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List of documents by Denis MacEoin

Author name: Denis MacEoin

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  1. Alessandro Bausani, Denis MacEoin. 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Life and Teachings (1985). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  2. Denis MacEoin. Ahsá'í, Shaykh Ahmad (1985). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  3. Denis MacEoin. Alí Bastámí, Mullá (1985). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use." Encyclopedia.
  4. Denis MacEoin. Ardakání, Hajjí Abu'l-Hasan (Hand of the Cause) (1987). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use." Encyclopedia.
  5. Denis MacEoin. Azalí Babism (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  6. Denis MacEoin. Báb (Door, Gate) (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  7. Denis MacEoin. Báb, The (ʿAlí Mohammad Shirází) (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Biographies.
  8. Denis MacEoin. Babi and Bahá'í Religions, The: An Annotated Bibliography (1997). Books.
  9. Denis MacEoin. Babi Concept of Holy War, The (1982). An influential and controversial article, one of the first modern academic examinations of Bábí history. Discusses Islamic jihad, Bábí jihad, martyrdom, and political struggles. Articles.
  10. Denis MacEoin. Bábí Executions and Uprisings (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  11. Denis MacEoin. Bábí Movement (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  12. Denis MacEoin. Badí' Calendar (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use." Encyclopedia.
  13. Denis MacEoin. Bahá'í and Bábí Schisms (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  14. Denis MacEoin. Bahá'í Fundamentalism and the Academic Study of the Babi Movement (1986). A response to Afnan and Hatcher's "Western Islamic Scholarship and Bahá'í Origins," on the issues of faith-based approaches to religious history and textual criticism. Articles.
  15. Denis MacEoin. Bahá'í Literature (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  16. Denis MacEoin. Bahá'í Persecutions (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  17. Denis MacEoin. Bahá'ísm: Some Uncertainties about its Role as a Globalizing Religion (2005). On Bahá'í self-understanding as the religion to unite all faiths in the culmination of globalisation, vs. the challenges which secular values present to a religion that, rooted in Islamic thinking, aims to fuse the spheres of religion and society. Articles.
  18. Denis MacEoin. Barághání, Muhammad Taqí (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use." Encyclopedia.
  19. Denis MacEoin. Bárfurúshí, Muhammad `Alí (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use." Encyclopedia.
  20. Denis MacEoin. Bayán (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  21. Denis MacEoin. Bayán (Bayán-i-Farsí): Questions on (1998). Answers to a number of questions relating to the Bab and the Bayan, inspired by MacEoin's translation of the Persian Bayan. Study.
  22. Denis MacEoin. Bushrú'í, Mullá Muhammad Husayn (1990). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use." Encyclopedia.
  23. Michael Stausberg, Denis MacEoin, Sen McGlinn. Challenging Apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's 'Marginality and Apostasy in the Bahá'í Community' (2008). Six letters to the editor published in the issue following Momen's article. Articles.
  24. Denis MacEoin. Crisis in Babi and Bahá'í Studies, The: Part of a Wider Crisis in Academic Freedom? (1990). Response to Cole's review of MacEoin's "Hierarchy, Authority, and Eschatology in Early Bábí Thought" with comments on "outsider" scholarship versus faith-based approaches. Articles.
  25. Denis MacEoin. Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Shari'a: Babi and Baha'i Solutions to the Problem of Immutability (1997). Ways in which the Bab and Bahá'u'lláh adopted and changed the Islamic shari`a in their own, new codes of law. Articles-unpublished.
  26. Denis MacEoin. Divisions and Authority Claims in Babism (1850-1866) (1989). Factors leading to the division of Babism into the Azalís and the Bahá'ís, and the question of succession and the claims of Mírzá Yahyá, Dayyán, and Bahá'u'lláh. Articles.
  27. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Fire Tablet (1994). Tablet of "The Hearts of the Sincere are Consumed in the Fire" (Lawh-i-Qad-Ihtaraqa`l-Mukhlisún). Translations.
  28. Denis MacEoin. From Shaykhism to Babism: A Study in Charismatic Renewal in Shi'i Islam (1979). Examination of the Bábí movement within the wider context of Imami Shi'ism, the shadow of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i and Sayyid Kazem Rashti, and the Bábí rejection of Shaykhism. Theses.
  29. Denis MacEoin. Hands of the Cause (Ayádí Amr Alláh) (1987). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
  30. Denis MacEoin. Hierarchy Authority and Eschatology in Early Babi Thought (1986). Evolution of the Bab's theology and prophetology. Articles.
  31. Denis MacEoin, Robert Stockman, Juan Cole, Will C. van den Hoonaard. Jonah Winters, ed. Is the Bahá'í Faith a "World Religion" or a "New Religious Movement"? (1997-05). Compilation of emails about the socio-religious classification of the Bahá'í Faith. Essays.
  32. Denis MacEoin. Islam and the Baha'i Faith: A comparative study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-Baha ‘Abbas: Review (2010). Reviews.
  33. Denis MacEoin. Letter on Bahá'í attitudes towards politics and scholarship (1979-01-07). Thoughts on whether the Faith is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the problems faced by people in the world outside, partly due to lack of involvement in politics. Essays.
  34. Denis MacEoin. Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review (2001-06). Reviews.
  35. Denis MacEoin. Making the Invisible Visible: Introductory Books on the Bahá'í Faith (2012-08). Overview of contemporary issues in Bahá'í scholarship from an outsider's perspective, including definition of "New Religious Movement," links to Islam, and the succession of authority in light of the truncated guardianship and the lack of schisms. Reviews.
