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1915 In 1915 and 1916
191-		 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; Opposition; Samuel Graham Wilson
    1915 (In the year)
    191-    		 Mírzá Husayn-i-Hudá was martyred in Urúmíyyih. [BW18:387] * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Deaths; Iran; Urúmíyyih, Iran
    1915 (in the year)
    191-    		 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]
    		•  * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); - Basic timeline, Expanded; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Death threats to; Akka, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahji, Israel; Haifa, Israel; Jamal Pasha
    1915 (In the year)
    191-    		 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] Canada; Funds; Subsidies; Travel Teaching; United States (USA)
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