History

Bab – Bonyangozar’ Aein’ Babi (Persian) by Alaedin Ghods Djurabchi is a concise introduction to the history of the Babi Religion and the life of the Bab, its position in history of religions and the prophecies relating to its birth.

Drawing upon decades of research, this is the definitive text on the Bahá’í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois. Now in its second edition, The Dawning Place has been updated to cover the years that have elapsed since the Temple’s dedication with stunning, never-before-published photographs of the building and its surrounding environs.

Prelude to the Guardianship by Riaz Khadem is expanded and revised edition of Shoghi Effendi in Oxford by the same author.

In Prelude to the Guardianship Riaz Khadem, traces the future Guardian’s educational career from his early youth through his year at Oxford. Drawing on the memoirs of Shoghi Effendi’s fellow students at Balliol, the author provides a fascinating glimpse into this period in Baha'i history when the young Shoghi Effendi, the future head of the Faith, was being prepared for the mission by ‘Abdu’l-Baha himself.

After recent events, Iran has returned to the forefront of global news. Its main religious minority is the Bahá'í Faith, born in the mid-19th century in that country. According to many connoisseurs of Iranian society and history, the Bahá'ís have proven to be, in a century and a half, the great social and moral force capable of modernizing and democratizing that country, cradle of one of the most splendid civilizations in history. Its followers, however, have been and continue to be victims of great atrocities.

Tras los acontecimientos recientes, Irán ha vuelto al primer plano de la actualidad mundial. Su principal minoría religiosa es, después del islam, la Fe Bahá'í, nacida a mediados del siglo XIX en ese país. Según muchos conocedores de la sociedad e historia iraníes, los bahá'ís han demostrado ser, en un siglo y medio, la gran fuerza social y moral capaz de modernizar y democratizar a ese país, cuna de una de las civilizaciones más esplendorosas de la historia. Sus adeptos, sin embargo, han sido y siguen siendo víctimas de las mayores atrocidades por parte de la República Islámica.