A landmark, scholarly introduction and guide to the Bahai faiths holy book, Ghaemmaghami and Vafais impressively researched work contextualizes the sacred text within the corpus of its founders writings and those of his successors, explains and clarifies its language, elucidates and expands on each of its topics, and provides an overarching view of its contents. An indispensable resource for a deeper understanding of the Kitab-i-Aqdas and its place in the Bahai religion. -- Ali Banuazizi, Professor of Political Science, Boston College, USA This book is a valuable contribution to the fields of Bahįķ and religious studies. It gives a thorough and accessible overview of the history, contents and style of the Kitįb-i Aqdas, situating it within Bahįķ theology. This is all the more important because, despite being the central text of the Bahįķ faith, the Kitįb-i Aqdas has been woefully under-researched so far. -- Johanna Pink, Professor of Islamic Studies and the History of Islam, University of Freiburg, Germany By exploring the history and contents of the Kitįb-i-Aqdas, Omid Ghaemmaghami and Shahin Vafai have expanded our knowledge of the laws and teachings of the Bahįķ Faith. Such a work, perfectly grounded in textual and intellectual history, is a major step in 19th century Near Eastern studies. With impressive skill it makes clear the complex formation of belief and law in a new-born religious community. -- Roberto Tottoli, Professor, Universitą di Napoli LOrientale, Italy This is the most comprehensive academic study to date of the Kitab-i Aqdas, the core legal and doctrinal book of Bahai scripture. The authors have succeeded in elucidating the intricacies of the original, tracing its relationship to earlier religious texts, and examining its place in the religious history of nineteenth-century Iran and beyond. -- Dominic P Brookshaw, Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture, University of Oxford, UK The silence about the developments of the Bahįķ Faith is gladly dissipating. The publication of this study of the central text of the faith is a welcome step in filling that lacuna. -- Abbas Milani, Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, Research Fellow/Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA Exploring the Kitįb-i-Aqdas, written by two meticulous and erudite scholars, provides a comprehensive, in-depth, and engaging analysis of the text. It presents the laws of the Kitįb-i-Aqdas in terms of Bahįullįhs mystical theology. On the one hand, laws become expressions of a theology of dialectical and progressive revelation. On the other hand, the main purpose of these laws, which is the unification of humankind, is seen as the objective realization of the theology of unityestablishing the kingdom of God on earth. Exploring the Kitab-i-Aqdas is a creative work of scholarship that is highly academic and yet genuinely accessible to all readers. It is a must-read for all students of society and religion. -- Nader Saiedi, retired Professor of Sociology (Carleton College) and Adjunct Professor of Bahįķ Studies (UCLA), USA The Kitįb-i-Aqdas is the central authoritative scripture from Bahįullįh (d. 1892), founder of the Bahįķ Faith. This excellent and much-needed exploration is the first in-depth scholarly study and analysis of such an important textfor Bahįķs, the most important text. As such, it sets the tone and provides categories for further discussion, debate, and analysis. It is a long-awaited and most welcome addition to scholarship on the Bahįķ Faith and will remain a primary reference work for some time to come. -- Todd Lawson, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada A systematic and meticulously detailed close reading of the most sacred text governing the life of Bahįullįhs devotees. Placed in its historical context and in relationship to other Bahįķ texts, this splendid reading, exhibiting a deep mastery of Arabic, Persian and English, reveals a text that is not just a code of laws, but an invitation to a lavish and jubilant feast that is life itself; a text animated by a linguistic play that intentionally flouts the rules of Arabic grammar, reflecting Bahįullįhs bold departure from societal conventions and the use of lexical couplets, double plurals, metaphor, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, personification, and a singular colloquialism that rhythmically imprint, at once, Bahįullįhs metaphysical teachings onto the human frame and underscore, with every pulsating beat, the ephemerality of each now, brimming as it is with infinite bounty. -- Negar Mottahedeh, Professor, Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University Exploring the Kitįb-i-Aqdas is a landmark achievement. For millions of followers of the Bahai Faith around the globe, the Kitįb-i-Aqdas is the most sacred and important book written by Bahaullah, and yet it has received scant scholarly attention. Omid Ghaemmaghami and Shahin Vafai bring a formidable erudition to bear on explaining various dimensions of the Kitįb-i-Aqdas: its history and context, its theological foundations, its laws and principles, and its vision and message. This is a book that will be indispensable to anyone interested in the Kitįb-i-Aqdas itself, but also to anyone who wishes to better understand the books relationship with other Bahai texts as well as the relationship between the Bahai Faith and other world religions. -- Assef Ashraf, Associate Professor in the Eastern Islamic Lands and Persian-Speaking World, University of Cambridge, UK Omid Ghaemmaghami and Shahin Vafai have offered us the first-ever comprehensive analysis of Bahįullįhs Kitįb-i-Aqdas, the foundational text of the Bahįķ religion. This is a landmark contribution to Bahįķ Studies and a must-read for anyone interested in delving deeply into the history, theology, laws, and practices of the worlds youngest monotheistic faith. -- Alexander Treiger, Professor of Religious Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada
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