  36. Denis MacEoin. Mazhar [Manifestation] (1960-2004). Definition of a type of theophany in which the divinity or its attributes are made visible in human form. Encyclopedia.
  37. Hamid Algar, Moojan Momen, Denis MacEoin, et al.. Mentions of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Encyclopedia Iranica: Sixty Excerpts (1985-2013). Excerpts of 60 articles in the Encyclopedia, with links to the offsite originals, which contain a reference to the Faith. These items are not long enough to warrant a separate entry in this Library, yet are included here for ease of discovery. Encyclopedia.
  38. Denis MacEoin. Modernity and the Millennium, by Juan Cole (1999). Reviews.
  39. Muhammad Afnan, William S. Hatcher, Denis MacEoin. Note on Maceoin's 'Bahá'í Fundamentalism' and 'Afnán, Hatcher and an old bone' (1986). Two shorter follow-up essays, offering closing thoughts on a previously-published debate about issues of historical accuracy, academic neutrality, and faith-based scholarship. Essays.
  40. Báb, The. Denis MacEoin, trans. Persian Bayan, The: Partial translation (2000). A partial provisional translation of the Persian Bayan. Translations.
  41. Denis MacEoin. Problems of Scholarship in a Bahá'í Context (1982). Thoughts on "anti-intellectualism" and faith-based interpretations of history, by a self-described outsider scholar. Articles.
  42. Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad. Denis MacEoin, trans. Questions of Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad occasioning the Revelation of the Kitab-i-Iqan (1997-06). Translation of the questions submitted to Bahá'u'lláh by Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad, the maternal uncle of the Bab, which led to the revelation of the Kitab-i Iqan. Histories.
  43. Moojan Momen, Denis MacEoin. Response to MacEoin's "Problems of Scholarship" and "A Critique of Moojan Momen's Response," A (1983). A discussion touching on many topics, including scientific objectivity in the study of religion, faith vs reason, liberalism, academic standards, and the nature of sects vs "world religion." Articles.
  44. Denis MacEoin. Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism (1994). On practices of prayer, invocations, talismans, jewelry, fasting, purity, birth, death, marriage, festivals, pilgrimage, and Feast. Includes 26 appendices with texts and translations. Books.
  45. Denis MacEoin. Some Bahá'í and Shaykhí Interpretations of 'the Mystery of Reversal' (1982-06). Prophecies about the appearance of the Qa'im and the significance of certain letters and numbers within a cipher described in an Islamic text. Articles.
  46. Denis MacEoin. Sources for Early Bábí Doctrine and History, The: A Survey (1992). Thorough, annotated list of writings and sources relevant to Bahá'í historical research. Includes index of first lines and titles of writings of The Báb (see scan #1). Books.
  47. Vahid Rafati, Denis MacEoin, Faruq Izadinia. Jonah Winters, comp, Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Sources of Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1997/2022). List of the original Tablets excerpted by Shoghi Effendi in compiling Gleanings. Study.
  48. Denis MacEoin. Still Lives (1993). The nature of private lives and biography in Middle Eastern culture, with brief discussion of Rushdie's Satanic Verses and the lives of Tahirih and Shoghi Effendi. Articles.
  49. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh (Suriy-i-Hajj): Baghdad (1994). A provisional English translation of instructions by Bahá'u'lláh for pilgrimage to the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad. Translations.
  50. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb (Suriy-i-Hajj): Shiraz (1994). Translations.
  51. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet of the Bell (Lawh-i-Naqus) (1994). Translation of a tablet written in Istanbul in fall, 1863 in honor of the Declaration of the Bab. Also known as Subhánáka-Yá-Hú, or "Praised be Thou, O He!" Translations.
  52. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet of the Veil (Lawh-i-Qina') (1994). A one-paragraph Tablet about the rise of the Mahdi and numerology of the letters alif, sad, and waw, and the numbers 6, 11, 13, and 60. Translations.
  53. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet of the Wondrous (Lawh-i-al-`Ajab) (1994 (Appendix XVII). Translations.
  54. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet on Marriage (Lawh-i-Nikáh) (1994). Translations.
  55. Abdu'l-Bahá. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet on the Greatest Name (Lawh-i Ism-i A'zám) (1994). Explanation of the numerological significances of Bahá’ and the ringstone symbol. Translations.
  56. Juan Cole, Denis MacEoin. "'The Objectivity Question' and Bahá'í Studies: A Reply to MacEoin" and "A Few Words in Response to Cole's 'Reply to MacEoin'" (1991). Two responses to MacEoin's article "Crisis in Bábí and Bahá'í Studies." Essays.
  57. Denis MacEoin, comp. Trial of the Báb: Questions, rebukes, statements made during the interrogation of the Bab (1997-05). Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial. Histories.
  58. Denis MacEoin, trans. Trial of the Bab: Mulla Muhammad Mamaqani's account (1997-05). Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial. Histories.
  59. Denis MacEoin, trans. Trial of the Báb: Alim-i Hashtrud's account (1997-05). Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial. Histories.
  60. Denis MacEoin. Trial of the Báb: Shi'ite Orthodoxy Confronts its Mirror Image (2000). Overview of, and documents preserved from, the Bab's 1848 trial for heresy against Islam. Articles.
  61. Denis MacEoin, comp. Trial of the Báb: Answers given during the interrogation of the Báb (1997-05). Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial. Histories.
 
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