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1 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (London: Collier Macmillan, 1962). 2 Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1978), p. 93. 3 Ibid., p. 125. 4 Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1976), p. 213. 5 Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets , p. 164. 6 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1957), p. 62. 7 Muhammad Ali Feizi, Hayat-i-Hadrat-i-’Abdu’l-Bahá (Tehran: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 128 B. E.), p. 42. 8 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Secret , p. 11.

9 Ibid., pp. 5-6. 10 Ibid., p. 12. 11 Ibid., p. 1. 12 Ibid.

13 Hamid Algar, Religion and State in Iran (Berkeley : University of california Press, 1969). 14 Guity Nashat, The Origin of Modern Reform in Iran (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981). 15 Max Weber, Economy and Society (New York: Bedminster Press, 1968). 16 Hamid Algar, Mirza Malkum Khan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973). 17 Nikkie R. Keddie, An Islamic Response to Imperialism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968). 18 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Secret , p. 26. 19 For a good discussion of different types of rationalization process see Jurgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), and The Theory of Communicative Action (Boston: Beacon press, 1984- 87). 20 Ibid., pp. 60-61. 21 Nader Saiedi, The Birth of Social Theory (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993). 22 Ibid. 23 Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 1976). 24 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Secret , pp. 37-38. 25 Ibid., p. 17, 24. 26 Juan R. I. Cole, “Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the 19th Century”, International Journal of the Middle East Studies , 24, pp. 1-26. 27 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Secret , p. 17. 28 Ibid., p. 16, 29 Ibid., p. 14, 32, 39, 101. 30 Ibid., pp. 111-112. 31 Ibid., pp. 24-25. 32 Ibid., pp. 106-107. 33 Ibid., pp. 18, 105-106, 109-110, 118.

34 Ibid., pp. 41-43. 35 Ibid., pp. 25-26. 36 Ibid., p. 27.

37 Ibid., pp. 27-30. 38 Ibid., pp. 30-31. 39 Ibid., p. 34. 40 Ibid., pp. 107-108. 41 Ibid., p. 73. 42 Ibid., pp. 97-98. 43 Ibid., p. 61. 44 Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets , p. 90. 45 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Secret , pp. 64-66. 46 See Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitab-i-Aqdas (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1992), pp. 248-249.

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