The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh

The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh  (1992)  by Adib Taherzadeh

Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes & Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Prologue: The Covenant and the Human Soul

PART ONE
THE GREATER COVENANT
‘Him Whom God shall make manifest’

1. The Covenant of the Báb

2. The Fulfilment of the Covenant of the Báb

3. Mírzá Yaḥyá, The Nominee of the Báb

4. The Breaking of the Báb’s Covenant

5. The Triumph of the Covenant of the Báb

PART TWO
THE LESSER COVENANT
1. The Ministry of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

6. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Centre of the Covenant

7. The Family of Bahá’u’lláh

8. The Arch-breaker of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant

9. The Relationship of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

10. The Appointment of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

11. The Breaking of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant

12. ‘The Day that Shall Not Be Followed by Night’

13. Principal Covenant-breakers during the Ministry of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

14. Clandestine Opposition to the Covenant

15. Mírzá Áqá Ján

16. Discrediting the Centre of the Covenant

17. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Action

18. Covenant-breaking in Persia

19. Building the Shrine of the Báb

20. Years of Incarceration

21. Covenant-breaking in the West

22. The Bahá’í Attitude to Covenant-breaking

23. Fostering Steadfastness in the Covenant

PART THREE
THE LESSER COVENANT
2. The Formative Age

24. The Close of the Heroic Age

25. Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Faith

26. Building the Foundations of the Administrative Order

27. The Expounder of the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh

28. The Administrative Order in Action

29. Vital Developments at the World Centre

30. Rebellion in the East against the Guardian

31. Rebellion in the West

32. The Faithless Relatives of Shoghi Effendi

33. The Onward March of the Faith

34. The Chief Stewards

35. The Universal House of Justice

36. The Unfoldment of the Covenant

Appendices

1. The Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

2. Letter from the Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land to all National Spiritual Assemblies, 15 October 1960

3. The Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice: Letters from the Universal House of Justice

Bibliography
References
Index