'Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity

by N. Mottahedeh (Editor)

Overview

This edited volume of specially commissioned essays written for the anniversary of ‘Abdu'l-Baha's journey to America tells the story of this former prisoner's interactions with the white upper echelon of American society as well as his impact on the lives and writings of important early figures in the African-American civil rights movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137032003
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	04/03/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Christopher Buck, Ph.D, Pennsylvania attorney Mona Khademi, Shiraz University, Iran Guy Mount, University of Chicago, USA. Nader Saiedi, Carleton College Minnesota, USA. Robert H. Skman, Harvard University, USA. Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Negar Mottahedeh 1. Laura Dreyfus-Barney and 'Abdul-Bahá's Visit to the West; Mona Khademi 2. An Analysis of 'Abdul-Bahá's Visit to North America in 1912; Robert H. Skman 3. 'Abdul-Bahá's Critique of Nationalist Amnesia; Nader Saiedi 4. A Troubled Modernity: W.E.B Du Bois, 'The Black Church,' and the Problem of Causality; Guy Emerson Mount 5. 'Abdul-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation; Christopher Buck 6. Orientals Meeting in the West: Foes Become Friends; Mina Yazdani

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