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Abstract:
On the content of the Kitab-i-Ahdi, its manuscript history, and textual variants; Andalib's eyewitness account of its unveiling; Tumanski's scholarly work; contemporary attestation of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's successorship by Tumanski and other Russian notables.
Notes:
See also Posledneye Slovo Bekha-Ully [Bahá'u'lláh's Last Word].

Purchase online from the publisher, ingentaconnect.com. Also posted by author at academia.edu.

While the date shown on the PDF is 2013, actual publication was 2017.


The 1893 Russian Publication of Baha'u'llah's Last Will and Testament:
An Academic Attestation of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Successorship

by Christopher Buck and Youli A. Ioannesyan

published in Bahá'í Studies Review, 19, pages 3-44
2017
Abstract: This study concerns the publication of a document that may well be unique in the history of religions: the written designation of a successor by the charismatic founder of a world religion. In the Kitáb-i 'Ahdí ('Book of My Covenant'), Bahá'u'lláh designated his eldest son, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, as successor. Bahá'u'lláh died on 29 May 1892 in Bahjí, Palestine, and the Kitáb-i 'Ahdí was read aloud nine days later. In 1893, Russian orientalist Aleksandr Tumanski published this document, in the original Persian, with Russian translation, together with a eulogy composed by the celebrated Bahá'í poet. Since 'Andalíb was an eyewitness to the events he describes, his eulogy may be treated as a historical source. Tumanski's scholarly publication of the Kitáb-i 'Ahdí is discussed in the context of Russian scholarly and diplomatic interests.
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