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            (Professor of History at the University of Michigan) Originally published in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 37, No. 2 (June 1998): 234-248. Despite the large literature on American religious bodies,…

Abstract Recently the small Italian Baha’i community was shocked to learn that one of its most prominent, long-serving and active members, the former General Secretary of the NSA: Franco Ceccherini, had been ousted from the NSA and…

          One may question the reason behind this series given that Bahaullah abrogated the religion of the Bab. However, readers will agree that to understand the Baha’i Faith, one must dig deeper and verify the source of its…

             The genesis of the Babi Faith lies in the doctrines of the Shaykhi sect originally expounded by Shaykh Ahmed ibn Zaynud Deen Al Ahsai (1166 AH - 1241 AH) and then by his student Seyyed Kazim Rashty (1205 AH - 1259 AH). One…