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Outline of the Baháʼí Faith

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.

Beliefs and practices[edit]

Baháʼí teachings[edit]

Baháʼí teachings

• God in the Baháʼí Faith
• Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion – the Baháʼí belief that many of the world's different religions were revealed by God as part of one gradually unfolding plan
  • Progressive revelation (Baháʼí) – the Baháʼí belief that God progressively reveals the truth through successive Manifestations of God
  • Baháʼí Faith and Zoroastrianism
  • Baháʼí Faith and Hinduism
  • Baháʼí Faith and Buddhism
  • Muhammad in the Baháʼí Faith
• Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith) – individuals whom Baháʼís believe were sent by God to establish religious teachings appropriate for their time and place, such as the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad
• Baháʼí Faith on life after death
• Baháʼí cosmology
• Faith in the Baháʼí Faith
• Baháʼí views on sin
• Martyrdom in the Baháʼí Faith
• Aniconism in the Baháʼí Faith – the Baháʼí prohibition on images of God or those seen as Manifestations of God
• Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh
  • Covenant-breaker
• Baháʼí views on science

Baháʼí social principles[edit]

• Baháʼí Faith and the unity of humanity – the Baháʼí teaching that humanity is fundamentally one and should achieve a state of unity in diversity
  • Baháʼí Faith and Native Americans
  • New world order (Baháʼí)
  • Baháʼí perspective on international human rights
• Baháʼí Faith and gender equality
• Baháʼí Faith and education
• Baháʼí Faith and auxiliary language – the Baháʼí teaching that the world should adopt a worldwide auxiliary language in addition to people's various languages to facilitate the unity of humanity
• Socioeconomic development and the Baháʼí Faith

Baháʼí laws[edit]

Baháʼí laws – practices that are religiously binding for Baháʼís

• Prayer in the Baháʼí Faith – Baháʼí teachings on prayer, including both daily obligatory prayer and devotional prayer (general prayer)
  • Obligatory Baháʼí prayers
• Nineteen Day Feast – a gathering of a local Baháʼí community that occurs on the first day of each month of the Baháʼí calendar
• Huqúqu'lláh – the Baháʼí obligation to give to the Baháʼí funds, which support the activities of Baháʼí communities
• Nineteen Day Fast – a period of fasting that Baháʼís observe from sunrise to sunset for 19 days once each year
• Baháʼí marriage
• Baháʼí views on homosexuality
• Baháʼí pilgrimage

History[edit]

History of the Baháʼí Faith – events from 1863 to the present that had their background in two earlier movements in the nineteenth century, Shaykhism and Bábism

• Shaykhism – a Shi'a Islamic religious movement founded by Shaykh Ahmad (1753–1826)
• Bábism – a religion founded by the Báb in 1844 that Baháʼís see as a predecessor to the Baháʼí Faith; see Outline of Bábism
• Baháʼí–Azali split – the split of the followers of Bábism into Baháʼís, who accepted Baháʼu'lláh as a figure prophesied in the teachings of Bábism, and Azalis, who followed Subh-i-Azal
• Baháʼí prophecies
• Attempted schisms in the Baháʼí Faith
  • Orthodox Baháʼí Faith
  • Leland Jensen
• ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West
• World Unity Conference
• Baháʼí World Congress
• Baháʼí teaching plans
• Baháʼí radio
• Persecution of Baháʼís
  • Seven Martyrs of Tehran
  • 1903 Isfahan anti-Baháʼí riots
  • Statements about the persecution of Baháʼís
  • Baháʼí 7
  • Egyptian identification card controversy
• Baháʼí Faith by country – estimated numbers of Baháʼís globally, by country, and by continent, with links to full articles on the Baháʼí Faith in individual countries and continents
  • Baháʼí Faith in Africa
  • Baháʼí Faith in Asia
  • Baháʼí Faith in Europe
  • Baháʼí Faith in North America
  • Baháʼí Faith in Oceania
  • Baháʼí Faith in South America

Important figures[edit]

Central figures[edit]

• The Báb – the founder of the Bábism, seen by Baháʼís as the predecessor to their religion
• Baháʼu'lláh – the founder of the Baháʼí Faith
• ʻAbdu'l-Bahá – the appointed successor of Baháʼu'lláh

Other influential figures[edit]

Groups[edit]

• Afnán – the maternal relatives of the Báb
• Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh – nineteen eminent early followers of Baháʼu'lláh
• Baháʼu'lláh's family
• Hands of the Cause – a select group of Baháʼís, appointed for life, whose main function was to propagate and protect the Baháʼí Faith
• Knights of Baháʼu'lláh – a title given by Shoghi Effendi to Baháʼís who brought the Baháʼí Faith to new countries and territories

Notable individuals[edit]

• Shoghi Effendi – the appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957, entitled the Guardian
• Badíʻ – the 17-year-old who delivered Baháʼu'lláh's tablet to the Shah and was subsequently killed
• Nabíl-i-Aʻzam – the author of the account of early Bábí and Baháʼí history called The Dawn-breakers
• Mishkín-Qalam – a calligrapher who lived during the lifetime of Baháʼu'lláh, and designer of the Greatest Name
• Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl – a Baháʼí scholar who travelled broadly and authored several books about the Baháʼí Faith
• Martha Root – a prominent travelling teacher of the Baháʼí Faith in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Rúhíyyih Khánum – the wife of Shoghi Effendi, who was appointed a Hand of the Cause

