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The Structure of Existence in the Bab's Tafsir and the Perfect Man Motif

Author	Todd Lawson
Title of item	The Structure of Existence in the Bab's Tafsir and the Perfect Man Motif
Pages	81-99
Parent publication	Studia Iranica: Cahiers 11: Recurrent Patterns in Iranian Religions from Mazdaism to Sufism
Publisher of this ed.	Association pour l'Avancement des Etudes Iraniennes
Date of this edition	1992
Language	English
Permission	author
Posted	2016-07-25 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/lawson_bab_perfect_man
Abstract	The Perfect Man is the mediator between God and the World. He is the mirror in which creation sees God, the eye by which God sees creation. The Bab phrased his cosmology and his Quranic exegesis in light of wahdat al-wujud, the Unity of Being.
Tags	Cosmology; God (general); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Manifestations of God; Mirrors; Perfect Man (Pole); Quran; Sufism; Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow); Unity of existence
Page views	2361 hits since 2016-07-25
Last edited	2016-07-25 15:34 EST. See previous versions [archive.org].

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