Bibliography: BIB21713

Key	BIB21713
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Bahá'u'lláh as 'World Reformer'
Journal	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
Author	Buck, Christopher
Year	1990
Date	Dec. 1990–Mar. 1991
Issue	4
Volume	3
Abstract	Vindicating the mission of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh's Book of Certitude (1862) focused on spiritual authority from an Islamic prspective. In this work, a subtext may be discerned in which Bahá'u'lláh intimates his own mission in the same terms of reference. Later, in his epistles to monarchs, Bahá'u'lláh exercised that authority and spoke of world reform. This article places Bahá'u'lláh in the context of Islamic reform, with particular reference to the advocacy of constitutional democracy by prominent Iranian secularists. In an ideological ether pervaded by "occidentalism" Bahá'u'lláh sought to reverse the direction of Western influence. Bahá'u'lláh prosecuted his own reforms in 3 stages: Bábí reform, Persian reform, and world reform. In this sequence, Bahá'u'lláh bypassed Islamic reform altogether in his professed rol as "World Reformer."
Language	English
Keywords	BAHA'U'LLAH; BAHA'U'LLAH. KITAB-I-IQAN; REFORM; ISLAM
Pages	23–70