In Spite of All Barriers: Teaching in South Africa with Lowell Johnson
In Spite of All Barriers: Teaching in South Africa with Lowell Johnson

Author: Robert Mazibuko

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1639376151

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About the Book Robert Mazibuko continues to record the major efforts to teach the Bahá’ í Faith in apartheid South Africa in the late 1960s and onward. Recounting the strategies learned during the travels of two people of different colour and origin working together: one a white American and the other a black South African under the strictures of culture and government. A fascinating insight into how people working in unity can effect great change.

Memories of Africa
Memories of Africa

Author: Robert Mazibuko

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2022-09-28

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1649578881

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Memories of Africa: Events Experienced in Southern Africa By: Robert Mazibuko The teaching of the Bahá’í Faith in Southern Africa continued regardless of the fact that we were in fear that growth might have been arrested, for a time, if the pioneers were to be sent out of the country. We were not a contra culture, but a culture that grew in friendship and peace among the Bahá’ís as they came out of obscurity in the mid-eighties. This story is about those times and the memories that were etched in our minds. If we forgot such memories, we would have forgotten ourselves. We are awed by the audacity of the early believers in teaching their Faith and their steadfastness in pursuing life according to Bahá’í ideals.

A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha'i Faith
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha'i Faith

Author: Peter Smith

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1780744803

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Written by a well-known author in the field of Baha'i studies, this is a comprehensive and accessible encyclopedia to the youngest of the world religions. Regarded as the second most widespread faith after Christianity, with adherents in almost every country around the globe, the Baha'i faith is nevertheless unfamiliar to many. here Dr Smith traces the origins and development of the religion from 19th century Iran to the modern day, introducing its central figures and major historical events. combining breadth with a readable yet concise style, he provides a balanced overview of Baha'i scriptures, doctrines and practices, social teachings and organization. This reference work presents a clear and knowledgeable view of a fascinating new religion.

Language Identity Modernity
Language Identity Modernity

Author: Shamil Jeppie

Publisher: HSRC Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Language, Identity, Modernity is a path-breaking and fascinating study of a little-known but, on the author's showing, influential group, the Arabic Study Circle, which emerged around 1950 in Durban, South Africa. Founded by literate Gujarati-speaking Muslims of merchant and professional backgrounds, it had as its seemingly modest goal the encouragement of the study of Arabic for a better understanding of the Koran. Arabic was not then widely known and spoken in South Africa. Indeed, in Durban, the language for teaching and studying Islam was Urdu. Thus in this context, the Circle's mission was innovative and even radical. At that time, prayers at the mosque were led chiefly by Urdu-speaking 'ulama' from South Asia. In this regard, Durban differed from Cape Town, which had an older and different Islamic tradition and whose Muslims were primarily Afrikaans speaking. Thus, although the Circle's purpose was linguistic enhancement, the end was a religious one.

The Baha'i Faith in Africa
The Baha'i Faith in Africa

Author: Anthony Lee

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-10-28

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9004206841

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One million Baha'is live in africa. This is the first academic volume to explore the history of this movement on the continent. The book discusses the diverse and contractivory American, Iranian, British, and African contributions to this new religious movement.