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web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB27562
reference type	Book
title	A Lost History of the Baha'i Faith : The Progressive Tradition of Baha'u'llah's Forgotten Family
author	Behai, Shua Ullah
editor	Stetson, Eric
year	2014
publisher	Vox Humri Media
place published	Newark, Delaware
issue	12.
abstract	Shua Ullah Behai (1878 – 1950), also known to Baha’is as Mirza Shu’a’u’llah, was the son of Mohammed Ali Bahai (Mirza Muhammad 'Ali), son of Baha’u’llah. He was Baha’u’llah’s eldest grandson and knew him personally in his childhood and adolescence. Mr. Behai was fluent in English and is the only known descendant of the Baha'i prophet to have become an American citizen. He emigrated from Akka (Acre), now part of Israel, to the United States in 1904, and lived there for most of his adult life as a successful businessman, later retiring to the Holy Land. During his time in America he served as representative and spokesperson his father, Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí, resisting and attemting to undermine the positions and authority of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. In the 1930s he published a magazine called Behai Quarterly, which circulated among American Baha’is who followed Muhammad-'Alí. After he left the United States, Shua Ullah Behai’s "alternative" Baha’i community dwindled and eventually disappeared, but he preserved many of the important writings of this tradition in his book, which is now published 70 years later. The materials here are collected by a former Bahá'í, Eric Stetson, in the United States, who believes that the violators among Bahá'u'lláh's descendants represent some kind of "liberal" tradition, although it is the individuals represented in this book who were unwilling to progress and grow into the next stage of Bahá'í community development and abide by the terms of the Kitáb-i-'Ahd, working to undermine 'Abdu'l-Bahá and even attempting to get Turkish authorities to imprison or kill Him.
notes	A Lost History of the Baha’i Faith includes writings by all of the following people: Baha’u’llah (including some original translations by Shua Ullah Behai); 'Abdu’l-Baha Abbas Effendi, son of Baha’u’llah; Mohammed Ali Bahai, son of Baha’u’llah; Badi Ullah Bahai, son of Baha’u’llah; Shua Ullah Behai, grandson of Baha’u’llah; Kamar Bahai, granddaughter of Baha’u’llah; Mousa Bahai, grandson of Baha’u’llah; Majdeddin bin Moussa Irani, nephew and son-in-law of Baha’u’llah; Mirza Aqa Jan Kashani, chief secretary of Baha’u’llah for 40 years; Mohammed Jawad Gazvini, companion of Baha’u’llah and Baha’i historian; Ibrahim G. Kheiralla, first Baha’i missionary to America.
language	English
keywords	COVENANT-BREAKING; BEHAI/BAHAI FAMILY; BEHAI, SHUA ULLAH
number of pages	xlviii, 552
type of work	text
call number	BP399 .B43 2014 (BWC - COLLINS)

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