Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century

by Juan R.I. Cole and Juan R.I. Cole

Book Overview

Modernity and the Millennium is the first book to chart responses in the Muslim Middle East to modernity through an examination of the evolution of the Baha'i faith--a millenarian movement led by the nineteenth-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah ("the Glory of God"). This volume illuminates the complexity and ambiguity that characterized the changing relationship of Baha'u'llah and his followers to modernity, considered as a transnational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231110812
• ISBN13: 9780231110815
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"