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Abstract:
A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Bahá'í history, key writings, and the need for scholarly study, translation, and contextual analysis of Bahá'í texts.
Notes:
Original audio recording, which includes 11 out of the 12 talks, are at soundcloud.com/bahai-blog/sets/nader-saiedi-text-and-context. Talk #12 can be found at Saiedi's own website. See also partial transcript of Talk #5.

Notes:
- Only talk number 4 has bad recording quality, please skip if you can't follow anymore.
- In talk number 10, at 1 hour and 32 minutes, Dr. Saiedi mentions a definition of a Bahá'í by 'Abdu'l-Bahá. This appears to be a text from Shoghi Effendi in Persian, online at https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GTB/gtb-18.html#pg8 (personal communication, A.B.).


Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age

Nader Saiedi

2014

About: A series of 12 talks given by Professor Nader Saiedi called “Text and Context in the Baha'i Heroic Age” held in 2014 at the Santa Monica Baha'i Centre, USA.

Professor Nader Saiedi is well known for his books 'Logos and Civilization' and 'Gate of the Heart'. Born in Tehran, Iran. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Pahlavi University in Shiraz and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin. For over 25 years he was a professor of sociology at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 2013, he became the Taslimi Foundation Professor of Baha'i Studies in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. (from soundcloud.com)

Main Topics

Below a few main topics for the talks:

    Part 1: Introduction
    Parts 2, 3, 4: Writings of the Báb
    Part 5: Bahá'u'lláh, introduction
    Part 6: Three declarations
    Part 7: Kitáb-i-Íqán
    Part 8: Súriy Haykal
    Part 9: Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Kitáb-i-'Ahd, Lawh-i-Dunya, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
    Part 10: East and West, Lawh-i-Maqsud
    Part 11: Some Answered Questions, Pantheism, Commentary on the Hidden Treasure
    Part 12: Nine statements of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá

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