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Abstract: Overview of the life of Laura Clifford Barney and her role in assembling and publishing the book Some Answered Questions, and a comparison with the appendix to the Kitab-i-Aqdas called Questions & Answers. Notes: Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/ma'ani_saq. |
"Some Answered Questions" and Its Compiler
by Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani
published in Lights of Irfan, 18, pages 425-452Wilmette: Haj Mehdi Arjmand Colloquium, 2017
Abstract: During her stay in Paris in the early 1900s, Laura Clifford Barney heard of the Bahá’í Faith and studied its tenets with May Maxwell, the renowned Bahá’í teacher. Laura embraced the nascent Faith and pursued a lifelong career of service to humanity. This paper is about one of her most remarkable achievements: Some Answered Questions is the descriptive title of the book she has compiled of answers to the questions she presented to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
Download: lights18_maani_saq_compiler.pdf.
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