DR MOHSEN ENAYAT is an international lawyer who lives in Canada. He wrote the article included in this Review at the request of the Universal House of Justice while he was serving as a member of the Bahá'í World Centre staff.

DR. KHAZEH FANANAPAZIR teaches medicine and surgery at the University of Edinburgh.

SEENA FAZEL is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. He is the editor of the Bahá'í Studies Review.

NAZILA GHANEA-HERCOCK is a master's candidate in the field of Peace Studies at the University of Leeds.

DR KISHAN MANOCHA holds degrees in psychology and medicine from the University of London, and is currently working as a house physician in England.

DR MOOJAN MOMEN is currently general editor of A Short Encydopædia of the Bahá'í Faith. His last book, Hinduism and the Bahá'íFaith, was published by George Ronald in 1990.

SHAHRIAR RAZAVI holds a degree in Physics from the University of London and works as a management consultant. He currently serves as an Auxiliary Board member in England.

DR UDO SCHAEFER was born in 1926 and joined the Bahá'í Faith a few years after the Second World War. After musicology and Latin, he studied law at Heidelberg University. The subject of his doctoral thesis was the Constitutional Law of the Bahá'í Community in Camparison to Canon Law and Protestant Church Law. He worked as a chief public-prosecutor at the State Court of Heidelberg and retired in 1988. He is the author of several works on the Bahá'í Faith published in German, English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Dutch.

DR ROBERT STOCKMAN is research director of the National Bahá'í Centre of the USA. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in geology; a master of theological studies and doctorate in the history of religions from Harvard University. His book, The Bahá'í Faith in America: Origins, 1892-1900, was published in 1985.