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1905 (In the year)
190-		 The publication of Le Beyan Arabe in Paris by A. L. M. Nicolas. It was a French translation of the Arabic Bayán. [BBR39]
  • English translation The Arabic Bayán by Peter Terry.
    		•  * Báb, Writings of; Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan); A.L.M. Nicolas; * Translation; * Publications; Paris, France; France
    1905 (In the Year)
    190-    		 The publication of Hidden Words, Words of Wisdom and Communes from the Supreme Pen of Bahá'u'lláh by the Bahai Publishing Society of Chicago. In included two pages at the end in which 'Abdu'l-Bahá answers questions about the Hidden Words. Translation was done by Mirza Ameen Fareed. It was republished in 1906 or between 1906 and 1910 and again in 1914. [Collins 1.70 - 1.70a] * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 The publication of The New Revelation: Its Marvelous Message by Nathan Ward Fitz-Gerald.288p
  • Collins7.974 describes the book as "A pot-pourri of introductory materials on the Bahá'í Faith, which includes much misinformation. Includes an early translation of The Hidden Words. Typography includes considerable bold typeface."
    		•  Nathan Ward Fitz-Gerald; * Publications; Tacoma, WA; Washington, USA; United States (USA)
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 The passing of Ahmad (of "Tablet of Ahmad" fame) in Tehran at the age of 100. He was born in Yazd in 1805. [A Flame of Fire by Abu'l-Qasim Faizi] Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)); Ahmad of Yazd; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Tehran, Iran; Iran; Biography
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 The first publication of The Seven Valleys in the West. It was translated from Persian into French by Hippolyte Dreyfus and Chirazi and was bound with The Hidden Words (Les Paroles cachées). This French translation was further translated into English by Julie Chanler in 1933 (or 1936), accounts differ. [About the Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys; Collins1.112] Haft Vadi (Seven Valleys); * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; * Translation; * Publications; Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney; France; United States (USA) first publication of the Seven Valleys in the West.
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 Muhammad-'Alí sent his eldest son Shu'á'u'lláh to North America as his representative. It would appear that he did not work with Kheiralla but rather aligned himself with the group of Behaists in Kenosha. [BFA1p180; GPB319]
  • He was the editor of the Behai Quarterly, a periodical published seven times from the Spring of 1934 to 1936 published from 7534 Twenty-sixth Ave in Kenosha. [BFA1p180; AB527n60]
  • When the Master visited Los Angeles in October of 1912 he was living in Pasadena and became a cause of grief for 'Abdu'l-Bahá through his machinations. [MD340-341]
  • It is believed that he stayed in North America until the 1930s or 1940s. [BFA1p180]
    		• Covenant-breaking; Muhammad-`Alí; Shuaullah; Kenosha, WI
    1905 (In the year or later)
    190-    		 Following the dispatch of his eldest son Shu'áu'lláh to North America, Muhammad-'Ali sent Mírzá Ghulámu'lláh, son of Áqá Muhammad-Javád-i-Qazvíní, one of the most inveterate adversaries of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Enroute he Ghlámu'lláh visited Professor E G Browne at Cambridge. [AB86]
  • Áqá Muhammad-Javád-i-Qazvíní was with Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad and went to Adrianople some years later to be of service to Him. He was exiled to Akká and served by transcribing Writings. After the passing of Bahá'u'lláh he became an adversary of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and attacked him in his venomous writings. [CoB165; GPB319]
    		•  Covenant-breaking; Shuaullah; Muhammad Ali; Ghulamullah; Aqa Muhammad Javiad Qazyini; Cambridge, England; United Kingdom
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 Agnes Alexander arrived in Alaska, the first Bahá'í travelling teacher to visit the territory. [BBRSM:107] Agnes Alexander; Alaska, USA; United States (USA) First Bahá'í travelling teacher to visit Alaska
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 A.L.M. Nicolas published his book Seyyed Ali dit le Bab. It was the first work by a western author dedicated entirely to the Báb, His movement and His teachings. (Conflict: See 1865)

  • English translation A Prophet of Modern Times by Peter Terry.

    It is "(a) history of the Bábí movement up to 1852. Nicolas gives a list of sources for this book on pp. 48-53. It is interesting to note that among his oral sources are four of the leading Bahá'ís of that period, who had been designated by Bahá'u'lláh as 'Hands of the Cause': Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad, 'Ibn-i-Asdaq: Mullá 'Al-Akbar-i-Sháhmírzádí, Hají Akhund; Mírzá Muhammad-Táqíy-i-Abharí, 'Ibn-i-Abhar; and Mírzá Hasan-i-Adíb. The other two oral sources named are Siyyid 'Ismu'lláh, who was presumably Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Dihají, and Mírzá Yahyá, Subh-i-Azál." [BBR38-39]

  • The preamble to his book has an image that is supposedly of the Báb, but the portrait does not seem to be an authentic representation.

  • William Miller also reproduced Nicolas's image on page 17 of his polemical work, The Bahá'í Faith: Its History and Teachings. (South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1974). ['The Bab in the World of Images', Bahá'í Studies Review, vol. 19, June 2013, 171–90.]
  • See also WOB83 for other missionaries who wrote polemics against the Bahá'í Faith.
    		• * Báb, Writings of; A.L.M. Nicolas; Criticism and apologetics; William McElwee Miller; Bábísm; - First publications; * Publications; Paris, France; France The first work by a western author dedicated entirely to the Báb
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 A second Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of `Árif Bey, arrived in `Akká further to investigate the charges laid against `Abdu'l-Bahá. [AB117–25; BBR320 3; CB234–7; GPB269–71]
  • See BBR322 for difficulties in dating this event. All Bahá'í sources indicate that this took place in 1907 but documents in the Ottoman State Archives indicate that it took place in 1905.
  • The Commission returned to Turkey amid political upheavals and its report was put to one side. [AB122–3; CB237; GPB271]
    		•  `Abdu'l-Bahá, Commission of inquiry; Sultán `Abdu'l-Hamid; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Haifa, Israel; Akka, Israel; Istanbul, Turkey; Turkey
    1905 (In the year)
    190-    		 A Bahá'í group was established in Germany. [BBRSM219] Statistics; Germany first Bahá'í group was established in Germany.
    1905 (or 1904)
    190-    		 A Bahá'í group was established in Germany soon after the arrival of the first Bahá'í in the country, Dr. Edwin Fischer, in Stuttgart. He was dentist and a returned emigrant to the United States. German-born Alma Knobloch also became a Bahá'í in the United States 1903, before Fischer, arrived in Germany in 1907. [BBRSM:107, 219; BWNS390]
  • The German Baha'i Community under National Socialism: by Harry Liedtke says he arrived in 1904.
    		•  Edwin Fischer; Alma Knobloch; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Stuttgart, Germany; Germany first German Baha'i
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