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Iranian Bahá’ís in the Court
SH (Bahá'ís) Iran CG (2006) UKAIT 00041
The immigration acts heard at Bradford Promulgated On 25 January 2006 On 27 April 2006 before Senior immigration judge Roberts and immigration judge I. Macdonald. Between Appellant…
Nuqtat al-Kaf and the Babi Chronicle Traditions
All professional historians in the field of Babi-Bahá'í studies in the Qajar period are convinced that the Kitab-i Nuqtat al-Kaf (ed. E.G. Browne and Muhammad Qazvini, vol. 15 of the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series, Leiden, 1910…
Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Bahá’í World Community
The Bahá'í Faith, best-known for its liberal social teachings and tolerance towards other religions, has an authoritarian governing structure that has caused a high level of disillusionment among adherents. Because of the…
Race, Immorality and Money in the American Bahá’í Community: Impeaching the Los Angeles…
Where could Iranian-Americans, African-Americans and whites meet regularly for worship, negotiating each other very different value system in the globalized world of diasporas and New Religious Movements? The answer is, in…
Women’s Service on the Universal House of Justice
By Juan R.I. Cole
Department of History, University of Michigan
Written Spring, 1996
In his Most Holy Book, which he completed in `Akka around 1873, Baha'u'llah ordained the establishment of houses of justice…
The Crisis in Babi and Bahá’í Studies: Part of a Wider Crisis in Academic Freedom?
By Denis MacEoin
Bad reviews, like death and taxes, come to us all. But whereas we can hire undertakers to box up our mortal remains and accountants to plead with the faceless minions at Cumbernauld, it falls to ourselves…
Physics according to Abdul Baha
“The animal cannot become aware of the fact that the earth is revolving and the sun stationary. Only processes of reasoning can come to this conclusion. The outward eye sees the sun as revolving. It mistakes the stars and the planets…
Bahaullah Broke the Babi Rule by Marrying 3 Wives!!
I know you are reading this and telling yourself that Baha’ullah had 3 wives because when he got married he was a Muslim, and Muslims can have 4 wives! But this is wrong!
Baha’ullah married his first wife, Ásíyih Khánum,…
Bahá’ís are not Supposed to Indulge in Politics but the Universal House of Justice Does!!!
Baha’u’llah has repeatedly warned the Baha’i not to indulge in politics:
Baha’u’llah addressing His followers wrote: “Forbear ye from concerning yourselves with the affairs of this world and all that pertained unto it, or from…
Infallibility
If the Universal House of Justice throws someone out of the Bahá'í Faith like Sen Mc Glinn and Alison Marshall and Juan Cole or condones the NSA of the United States commanding Bahá'í libraries not to buy any books from…