Peter Smith (historian)

Peter Smith is a historian specializing in Bahá'í studies. He earned his doctorate in the Sociology of Religion from University of Lancaster (Ph.D., 1982), and his dissertation was later published as The Babi and Baha’i Religions: From Messianic Shi’ism to a World Religion. Peter Smith is currently on faculty at Mahidol University International College in Thailand.

Born in Yorkshire, Peter Smith was raised in Bristol, England, where he became a Bahá'í at the age of 16 years old, initially hearing about the religion from media coverage of the second Bahá'í World Congress held in London. In 1968, after the Palermo Conference held to commemorate the exile of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, to Acre, Peter Smith along with Denis MacEoin, Moojan Momen, and Tahir Ronald Taherzadeh (a son of Adib Taherzadeh), served as one of the youth guides at the mass pilgrimage to the Bahá’í World Centre. Peter Smith has been an active member of the British Bahá'í community, having served on National Teaching Committees and the Local Spiritual Assemblies of Bristol, Durham and Lancaster. He is married to Sammi Anvar with whom he has two children. Since 1985, Peter Smith has pioneered to Thailand, where he serves on the faculty of Mahidol University International College.

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