This volume of
The Lights of 'Irfan presents a wide range of articles presented during the Colloquia in English language conducted in 2002. A provisional translation of the historic "Epistle of the Bab to Sultan Abdulmecid of Ottoman Empire is presented with some introductory information. From the Writings of Baha'u'llah the provisional translations of the following Tablets together with their historical background are included in this volume:
- Tablet of Maqsud
- Tablet of Naqus (the Bell)
- First Tablet to Napoleon III
- Tablet to the Templer Leader Georg David Hardegg
Other papers include:
- An Epistle of Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad 'the Bab' to Sultan Abdulmecid
- The Aristotelian Substratum of the Baha'i Writings by Ian Kluge
- The Call into Being: Introduction to a Baha'i Existentialism by Ian Kluge
- The Uses of Genealogy and Genealogical Information in Select Persianate and Babi/Baha'i Sources: A Preliminary Survey by Sholeh A. Quinn
- An Exposition on the Tablet of the World (Lawh-i-Dunya) by James B. Thomas