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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, born ʻAbbás, was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, who designated him to be his successor and head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was later cited as the last of three "central figures" of the religion, along with Baháʼu'lláh and the Báb, and his writings and authenticated talks are regarded as sources of Baháʼí sacred literature.
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culture · Head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 to 1921 · religious leader · Baháʼí · philosopher · philosopher of religion · writer · also ʻAbbās al-Bahāʼī, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abbás Effendí, al-Bahāʼī
Born 23 May 1844 · Died 28 November 1921 · Q216954
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And 1933, Shoghi Effendi named nineteen Baháʼís as disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and heralds of the Covenant, including Thornton Chase, Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, John Esslemont, Lua Getsinger, and Robert Turner
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Died 1921-11-28.
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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá received a large amount of wheat from the crops, and also bought other available wheat and shipped it back to Haifa
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With the freedom to leave the country, he embarked on a three-year journey to Egypt, Europe, and North America, spreading the Baháʼí message
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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá had purchased about 1704 acres of scrubland near the Jordan river and by 1907 many Baháʼís from Iran had begun sharecropping on the land
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And throughout late 1898 to early 1899 Western Baháʼís sporadically visited ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
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The Memorials of the Faithful, and a large number of tablets written to various people; including various Western intellectuals such as Auguste Forel which has been translated and published as the Tablet to Auguste-Henri
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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Baháʼí Faith
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Orientalist Edward Granville Browne met him and wrote:
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Edward Granville Browne described ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, saying that "one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, an
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Later translated and published in translation in 1891 through Cambridge University through the agency of Edward Granville Browne
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Is commonly known as Bedri Paşa or Bedri Pasha and is referred to in Persian Baháʼí sources as Bedri Bey (Badri Beg)
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For the need to establish a "Union of the nations of the world", and he praised the attempt through the League of Nations as an important step towards the goal
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Baháʼu'lláh and his family were exiled to the penal colony of ʻAkká, Palestine where it was expected that the family would perish
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In what became known as the Garden of Ridván, his father Baháʼu'lláh announced to a few companions that he was the manifestation of God and He whom God shall make manifest whose coming had been foretold by the Báb
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Baháʼu'lláh was summoned to Istanbul, and thus his family, including ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, then eighteen, accompanied him on his 110-day journey
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News of an ascetic engaging in discourses with local Súfí leaders reached family and friends, raising hopes that it could be Bahá’u’lláh
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Born 1844-05-23.
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