Outline of the Baháʼí Faith

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.

See also: Outline of religion § Baháʼí Faith topics

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

Baháʼí teachings

Baháʼí teachings

Baháʼí social principles

Baháʼí laws

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
See also: Baháʼí timeline

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

Important figures

Central figures

Groups
  • 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
  • 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

By the Báb
  • 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

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Promise of World Peace

Organizations

Baháʼí administration

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
  • 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

Calendar

Baháʼí calendar

Other topics
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.