The Baha'i Studies Listserv >The Baha'i Studies Listserv > >Dear Susan, > >> Further to our letter dated 27 September 2009, we have been asked to >> inform you that >> the Research Department has become aware that one of the Tablets in >> the volume Tablets of >> Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, A1l-i-Kullu'l-Khayr >> (Words of Wisdom), was >> actually revealed before the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and probably in Baghdad. A >> copy of the Tablet in >> 'Abdu'l-Bahá's handwriting was found among the documents confiscated >> by the Ottoman >> authorities in 1868 during Bahá'u'lláh's exile in Adrianople (Edirne). > >I'm interested to know what occasioned this discovery.
A Ph.D. student doing research in the Ottoman archives in Turkey. >Were the contents of the confiscated documents >previously known, or was this merely brought to >the attention of the Research Department >recently? Only in general terms. There has not been very much research, Baha'i or otherwise, in the Ottoman archives. In part, this is because of policies of the Turkish gov't - they have been concerned about what might be fund. This has changed due to their interest in joining the EU. On top of that, we are getting more young Baha'i scholars with the expertise and academic support to make such investigations. AS a result, the confiscated documents were discovered in 2000, and provisionally identified and indexed. This letter indicates that in the last year, the BWC has officially confirmed this discovery. >Do these documents still exist? > Yes. But don't expect any great revelations. Abdu'l-=Baha expresses His regret in a Tablet to having had to destroy copies of His correspondence w/ Turks because of concerns that that the Commission of Inquiry would use it against Himself as well as others. Don C __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[email protected] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
