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The Most Holy Book| |
| Author | Bahá'u'lláh |
Title of item | The Most Holy Book |
Subtitle of item | Parallel Translation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas |
Editor, translator, etc. | Shoghi Effendi, trans |
Editor, translator, etc. | Anton Haddad, trans |
| Date of this edition | 1901/1922 |
| Language | English |
| Permission | Open copyright (see Baha'i Reference Library sharing terms, BIC copyright statement, and uhj_permission_electronic_texts) |
| Posted | 1997 by Jonah Winters |
| Formatted | 2013-01-03 by Jonah Winters |
| Classified in | Bahá'í Writings and Provisional translations |
| URL | bahai-library.com/bahaullah_kitab_aqdas_parallel |
| Abstract | Two translations, side-by-side: the authorized one (1992) and a more literal one by Anton Haddad (1901). Includes image-scan of Haddad's translation. |
| Notes | See also a scan of a typed copy of Haddad's translation: bahaullah_kitab-i-aqdas_haddad.pdf [PDF, 2MB]. The colophon on page 49 gives the history of this particular document (though the name of the typist is not noted). For another old translation of the Aqdas, by Earl Elder commissioned by William Miller (1961), see the "multilinear translation." |
| Tags | Anton Haddad; Kitab-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Parallel translation; Translation |
| Cross-references | See also official authorized translation, and an online Arabic Aqdas, and side-by-side Arabic and English. | | Page views | 22790 hits since 1997 |
| Edit quality | high: carefully proofread and edited |
| Format quality | high: well formatted |
| Partial inventory | Partial Inventory catalog ID no: BH00001 — see bahai-library.com/phelps_loom_reality |
Last edited | 2022-06-19 03:20 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs. | | |
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