Bahaism

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B0027200 (bä-hä′ē, bə-hī′)adj. Of or relating to a religion founded in 1863 in Persia and emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind.n. A teacher of or a believer in this faith.

[Persian bahā'ī, a follower of Bahā'ullāh, the Splendor of God, Bahaullah, from bahā', splendor, from Arabic; see bhw in Semitic roots.]

Ba·ha′ism (bə-hä′ĭz′əm, -hī′-) n.Ba·ha′ist n.

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Bahaism - a religion founded in Iran in 1863; emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind; incorporates Christian and Islamic tenets; many adherents live in the United States; "Bahaism has no public rituals or sacraments and praying is done in private"faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"

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a cosmopolitan religious and political current. Bahaism spread in the countries of the Near East and Western Europe, the USA, and, to some extent, in tsarist Russia.

It received its name from the nickname of its founder Mirza Husayn Ali Baha’u’llah (literally, “the glory of God”). Bahaism originated in Iraq in the middle of the 19th century as a sect among the Babists who fled from Iran to escape the persecution of the shah’s government after the Babist uprisings of 1848–52 were suppressed. The tenets of Baha’u’llah as set forth in his epistles (lawh) and Kitab-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book) were intended to replace the Koran and Bayan of the Bab. Baha’u’llah removed the revolutionary and democratic elements from Babism and came out against the revolutionary methods of combating Iranian reaction, while defending private property and social inequality. Bahaism reflected mainly the interests of the Iranian comprador bourgeoisie. It preaches the idea so useful to imperialism of denying national sovereignty, combining science and religion, and so forth. The main centers of Bahaism are in the USA (Illinois) and the Federal Republic of Germany (Stuttgart).

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Kitabe akdes “Sviashchenneishaia kniga” sovremennykh babidov. Text, translation, introduction, and appendixes by A. G. Tuman-skii. St. Petersburg, 1899. (Zap. AN. Po istoriko-filolo-gich. old., vol. 3, no. 6.)
Klimovich, L. I. Islam. Moscow, 1965. Pages 206–11.

L. I. KLIMOVICH

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