Bahíyyih Nadírí
Bahíyyih Nadírí | |
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| Born | 1914 Kashan, Iran |
| Died | c. 1980 |
| NSA member | Iran 1958 - 1972 1979 - 1980 |
Bahíyyih Nadírí (1918 - c. 1980) was a Persian Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran.
Background[edit]
Nadíri was born into a Bahá’í family in Kashan in 1918 and she attended a Bahá’í school in the city until 1934 when all Bahá’í schools were shut down by the government. She then completed her high school diploma by studying under private tutors.[1]
In 1936 Nadíri got married and she pioneered to several posts within Iran before settling in Tehran where she was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Tehran in 1953 shortly after women were made eligible to serve on the body at the order of Shoghi Effendi.[1] In 1958 she was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran and she was the second woman after Adelaide Sharp and the first Persian woman to be elected to the body.[2]
Nadíri served on the National Spiritual Assembly until 1972. She was reelected to the National Spiritual Assembly in 1979 and she was abducted at an Assembly meeting on August 21, 1980, and remains missing assumed martyred.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/bahiyyeh-naderi-abducted-and-disappeared-tehran-21-august-1980
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 1112. View as PDF.
