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 …
Baha’u’llah
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 …
Tablet of the Branch
In Adrianople, Bahá’u’lláh began the public announcement of his mission; writing to kings and rulers and to followers of the Bab. Also from this period, Bahá’u’lláh …
Bahá’u’lláh’s first letter to Napoleon III: the Responsibility of Government for Welfare of the People
We have seen that while Baha’u’llah was in Adrianople he wrote to the rulers of society, individually and collectively. From this period comes Bahá’u’lláh’s first …
Origins of Racism: the Case of the Count de Gobineau
When we see racism still at work in our world it is important not only to know its current manifestations but also to understand something …
The religious scholar accused of being a follower of the Bab
In the time of Bahá’u’lláh, there lived in Persia a very erudite and accomplished religious scholar, Aqa Muhammad. Aqa Muhammad was so accomplished that later in …
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 …
Bahá’u’lláh’s letter to Pope Pius IX
In 1869, while in Akka, Bahá’u’lláh wrote to the then Pope of the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Pius IX. History does not record any reply. As …
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 …