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TITLEOttoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith
AUTHOR 1Necati Alkan
DATE_THIS2004-06-15
ABSTRACTBahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá had contact with many of the reformers and modernist ideas in Turkey in the 1860s-1890s. This paper focuses on the "Young Turk" leader Abdullah Cevdet.
NOTES Lecture in the University of Haifa "Lectures in Bahá'í Studies" series, 15 Jun 2004. Mirrored from bahai.haifa.ac.il/past_lectures.htm. See also the published version of this talk.
TAGS`Abdu'lláh Cevdet; Reform; Turkey; Young Turks
 
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Language note: This audio file opens with an introduction in Hebrew, followed by the main lecture which is in English.

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