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  1. Religious movement founded 1840's by
  2. Mirza Ali Mohammad (`the Bab'). An offshoot
  3. of Islam, its main difference lies in the
  4. belief that Muhammad was not the last of the
  5. prophets. The movement split into two groups
  6. after the death of the Bab; Baha'ullah, the
  7. leader of one of these groups, founded the
  8. Baha'i faith.
  9.