Albert Joseph
Albert Ibrahim Joseph (d. August, 1978) was an early British Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles.
Background[edit]
Joseph was of Persian and Jewish descent and he and his brother Jacob were among the earliest Bahá’ís in Britain,[1] and both received Tablets from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.[2]
The Joseph's pioneered to Manchester at some point where they became owners of a factory which Shoghi Effendi visited in October 1921 during his time studying at Oxford.[3] The Factory became the premises of the Bahá’í Publishing Trust of the UK and remained so until the 1950's.[4] In January 1926 Joseph went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land where he met with Shoghi Effendi again and he noted that he seemed different, with an intensified spirit, to how he had been when he visited Manchester.[5]
Joseph served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles early in the institutions history. He passed away in 1978.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ Lil Osborn, Men and the Baha'i Faith: An investigation into the role of indigenous men in the early Baha'i community in the British Isles, Baha'i Library Online, 2016, p 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shoghi Effendi, Unfolding Destiny, UK Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981, p 474
- ↑ Baha'i Council for England, Living Nation: The Bulletin of the Baha'i Council for England, July 2005, p 9
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 948. View as PDF.
- ↑ Earl Redman, Shoghi Effendi Through the Pilgrim's Eye: Volume 1, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 113
