Author	Gulpáygání, Abú'l-Fadl
Translator	Cole, Juan R. I.
Year	1985
Date	1985
Publisher	Kalimát Press
Place published	Los Angeles, CA
Issue	7.20 rev
Abstract	A collection of essays and letters on diverse subjects by the most accomplished scholar of the Bahá'í Faith's first century ; selected from the Persian collection _Rasá'il va Raqá'im_. "What is remarkable about the nature of Abu'l-Fadl's responses is that they are firmly based upon meticulous and prodigious historical inquiry and encyclopedic knowledge of sources, aided by full and free use of deductive reasoning." [Introduction] Includes essays on: On the meaning of civilization ; On the resurrection day ; Why Moses could not see God ; Against blind obedience ; A treatise for Alexander Tumansky ; The Báb and the Bábí religion ; A letter to Tripoli ; On tests and trials ; On perfection and imperfection ; On the reaction in Egypt to his writings ; On the meaning of angels ; The reality of the Holy Spirit ; Did Moses prophesy Muhammad? ; A commentary on the saying "Knowledge is twenty-seven letters".
Notes	LC card 85-18069.
Language	English
Keywords	PHILOSOPHY; THEOLOGY
Number of pages	xv, 193