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Perfection and Refinement

 
AuthorMoojan Momen
 
Title of item
Perfection and Refinement
 
Subtitle of item
Towards an Aesthetics of the Bab
 
Volume
12
 
Pages
221-243
Parent publication   Lights of Irfan
 
Publisher of this ed.
Wilmette, IL: Haj Mehdi Armand Colloquium
Date of this edition 2011
LanguageEnglish
Permission editor and publisher
Posted 2011-08-06 by Jonah Winters
Classified in Published Articles
URLbahai-library.com/momen_aesthetics_bab
Abstract The writings of the Bab have implications for the "plastic" arts; significance for native traditions; relevance to the performing arts; and the concept of refinement which comes across in both the person and the writings of the Báb.
Notes Paper slightly updated in July 2014. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/97/momen_refinement.
Tags Aboriginal people; Aesthetics; Aqa Bala-Big Naqqash-bashi; Architecture; Arts; Bab, Life of (documents); Bab, Portrait of; Bab, Writings of; Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Beauty; Business; Calligraphy; Dancing; Gardens; Haykal and daira; Indigenous people; Kitab-i-Asma (Book of Names); Literature (general); Manufacturing; Mashriqul-Adhkar (House of Worship); Music; Native Americans; Painting; Paradise; Perfection; Persian culture; Poetry; Portraits; Prayer; Prayer texts; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Refinement; Style (general); Talismans; Teaching; Theatre; Transformation; Work (general); World Centre; Writing (general)
Locations Iran (documents); United States (documents); China; Japan; Africa; Australia; New Zealand
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