Arabic and Persian Baha'i Texts by `Abdu'l-Baha: Secret of Divine Civilization
`Abdu'l-Baha
Risalih-'i Madaniyyih
(Secret of Divine Civilization)

`Abdu'l-Baha. Risalih-'i Madaniyyih (Secret of Divine Civilization)). Cairo: Matba`at Kurdistan al-`Ilmiyyah, 1911. Digitally reprinted, East Lansing, Mi.: H-Bahai, 2000.

Notes: Reformist essay written around 1875 in response to the attempt at cabinet government and modernization undertaken by Mirza Husayn Khan Mushir al-Dawlih, prime minister in 1871-73. First published Bombay, 1882. This edition edited by Faraju'llah Zaki al-Kurdi in Cairo, 1911. Discussed in Juan R. I. Cole, Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century Middle East (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 81-89; and Juan R. I. Cole, "Marking Boundaries, Marking Time: The Iranian Past and the Construction of the Self by Qajar Thinkers," Iranian Studies 29, nos. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 1996 [1997]):35-56.
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