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| 1915 (In the year) |
Mírzá Husayn-i-Hudá was martyred in Urúmíyyih. [BW18:387] |
Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Urumiyyih; Iran |
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| 1915 (In the year) |
A plan to fund part-time travelling Bahá'í teachers in the USA and Canada was approved. There had been a great deal of reluctance to take this measure for fear of creating a "clergy" class but the vastness of the country and the fewness of believers of independent means as well as the impetus to teaching sparked by 'Abdu'l-Bahá's visit helped to take the decision. [BBRSM:105, 219] |
Subsidies; Funds; Travel Teaching; USA; Canada |
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| 1915 In 1915 and 1916 |
The publication of Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson. It has been described as a "hostile and uninformed Christian missionary's overview of the Bahá'í Faith".
See a reference to Wilson SBBH5p234-235.
Other publications by Wilson include Bahaism: An Anti-Christian System also published in 1915 and Mahdist Movements. It was published in 1916 and is "{an} unsympathetic Christian missionary's early history of the Faith".
See also WOB83 for other missionaries who wrote polemics against the Bahá'í Faith. |
Bahá'ísm and Its Claims; Samuel Graham Wilson; Opposition |
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| 1915 (in the year) |
Jamál Páshá, Commander of the 4th Army Corps of the Turkish army, was put in military control of Syria, including the Holy Land. [AB412]
For an account of his relationship with 'Abdu'l-Bahá see AB412–14.
He threatened to crucify 'Abdu'l-Bahá and to destroy the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh. [AB414; GPB303-305, 317, SYH99] |
Jamal Pasha; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Life of (chronology); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Death threats to; - Basic timeline, Expanded; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; Haifa, Israel; Akka, Israel; Bahji, Israel |
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