Word: shoghi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinctly Islamic cast: all male believers must undertake a dawn-to-dusk fast each year similar to the Moslem Ramadan, could marry no more than two wives. Baha'u'llah's leadership was handed on to his son, and then his great-grandson, Oxford-educated Shoghi Effendi, the late husband of Mrs. Rabbani (she later remarried). Since then, the faith has been guided by 22 leaders known as Hands of the Cause, who will be superseded by the Universal House of Justice. In most Moslem countries, Bahai is still regarded as a dangerous heresy-perhaps because oldtime...