Baha'u'llah

Bahá’u’lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí Núrí; 1817–1892) was a 19th-century Persian religious leader and the founder of the Bahá’í Faith. Born in Tehran to a noble family, he became an early follower of the Báb and was imprisoned after the Bábí upheavals. In 1863, while in exile in Baghdad, he declared his mission as the promised figure foretold by the Báb. Ottoman authorities successively banished him to Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally the prison-city of ‘Akká in Palestine. His writings include the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and Kitáb-i-Íqán, central texts of the Bahá’í religion.