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"Early Western Accounts of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths". Encyclopedia articles. Baháʼí Library Online; Perkins, Mary (1987). Hour of the Dawn. Oxford: George Ronald. Rutstein, Nathan (2008). From a Gnat to an Eagle: The Story of Nathan Rutstein. US Baha'i Publishing Trust. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-931847-46-9. Smith, Peter (1999).
draft "A Short Encyclopedia of the Baha'i Faith". Bahai-library.com; Rafati, Vahid (1988). The Bahai Community of Iran. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Shahvar, Soli (2009). The Forgotten Schools: The Baháʼís and Modern Education in Iran 1899-1934. International library of Iranian studies. Vol. 11 (illustrated ed.). I. B. Tauris.
[94] [95] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi [sic] was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN ...
Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Bábí Movement in Iran 1844–1850. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2098-9. Cole, Juan R. I. (1998). Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231110815. MacEoin, Denis (2009).
He was a merchant from Shiraz in Qajar Iran who, in 1844 at the age of 25, began the Bábi Faith. In the next six years, the Báb composed numerous letters and books in which he abrogated Islamic laws and traditions, establishing a new religion and introducing a new social order focused on unity, love, and service to others.
In "The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments" (Religion: 1989), Baháʼí authors Momen and Smith provide the following estimates of the Baháʼís in the world over 3 decades, broken out by cultural areas. They derived numbers from, "calculation of approximate numbers from the number of Bahá'í organizations ...
Iran bans the Baha’i religion, which was founded in the 1860s by a Persian nobleman considered a prophet by his followers, and from time to time has arrested and prosecuted members of the.
The Baháʼí Faith was founded by Baháʼu'lláh, in Iran who faced a series of exiles and imprisonment that moved him to Baghdad, Istanbul, and Palestine.By the 1950s, about a century after its forming, Iran remained home to the vast majority of adherents to the Baháʼí Faith. [1]