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The Shaykhi movement was a school of theology within Twelver Shiʻa Islam that was started through the teaching of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsá'í.Shaykh Ahmad's teachings included that the Imams were spiritual beings and thus, in contrast to the widespread Shiʻa belief, that the Imams existed within spiritual bodies, and not material bodies. [9]
[94] [95] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi [sic] was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN ...
Baháʼí Library: Chronology of the Bábí and Baháʼí Faiths and related history; Visual overview of the Baha'i Cycle, Era, Ages, Epochs and Plans; Bibliography for the Tablets of Baha'u'llah: List of citations and resources for Tablets revealed 1853-1863; Newspaper Collections and the Bahá'í Faith
In "The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments" (Religion: 1989), Baháʼí authors Momen and Smith provide the following estimates of the Baháʼís in the world over 3 decades, broken out by cultural areas. They derived numbers from, "calculation of approximate numbers from the number of Bahá'í organizations ...
Wondrous-Badíʿ Today (dynamic display of today's date for your location optimized for mobile browsers) Arithmetic of the Baháʼí Calendar, and Variants (archived) Baháʼí Calendar, Baháʼí Events and Holy Days (types: Persian, Islamic, Gregorian) (archived) Momen, Moojan. The Names of the Bahá’í Months: Separating Fact from Fiction ...
This section of the book describes the 23 years of Baha'i history following the death of ʻAbdu'l-Baha, with particular emphasis on the provisions and implications of his last Will and Testament, the development of the Baha'i Administrative Order, and the expansion and multiplication of Baha'i communities throughout the world.
The news in 1971 was that the national count of Baháʼís had doubled - [125] The Christian Century noted that in a "one-month, 13-county 'teaching conference' based in Dillon, South Carolina, 9,000 converts, most of them black, joined the Baha'i faith (sic), with hundreds more signing declaration cards in similar efforts throughout the south."
In Baha'i belief, although human cultures and religions differ on their conceptions of God and his nature, the different references to God nevertheless refer to one and the same Being. The differences, rather than being regarded as irreconcilable constructs of mutually exclusive cultures, are seen as purposefully reflective of the varying needs ...