History
The Bahá'í faith began to take its present form in 1844 in Iran. It grew out of the Shi'ite branch of the Muslim faith.
The faith was proclaimed by a young Iranian, who called himself The Báb. He said that a messenger would soon arrive from God, who would be the latest in a line of prophets including Moses, Muhammad and Jesus Christ.
This idea of progressive revelation is of central significance for the Bahá'í faith.
All articles
- Origins of Bahá'í history
- The history of Bahá'í explained in its historical, geographic and religious context.
- The Báb
- The story of the Bahá'í faith continues with the Báb, a scholar, teacher and prophet who foretold the coming of Bahá'u'lláh.
- Bahá'u'lláh
- The history of the Bahá'í faith proper begins with the 19th-century nobleman Bahá'u'lláh.
- Abdu'l-Bahá
- The story of the Bahá'í movement's continuation after Bahá'u'lláh's death, under the leadership of his son Abdu'l-Bahá.
- Bahá'í history in the UK
- The story of the Bahá'í faith's first tentative footholds in the UK and its subsequent growth.
- Persecution of Bahá'ís in Iran
- The story of the persecution of Bahá'ís in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
