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During the 1920s, Egypt's religious Tribunal recognized the Baha'i Faith as a new religion, independent from Islam, due to the nature of the 'laws, principles and beliefs' of the Baha'is. [citation needed] Baháʼí institutions and community activities have been illegal under Egyptian law since 1960.
Bahá'í teachings "affirm that Islam is a true religion revealed by Allah"; accordingly, members of the faith can give full assent to the traditional words of the Shahadah. [2] Muhammad is taken to be one of the most important messengers of God as an "independent" Manifestation of God.
The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Atlanta, Georgia: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2836-4. Meyjes, Gregory Paul (2006). "Language and world order in Baha'i perspective". In Omoniyi, Tope; Fishman, Joshua A. (eds.). Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion. John Benjamins Publishing Co. pp. 26– 41.
Islamic theology regards Muhammad as the Khatam an-Nabiyyin, the last prophet whom God has sent and Islam as the final religion for all mankind. Baháʼu'lláh's claim of divine revelation is in direct conflict with this common interpretation of Islam. [ 16 ]
The 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 religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.
The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Atlanta, Georgia: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2836-4. Lundberg, Zaid (May 1996). Baha'i Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation. Department of History of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, Lund University. Smith, Peter (2000).
"The Baha'i Faith in the World and in America". In Neusner, Jacob (ed.). World Religions in America. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0-664-22475-X. Schweitz, Marth L. (2003). "Baha'i". In Cookson, Catharine (ed.). Encyclopedia of religious freedom. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94181-4. Smith, Peter (2008). An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith ...
The Baháʼí conception of God is of an "unknowable essence" who is the source of all existence and known through the perception of human virtues. The Baháʼí Faith follows the tradition of monotheism and dispensationalism, believing that God has no physical form, but periodically provides divine messengers in human form that are the sources of spiritual education.