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"Early Western Accounts of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths". Encyclopedia articles. Baháʼí Library Online; Perkins, Mary (1987). Hour of the Dawn. Oxford: George Ronald. Rutstein, Nathan (2008). From a Gnat to an Eagle: The Story of Nathan Rutstein. US Baha'i Publishing Trust. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-931847-46-9. Smith, Peter (1999).
The Babi and Baha'i Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to a World Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521301282. Warburg, Margit (2006). Citizens of the world: a history and sociology of the Bahaʹis from a globalisation perspective. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-0746-1. OCLC 234309958
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.. Baháʼí Faith – relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.
Bahai.org: The Bahá'í Calendar; Baháʼí Dates 172 to 221 B.E. (2015 – 2065; prepared by the Baha'i World Centre) (pdf) Slide Show: Introduction to the Badíʿ Calendar; Feast Days by year; Badíʻ Calendar Calculator (detailed information about past and future dates, specific to location)
[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 ...
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá left Haifa for Port Said, Egypt on 29 August 1910.Earlier on that day he had accompanied two pilgrims to the Shrine of the Báb, and then he headed down to the port in the city where at around 4pm he set sail on the steamer "Kosseur London" and then telegrammed the Baháʼís in Haifa that he was in Egypt.
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 ...
The Baháʼí Faith has eleven holy days, which are important anniversaries in the history of the religion. On nine of these holy days, work is suspended. [1] There is no fixed format for any of the holy days, and Baháʼí communities organize their own commemorative meetings.