Huschmand Sabet was born in Tehran in 1931 and has lived in Germany since 1950. His studies were in electrical engineering, followed by philosophy and comparative religion at the University of Tübingen. He is well-known as a lecturer and writer on the Bahá'í Faith in the German-speaking countries of Europe, and his first book, The Heavens are Cleft Asunder, published in 1967, stimulated a wide public response.