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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780755660148
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description:
The Kit ib-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah i'a Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world. It sets out the laws, teachings, and institutions that shape and influence individual and collective life for members of the Bah i'a community. Despite the Kit ib-i-Aqdas's significance, it has not been extensively researched. Exploring the Kit ib-i-Aqdas: The Laws and Teachings of the Bah i'a Faith now offers a comprehensive academic study of the text.
This important new publication explores and analyzes the significance and history of the Kit ib-i-Aqdas; its language, style, and translation; and its theological and spiritual foundations, including its conceptions of God, religion, and human beings. The book, moreover, examines the Kit ib-i-Aqdas's provisions for succession, interpretation, and administration within the Bah i'a religion; its devotional and other personal laws; its ordinances for promoting unity; its perspectives on justice and law; and its addresses to the world's political and religious leaders. Academically rigorous yet eminently clear and accessible, Exploring the Kit ib-i-Aqdas is an essential read for students of religion and Middle East studies.
ISBN: 9780755660148
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description:
The Kit ib-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah i'a Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world. It sets out the laws, teachings, and institutions that shape and influence individual and collective life for members of the Bah i'a community. Despite the Kit ib-i-Aqdas's significance, it has not been extensively researched. Exploring the Kit ib-i-Aqdas: The Laws and Teachings of the Bah i'a Faith now offers a comprehensive academic study of the text.
This important new publication explores and analyzes the significance and history of the Kit ib-i-Aqdas; its language, style, and translation; and its theological and spiritual foundations, including its conceptions of God, religion, and human beings. The book, moreover, examines the Kit ib-i-Aqdas's provisions for succession, interpretation, and administration within the Bah i'a religion; its devotional and other personal laws; its ordinances for promoting unity; its perspectives on justice and law; and its addresses to the world's political and religious leaders. Academically rigorous yet eminently clear and accessible, Exploring the Kit ib-i-Aqdas is an essential read for students of religion and Middle East studies.