The Authority of the Feminine and Fatima's Place in an Early Work by the Bab

COLLECTION	Published articles
TITLE	The Authority of the Feminine and Fatima's Place in an Early Work by the Bab
AUTHOR 1	Todd Lawson
DATE_THIS	2007
VOLUME	1
TITLE_PARENT	Online Journal of Bahá'í Studies
PAGE_RANGE	137-170
PUB_THIS	Association for Bahá'í Studies of New Zealand
ABSTRACT	While Tahirih inspired many in Europe and eventually America, she is very much a daughter of her own culture, history, mythology, and religion. She was a religious mystic who felt a new day arising in the world, and seen by some as the "return" of Fatima.
NOTES	First published in The Most Learned of the Shi‘a: The Institution of the Marja‘ Taqlid, ed. Linda Walbridge (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 94-127; see lawson_authority_feminine_2001.pdf.
TAGS	* Báb, Writings of; - Interfaith dialogue; - Islam; Alast (Primordial Covenant); Fatimah (daughter of Muhammad); Gender; Henry Corbin; Hurqalya; Imams; Iran (documents); Return; Shaykhism; Shiism; Tahirih; Typology; Women; Worlds of God

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