THE PRICELESS PEARL Rabbani, Ruhiyyih Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1969.

THE PRICELESS PEARL

Rabbani, Ruhiyyih

Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1969.

Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 482pp. coda5b. Green hardback, index, b&w photos, Biography of the late Guardian and World Head of the Baha'i Faith who for thirty six years shaped its affairs and guided its destiny.

livro em ótimo estado, capa dura original, tiragem limitada, com assinatura e numerado. A melhor biografia do Guardião Bahai.

"Shoghi Effendi also sought news of the world from the various newspapers and magazines to which he subscribed. He assiduously kept abreast of the political news and trends of the world, through his Times, The Jerusalem Post and sometimes the well-known European dailies Journal de Genève and the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune."



"Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (March 1, 1897 - November 4, 1957) , better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian and appointed head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. After the death of `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá'í community entered a new phase, evolving from that of a single individual to an administrative order with executive and legislative branches, the head of each being the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice.

Shoghi Effendi was referred to as the Guardian, and held the explicit authority to interpret the writings of the three central figures of the religion and define the sphere of legislative authority. His writings are effectively limited to commentaries on the works of the central figures, and broad directives for the future. Future hereditary Guardians were permitted in the Bahá'í scripture by appointment from one to the next, but a prerequisite that appointees be male descendants of Bahá'u'lláh left no suitable living candidates, and Shoghi Effendi died without making an appointment. The Universal House of Justice, the only institution authorized to adjudicate on situations not covered in scripture, later announced that it could not legislate to make possible the appointment of a successor to Shoghi Effendi. To Bahá'ís he is the first and last Guardian. "