I have also been using the book as a reference guide, to see where `Abdu’l-Bah\u00c3\u00a1 was on certain dates, and which cities He visited. There are excerpts from the talks, to give some perspective, but there is a nice balance of talks and information about His travels. I liked having more information about the types of people that attended talks, why He may have spoken on certain subjects, and His experiences in different cities.<\/p>\n Reading it straight through was a bit challenging for me, but it has been nice to go back here and there to read highlights. As the author himself states, there will be more research and information in the coming years regarding `Abdu’l-Bah\u00c3\u00a1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s travels, but this is a good addition to the existing material that is already out there. A good companion book would be Promulgation of Universal Peace.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the Baha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122i Publishing Trust through its Bloggers Network book review program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Sholeh Loehle (originally posted at Nineteen Months) Over the last few months I read Abdu’l-Baha in America by Robert Stockman.\u00c2\u00a0I enjoyed the little details that were obviously meticulously researched, as well as the focus on historical context around `Abdu’l-Bah\u00c3\u00a1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.nineteenmonths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ABAT.jpg\" "\\"Abdu'l-Baha")
<\/a>Over the last few months I read Abdu’l-Baha in America<\/span><\/a> by Robert Stockman.\u00c2\u00a0I enjoyed the little details that were obviously meticulously researched, as well as the focus on historical context around `Abdu’l-Bah\u00c3\u00a1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s visit. This is a good book for those who may not be familiar with the Bah\u00c3\u00a1’\u00c3\u00ad Faith, as the author has attempted to write to a wide range of audiences to make the subject matter more accessible.<\/p>\n