The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionHarper & Row, 1984 - 226 pages Grandpa tells his two young houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was scared at bedtime. |
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... Imams as a challenge to their own legitimacy . Conse- quently , according to Shiah accounts , one Imam after another was put to death , beginning with Hasan and Husayn , grandsons of Muhammad . These Imams , or descendants of the ...
... Imams as a challenge to their own legitimacy . Conse- quently , according to Shiah accounts , one Imam after another was put to death , beginning with Hasan and Husayn , grandsons of Muhammad . These Imams , or descendants of the ...
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... Imams had ended . One of the features of Iranian Shiah tradition is that , in the year 873 , the twelfth and last appointed Imam - only a child at the time - with- drew into " concealment " in order to escape the fate of his pre ...
... Imams had ended . One of the features of Iranian Shiah tradition is that , in the year 873 , the twelfth and last appointed Imam - only a child at the time - with- drew into " concealment " in order to escape the fate of his pre ...
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... Imam , " whose advent was to signal the Judgment Day . Indeed , it had been argued that the shahs themselves reigned merely as the Imam's trustees . Accordingly , throughout Persia , mullas arose in violent opposition to the Báb almost ...
... Imam , " whose advent was to signal the Judgment Day . Indeed , it had been argued that the shahs themselves reigned merely as the Imam's trustees . Accordingly , throughout Persia , mullas arose in violent opposition to the Báb almost ...
Contents
The Bábí Faith | 6 |
Baháulláh | 28 |
The Succession to Leadership | 50 |
Copyright | |
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