When the World Changed: Gallipoli and the Chief Vizier
The future is hardly ever what we expect it to be. It almost always surprises us. This is proof enough that in any point of …
Bahaullah’s Life
And the People Wept …
Events moved quickly following the issue of the order for Bahá’u’lláh’s exile from Adrianople and perpetual imprisonment in Akka. Bahá’u’lláh and his followers lived together …
Poisonous Envy
The spiritual world which continually surrounds us, but of which we are only dimly aware, has its own natural laws, so to speak. Among these …
Edward Granville Browne – the only western scholar to meet Bahá’u’lláh
Edward Granville Browne was a young man in England when he first came across a most amazing account. It was the story of a severely persecuted …
O Ahmad, be thou so steadfast in my love that thy heart shall not waver …
Written in Adrianople in 1865, the Tablet of Ahmad is one of the most powerful of Bahá’u’lláh’s writings. Adrianople, now known as Edirne, was …
Constantinople
Constantinople was the capital of the 500 year old Ottoman caliphate. And before the Ottomans captured the city and made it their own, it had stood …
The House the Prince Wanted to Build
After Bahá’u’lláh had returned to Baghdad from his two years of withdrawal to the mountains of Kurdistan, he lived in a house close to the …
What’s Happening in October? 200th Anniversary Celebrations
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah. The anniversary will be celebrated around the world on October 20 and 21. Baha’i …
The Miracle of Baghdad
If we look in the Gospels or in the Quran we find ample evidence of the opposition of the religious hierarchies of the day to …