The Bahá’í Encyclopedia Project

has the goal of producing a reliable, comprehensive, current, and easy-to-use encyclopedic reference work covering a wide range of Bahá’í subjects.

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While work on a Bahá’í Encyclopedia continues, we offer a variety of articles on topics related to the Bahá’í Faith.

The Bahá’í Encyclopedia Project is preparing a wide range of articles for eventual publication in the Bahá’í Encyclopedia. Meanwhile, we are delighted to make available an interim selection of entries. The collection will expand to include more articles from more subject categories.
 

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11 February 1941
Margaret Stevenson—the first Bahá’í of New Zealand, longtime secretary of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Auckland, and a founding member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Australia and New Zealand—died in Auckland.

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‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás

Eldest son and appointed successor of Bahá’u’lláh, the Center of His Covenant, and the Head of the Bahá’í Faith from 1892 to 1921; regarded, along with the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, as one of the Central Figures of the Bahá’í Faith.

 

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Administration, Bahá'í

International system, originating in Bahá’í scripture, that governs the affairs of the Bahá’í Faith, which has no clergy and no professional learned class; a framework based on elected councils that hold legislative, executive, and judicial authority and on appointed individuals whose role is to protect, advise, and influence the Bahá’í community; the embryonic form of the future world order envisioned by Bahá’u’lláh.

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