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AU1_1ST | Moojan |
AU1_2ND | Momen |
LG1_THIS | English |
FILE_NAME | momen_iranica_afnan |
EDIT | 3 |
FRMT | 3 |
PUB_THIS | Columbia University |
CITY_THIS | New York |
DATE_THIS | 1985 |
COLLECTION1 | Encyclopedia |
COLLECTION2 | Biography |
VOLUME | Volume 1 |
TITLE_THIS | Afnán |
SUBTITLE_THIS | Genealogy of the Afnān Family |
TITLE_PARENT | Encyclopaedia Iranica |
POST_DATE | 2002 |
POST_BY | Jonah Winters |
PERMISSION | fair use |
BLURB | Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use." |
NOTES | See also The Afnán Family: Some Biographical Notes and Genealogy of the Aghsan and the Afnán. Mirrored from www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afnan-twigs-or-branches-term-used-in-the-bahai-faith-. |
CONTENT | AFNĀN (“twigs” or “branches”), term used in the Bahaʾi faith (initially by Bahāʾallāh) to designate certain lines of descent in the maternal family of the Bāb. The Bāb married Ḵadīǰa Begom, his mother’s paternal cousin, and the Afnān are the siblings of his mother and his wife, together with all their descendants. The family members have no administrative functions or privileges and their designation is purely honorary. The following are brief notes on some of the most important of them:
Both the maternal and paternal families of the Bāb were Ḥosaynī Sayyeds of Shiraz. The paternal family (who are not regarded as Afnān) included the preeminent moǰtahed and marǰaʿ al-taqlīd Mīrzā Ḥasan Šīrāzī (Mīrzā-ye Šīrāzī), whose father was a paternal cousin of the Bāb’s father. In Bahaʾi terminology, the use of the term Afnān is paralleled by the use of the term Aḡṣān to designate the descendents of Bahāʾallāh. Bibliography : Moḥammad-ʿAlī Fayżī, Ḵānadān-e Afnān, Tehran, 127 badīʿ /1970. Abu’l Qāsem Afnān’s book on the family of the Bāb (in preparation). click for larger image |
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VIEWS | 10136 |
TAGS | Afnan;Genealogy;Tree symbolism |
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