num_pages: 193
description: Here are collected the letters and scholarly treatises of Mrz Ab'l Fadl famed as the greatest and most learned of all Bah' scholars. Included are commentaries essays and correspondence written in Iran Russia and Egypt over a period of almost thirty years. The letters written from 1886-1888 in Southwestern Iran are among the few documents which throw light on Ab'l Fadl's early Bah' career. Also available for the first time in English is A Treatise for Alexander Tumansky written for the noted orientalist-a major work which provides an invaluable summary of the life of Bah'u'llh as well as unique information on the controversial histories Trkh-i Jadd and Naqtatu'l-Kf. There is the courageous defense of the Bah' Faith that Ab'l Fadl was able to publish in the Egyptian press the first article of its kind. And finally the letters collected from the last years of his life that show his scholarship at its most profound and most mature. The startling modernity of Ab'l Fadl's thought is as challenging today as it was when first written. This book is required reading for any serious student of the Bah' religion.
language: Persian
title: Letters and Essays, 1886-1913
publisher: Bahai Pub Trust