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Bahá'í

The Bahá'í religion has an estimated 4,500,000 to 5,000,000 followers or Bahá'ísts. It was founded by Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn-`Alí Nuri) while in exile in Baghdad, Persia (currently, Iraq) in 1863.

Bahá'í is now a monotheistic religion in which Bahá'u'lláh is considered as a "manifestation of God" or messenger of God as was Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ and Muhammad. The foundation scriptures of the Bahá'í religion include a collection of writings by Bahá'u'lláh, the Báb (a forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh as John the Baptist was to Jesus) and `Abdu'l-Bahá (son of Bahá'u'lláh).

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