The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionHarper & Row, 1990 - 228 pages This is a study of the history, teachings, administrative structure and community life of the Baha'i faith, the youngest and fastest growing of the world's independent religions. |
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... Muhammad - was a sufficient guide . Those who subscribed to this latter belief became known as Sunni . Although ... Muhammad's death , power in the Muslim world fell into the hands of the first of a series of dynastic rulers ...
... Muhammad - was a sufficient guide . Those who subscribed to this latter belief became known as Sunni . Although ... Muhammad's death , power in the Muslim world fell into the hands of the first of a series of dynastic rulers ...
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... Muhammad , who was occasionally spoken of in this fashion by those who could claim direct descent from him . The Báb left school some time before his thirteenth birthday , and at fifteen years of age he joined his uncle in the family ...
... Muhammad , who was occasionally spoken of in this fashion by those who could claim direct descent from him . The Báb left school some time before his thirteenth birthday , and at fifteen years of age he joined his uncle in the family ...
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... Muhammad Shah and his chief minister : " Muhammad Shah , of whom I have already spoken , was a prince with quite a special disposition — one which is quite common in Asia but which Europeans have hardly seen , let alone understood ...
... Muhammad Shah and his chief minister : " Muhammad Shah , of whom I have already spoken , was a prince with quite a special disposition — one which is quite common in Asia but which Europeans have hardly seen , let alone understood ...
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