Asking Questions: A Challenge to Fundamentalism

by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání

Challenging questions about scholarship, priestcraft, fear, freedom, women and the law.

Do we have an innate desire to ask questions or is Interrogation something we need to learn? If questions are the means by which on stirs the passive mind and awakens the soul, how can they be asked so as to alert the mind to passionate inquiry rather than providing it with false choices?

Why do we sometimes fear questions? Or is it the answers that we fear? How can we guard against questions that coerce, that manipulate? Can questions freely asked tap the vast resources of spiritual, intellectual and emotional power?

Dr Nahkjavani challenges fundamentalist thinking by asking questions about:

scholarship
priestcraft
fear
freedom
women
the law
And about the nature of fundamentalism itself.

Genres: Baha I

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1990

About the author

Bahiyyih Nakhjavání is a Persian writer educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. After teaching literature at universities in North America and Europe, she came to live in France where she has been conducting workshops in creative writing/reading for the past decade. Bahiyyih Nakhjavání's books, both fiction and non-fiction, have been translated into many languages. In 2007, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège.

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