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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10 March 1866

Bahá’u’lláh, in response to His half-brother Mírzá Yahyá's intrigues and claims to leadership, withdrew into seclusion in the city of Edirne, where Bahá’u’lláh had been exiled by the Ottoman government.

 

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Chase, Thornton

First person in the West to become a steadfast Bahá’í; one of the founders and chief builders of the Chicago Bahá’í community; included by Shoghi Effendi among a number of prominent early Bahá’ís of the West whom he designated as "Disciples of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá."

 

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Dunn, Clara, and Dunn, John Henry Hyde

Couple who went to Australia in 1920 in response to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s call for worldwide expansion of the Bahá’í Faith and firmly established it in the antipodes; both designated Hands of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi—Clara among the second contingent in February 1952, and Hyde in a posthumous appointment announced in April 1952.

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