TY  - NEWS
ID  - 494
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/first_public_mentions_west
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - First Public Mentions of the Bahá'í Faith in the West
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A1  - Bahá'í Information Office of the United Kingdom
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Y1  - 1998
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M3  - Essays; Newspapers
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LA  - English
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AB  - 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.
N1  - 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, 
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KW  - 1850s
KW  - Bahá'í Faith, Early Western Accounts of
KW  - Bábísm, Early Western Accounts of
KW  - Newspaper articles
KW  - Parliament of the World's Religions
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - United States (documents)
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