Texts and scriptures[edit]

• Baháʼí literature

By the Báb[edit]

• Persian Bayán – one of the principal scriptural writings of the Báb, the founder of Bábism, which is also revered in the Baháʼí Faith
• Arabic Bayán – one of the principal scriptural writings of the Báb, the founder of Bábism, which is also revered in the Baháʼí Faith
• Selections from the Writings of the Báb – a book of excerpts from notable works of the Báb, compiled by the Universal House of Justice, the highest authority in the Baháʼí Faith

By Baháʼu'lláh[edit]

List of writings of Baháʼu'lláh

• Epistle to the Son of the Wolf – the last major work of Baháʼu'lláh, written soon before his death in 1892
• Four Valleys – a mystical treatise written in Persian
• Gems of Divine Mysteries – a long epistle in Arabic
• Gleanings from the Writings of Baháʼu'lláh – a compilation of Baháʼu'lláh's writings selected by Shoghi Effendi
• Kitáb-i-Aqdas – a central book of the Baháʼí Faith which lays out the Baháʼí laws
• Kitáb-i-Íqán – the primary theological work of the Baháʼí Faith
• Hidden Words – a collection of short poetic utterances, 71 in Arabic and 82 in Persian
• The Seven Valleys – a mystical treatise written in Persian
• Summons of the Lord of Hosts – a collection of Baháʼu'lláh's writings that were written to the kings and rulers of the world
• Tabernacle of Unity – a collection of several of Baháʼu'lláh's writings first published in July 2006
• Tablets of Baháʼu'lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas – a collection of Baháʼu'lláh's writings from later in his life that have been published together since 1978

By ʻAbdu'l-Bahá[edit]

• Paris Talks – a book transcribed from talks given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá while in Paris
• The Secret of Divine Civilization – a book written in 1875 by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, addressed to the rulers and the people of Persia
• Some Answered Questions – contains questions posed by Laura Clifford Barney (between 1904 and 1906) and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's answers
• Tablets of the Divine Plan – 14 letters (tablets) written between September 1916 and March 1917 by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to Baháʼís in the United States and Canada
• Tablet to Dr. Forel – a letter of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, written in reply to questions asked by Auguste-Henri Forel, a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
• Tablet to The Hague – a letter which ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote to the Central Organisation for Durable Peace in The Hague, The Netherlands on 17 December 1919
• Will and Testament of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá – A seminal document, written in three stages by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

By Shoghi Effendi[edit]

• The Advent of Divine Justice – a letter to the Baháʼís of the United States and Canada, dated December 25, 1938
• God Passes By – an account of the first century of Baháʼí history (beginning with the declaration of the Báb in 1844)
• Promised Day is Come – a book-length letter written for Baháʼís in the Western world, dated 1941

By the Universal House of Justice[edit]

• The Promise of World Peace

Organizations[edit]

Baháʼí administration[edit]

Baháʼí administration

• International Baháʼí Council – the precursor to the Universal House of Justice that existed from 1951–1963
• Universal House of Justice – the supreme governing institution of the Baháʼí Faith, first elected in 1963
• Spiritual Assemblies – a term given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Baháʼí Faith
• Institution of the Counsellors
  • International Teaching Centre
• Baháʼí International Community

Other Baháʼí organizations[edit]

• Baháʼí Esperanto League
• Baháʼí school
  • Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education
  • Banani International Secondary School
  • Townshend International School
  • School of the Nations (Macau)
  • New Era High School
  • Barli Development Institute for Rural Women
• FUNDAEC
• Ruhi Institute

Places[edit]

• Síyáh-Chál
• Garden of Ridván, Baghdad
• Báb's house
• Baháʼí World Centre
  • Baháʼí World Centre buildings
    • Shrine of the Báb
    • Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh
      • Qiblih – the point towards which Baháʼís face during their daily obligatory prayers
    • Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
  • Terraces (Baháʼí)
• Baháʼí House of Worship – a place of worship of the Baháʼí Faith, also known as a Baháʼí temple
  • List of Baháʼí Houses of Worship
    • Lotus Temple
    • Baháʼí House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois)
    • Sydney Baháʼí Temple
    • Santiago Bahá'í Temple
• Haziratu'l-Quds – a Baháʼí administrative centre often used for Baháʼí gatherings, also known as a Baháʼí centre

Calendar[edit]

Baháʼí calendar

• List of observances set by the Baháʼí calendar
  • Baháʼí Holy Days
    • Baháʼí Naw-Rúz
    • Ridván
    • Twin Holy Birthdays
      • Birth of Baháʼu'lláh
    • Day of the Covenant (Baháʼí)
  • Ayyám-i-Há

Other topics[edit]

• Alláh-u-Abhá
• Baháʼí Faith in fiction
• Baháʼí orthography
• Baháʼí studies
  • Baháʼí review
  • Baháʼí Studies Review
• Baháʼí symbols
• Criticism of the Baháʼí Faith
  • Political objections to the Baháʼí Faith
• World Religion Day

External links[edit]

• Definitions from Wiktionary

Media from Commons

News from Wikinews

Quotations from Wikiquote

Texts from Wikisource

Textbooks from Wikibooks

Resources from Wikiversity

• Baháʼí FaithatCurlie