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Besides targeting Iran's national level Baháʼí leadership, the Islamic regime also pursued Baháʼís known for services to their religion, and members of local Baháʼí councils all over Iran. The first local Baháʼí council member to be executed, who served in Tehran, was hanged on 12 April 1979—just days after the official ...
The Baháʼí Faith is a monotheistic religion [a] founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. [b] Established by Baháʼu'lláh, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its inception. [14]
Bábism (Persian: بابیه, romanized: Babiyye), also known as the Bábi Faith, [2] is a messianic movement founded in 1844 by the Báb (b. 'Ali Muhammad). [1] The Báb, an Iranian merchant-turned-prophet, professed that there is one incorporeal, unknown, and incomprehensible God [3] [4] who manifests his will in an unending series of theophanies, called Manifestations of God.
Leadership of the religion then passed on to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Baháʼu'lláh's son, who was appointed by Baháʼu'lláh, and was accepted by almost all Baháʼís. [1] Under the leadership of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, the religion gained a footing in Europe and America, and was consolidated in Iran, where it still suffers intense persecution. [3]
Peter Smith - historian and sociologist, author of a much-cited academic study of Baháʼí history, The Babi and Bahaʼi Religions: From Messianic Shiʻism to a World Religion. [91] Franklin Lewis - author and translator in Iranian studies, who has also published literary analyses of the works of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh.
The teachings of the Báb refer to the teachings of Siyyid ʻAlí Muḥammad who was the founder of Bábísm, and one of three central figures of the Baháʼí Faith.He was a merchant from Shíráz, Persia, who at the age of twenty-four (on 23 May 1844) claimed to be the promised Qá'im (or Mahdi).
It was the location where the Báb proclaimed his religion for the first time. [1] In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Baháʼu'lláh declared this house a place for Baháʼí pilgrimage. [2] After major renovation in 1903, under the guidance of Abdu'l-Bahá, the house became the main Baháʼí holy place in Iran. [3]
In 2013, the book The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography wrote, "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 was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least ...