'Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West

The Course of Human Solidarity
Herausgeber: Mottahedeh, N.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781349440979
• ISBN-10: 1349440973
• Artikelnr.: 45074737

Autorenporträt

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. Stockman, Harvard University, USA. Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Stockman 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