‘Abdu’l-Husayn Taslímí
‘Abdu’l-Husayn Taslímí | |
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| Born | November 16, 1921 Qazvin, Iran |
| Died | c. 1980 |
| NSA member | Iran 1978 - 1980 |
‘Abdu’l-Husayn Taslímí (November 16, 1921 - c. 1980) was a Persian Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran. He was abducted in the wake of the 1979 Revolution in Iran and is assumed to have been martyred.
Biography[edit]
Taslímí was born into a Bahá’í family in Qazvin in 1921 and he completed his schooling in Qazvin. He moved to Tehran to attend university, completed an engineering degree at Tehran University, and was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Tehran in 1959.[1]
In 1962 Taslímí moved to a suburb outside the city center of Tehran and was elected to its Local Spiritual Assembly and he was later appointed as a director of the Umaná Company by the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran before being elected to the National Assembly itself in 1978.[1]
In August 1980 Taslímí was abducted at a National Spiritual Assembly meeting along with the majority of the Assembly membership and two Auxiliary Board members and they were never seen again.[1]
