The Irfan Colloquia and its publications promote and facilitate the application of the knowledge and skills obtained from a systematic study of Baha'u'llah''s Revelation. This volume of
Lights of Irfan contains some of the papers presented at various sessions of the Irfan Colloquium in 2008 and 2009 that were conducted in the English language, as well as some articles that were received during that same year.
Papers include:
- Emergence, Enchantment, Entanglement and Excellence of the Cosmos by Wolfgang Klebel
- Baha'u'llah's "Most Sublime Vision" by Wolfgang Klebel
- Postmodernism and the Baha'i Writings by Ian Kluge
- Relativism and the Baha'i Writings by Ian Kluge
- Shoghi Effendi's Dispensation of Baha'u'llah by Jack McLean
- Insider and Outsider Scholarship in Baha'i Studies by Moojan Momen
- The Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace by Ali Nakhjavani
- The Surat al-mulk and the Surat al-muluk: A Preliminary Comparison by Sholeh A. Quinn
- Prophets and Mountains by Moshe Sharon
- Prayers and rituals in the Baha'i Faith by Julio Savi and Faezeh Mardani
- Tablet to Jinab-i-Mulla Ali-Akbar fi ardi'l-alif tanslated by Julio Savi and Faezeh Mardani
- The Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice by Ian Semple
- The Rise of Justice in the Spiritual and Secular Life of Man: The Advent of Divine Justice by James B. Thomas