Kitáb-i-Íqán

About This Book

The Kitáb-i-Íqán, also known as the Book of Íqán or simply The Íqán, is a book by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, and the principal doctrinal work of that religion. Composed in Baghdad over the course of two days and nights in January 1861, partly in Persian and partly in Arabic, the work was written in response to a series of questions posed by Ḥájí Mírzá Siyyid Muḥammad, a maternal uncle of the Báb, concerning the signs of the appearance of the promised one of Islam. Scholars in Islamic studies have treated the work as a major piece of Persian-language Quranic exegesis. Todd Lawson, writing in a Routledge volume on the Bahá'í tradition, characterizes it as "primarily a work of exegesis" and as one of Bahá'u'lláh's two most important books; the English Orientalist Edward Granville Browne praised the work as "a work of high merit, of vigorous style, lucid in argument, and convincing in its proofs;" and Christopher Buck, a scholar of religion specializing in Bahá'í and Quranic studies, has described it as "the most influential Quran commentary in Persian outside the Muslim world," on account of its international circulation.

Summary sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.