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Abstract:
The mystical milieu of musicianship and the Bahá'í Faith's approval of music (in contradistinction to the legalistic Islam of the ayatu'llahs, which forbade it) made the Faith appealing to Abdu'llah, one of the great compilers of the Persian repertoire.
Notes:
This article is incomplete; the preview at books.google.com only displayed pages 31-57.

Bahá'í Influences on Mirza 'Abdu'llah, Qajar Court Musician and Master of the Radíf

by Peggy Caton (published as Margaret Caton)

published in Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, Volume 2, pages 31-66
Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984
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