Lights of Fortitude
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Contents[edit]
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Donald R. Witzel
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Note
I. Hands of the Cause Appointed by Bahá’u’lláh c. 1887 to 1892
- Mullá ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Shahmírzádí, Ḥájí Ákhúnd
- Mírzá ‘Alí-Muḥammad (Ibn-i-Aṣdaq)
- Mírzá Muḥammad-Taqí (Ibn-i-Abhar)
- Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan-i-Adíb
II. Hands of the Cause Mentioned by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, 1892 to 1921
- Mullá Muḥammad-Riḍáy-i-Muḥammad-Ábádí
- Muḥammad-i-Qá‘iní, Nabíl-i-Akbar
- Mullá Ṣadiq-i-Muqaddas-i-Khurásání (Ismu’lláhu’l-Aṣdaq)
- Mírzá ‘Alí-Muḥammad Varqá
III. Hands of the Cause Appointed Posthumously by Shoghi Effendi (date appointment announced in brackets)
- Ḥájí Abu’l-Ḥasan-i-Ardikání (Amín-i-Iláhí, Ḥájí Amín) (July 1928)
- ‘Abdu’l-Jalíl Bey Sa‘ad (25 June 1942)
- John Henry Hyde Dunn (26 April 1952)
- John Ebenezer Esslemont (30 November 1925)
- Louis George Gregory (5 August 1951)
- Keith Ransom-Kehler (28 October 1933)
- Muḥammad Taqí Iṣfahání (15 December 1946)
- Martha Louise Root (2 October 1939)
- Muṣṭafáy-i-Rúmí (14 July 1945)
- Roy C. Wilhelm (23 December 1951)
IV. Hands of the Cause Appointed by Shoghi Effendi on 24 December 1951
- Dorothy Beecher Baker
- Amelia Engelder Collins
- ‘Alí-Akbar Furútan
- Ugo Giachery
- Hermann Grossmann
- Horace Hotchkiss Holley
- Leroy C. Ioas
- William Sutherland Maxwell
- Charles Mason Remey
- Ṭarázu’lláh Samandarí
- George Townshend
- Valíyu’lláh Varqá
V. Hands of the Cause Appointed by Shoghi Effendi on 29 February 1952
- Shu‘á‘u’lláh ‘Alá’í
- Músá Banání
- Clara Dunn
- Zikrullah Khadem (Dhikru'lláh Khádim)
- Adelbert Mühlschlegel
- Siegfried Schopflocher
- Corinne Knight True
VI. Hands of the Cause Appointed Individually by Shoghi Effendi (date appointment announced in brackets)
- Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum (Mary Sutherland Maxwell) (26 March 1952)
- Jalál Kházeh (Jalál Kháḍih) (7 December 1953)
- Paul Edmond Haney (19 March 1954)
- Dr ‘Alí Muḥammad Varqá (15 November 1955)
- Agnes Baldwin Alexander (27 March 1957)
VII. Hands of the Cause Appointed by Shoghi Effendi on 2 October 1957
- Hasan Balyuzi (Ḥasan Muvaqqar Balyúzí)
- Abu’l-Qásim Faizi (Abu’l-Qasim Fayḍí)
- Harold Collis Featherstone
- John Graham Ferraby
- Raḥmatu’lláh Muhájir, by Iran Furútan Muhájir
- Enoch Olinga
- John Aldham Robarts
- William Sears
Appendix I: Letter from the Universal House of Justice dated 26 November 2007
