‘Abdu’l-Bahá's Journey West

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Negar Mottahedeh

   Pages 1-13

3. Laura Dreyfus-Barney and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Visit to the West

   • Mona Khademi

   Pages 15-38

4. An Analysis of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Visit to North America in 1912

   • Robert H. Stockman

   Pages 39-57

5. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Critique of Nationalist Amnesia

   • Nader Saiedi

   Pages 59-83

6. A Troubled Modernity: W.E.B Du Bois, “The Black Church,” and the Problem of Causality

   • Guy Emerson Mount

   Pages 85-110

7. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation

   • Christopher Buck

   Pages 111-143

8. Orientals Meeting in the West: Foes Become Friends

   • Mina Yazdani

   Pages 145-169

9. Back Matter

   Pages 171-196

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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.

• Africa
• African
• America
• black church
• church
• Civil war
• critique
• essay
• interaction
• Orient
• society
• writing

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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.

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