‘Alí Nakhjavání

Alí Nakhjavání
Born
Alí-Yullah Nakhjavání

September 19, 1919
Baku, Azerbaijan
DiedOctober 11, 2019
Paris, France
NSA memberIran
1950 - 1951
ABMAfrica
1954 - 1961
NSA memberCentral and East Africa
1956 - 1961
IBC member1961 - 1963
UHJ member1963 - 2003
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‘Alí-Yulláh Nakhjavání (September 19, 1919 - October 11, 2019) was a Persian Bahá’í who pioneered to Africa where he served as a National Spiritual Assembly and Auxiliary Board member. He later served on the International Bahá’í Council and then the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, from 1963 and 2003.[1]

Biography[edit]

Ali Nakhjavani was born in 1919 in Baku, Azerbaijan to ‘Alí-Akbar Nakhjavání and Fatimih Khanum, both Bahá'ís.[1][2] After his father's death circa 1921, when he was two, his family was advised by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to move to Haifa, where he grew up.[1][2] In 1939 he received the Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the American University of Beirut, and then in the early 1940s he returned to Iran, residing first in Tehran, then Tabriz and finally in Shiraz.[1] In 1950 he was elected to the Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, the governing body of the Bahá'ís in that country, where he served until the following year.[1]

In 1951, Ali Nakhjavání and his family moved to Uganda to assist with the development of the Bahá'í community in that country;[3] while he was there he worked as a teacher and lecturer.[1] During his early years there, Enoch Olinga joined the religion,[3] and in 1953 Nakhjavání, and his wife along with Olinga and two other Bahá'ís travelled from Uganda to Cameroon to help spread the Bahá'í Faith in Cameroon.[4][5] From 1954 to 1961 he was a member of the Auxiliary Board for the spread of the religion in Africa, and later from 1956 to 1961 he was elected to the Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly of Central and East Africa, the Bahá'í governing body for the region.[1]

In 1961, Nakhjavání was elected to the International Bahá'í Council — the forerunner to the Universal House of Justice, the world-wide governing body of the Bahá'ís — and thus moved to Haifa.[1] In 1963 he was elected to the Universal House of Justice during its inaugural convention, and served as a member of that body until 2003.[1] Ali Nakhjavání was married to Violette Nakhjavání (née Banani) and they had one daughter, Bahiyyih, and one son, Mehran.[1] He passed away at home in France in 2019.[6]

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  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Bahá'í International Community (2003-04-29). "Two members of Universal House of Justice leave after 40 years service". Bahá'í World News Service.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Universal House of Justice (1986), "In Memorium", The Bahá'í World of the Bahá'í Era 136-140 (1979-1983), Bahá'í World Centre, XVIII: pp. 797-800, ISBN 0853982341 {{citation}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hainsworth, Philip (May 2001), "It All Began 50 Years Ago ...", Journal of the Bahá'í Community of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United Kingdom, 2001 (May)
  4. ↑ Mughrab, Jan (2004), "Jubilee Celebration in Cameroon", Journal of the Bahá'í Community of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United Kingdom, vol. 20, no. 5
  5. ↑ Bahá'í International Community (2003-08-23). "Cameroon celebrates golden time". Bahá'í World News Service.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. ↑ https://news.bahai.org/story/1361/
  7. ↑ Collins, W. P. (1990). Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths 1844-1985. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-315-1., p 107
  8. ↑ https://library.abs.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=25206&query_desc=au%3A%22Nakhjavani%2C%20Ali%22
  9. ↑ https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Mirza-Ali-Akbar-i-Nakhjavani-P8998.aspx



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