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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... Muslim country . It then spread to neighboring Muslim lands in the Ottoman and Russian Empires and to northern India . Though some early follow- ers were of Jewish , Christian , or Zoroastrian background , the vast ma- jority had been ...
... Muslim country . It then spread to neighboring Muslim lands in the Ottoman and Russian Empires and to northern India . Though some early follow- ers were of Jewish , Christian , or Zoroastrian background , the vast ma- jority had been ...
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... Muslim scholars . " By A.D. 661 , only twenty - nine years after Muhammad's death , power in the Muslim world fell into the hands of the first of a series of dy- nastic rulers , theoretically elected by the faithful , but in fact ...
... Muslim scholars . " By A.D. 661 , only twenty - nine years after Muhammad's death , power in the Muslim world fell into the hands of the first of a series of dy- nastic rulers , theoretically elected by the faithful , but in fact ...
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... Muslim society . Muham- mad took the first step in this direction when he established the first Muslim state in the city of Medina . It is no doubt significant that , whereas the Christian calendar begins with the supposed date of the ...
... Muslim society . Muham- mad took the first step in this direction when he established the first Muslim state in the city of Medina . It is no doubt significant that , whereas the Christian calendar begins with the supposed date of the ...
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