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This chapter introduces the reader to the book’s topics, argument and methodology. It relates the surprising parallelisms between the developments of Bahá’í, Muslim and Jewish thought under the auspices of the British Empire and addresses their significance with regard to modern concerns, including multiculturalism and the ongoing Zionist debates. The chapter then goes on to describe how the historical circumstances, the outbreak of the First World War and the British–Ottoman conflict within it, did not cause but nevertheless provided the necessary support for the words and actions of the individuals in question. It explains what is meant by the term “ideologies of imperial intersection” with regard to the Bahá’í and Woking Muslim Misson leaders who created systems of meaning based upon a combination of their own traditions, beliefs and goals, on the one hand, and ideals and practices from the larger British imperial culture, on the other. Finally, it explains why Zionism and its meaning for Jews living in England during the early twentiethtwentieth century can best be understood in terms of debate.
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