UK Bahá’ís Remember The Life of Lord Avebury
The Bahá’í community of the UK has remembered the life of Lord Avebury with prayers and recollections of his service to the advance of human rights. Lord Avebury was born…
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UK Census 2011: Only 5,021 Baha’i Adherents
The UK government’s Office for National Statistics has released data for the 2011 census. The census data for Wales and the UK shows a surprisingly large influx of foreigners, especially from Poland. Among…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Misleading Baha’i book banned in Malaysia
Secretary of the Publication and Al-Quran Text Control Division of the Malaysian Home Ministry, Hashimah Nik Jaafar, said in a statement on Monday that five publications, including the book on the…
Slain woman had tried to support abusive husband
Husband arrested in Brutal Carpark death after Leila Alavi failed to return to the hair salon where she worked following a phone call from her former husband she was discovered dead in her car. Friends of Leila Alavi say the…