Hermann Zimmer

Hermann Zimmer was an early pioneer of the Baháʼí Faith in Germany. Zimmer is one of a few Baháʼís who revived the efforts of Ruth White to oppose Shoghi Effendi, claiming that the Will and Testament of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was forged.

Ethel Jenner Rosenberg

Ethel Jenner Rosenberg became the first English Baháʼí

Robert Stockman

Robert Stockman is a scholar specializing in Baháʼí studies who has been called "the foremost historian of the Baháʼí Faith in America." He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and a doctorate in religious studies from Harvard

Munib Shahid

Munib Shahid (1908-1973) was Chairman of Hematology and Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine of the American University of Beirut. He built the hematology laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine, a development that increased research output significantly

International Teaching Centre

The International Teaching Centre (ITC) is a Baháʼí institution based in the Baháʼí World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Its duties are to stimulate and coordinate the Continental Board of Counselors and assist the Universal House of Justice in matters

Soheil Afnan

Soheil Muhsin Afnan was a scholar of Philosophy, Arabic, Persian, and Greek whose intellectual works included translations of Greek texts into Persian as well as the publication of philosophical lexicons

Kitáb-i-ʻAhd

The Kitáb-i-ʻAhd is the Will and Testament of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, where he selects his son ʻAbdu'l-Bahá as his successor. It was written at least one year before Baháʼu'lláh died in 1892. An English translation is

Abu'l-Qásim Faizi

Abu'l-Qásim Faizi or Fayḍí (1906–1980) was a Persian Baháʼí. He studied at the American University of Beirut where he was good friends with Munib Shahid

Baháʼí Faith in Russia

The history of the Baháʼí Faith in Russia began soon after the founding in 1844 of the Bábí religion, viewed by Baháʼís as the direct predecessor of the Baháʼí Faith, with Russian diplomats to Qajar Persia observing, reacting to, and sending

John Ferraby

John Ferraby was a British Baháʼí born in Southsea, England, into a liberal Jewish family. He was educated at Malvern College and King's College, Cambridge, to which he won a major scholarship. He became a Baháʼí in 1941 and was elected as

Edward Kritzler

Edward Heyward Kritzler was a Jamaican popular historian, specializing in the Sephardic diaspora in the wake of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the Jewish identity continuity in the "New World", Amsterdam, the Maghreb, and Ottoman eastern