Bahá'í Law

About: The presentation provides a broad overview of Bahá'í law in its historical, cultural, social, religious, political, and legal contexts. This includes situating Bahá'í law within processes and discourses of social change and legal revitalization within Islamic societies, including responses to modernity, colonization, and justice movements. Particular attention is paid to how Bahá'í law explicitly conceptualizes the application and enforcement of law as contingent on the existence of particular inner (spiritual) and outer (social) conditions, thus creating a Bahá'í legal imagination and culture that is highly diverse, dynamic, and fluid.