Bibliography 2: #BIB32936

Key	BIB32936
Reference type	Thesis
Title	מעמק עכור לפתח תקווה : המרחב הבהאי בארץ ישראל, 1868-1921 [Me-'emek Achor le-Petah Tikvah : ha-merhav ha-Baha'i be-erets Yisra'el, 1868-1921]
Translated title	"From the Valley of Achor to a Door of Hope" : The Bahá'í Region [i.e. Space] in Israel, 1921-1868
Author	Rozen, Shay
Year	2011
Date	March 2011
Place published	Hefa [Haifa]
Abstract	The author studies the development of Bahá'í space and settlement in Ottoman Palestine in the time of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. He considers Bahá'u'lláh's ministry in the country to have been a period of "unplanned" acquisition of buildings and land, primarily intended for the basic living requirements of Baháu'lláh and his family. He considers the time of 'Abdu'l-Bahá to be a period of "planned" strategic acquisition of properties. Shay notes that acquisitions were in the Akka environs, the mid-Jordan valley, and the Haifa/Mount Carmel area. The author indicates that the challenge of Mirza Muhammad-'Alí to 'Abdu'l-Bahá's authority was what may have motivated 'Abdu'l-Bahá's settlement of Bahá'ís in Haifa and the development of the "Persian Quarter" there. He indicates that as Muhammad-'Alí's partisans began selling off land, 'Abdu'l-Bahá was acquiring land, and seems to consider the coincidence of these to have a direct link to each other. Shay considers the evolutionary process of Bahá'í space in Ottoman Palestine involved few settlers and limited settlement scope, designed to serve specific goals defined by the head of the Bahá'í Community. These goals were religious, ritual, pilgrim-related, and for the growing of food. The nature of the settlement, the limited numbers of people involved, and the charismatic personalities of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá, and the latter's diplomatic abilities, enabled Bahá'í settlement without significant protest from the local population. He asks whether the way the Bahá'ís settled could be a model for other religious groups to settle in Israel and Palestine. He indicates the only way for others to succeed would be to follow the Bahá'í model but that the combination of variables is no longer possible, the evolution of Bahá'í space being unique. [Bibliographer comment: Rozen completely ignores the fact that this developing world religion already had a significant number of sites associated with sacred events and central figures in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, as well as needing a general administrative center due to the growing number of pilgrims from around the world; he does not seem to know that Bahá'u'lláh himself had shown 'Abdu'l-Bahá where the Báb's shrine and the Bahá'í World Centre would be located.]
Research notes	Abstract only.
Language	Hebrew
Keywords	ISRAEL
Number of pages	[13], 153
Academic department	Humanities
University	Universitat Hefah, ha-Hug le-limude Erets Yisra'el [University of Haifa]
Degree	M.A.
File attachments	internal-pdf://Rozen Abstract-1045800451/Rozen Abstract.pdf

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