Shoghi Effendi's narrative history of the Baha'i Faith's first century, written in 1944 for the centenary of the Bab's declaration and standing as the Faith's own authoritative account of its founding. Describes the 1844 to 1853 founding period, centered on the Bab, as one in which "above ten thousand heroes laid down their lives," and elsewhere describes the Faith as a whole, cumulatively, as "consecrated by the sacrifice of no less than twenty thousand martyrs."
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Reliability TierA tradition's own authoritative history rather than independent outside scholarship, the same tier this corpus already gives the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism (14763) for the identical reason: a reputable, primary account of the community's own memory and record rather than a critically independent academic study. NotesThe Baha'i community's own authoritative narrative history, not an independent scholarly count; used here specifically as the community-memory pole of the Babi Persecutions death toll, alongside a modern academic reassessment that puts the same period's toll far lower. 1 Citation
PublisherBaha'i Publishing Trust 1 Publication Year URLhttps://bahai-library.com/writings/shoghieffendi/gpb/0.html 1 Source TypeOfficial denominational history 1 Sources
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- Spread Events, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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