TY  - JOUR
ID  - 4726
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/lawson_bab_perfect_man
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Structure of Existence in the Bab's Tafsir and the Perfect Man Motif, The
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JF  - Studia Iranica: Cahiers 11: Recurrent Patterns in Iranian Religions from Mazdaism to Sufism
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A1  - Lawson,Todd
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Y1  - 1992
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SP  - 81
EP  - 99
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PB  - Association pour l'Avancement des Etudes Iraniennes
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M3  - Articles
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LA  - English
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AB  - The Perfect Man is the mediator between God and the World. He is the mirror in which creation sees God, the eye by which God sees creation. The Bab phrased his cosmology and his Quranic exegesis in light of wahdat al-wujud, the Unity of Being.
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KW  - Barzakh
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - God
KW  - Islam
KW  - Manifestations of God
KW  - Mirrors
KW  - Perfect Man (Sufism)
KW  - Quran
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow)
KW  - Unity of existence (vaḥdatu’l-vujúd)
ER  -