Shoghí Effendi (/ˈʃoʊɡiː ɛˈfɛndi/; Persian: شوقی افندی; 1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957) was an Ottoman-born Iranian religious figure and the Guardian of...
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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá during Shoghi Effendi's time. Apostates who maliciously attack the Baháʼí Faith. Examples include Ávárih, Sobhi and Níkú. Shoghi Effendi wrote to the...
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"canonical texts" are the writings of the Báb, Baháʼu'lláh, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice, and the authenticated talks of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá...
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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (redirect from Abbas Effendi)
which he appointed his grandson Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian. With the exception of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi, Muhammad ʻAlí was supported by...
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Rúhíyyih Khánum (section Work after Effendi)
Faith. She was the wife of the Ottoman-born Iranian religious figure Shoghi Effendi, who succeeded his grandfather ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to become the Guardian of...
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Baháʼí Faith (section Shoghi Effendi)
death in 1921, the leadership of the religion fell to his grandson Shoghi Effendi (1897–1957). Baháʼís annually elect local, regional, and national Spiritual...
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ʻAlí opposing him. Later, Shoghi Effendi faced opposition from his family, as well as some individual Baháʼís. When Shoghi Effendi passed in 1957, there was...
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1953 during the ministry of his grandson and successor, Shoghi Effendi. Also in 1953, Shoghi Effendi announced a long-term plan to build a temple for each...
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McCoy Tyner has one composition named "Effendi". It appears on his debut album, Inception. Shoghi Effendi, born Shoghí Rabbání, acquired the title from ʻAbdu'l-Bahá...
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propagating the religion, and protecting it from schism. With the death of Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the twenty-seven living Hands of the Cause at the time would...
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Baháʼu'lláh's family (redirect from Badíʻu'lláh Effendí)
and 1913), and Shoghi Effendi (during periods between 1922 and 1924), were absent from the Baháʼí World Centre in Haifa. Shoghi Effendi in particular felt...
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which was designed and completed several years later by his grandson, Shoghi Effendi. Crowning the design, as anticipated by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, is a dome, which...
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publication in Bombay, India. Parts of the text were translated to English by Shoghi Effendi, which, along with a Synopsis and Codification were published in 1973...
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Convention to elect the members of the Universal House of Justice. Shoghi Effendi sternly deprecated partisan politics and certain other practices current...
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often with a focus on sending travelling teachers to new countries. Shoghi Effendi initiated the plans before his death in 1957, and the Universal House...
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passed on to his grandson, Shoghi Effendi, who was appointed in ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's will. The document appointed Shoghi Effendi as the first Guardian, and...
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Baháʼí who was a Beaux-Arts architect and the father-in-law of Shoghi Effendi. Shoghi Effendi provided overall guidance, including in the use of Western and...
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Mason Remey (section Death of Shoghi Effendi)
appointed by Shoghi Effendi as the president of the International Baháʼí Council, and later as a Hand of the Cause. When Shoghi Effendi died in 1957,...
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in Persian by Nabíl-i-Aʻzam in 1887–1888. The English translation by Shoghi Effendi was published in 1932. The book relies mainly on the memoirs of surviving...
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in 1904, one of the first works of Baháʼu'lláh to appear in English. Shoghi Effendi re-translated the work into English in 1931. The Kitáb-i-Íqán consists...
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pp. 108–109. ISBN 9789004098343. From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, October 28, 1949: Baháʼí News, No. 228, February 1950, p. 4. Republished...
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the shrine. In early 1923 the keys were returned to Shoghi Effendi. In the 1950s, Shoghi Effendi had made plans for a future superstructure, which would...
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Shoghi Effendi, heads of the religion after Baháʼu'lláh, considered establishing the Universal House of Justice, they both declined to do so. Shoghi Effendi's...
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Salt Lake City in spring 1939, (apparently as their contribution to Shoghi Effendi's call for Baháʼís to relocate to support the religion) where he was...
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manifestation expresses himself, the aim is always to share spiritual truths. Shoghi Effendi, who was later appointed as the interpreter of Baháʼu'lláh's writings...
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branch of the Baháʼí administration. Baháʼu'lláh, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi stated how Spiritual Assemblies should be elected by the Baháʼís, defined...
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in New York and was excommunicated from the Baháʼí Faith in 1939 by Shoghi Effendi. Born a Baháʼí in Sedeh, Isfahan Province, Persia (now Iran), Sohrab's...
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clarified by its successive leaders: ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Baháʼu'lláh's son, and Shoghi Effendi, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's grandson. The teachings were written in various Baháʼí...
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century (see below). Following the passing of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in 1921, Shoghi Effendi was appointed head of the religion and he soon set about organizing...
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The following is a January 9, 1951 telex to the Baháʼí world from Shoghi Effendi announcing the Council: Proclaim National Assemblies of East and West...
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