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When Bahá’u’lláh founded the Bahá’í faith in the mid-19th century, it was an outgrowth of a movement related to his Islamic upbringing.

His faith, he claimed, was the prophetic proclamation and realization of another closely related religion of the time called Babism.

In Babism, it was said, there would be a messenger from God who would unite Islam, Christianity and all other major world religions.

The fulfillment of that prophecy, the Bahá’í faith, began in Persia, which is now known as Iran under the leadership of Bahá’u’lláh. In an exercise of socio-religious control, the predominant Islami...