Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction; Negar Mottahedeh -- 2. Laura Dreyfus-Barney and 'Abdul-Bahá's Visit to the West; Mona Khademi -- 3. An Analysis of 'Abdul-Bahá's Visit to North America in 1912; Robert H. Stockman -- 4. 'Abdul-Bahá's Critique of Nationalist Amnesia; Nader Saiedi -- 5. A Troubled Modernity: W.E.B Du Bois, 'The Black Church,' and the Problem of Causality; Guy Emerson Mount -- 6. 'Abdul-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation; Christopher Buck -- 7. Orientals Meeting in the West: Foes Become Friends; Mina Yazdani.
Summary:
"Born in 1844 in Persia (Iran), 'Abdu'l-Bahá is best known as the eldest son of Mīrzā Ḥusayn ʻAlī Nūrī, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), the founder of the Bahá'i; Faith. This edited volume of specially commissioned essays marking the centenary of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's journey to the West documents the uniqueness of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's vision of human solidarity and peace in the context of twentieth century modernity and show the moral impact of his principled positions on the emergent Civil Rights movement in America. "--Provided by publisher.
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