The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionBaha'i Publishing, 2002 - 253 pages Explore 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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... Shiah today , and are usually referred to by West- ern scholars as " orthodox " as opposed to the " heterodoxy " of the Shiah , Shiah Islam has a long and respected tradition , a tradition that only recently has become the object of ...
... Shiah today , and are usually referred to by West- ern scholars as " orthodox " as opposed to the " heterodoxy " of the Shiah , Shiah Islam has a long and respected tradition , a tradition that only recently has become the object of ...
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... Shiah Muslim clergy , the claims made by the Báb were not merely heretical , but a threat to the foundations of ... Shiah , the domi- nant branch of Islam in Persia , the challenge was especially acute . Over the centuries , Shiah dogma ...
... Shiah Muslim clergy , the claims made by the Báb were not merely heretical , but a threat to the foundations of ... Shiah , the domi- nant branch of Islam in Persia , the challenge was especially acute . Over the centuries , Shiah dogma ...
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... Shiah belief . The fundamental prin- ciple underlying the Persian monarchy was that the shah served merely as a regent who held the kingdom in trust for the Imam Mahdi . Since the central claim of the Báb was that he was this long ...
... Shiah belief . The fundamental prin- ciple underlying the Persian monarchy was that the shah served merely as a regent who held the kingdom in trust for the Imam Mahdi . Since the central claim of the Báb was that he was this long ...
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