Violetta Zein mentions this letter, and the preceding events, at around 1 hour 24 minutes in her excellent youtube video:…
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I warmly recommend watching Violetta Zein's youtube presentation about Shoghi Effendi in Oxford:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjTX-XJggYand her online illustrated chronology that matches that:https://theutteranceproject.com/the-guardian-part-4/
Thank you Sen for your time and thank you for answering. You were talking about textual criticismo and I checked…
Shoghi Effendi is a demanding writer. A reader must read a considerable amount of his works to see how he…
age and century? Wrong translation of Shoghi.
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rogercoe said
I have a compilation on the HOW and the Hazira from the BWC. Is that something of what you’d like to see? I’ve also extended my work beyond that, looking at the Administrative Order as a whole.
Sen said
Yes, that is something I would like here. My problem at the moment is time to do it !