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1950 (In the year)
195-		 The publication of The Covenant, An Analysis by George Townshend. It was published in Manchester by the Bahá'í Publishing Trust 15p. [Collins7.2578] Covenant; Manchester, England
1950 (In the year)
195-		 Ghulam Reza Akhzari and his son Nur Allah were killed near Yazd and Bahram Rawhani was murdered in Taft. [Towards a History of Iran's Bahá'í Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.] Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Taft, Iran; Iran
1950 (In the year)
195-		 The publication of Prescription for Living by Rúhíyyih Rabbani by George Ronald. The first edition was a run of 300 copies, done in a dark blue cloth, serial numbered and autographed by the author. There were subsequent printings in 1950, 1960, 1972, and 1978. [Collins7.2181-2185; CBN No 13 May 1950]
  • In 1971-1972 the book was transcribed by Gertrude D. Schurgast of Tuscon, AZ into braille. Another "printing" was done by the Service for the Blind Committee in Stevenage, England in 1983. [Collins8.118-119]
    		•  Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; * Publications
    1950 (In the decade)
    195-    		 In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society was started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabí to persecute and harass the Bahá'ís. [S1296]
  • During the Pahlaví era it confined itself to this end and was called the Anti-Bahá'í Society. [SI296]
  • See The Anti-Bahá'í Society by Mehdi Abedi and Michael M.J. Fischer.
    		•  Hojjatieh Society; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Iran
    1950 (In the year)
    195-    		 The Court of the First Instance in Karkúk, Iraq, registered a Bahá'í marriage certificate. [MBW4; UD248]
  • This was the first time in the East, outside Israel, that a Bahá'í marriage was recognized as being legal, an important precedent for other Oriental countries. [MBW4; UD248]
    		•  Firsts, other; Marriage; Weddings; Recognition (legal); Karkuk, Iraq; Iraq first Bahá’í marriage recognized in the East (outside Israel)
    1950 (In the year)
    195-    		 By this year the Bahá'í population of Black Africa was probably no more than 12. [BBRSM190–1] Statistics; - Africa
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