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Tag: "Typology"

tag name: Typology type: Religions, Middle Eastern
web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Typology
related tags: Bible; Literature; Archetypes; Return
referring tags: Northrop Frye
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typology_(theology)

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  1. 2025-06. Quddús and the Story of Joseph: A Typological Exploration. Boris Handal. — How Quddús can be understood through the lens of Joseph’s narrative of sacrifice, patience, and d...
  2. 2025. تاویل و هرمنوتیک در آثار آئین بهائی (Interpretation and Hermeneutics in the Bahá'í Writings). Iman Motlagh Arani. — A methodological guide to symbolic interpretation, including case studies on "sun, moon, and stars,"...
  3. 2022-08-27. Joseph in Religious History and the Bahá'í Writings. Christopher Buck. — Just as the story of Joseph is the "best of stories," the metaphor of Joseph is the "best of metapho...
  4. 2022. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration. Todd Lawson. — Article contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Baha'i...
  5. 2021. Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism, The. Todd Lawson. — On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths:...
  6. 2015. Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses. Todd Lawson. — Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their r...
  7. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. — A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Baha'i history, key writings, and the need for schola...
  8. 2012. Typological Figuration and the Meaning of "Spiritual": The Qurʾanic Story of Joseph. Todd Lawson. — Meanings of the famous shirt (qamis) as a symbol of Joseph's spiritual journey and travails in the Q...
  9. 2010-10. Ibn 'Arabi's Joseph: Imagination as Holy Communion. Todd Lawson.
  10. 2007. Authority of the Feminine and Fatima's Place in an Early Work by the Bab, The. Todd Lawson. — While Tahirih inspired many in Europe and eventually America, she is very much a daughter of her own...
  11. 2005. Tablet (Lawh) in Bahá'í Usage. Todd Lawson. — Meanings of the common Baha'i terms lawh (tablet), ketab (book), sahifa (treatise), resala (epistle)...
  12. 1997. Metaphor and the Language of Revelation. Ross Woodman. — To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the W...
  13. 1992. Immanence and Transcendence in Theophanic Symbolism. Michael W. Sours. — Baha'u'llah uses symbols to depict theophanies — the appearance of God and the divine in the real...
 
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