'Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West : The Course of Human Solidarity / edited by N. Mottahedeh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mottahedeh, N., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--History.

Middle East.

Religion--History.

Religion.

Ethics.

Ethnology--Middle East.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Religions.

History of the Middle East.

History of Religion.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Middle Eastern Culture.

Comparative Religion.

Local Subjects:

History of the Middle East.

History of Religion.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Middle Eastern Culture.

Comparative Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Laura Dreyfus-Barney and `Abdu'l-Bah á' s Visit to the West ; 2. An Analysis of `Abdu'l-Bah á' s Visit to North America in 1912 ; 3. `Abdu'l-Bah á' s Critique of Nationalist Amnesia

4. A Troubled Modernity: W. E. B Du Bois, "The Black Church," and the Problem of Causality 5. `Abdu'l-Bah á' s 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation ; 6. Orientals Meeting in the West: Foes Become Friends ; Bibliography ; Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349440979

1349440973

9781137032010

1137032014

OCLC:

836404108