Bibliography: UAJ8XB2R

key	UAJ8XB2R
title	Letters and Essays, 1886-1913
author	Gulpáygání, Abú'l-Fadl
authority control	Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání
item type	Book
publication year	1985
date	1985
abstract note	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".
number pages	xv, 193
publisher	Kalimát Press
place	Los Angeles, CA
language	English
manual tags	THEOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY
translator	Cole, Juan R. I.