Bibliography: N3CXSC3T

key	N3CXSC3T
title	The Bahā'ī Faith
author	Momen, Moojan
authority control	Moojan Momen
item type	Book section
publication year	2015
date	2015
publication title	The Wiley Blackwell companion to Zoroastrianism
ISBN	9781444331356 (cloth)
abstract note	The Bahā’ī Faith arose in Iran in the middle of the 19th century. From the 1880s onwards, a large number of Zoroastrians and Jews became Bahā’īs in Iran. This chapter surveys the Zoroastrian conversions from their start into the early 20th century. It then examines the possible factors that may have brought about these conversions and the course taken by these Zoroastrian converts as they separated from their former community and were integrated into the Bahā’ī community. The chapter briefly explores the role played by these converts in later Bahā’ī history. The first interactions between the Bahā’īs and leading Zoroastrians occurred through Manekji Limji Hataria (1813–1890), known as Manekji Sahib, the agent of the Indian Parsi community. The Zoroastrian converts to the Bahā’ī Faith similarly carried their cultural norms, including abhorrence of their Shī;'ī persecutors. The bulk of the Zoroastrian conversions occurred between 1884 and 1924.
pages	505-515
publisher	Wiley
place	Chichester, West Sussex, UK
language	English
manual tags	CONVERTS; ZOROASTRIANS
editor	Stausberg, Michael; Vevaina, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw