![]() ![]() In his second year at Oxford he learned of the death of ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ and returned to Haifa to find that, in his Will and Testament, ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ had appointed him head of the Bahai Faith, with the title of Guardian, and the authorized expounder of the Bahai scriptures. He was educated at the Collège des Frères, Haifa, Protestant Syrian College, Beirut, and Balliol College, Oxford. ![]() Shoghi Effendi, eldest son of Mirzā Moḥammad Hādi Širāzi (1865-1955), a member of the Afnān family, and Żiāʾiya Ḵānom (1878-1951), eldest daughter of ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ, was born in the House of ʿAbdallāh Pāšā in Acre (ʿAkkā). Iranian Bahais usually refer to him as Ḥażrat-e Waliy-e Amrallāh, the title given to him by ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ, usually translated as “the Guardian of the Cause of God, or simply “the Guardian.” In the West, he is chiefly known as Shoghi Effendi. ![]() London, 4 November 1957), eldest grandson and successor of ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ as leader of the Bahai Faith (1921-57). ![]()
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