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Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination

Author	Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Title of item	Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination
Volume	10:3-4
Pages	1-24
Parent publication	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
Publisher of this ed.	Ottawa, ON: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America
Date of this edition	2000
Language	English
Permission	publisher
Posted	2022-04-06 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.org/nakhjavani_fact_fiction
Abstract	On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjective stories, between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. We inherited a responsibility to resolve this tension.
Notes	Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/449.
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Locations	London; United Kingdom
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Last edited	2023-10-03 07:21 EDT. See previous versions [archive.org].

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