The Genesis Of The B Ab I Bah A I Faiths In Sh Ir Az And F Ars

This fascinating history a " the first of its kind on the development of a local BahAE3/4A- community in Iran a " is lucidly translated for the first time into English by Dr. Ahang Rabbani, is carefully annotated and supplemented with many details and scholarly notes about key personalities and places of interest to students of Iranian history.

The overall aim of the journal is to provide an international forum to explore the interface between transport and logistics. As more organizations take an integrated approach to logistics management, this interface has become highly complex, and many new and important issues have arisen. Within manufacturing and related organisations, these issues will often reflect the need to span functional boundaries, in order to fulfill customer orders in the most effective way. For example, transport requirements need to be woven into new patterns of buyer-supplier relationship. Similarly, the outsourcing of logistics services has important strategic implications for transport organizations and their customers. Issues of this kind are central to the scope of the journal.Yet it is also essential for the journal to cross the boundary between the private and public sectors. Logistics decisions made by companies can create or destroy transport demand, and with it the need for governments to provide infrastructure. Other areas of public policy also fall within the scope of the journal; environmental pollution, for example, results from transport activity generated by logistics-based decisions.Relevant issues can be explored through a choice of formats, ranging from theoretical analysis to individual case studies. Contributors are also invited to address a variety of subject areas within the field. The editor welcomes papers on information technology, economics, marketing, organisational behaviour, simulation and, indeed, any approach which adds to our knowledge and understanding of transport and logistics.

"Apocalypticism has been the source of hope and courage for the oppressed, but has also given rise, on many occasions, to fanaticism and intolerance. The essays in this volume seek neither to apologize for the extravagance of apocalyptic thinkers nor to excuse the perverse actions of some of their followers. Rather, they strive to understand a powerful, perhaps even indispensable, element in the history of Western religions that has been the source of both good and evil, and still is yet today."The Editors The Continuum History of Apocalypticism is a 1-volume, select edition of the 3-vol. Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism first published in 1998. The main historical surveys that provided the spine of the Encyclopedia have been retained, while essays of a thematic nature, and a few whose subject matter is not central to the historical development, have been omitted. The work begins with 8 articles on "The Origins of Apocalypticism in the Ancient World," extending from ancient Near Eastern myth through the Old Testament to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jesus, Paul, and the Book of Revelation. Next are 7 articles on "Apocalyptic Traditions from Late Antiquity to ca. 1800 C.E.," including early Christian theology, radical movements in the Middle Ages, and both Jewish and Islamic apocalypticism in the classic period. The final section, "Apocalypticism in the Modern Age," includes 10 articles on apocalypticism in the Americas, in Western and Eastern Europe, and, finally, in modern Judaism and modern Islam.

Based throughout on original Persian and Arabic sources, most in manuscript, this is an exhaustive overview of Babi history and doctrine. Alongside Amanat's "Resurrection and Renewal," this distillation of a lifetime's work on the movement brings Babi studies into the twentieth century.

One million Baha'is live in africa. This is the first academic volume to explore the history of this movement on the continent. The book discusses the diverse and contractivory American, Iranian, British, and African contributions to this new religious movement.