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TAGS: Aboriginal people; Aesthetics; Aqa Bala-Big Naqqash-bashi; Architecture; Arts; Bab, Life of (documents); Bab, Portrait of; Bab, Teachings of; Bab, Writings of; Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Beauty; Business; Calligraphy; Dancing; Gardens; Haykal and daira; Indigenous people; Kitab-i-Asma (Book of Names); Literature (general); Manufacturing; Mashriqul-Adhkar (House of Worship); Music; Native Americans; Painting; Paradise; Perfection; Persian culture; Poetry; Portraits; Prayer; Prayer texts; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Refinement; Style (general); Talismans; Teaching; Theatre; Transformation; Work (general); World Centre; Writing (general)
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Abstract:
The writings of the Bab have implications for the "plastic" arts; significance for native traditions; relevance to the performing arts; and the concept of refinement which comes across in both the person and the writings of the Báb.
Notes:
Paper slightly updated in July 2014. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/97/momen_refinement.

Perfection and Refinement:
Towards an Aesthetics of the Bab

by Moojan Momen

published in Lights of Irfan, 12, pages 221-243
Wilmette, IL: Haj Mehdi Armand Colloquium, 2011
Download: http://irfancolloquia.org/pdf/lights12_momen_aesthetics.pdf.
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