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• 47 B.E.
• A.H.
• April A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
Bahá'u'lláh visits Haifa for a third time. He spent about two weeks there on this visit. [BBD94; BPP173; DH109; GPB194; RB4:351]
- He first stays near Bayt-i-Zahlán, near the town. [BKG374]
- He then moves to Oliphant House in the German colony. His tent
is pitched on a piece of land opposite (currently on Ben Gurion 6). The
plot upon which the tent of Bahá'u'lláh was pitched, is now a centre for
soldiers named General Pierre Koenig Soldier Centre. [BKG374; BPP173]
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• 47 B.E.
• A.H.
• 15 / 20 April A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
E. G. Browne is granted four successive interviews with Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí. [BBD43; BBR225; BKG371; GPB193]
- See BBR225–32 for Browne's own account of the visit.
- See BBR229–31, BKG371–3 and DH110 for Browne's pen portrait of Bahá'u'lláh.
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá gives Browne the manuscript of A Traveller's Narrative: the Episode of the Báb in the handwriting of Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín for his to translate. [EGB54, BW11p510]
- BFA1:445; Balyuzi, Edward Granville Browne And The Bahá'í Faith and Momen, Selections From the Writings of E. G. Browne.
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• 47 B.E.
• A.H.
• August / September A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
Mullá Ḥasan and his two brothers are arrested and beaten in Sarc̲h̲áh, Bírjand. [BW18:383] |
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• 47 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
On the instructions of Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is published for the first time in Bombay. [SA250]
- It is published in Arabic. [SA250]
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• 47 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
Bahá'u'lláh reveals the Kitáb-i-`Ahd. [BBD32; CB142; GPB236–40]
- It was probably written at least one year before His Ascension. CB142]
- Bahá'u'lláh alludes to it in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf as the `Crimson Book'. [DG16; ESW32; GPB238]
- In it Bahá'u'lláh explicitly appoints `Abdu'l-Bahá His
successor, the Centre of the Covenant and the Expounder of the revealed
word. [BKG420; GPB239]
- See also: BKG420–5; RB4:419–20.
Bahá'u'lláh reveals Epistle to the Son of the Wolf addressed to S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Muḥammad-Taqíy-i-Najafí (S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Najafí), the son of S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Muḥammad-Báqir. [BBD78, 164; BKG382; GPB219; RB4:368]
- It was revealed about a year before the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh. GPB220]
- It was Bahá'u'lláh's `last outstanding Tablet'. [BBD78; BKG382; GPB219]
- For an analysis of its content, themes and circumstances of its revelation, see RB34:368–412.
- For a study guide to the Tablet see RB4:433–40.
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• 47 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
A Traveller's Narrative is published in two volumes by the Cambridge University Press. [BBD226; EGB55]
It is an historical account written by ‘Abdu'l-Bahá around 1886 and
first published anonymously in Persian in 1890. The English translation
was prepared by Professor Edward G. Browne and first published by
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• 47 B.E.
• A.H.
• 15 February A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
First public lecture in the West on the Bahá'í Faith, given by E. G. Browne at the Southplace Institute, London.
- He gave a lecture to Pembroke College Literary Society in England (Martletts), at which the Faith was discussed at length.
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