Abbas Rushdy
Abbas Rushdy | |
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| Born | January 22, 1922 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | June 10, 1999 Reading, England |
| NSA member | North East Africa ???? - 1958 Arabian Peninsula ???? - ???? |
Abbas Abdel-Rahman Rushdy (January 22, 1922 - June 10, 1999) was an Egyptian Bahá’í who served the Bahá’í communities of Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Libya, Burundi, and the United Kingdom.
Biography[edit]
Rushdy was born into a Bahá’í family in Cairo in 1922. He became a certified public accountant in his youth and had a successful professional career as a civil servant. He was also an active member of the Bahá’í community and was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Alexandria in the early 1940's. In his personal life he married Mariam Hussein in 1950 and they had four children.[1]
As of 1958 Rushdy had been elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Northeast Africa,[2] however later that year he pioneered to Kuwait with his family where he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Arabian Peninsula. He later moved to the United Kingdom and was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Reading in 1966 serving until 1969 when he returned to Kuwait. At some point he pioneered to Oman and was re-elected to the National Spiritual Assembly.[1]
Rushdy pioneered to Libya for one year and Burundi for one year and returned to England in later life. He passed away in Reading in 1999 and the Universal House of Justice conveyed the following in a message after his passing:
HIS DEDICATED LABORS IN EGYPT, KUWAIT AND OMAN WERE CHARACTERIZED BY COURAGE, WISDOM AND PERSEVERANCE.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 310. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 329, Pg(s) 24. View as PDF.
