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TAGS: Bahaullah Life of (documents); Mysticism; Poetry; Sufism
LOCATIONS: Baghdad; Iraq (documents); Kurdistan; Sulaymaniyyih
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Abstract:
The interplay of Bábí themes of messianism and the Sufi mystical emphasis on internal spirituality; analysis of an early poem by Bahá'u'lláh which hints that by the 1850s he began to see his mission of reform to carry out in the Bábí community.
Notes:

Bahá'u'lláh and the Naqshbandi Sufis in Iraq, 1854-1856

by Juan Cole

published in Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, Volume 2, pages 1-28
Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984
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