Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha’i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East

 Studies of the Babi and Baha’i Religion, Volume 9 

This work seeks to place the beginnings of the Bahá’í Faith in a historical context. It is the first book published by a university press on the life of Bahá’u’lláh since the time of E. G. Browne at the beginning of the twentieth century. Cole examines Bahá’u’lláh’s response to some of the pressing issues of His time. He demonstrates how the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh both engage with and critique the philosophy of the time.