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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• 18 May A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
Yvonne Cuellar, a French woman, becomes a Bahá'í in Bolivia.
- Although
Marina del Prado was the first to become a Bahá'í, on 2 February 1941,
she did not remain active, so Yvonne Cuellar is recognized as the first
Bahá'í in Bolivia. She was called by Shoghi Effendi ‘Mother of Bolivia'.
- For the story of her life see BW19:619–22.
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• June A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
Eve Nicklin arrives in Peru from the United States and becomes the first resident pioneer to settle in Lima. |
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• 20 June A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
The passing of Howard Colby Ives in Little Rock, AR. He was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1867. [BW9p608-613] |
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• Summer A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
The first Canadian Bahá'í summer school is held, in Montreal. [BW9:28, TG84] |
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• 16 September A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
In Iran, Ridá Sháh abdicates and Muḥammad-Ridá Sháh ascends to the throne. His rule was to last until 1979. [BBR482]
- Ridá Sháh is overthrown by the British and Russians. [BBRSM173]
- His reign can be described in three phases:
The first phase, from1941 through 1955, was a period characterized by
physical danger, during which Baha'is were scapegoated in the
interactions among the government, the clerics and the people, and
experienced several bloody incidents, the culmination of which was the
1955 anti-Baha'i campaign and its aftermaths.
The second phase, from the late 1950s to around 1977, marked almost two
decades of relative respite from physical attacks, during which Baha'is
enjoyed more security than before, without ever being officially
recognized as a religious community and while their existence as Baha'is
was essentially ignored or denied.
The last two years of the reign of the Shah comprised the third phase, the revival of a bloody period. [Towards a History of Iran's Baha'i Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by
Mina Yazdani]
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• 18 October A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
Four members of a Bahá'í family are
killed and several other family members severely beaten in an attack on
their home by an armed mob in Panbih-Chúlih, near Sárí, Iran.
[BW18:389] |
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• November A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
The National Spiritual Assembly of
the United States and Canada distributed a mimeographed statement
concerning the New History Society entitled The Basis of the Bahá'í Community,
which explained the purpose and outcome of the lawsuit entered against
the founders of the New History Society to prevent their misuse of the
name "Bahá'í" on which the National Spiritual Assembly had obtained a
trade mark patent. The court took the position that it was not
authorized to decide religious questions. [The Basis of the Bahá'í Community: A Statement Concerning the New History Society]
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• December A.D. 1941
• A.M. |
The National Spiritual Assembly of
the United States and Canada distributed a mimeographed statement
concerning the New History Society entitled The Basis of the Bahá'í Community,
which explained the purpose and outcome of the lawsuit entered against
the founders of the New History Society to prevent their misuse of the
name "Bahá'í" on which the National Spiritual Assembly had obtained a
trade mark patent. The court took the position that it was not
authorized to decide religious questions. [The Basis of the Bahá'í Community: A Statement Concerning the New History Society]
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1942
• A.M. |
Lidia Zamenhof is killed in the gas chambers at Treblinka.
- For her obituary see BW10:533–8.
- See also Heller, Lidia.
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1942
• A.M. |
The House of the Báb in S̲h̲íráz is attacked and damaged by fire. [BBD108; BW18:389] |
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• Early A.D. 1942
• A.M. |
The publication in Iran of The Political Confessions or Memoirs of Prince Dolgoruki (or, simply, Dolgorukov's Memoirs). The book contends that the Bábí Faith was simply a plot to destabilize Iran and Islam. [22 February, 2009 Iran Press Watch]
- See Religious Contentions in Modern Iran, 1881-1941 by Dr Mina Yazdani where she posits that "The process of Othering the
Bahā'īs had at least three components; 1) religious, carried on by the
traditionalist theologians; 2) institutional and formal, sanctioned by
the state; and 3) political, the result of a joint and gradual process
in which Azalīs, former Bahā'īs and reformist theologians all played a
role. This process reached its culmination with the widespread
publication of The Confessions of Dolgoruki which resulted in a
fundamental paradigm shift in the anti-Bahā'ī discourse. With the
widespread impression of Bahā'īs as spies of foreign powers, what up to
that point constituted a sporadic theme in some anti-Bahā'ī polemics now
became the dominant narrative of them all, including those authored by
traditionalist clerics. Consequently, as Iran entered the 1940s, the
process that would transform Islamic piety to political ideology was
well under way."
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1942
• A.M. |
In the village of Daidanaw eleven
Bahá'ís were slain. Records, books and documents that had been
transferred to Daidanaw from the headquarters in Mandalay and Rangoon
were lost when the headquarters building was destroyed by file.
[BW11]p33] |
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1942
• A.M. |
Dr Malcolm King, a Jamaican who become a Bahá'í in the United States, introduces the Faith to his homeland. [SDSCp425 note 2]
- He held meetings at 190 Orange Street in Kingston. By 1943, the people he had taught founded a spiritual assembly in Kingston. [The Gleaner]
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• 13 Feb A.D. 1942
• A.M. |
Ustád Habíbu'lláh Mu‘ammarí is martyred in Nayríz, Iran. [BW18:389] |
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• 98 B.E.
• A.H.
• 13 March A.D. 1942
• A.M. |
The passing of Siyyid Mustafá Rúmí.
who became a Baha'i in1875 through the teaching of Jamal Effendi. He
was nearly 99 years old at the time of his death.
- He was born of
a noble family from Iraq who had settled in Madras, India where he
encounter Jamal Effendi. Together they journeyed to Burma in 1878 and
he married and settle in Rangoon. In 1899 he and some others carried
the marble casket made by the Bahá'ís of Mandalay to the Holy Land for
the Holy Remains of the Báb. After the loss of his wife and his
business interests in 1910 he was free to devote his full time to the
Faith. He was instrumental in establishing a new centre in Daidanaw in
the township of Kungyangoon.
- Among his many services for the Faith he translated the Writing to Urdu and to Burmese.
- The Guardian announced his elevation to the rank of Hand of the
Cause of God on the 14th of July, 1945 and made a donation for the
construction of his tomb. [MoCxxi, BW10p517-520i]
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