The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionExplore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions. |
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Page 24
Browne has described the treatises , commentaries , super - commentaries , and
notes that passed for intellectual activity in nineteenth - century Persia as
unreadable “ rubbish , " whose very existence serious scholars “ must deplore , "
adding ...
Browne has described the treatises , commentaries , super - commentaries , and
notes that passed for intellectual activity in nineteenth - century Persia as
unreadable “ rubbish , " whose very existence serious scholars “ must deplore , "
adding ...
Page 33
The Persian government's own account , published in the official gazette ,
Rúznámiyi - Vaqáyi - i - Ittifaqiyyih , naively ... Equally representative of conditions
in nineteenth - century Persia is the satisfaction the statement takes in describing
the ...
The Persian government's own account , published in the official gazette ,
Rúznámiyi - Vaqáyi - i - Ittifaqiyyih , naively ... Equally representative of conditions
in nineteenth - century Persia is the satisfaction the statement takes in describing
the ...
Page 234
Consequently , he became an advocate of the so - called " Constitutional
Movement " in Persia . Browne raised money for the movement in Europe , spoke
widely on its behalf , and made his home at Cambridge a way - station for
Persian ...
Consequently , he became an advocate of the so - called " Constitutional
Movement " in Persia . Browne raised money for the movement in Europe , spoke
widely on its behalf , and made his home at Cambridge a way - station for
Persian ...
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| Title | The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion |
| Authors | William S. Hatcher, James Douglas Martin |
| Publisher | Baha'i Publishing, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1931847061, 9781931847063 |
| Length | 253 pages |
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