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In the West the Baha'i Faith was made known through the interest which the 'episode of the Bab' aroused among European savants (such as Tolstoy, Renan, Gobineau and Browne) and pre-eminently through the journeys undertaken by the eldest son of Baha'u'llah, 'Abdul-Baha, after he was freed from prison by the Young Turks' Revolution in 1908. These journeys took him to Egypt, Europe and North America. Baha'u'llah had appointed him the authoritative interpreter of his writings. Innumerable contemporary publications testify to the deep respect accorded him in public by churches, universities and renowned personalities. He died in Haifa in 1921, leaving in his Will and Testament a charter for the future development of the Baha'i Faith under the guidance of Shoghi Effendi, whom He appointed Guardian of the Faith, and of the Universal House of Justice by Baha'u'llah himself.
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