List of converts to the Baháʼí Faith from Islam
This is a List of converts to the Baháʼí Faith from Islam.
These were mostly people who were followers of the Baháʼu'lláh at the time he founded the Baháʼí Faith.
- Peter Khan – Australian Baháʼí who was a member of the International Teaching Centre and Universal House of Justice.
- Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl – foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States. One of the few Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh who never actually met Baháʼu'lláh.[1]
- Mishkín-Qalam – prominent Baháʼí and one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th-century Persia.[2]
- Táhirih – Persian poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran.[3]
- Nabíl-i-Aʻzam – Baháʼí historian and one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh[4]
- Hají Ákhúnd – eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.[5]
- Ibn-i-Abhar – appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.[6]
- Mírzá Mahmúd – eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.[7]
- Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn – two brothers who were beheaded in the city of Isfahan in 1879.[8]
- Somaya Ramadan[9] – 2001 winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
- ʻAbdu'l-Karim Amín Khawja[10] - the first native Algerian convert to the Baháʼí Faith.
- Musa Naghiyev – Azerbaijani industrial oil magnate in late 19th - early 20th century.[11]
- Sami Doktoroglu – early and important member of the Baháʼí Faith in Turkey.[12]
- Hasan M. Balyuzi - a descendant of relatives of the Báb, he was nevertheless a Muslim until he joined the religion following developing a friendship with Shoghi Effendi circa 1925, and eventually was named a Hand of the Cause of God.[13]
See also
References
- Momen, Moojan (4 March 2002). "Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpaygani, Mirza". Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
- Balyuzi, Hasan (1985). Eminent Baháʼís in the time of Baháʼu'lláh. The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton. pp. 270–271. ISBN 0853981523.
- ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (1997) [1915]. Memorials of the Faithful (Softcover ed.). Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. ISBN 0877432422.
- Balyuzi, Hasan (1985). Eminent Baháʼís in the time of Baháʼu'lláh. The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton. pp. 268–270. ISBN 0853981523.
- Balyuzi, Hasan (1985). Eminent Baháʼís in the time of Baháʼu'lláh. The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton. pp. 265–266. ISBN 0853981523.
- Balyuzi, Hasan (1985). Eminent Baháʼís in the time of Baháʼu'lláh. The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton. pp. 245–256. ISBN 0853981523.
- Balyuzi, Hasan (1985). Eminent Baháʼís in the time of Baháʼu'lláh. The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton. pp. 290–310. ISBN 0853981523.
- Balyuzi, Hasan (1985). Eminent Baháʼís in the time of Baháʼu'lláh. The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton. pp. 335–350. ISBN 0853981523.
- Lucy Provan (14 October 2012). "Bahaʼis in Egypt - The 25 January revolution gave everyone hope for change, and the Bahaʼi hope for acceptance". Daily News Egypt. Egypt. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- Cameron, G.; Momen, W. (1996). A Basic Baháʼí Chronology. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. pp. 309, 316, 330, 373, 380. ISBN 0-85398-404-2.
- Balci, Bayram; Jafarov, Azer (21 February 2007), "The Bahaʼis of the Caucasus: From Russian Tolerance to Soviet Repression {2/3}", Caucaz.com, archived from the original on 15 August 2008
- Baha'i World volume 18, http://bahai-library.com/memoriam_bw_18#sd
- Hasan M. Balyuzi, Hand of the Cause of God - the Treasure of All Humanity, by Richard Francis, 1998, Bahai-library.com
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