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CONTENTS FOREWORD, by J.A. McLean xiii PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION (1995) xxi PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION (2000) xxiii INTRODUCTION 1 PART I: METHODOLOGY CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW 15 I. The limits of religious knowledge 15 II. ‘Critical literature’ 18 III. The renegade as researcher 27 IV. The origins of the conflict 30 CHAPTER 2 ON FICICCHIA’S METHODOLOGY 36 I. Opportunism—the supreme principle of the Bahá’í Faith? 37 II. Ficicchia’s standpoint 40 III. Ficicchia’s portraits of the founding figures 56 1. The Báb 56 2. Bahá’u’lláh 58 IV. Ficicchia’s portrait of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 73 V. The portrait of Shoghi Effendi 90 VI. Ficicchia’s distorted image of the Bahá’í community 102 VII. Ficicchia’s semantics 119 VIII. The Bahá’ís—sectarian escapists and dangerous extremists?126 1. On the charge of ‘unworldly isolation’ 126 2. On the charge of subversion 135 PART II: COMMUNITY AND DOCTRINE CHAPTER 3 FICICCHIA’S PORTRAIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND ITS ORDER 141 I. The background: the Protestant concept of law 142 II. Ficicchia’s critique of the order of the Bahá’í community and its foundations 149 1. The Universal House of Justice — not foreseen by Bahá’u’lláh? 149 2. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s testament—disp

Author

Udo Schaefer, Ulrich Gollmer, Nicola Towfigh

Publisher

Oxford: George Ronald

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780853984436

Subjects

Religion, Islam

Updated

2026-03-24