Word: bab
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bab who has given his name to the sect, began to preach a new faith in Persia in 1844, proclaiming himself to be but the forerunner of one who should be the manifestation of God on earth. Twelve years after the martyrdom of the Bab at the hands of the Mohammedan clergy, Baha 'Ullah, a man of noble birth, who had already been exiled for his faith, declared himself to be the one foretold by the Bah, who had come to fulfil the prophecies of the past concerning the brotherhood of mankind and the fatherhood of God. Baha 'Ullah...