Baháʼu'lláh

Baháʼu'lláh (born Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí, 1817–1892) is the prophet-founder of the Baháʼí Faith, the world's youngest major independent religion. He was a Persian nobleman from a distinguished Tehran family who, in 1844, became a follower of the Báb — a young Iranian reformer whose movement (Bábism) was violently suppressed by Qajar authorities. After the Báb's execution in 1850, Baháʼu'lláh emerged as the most prominent surviving Bábí leader. Imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Síyáh-Chál