Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century - Paperbackby Juan Cole (Author) Modernity and the Millennium is the first book to chart responses in the Muslim Middle East to modernity through an examination of the evolution of the Baha'i faith a millenarian movement led by the nineteenth century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah ("the Glory of God"). This volume illuminates the complexity and ambiguity that characterized the changing relationship of Baha'u'llah and his followers to modernity, considered as a