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    The Universal House of Justice is the nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baháʼí Faith. It was envisioned by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí...
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    buildings. The Seat of the Universal House of Justice is a large building located in Haifa, Israel, where the Universal House of Justice operates. It includes...
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  • there was no clear successor, and the Hands of the Cause led a transition to the Universal House of Justice, elected in 1963. This transition was opposed...
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  • an administrative institution of the Baháʼí Faith, first created in 1951 as a precursor to the Universal House of Justice, which replaced it in 1963. The...
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    the transfer of the religion's supreme legal authority to the Universal House of Justice, which has held elections every five years since 1963. Effendi...
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    Baháʼí Faith (redirect from Book of Júk)
    every five years an election is held for the Universal House of Justice, the nine-member governing institution of the worldwide Baháʼí community that is located...
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    system of elected and appointed institutions to govern the affairs of the Baháʼí community. Its supreme body is the Universal House of Justice, elected...
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    the Universal House of Justice, a body first elected in 1963 that has led the world Baháʼí community since that time. The Universal House of Justice has...
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    Continental Board of Counselors and assist the Universal House of Justice in matters relating to the teaching and protection of the faith. The duties of the International...
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  •  205–206 Letter from Universal House of Justice: 1998, April 06, Memorandum re Wives of Baháʼu'lláh [2] Universal House of Justice, (1996), p. 449, and...
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  • and those of the Universal House of Justice as authoritative legislation and elucidation. Some measure of divine guidance is assumed for all of these texts...
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  • of the Cause of God. — Part 1, para. 18 By this House is meant the Universal House of Justice, that is, in all countries a secondary House of Justice...
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  • Baháʼu'lláh also spoke about the responsibilities of the supreme or Universal House of Justice. In response to the passage, Mírzá Asadu'lláh Isfahání, a prominent...
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  • the mainstream Baháʼís follow a line of leadership that transitioned to the elected Universal House of Justice in 1963 with no eligible appointees as...
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  • Tenth election of the Universal House of Justice Eleventh election of the Universal House of Justice Chronology of Persecutions of Babis and Baha'is...
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  • and the Universal House of Justice has initiated the plans since 1964. From 1964 to 2000, there were six international Baháʼí teaching plans of varying...
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  • 1957, the twenty-seven living Hands of the Cause at the time would be the last appointed. The Universal House of Justice, the governing body first elected...
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  • leap year. The Universal House of Justice selected Tehran, the birthplace of Baháʼu'lláh, as the location at which the time and date of the vernal equinox...
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  • Spiritual Assemblies. The Universal House of Justice was first elected in 1963, and since that time the Universal House of Justice has been the highest body...
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  • Institution of the Counsellors was created in 1968 by the Universal House of Justice to perpetuate the work done previously by the Hands of the Cause....
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  • Kitáb-i-Aqdas (redirect from Book of Aqdas)
    texts from Baháʼu'lláh and detailed explanatory notes from the Universal House of Justice, was first published in 1992. The work was written in Arabic under...
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  • interests of the religion between the period of the leadership of Shoghi Effendi and promised election of the Universal House of Justice at the end of the Ten...
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  • suppressing organized dissent that threatens the unity of believers. Currently, the Universal House of Justice has the sole authority to declare a person a Covenant-breaker...
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  • exclusion of women from serving on the Universal House of Justice. These issues may be only marginal to the numerically dominant Baháʼí community outside of Europe...
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    Hossein Amanat (category University of Tehran alumni)
    Faculty of business management university 1980 Iranian embassy in Beijing 1983 Seat of the Universal House of Justice 1983 Samoa Bahá'í house of worship...
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    study and translation of the Baháʼí holy writings. The Universal House of Justice, representing the supreme governing body of the Baháʼí Faith, resides...
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  • and Shoghi Effendi, and legislation by the Universal House of Justice. Baháʼí law is presented as a set of general principles and guidelines and individuals...
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  • institution of the Baháʼí Faith is the Universal House of Justice, first elected in 1963, which has written more extensively on the subject of homosexuality...
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  • and Why It Still Matters. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6068-9. [I]f there does exist some concept of universal justice, if even the most powerful states...
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    though the Universal House of Justice has clarified that women are free to perform this pilgrimage. Baháʼís are free to choose between the two houses, as either...
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