He received his secondary education and undergraduate degree in Texas and completed his PhD in statistics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He served as Director of Statistics at the Bahá’í World Centre from 1980 to 1988.

He was an independent Bahá'í scholar, a prolific translator and a historian who greatly enriched the English language literature on the history of the Baha'i Faith in Iran. See Bahaipedia and Bahá'í Library Online for lists of his publications. [Find a grave]