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...Prophets," God's final messenger to mankind. But the Baha'i faith-an offshoot of Shi'ism, which is itself a minority branch of Islam-asserts that two prophets came after Muhammad. To Muslims this constitutes a new, perverted faith. The first prophet was Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, who declared in 1844 that he was the Bab (gate), the pathway to God. He was executed in 1850 as a heretic. When Persian authorities tried to wipe out his disciples, the Babis fought back; as many as 20,000 were slain...
...were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home telephone, which I knew was tapped, and laid a false trail. Then I sneaked out of my home early one morning and flew to Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang claiming to be Islamic Guards. Also with us was another friend, Farhad Yaqubian, who had been arrested and beaten. His crime: he had dropped by to play Ping-Pong with me shortly after my office...
Married. Princess Alia of Jordan. 21, for whom the Jordanian national airline was named by her father, King Hussein; and Nasser Wasfi Mirza, 32, a member of the royal Cabinet; both for the first time; near Amman...
Engaged. Princess Alia, 21, oldest daughter of Jordan's King Hussein; and Nasser Wasfi Mirza, 32, a member of the royal Cabinet and son of a former government minister. Alia, after whom the Jordanian national airline was named, is an English literature student at the University of Jordan...
Among the followers of the Bab was the son of a government minister, Mirza Husayn 'Ali. He became the Bab's staunchest adherent and was subsequently imprisoned. Exiled from Persia, he announced in Baghdad in 1863 that he was the one foretold by the Bab. He was called Baha'u'llah, meaning, the "Glory of God"; most of the Bab's known as Baha'is. Further exile took Baha'u'llah to Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally to the Turkish penal colony of Akka (in present day Israel) where he remained a prisoner until his death...