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- Bahá’u’lláh
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- Kitáb-i-Aqdas
- Kitáb-i-Íqán
- The Hidden Words
- The Seven Valleys
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- Administrative Order
- The Guardianship
- Universal House of Justice
- Spiritual Assemblies
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- Bábís
- Shaykh Ahmad
- Persecution
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- Shoghi Effendi
- Martha Root
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The Bahá’í Faith in Morocco began about 1946.[1][2] In 1953 the Bahá’ís initiated a Ten Year Crusade during which a number of Bahá’ís pioneered to various parts of Morocco—many of whom came from Egypt and a few from the United States including Helen Elsie Austin.[3][4] By April 1955 the first Bahá’í Local Spiritual Assembly ofCeuta was elected.[5] By January 1958 the first Bahá’í summer school was held in Rabat.[6] By spring 1958 the Bahá’í population may have been 100 and there were six assemblies and a regional committee coordinated activities promulgating the religion.[2] In 1960 the first all-Moroccan local assembly was elected in Zaouiat Cheikh and most of its members were Berbers.[7] On December 7, 1961 an article in Al Alam laments the decline of Islam and attacks the Bahá’ís.[4] During the year Bahá’í homes are entered by police and literature of the religion is taken. On April 12 four Bahá’ís are arrested in Nador.[4] A regional National Spiritual Assembly of North West Africa was organized which included Morocco in 1962.[8] In 1963 a survey of the community counted 10 Assemblies, 12 organized groups (between 1 and 9 adults) of Bahá’ís.[9] In 1963 the arrests in Morocco had gotten attention from Hassan II of Morocco, US Senator Kenneth B. Keating[10] and Roger Nash Baldwin, then Chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man[4] and would echo in analyses of politics of Morocco for years to come.[11][12] All Bahá’í meetings were prohibited in 1983 followed by arrests.[4] This time the response emphasized the non-partisan and obedience to government principles of the religion.[13] 1992 estimates by the US Department of State counted some 150-200 Bahá’ís.[14] while 2001 through 2009 estimates mention the Bahá’í community at 350 to 400 persons.[15][16] HoweverAssociation of Religion Data Archives and Wolfram Alpha estimated 33,000 Bahá’ís in 2005 and 2010, the third largest religion in the country.[17][18]
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