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TAGS: Bahá'u'lláh; - Poetry; 1850s; 1854; 1856; Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq (documents); Kurdistan; Mysticism; Sufism; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq
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

Juan Cole

published in From Iran East and West: Studies in Babi and Bahá'í History

Volume 2, pp. 1-28

Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984

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