Islam and the Baha'i FaithA Comparative Study of Muhammad 'Abduh and 'Abdul-Baha 'Abbas

Muhammad 'Abduh (1849–1905) was one of the key thinkers and reformers of modern Islam who has influenced both liberal and fundamentalist Muslims today. 'Abdul-Baha (1844–1921) was the son of Baha'ullah (1817–1892), the founder of the Baha'i Faith, a new religion which began as a messianic movement in Shi'i Islam before it departed from Islam.

Oliver Scharbrodt offers an innovative and radically new perspective on the lives of these two major religious reformers in the nineteenth-century Middle East by placing both figures into unfamiliar terrain. The book provides new insights into the Islamic background of the Baha'i Faith and into 'Abduh's own association with so-called heretical movements in Islam.