Baha'is
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Baha'is. / Warburg, Margit.
Religious Minorities Online. ed. / Erica Baffelli; Alexander van der Haven; Michael Stausberg. De Gruyter, 2024. (Religious Minorities Online).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopedia chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Baha'is
AU - Warburg, Margit
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The Baha’i religion emerged in the mid-1800s as an offspring of Shi’i Islam in Iran.Baha’is base their religion on the scriptures of two successive founding prophets afterMuhammed, and both Muslims and Baha’is agree that the Baha’i religion is not part ofIslam. Baha’i later spread all over the world, primarily through conversion among themajority populations, and most of the about six million Baha’is worldwide have a nonMuslim background. In general, Baha’is blend into the majority society with few or notensions. However, in many Muslim countries, primarily in Iran, Baha’is are met withsuspicion and hostility, and the legal position of Baha’is is precarious and makes lifedifficult for them. In Iran, Baha’is have repeatedly suffered from bloody persecutions. Ageneral scheme of minority-majority attitudes and behaviour is proposed, and it can alsobe used to view the Baha’is’ minority situation. The second and more important of theBaha’i prophets, Baha’u’llah (1817–1892), was exiled to the Haifa area, and the worldheadquarters of the Baha’i religion were established in Haifa many years before thefounding of the state of Israel. Baha’is have a special minority position in Israel.
AB - The Baha’i religion emerged in the mid-1800s as an offspring of Shi’i Islam in Iran.Baha’is base their religion on the scriptures of two successive founding prophets afterMuhammed, and both Muslims and Baha’is agree that the Baha’i religion is not part ofIslam. Baha’i later spread all over the world, primarily through conversion among themajority populations, and most of the about six million Baha’is worldwide have a nonMuslim background. In general, Baha’is blend into the majority society with few or notensions. However, in many Muslim countries, primarily in Iran, Baha’is are met withsuspicion and hostility, and the legal position of Baha’is is precarious and makes lifedifficult for them. In Iran, Baha’is have repeatedly suffered from bloody persecutions. Ageneral scheme of minority-majority attitudes and behaviour is proposed, and it can alsobe used to view the Baha’is’ minority situation. The second and more important of theBaha’i prophets, Baha’u’llah (1817–1892), was exiled to the Haifa area, and the worldheadquarters of the Baha’i religion were established in Haifa many years before thefounding of the state of Israel. Baha’is have a special minority position in Israel.
U2 - 10.1515/rmo.21009437
DO - 10.1515/rmo.21009437
M3 - Encyclopedia chapter
T3 - Religious Minorities Online
BT - Religious Minorities Online
A2 - Baffelli, Erica
A2 - van der Haven, Alexander
A2 - Stausberg, Michael
PB - De Gruyter
ER -
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