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key	BMYVUGMG
title	A Lost History of the Baha'i Faith : The Progressive Tradition of Baha'u'llah's Forgotten Family
author	Behai, Shua Ullah
item type	Book
publication year	2014
date	2014
abstract note	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.
number pages	xlviii, 552
publisher	Vox Humri Media
place	Newark, Delaware
language	English
manual tags	COVENANT-BREAKING; BEHAI, SHUA ULLAH; BEHAI/BAHAI FAMILY
editor	Stetson, Eric

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