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8 unusual facts about Abdu


`Abdu'l-Bahá

He arrived in New York City on 11 April 1912, after declining an offer of passage on the RMS Titanic, telling the Bahá'í believers, instead, to "Donate this to charity."

After a year of difficulties Bahá'u'lláh absented himself rather than continue to face the conflict with Mirza Yahya and secretly secluded himself in the mountains of Sulaymaniyah in April 1854 a month before `Abdu'l-Bahá's tenth birthday.

Abd al-Hosayn Ayati

After conversion to the Baha'i Faith, he spend 18 years as missionary and met `Abdu'l-Bahá.

Abdu

Abdou Soulé Elbak (born 1954), president of the autonomous island of Grande Comore

Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid

On 13 February 1956 she gave birth to the king's first child, Princess Alia, but the arrival of a child did not help the royal marriage.

Sharifa Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid (born 1929) was the first wife of King Hussein of Jordan and is the mother to his oldest child, Princess Alia.

Edward Granville Browne

The history A Traveller's Narrative was written by `Abdu'l-Bahá and translated by Browne, who added a large introduction and appendixes.

Kate Carew

She was among those who visited `Abdu'l-Bahá, then head of the Bahá'í Faith, during his visit to the States and travelled with him for a number of days.


Al-Hamidiyah

They had been forced to leave Crete when the island was captured by the Kingdom of Greece from the Ottoman Empire during the 1897-98 Greco-Turkish War, and resettled by Sultan 'Abdu'l-Hamid II here and other coastal areas of the Levant and even Libya.

Bahá'í Faith and the unity of religion

There is no definitive list of Manifestations of God, but Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá referred to several personages as Manifestations; they include Adam, Noah, Krishna, Moses, Abraham, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad.

Bahá'í Faith in England

During World War I Tudor Pole served in the Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Middle East and was directly involved in addressing the concerns raised by the Ottoman threats against `Abdu'l-Bahá, which ultimately required General Allenby altering his plans for the prosecution of the war in the Palestine theatre.

Bahá'í Faith in Oceania

The Bahá'í Faith in Kiribati begins after 1916 with a mention by `Abdu'l-Bahá, then head of the religion, that Bahá'ís should take the religion to the Gilbert Islands which form part of modern Kiribati.

Ghias ad-din

The consort of Queen Rusudan was a younger son of 'Abdu'l Harij Muhammad Mughis ad-din Tughril Shah, the Seljuq emir of Erzurum, and his wife, a daughter of Sayf al-Din Begtimur, the ruler of Ahlat.

Invasion of Buwat

After the safe return of the Muslim force to Madīnah led by Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abdu’l-Muṭṭalib, Muḥammad personally led 200 mounted men including both al-Muhājirūn and al-Anṣār to Buwāṭ. This expedition took place a month after the expedition at al-Abwā’.

Juliet Thompson

And during `Abdu'l-Bahá's first trip to the west in the fall of 1911 she met him at Thonon-les-Bains, France.

Muhammed Abdul Ali

Al-Hajj Nawab Ghulam Muhammad 'Abdu'l 'Ali Khan Bahadur (born 9 August 1951) is the current titular Prince of Arcot, holding this title since July 1993, upon demise of his father Ghulam Mohammed Abdul Khader.

P. K. Abdu Rabb

Abdu Rabb was born to Muslim League Leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala Late K. Avukader Kutty Naha and Kunhibiriyam Umma.

Sayyed Ahmad Khan Barha

Afterwards when Pattan became the royal camp it was made over to Mirza Khan (Abdu-r-Rahim S. Bairam) and Sayyid Ahmad became governor (on account of Mirza's youth).

Sex differences in religion

The Bahá'í Faith teaches that men and women are equal, and there have been a large number of prominent female teachers celebrated in Bahá'í history such as Bahiyyih Khánum who was acting head of the faith for a period following the passing of `Abdu'l-Bahá.

Sultan of Perak

Sultan ‘Abdu’l Jalil Nasir ud-din Muhtaram KCMG, OBE ( – 20 January 1916 - November 1918) -- Marhum Radziallah

Tuanku Sultan Otteman II

He was born to Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan 'Amal ud-din II Perkasa 'Alam Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ma'amun al-Rashid Perkasa 'Alam Shah, the Sultan of Deli, and Raja Maheran binti al-Marhum Paduka Sri Sultan 'Abdu'llah Muhammad Shah Habibu'llah, Tengku Mahasuri, third daughter of Maulana Paduka Sri Sultan 'Abdu'llah Muhammad Shah II Habibu'llah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ja'afar Safi ud-din Mu'adzam Shah (a former Sultan of Perak).


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