• The Baháʼí administration is a system of elected and appointed institutions to govern the affairs of the Baháʼí community. Its supreme body is the Universal...
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    the expansion of the Baháʼí Faith to a number of new countries, and also translated many of the written works of crucial Baháʼí leaders. Upon his death...
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  • from the Baha’i administration, including being excluded from community gatherings and denied participation in organizational elections. Baháʼí institutions...
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  • ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Baháʼí Faith. Because the Baháʼí Faith has no clergy, they carry out the affairs of the community...
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    children get together to study about Baháʼí teachings, Baháʼí central figures, or Baháʼí administration. Baháʼí topics may be minimized in favor of a...
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  • The Baháʼí calendar used in the Baháʼí Faith is a solar calendar consisting of nineteen months and four or five intercalary days, with new year at the...
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    The Baháʼí World Centre is the name given to the spiritual and administrative centre of the Baháʼí Faith, representing sites in or near the cities of Acre...
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  • The Baháʼí teachings represent a considerable number of theological, ethical, social, and spiritual ideas that were established in the Baháʼí Faith by...
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    A Baháʼí House of Worship or Baháʼí temple is a place of worship of the Baháʼí Faith. It is also referred to by the name Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, which is Arabic...
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    [better source needed] Baháʼí administration Baháʼí–Azali split Baháʼí cosmology Baháʼí Faith and gender equality Baháʼí Faith in fiction Baháʼí studies Baháʼí timeline...
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  • peace. Baháʼí teachings stress the importance of implementing this principle in individual, family, and community life. Nevertheless, the Baháʼí notion...
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    nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baháʼí Faith. It was envisioned by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, as an institution that could legislate...
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  • Unity of humanity is one of the central teachings of the Baháʼí Faith. The Baháʼí teachings state that since all humans have been created in the image...
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  • Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. ISBN 0-87743-195-7. Effendi, Shoghi (1974). Baháʼí Administration. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust...
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  • represent the true Baháʼí Faith and the majority are Covenant-breakers. Some Baháʼís have claimed that there have been no divisions in the Baháʼí Faith, or that...
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  • Covenant-breaker (category Bahá'í divisions)
    Covenant-breaker is a term used in the Baháʼí Faith to refer to a person who has been excommunicated from the Baháʼí community for breaking the Covenant...
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  • the Baháʼí administration, with its members elected every five years. Baháʼí sources and most scholarly works estimate the current worldwide Baháʼí population...
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  • Tasjil (category Bahá'í practices)
    is officially confirmed as a follower of the Baháʼí Faith, under the auspices of Baháʼí administration. It is not only a matter of holding specific religious...
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  • relates closely to Baháʼí views on God's essential unity, and the nature of prophets, termed Manifestations of God. It also ties into Baháʼí views of the purpose...
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  • Baháʼí Faith has maintained its unity and avoided serious division, although several attempts have been made to create sects. Every attempted Baháʼí schism...
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  • Baháʼí laws are laws and ordinances used in the Baháʼí Faith and are a fundamental part of Baháʼí practice. The laws are based on authenticated texts...
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  • following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith. Baháʼí Faith – relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all...
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  • The Baháʼí Faith was recognized as having a widespread international membership by the 1980s. Author Denis MacEoin asserted in 2000 that Baháʼí Faith...
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    Baháʼu'lláh (category Bahá'í central figures)
    Miller in his 1974 polemic against the Baháʼí Faith. Baháʼu'lláh was born in Tehran, Iran, on 12 November 1817. Baháʼí authors trace his ancestry to Abraham...
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  • of the Cause who worked in the Baháʼí World Centre. The most complete list of the Hands available is from The Baháʼí World: Vol XIV. The Universal House...
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  • The Orthodox Baháʼí Faith is an extremely small Baháʼí sect that was formed in 1960 by Mason Remey, and subsequently was the name used by one of his disputed...
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  • local Baháʼí councils, and other former Baháʼí leaders around the country; along with everyone who signed the open letter defending the Baháʼí community...
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  • by Shoghi Effendi as the charters of the Baháʼí administration. The Covenant is a critical aspect of the Baháʼí Faith. The Will and Testament of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá...
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  • The International Baháʼí Council (IBC) was an administrative institution of the Baháʼí Faith, first created in 1951 as a precursor to the Universal House...
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  • religious text of the Baháʼí Faith, written by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873. Though it is the main source of Baháʼí laws and practices...
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