Bahaullah
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Bah Ullh
(born Nov. 12, 1817, Tehrn, Irandied May 29, 1872, Acre, Palestine) Iranian religious leader, founder of the Bah faith. A Shite Muslim who allied himself with the Bb, he joined his half brother Mrz Yay (known as ob-e Azal) in leading the Bb movement after the Bb's execution. Sunnite Muslims exiled him to Baghdad, Kurdistan, and finally Constantinople, where in 1867 he declared himself the imam-mahdi foretold by the Bb and sent by God. This pronouncement split Bbism into two factions, with a small group (the Azal) adhering to its original beliefs and a larger group following him into what became the Bah faith. The Ottoman government banished him to Acre where, as Bah Ullh, he developed Bah into a teaching that advocated the unity of all religions and universal human brotherhood.
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Baha Ullah or Baha Allah (bähä' ʊl'ä) [Arab.,=glory of God], 1817-92, Persian religious leader originally named Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri. One of the first disciples of the Bab (see Babism), he and his half-brother Subhi Azal became the leaders of the Babi faith. In 1863, shortly before being exiled to Constantinople, he declared himself the manifestation of God, the Promised One, as fortold by the Bab. He then founded the Baha'i faith and wrote its fundamental book, Kitabi Ikan (tr. The Book of Certitude, 1943). He spent most of his adult life in prison or under close surveillance. He died in Acre; his tomb there is one of the monuments of Baha'i.
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See J. E. Esslemont Bahaullah and the New Era (3d rev. ed. 1970).
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Ba·ha·ul·lah
, (Originally Mirza Huseyn Ali.) 1817-1892.Persian religious leader who was a follower of the Bab and founded the Baha'i religion (1863).
[Arabic bahā'u llāh, splendor of God : bahā', splendor (from bahā, to become empty, become beautiful) + allāh, God; see Allah.]
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