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First Public Mentions of the Bahá'í Faith in the West

Author	Bahá'í Information Office of the UK
Title of item	First Public Mentions of the Bahá'í Faith in the West
Date of this edition	1998
Language	English
Permission	editor and publisher
Posted	1999 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Essays and short articles and Newspaper articles
URL	bahai-library.com/first_public_mentions_west
Abstract	Short essay based on research by Moojan Momen and Derek Cockshutt. The first mention for the Faith in the West was not in 1893, but rather in a number of earlier talks on the Faith in England, and reports on the Babis in the 1850s.
Notes	Published for the Centenary of the Bahá'í Faith in the United Kingdom (1998). Posted with permission of editors. On the earliest reports of the Babis, see also Early Mention of Bábís in Western Newspapers, Summer 1850, Historical mentions of the Bábí/Bahá'í Faiths, and Newspaper Collections and the Bahá'í Faith,
Tags	Babism, Early Western Accounts of; Bahai Faith, Early Western Accounts of; Newspaper articles; World Parliament of Religions
Locations	United Kingdom; United States (documents)
Page views	16062 hits since 1999
Edit quality	high: carefully proofread and edited
Format quality	high: well formatted
Last edited	2020-08-16 14:28 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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