Denis MacEoin about 'God Passes By'

Denis says : Referring to Abd al-Baha' and Shoghi Effendi, he (Baha'i Scholar, Gollmer) writes: 'The lives of these two chroniclers testify to this, embodying as they do the ethical principles of their faith'. I've no doubt Shoghi Effendi was the best of men (though I know less about him than I do about, oh, let's say, Ann Frank), but the fact...

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Ghusn i Akbar and Ghusn i Azam

Denis MacEoin writes about Baha'i scholars: However, again and again they bite off more than they are qualified to chew, and enter into discussions where a good knowledge of Arabic or Persian might be useful. On page 715, for example, Gollmer writes, keeping alive an old solecism: 'The Kitab-i-'Ahd unequivocally affirms the superior station...

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Hujjat was an Akhbari

Hujjat (the leader of Zanjan uprising), before his conversion (to Babism), was the leader of an Akhbari community... (The Babi Uprising in Zanjan: Causes and Issues, John Walbrid...

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50 Million Toman damage

The Babi revolts caused financial damages worth 50 Million Toman to Iran. The Babis, at the instigation of the Bab, paved the way for the country's 3 civil-wars in Mazandaran, Nayriz, and Zanjan. These three wars caused considerable damage and financial loss for the country and forced the government to take strict action against Babi...

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