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Mar 01, 1897 Acre, Northern District, Israel Died on 04 Nov 1957 (aged 60)
appointed head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957
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About Shoghi Effendi
- Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi (), was the Guardian and appointed head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957.
- Shoghi Effendi spent his early life in ?Akká (Acre).
- His education was directed to serving as secretary and translator to his grandfather, ?Abdu'l-Bahá, then leader of the Bahá'í Faith and son of the religion's founder, Bahá'u'lláh. After the death of ?Abdu'l-Bahá in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá'í community changed 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, respectively.
- Shoghi Effendi was referred to as the Guardian, and had the 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 with the prerequisite that appointees be male descendants of Bahá'u'lláh.
- At the time of Shoghi Effendi's death, all living male descendants of Bahá'u'lláh had been declared Covenant-breakers by either ?Abdu'l-Bahá or Shoghi Effendi, leaving no suitable living candidates.
- Shoghi Effendi died without appointing a successor Guardian, and 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.
- Shoghi Effendi was the first and last person acknowledged as Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.
