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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Page 11
... meet the ruler and fully explain his mission . Unfortunately , the plan miscarried . Muhammad Shah was a weak and vacillating man , already experiencing the later stages of an illness that would kill him within the year . Moreover , he ...
... meet the ruler and fully explain his mission . Unfortunately , the plan miscarried . Muhammad Shah was a weak and vacillating man , already experiencing the later stages of an illness that would kill him within the year . Moreover , he ...
Page 64
... meet- ing with the steady flow of pilgrims visiting the Bahá'í World Centre from both East and West . Even these encounters were limited for the most part to mealtimes at the " Pilgrim House " in Haifa . The period between 1921 and 1963 ...
... meet- ing with the steady flow of pilgrims visiting the Bahá'í World Centre from both East and West . Even these encounters were limited for the most part to mealtimes at the " Pilgrim House " in Haifa . The period between 1921 and 1963 ...
Page 217
... meet these challenges today than was ever the case in the past . No one with a reasonably good understanding of the Bahá'í teach- ings and history could plead confusion regarding the position of the Universal House of Justice as the ...
... meet these challenges today than was ever the case in the past . No one with a reasonably good understanding of the Bahá'í teach- ings and history could plead confusion regarding the position of the Universal House of Justice as the ...
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