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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.