Exiles of the City of Love

Exiles of the City of Love is a book giving a first- and second-hand account of the treatment of a family of Bahá'ís living in Ishkabad, "The City of Love". Known to Bahá'ís as the site of the world's first Mashriqu’l-Adhkár, it was a city containing hundreds of Bahá'ís. The compiler's father was the Secretary of the Local Spiritual Assembly, and therefore one of the first to be arrested by the Soviet authorities in their crackdown of 1938. Hundreds of Bahá'ís were killed, and anyone with an Iranian passport was expelled back to Iran. The story mostly follows what happened to the compiler's mother, who was in the local prison for a considerable time, then exiled to Kazakhstan. Her husband was re-arrested while in Kazakhstan, along with a number of others, and his fate has never been disclosed. The wife, eventually, was allowed to leave to go to Iran, where, after about seven years, she was re-united with her children. These children are all now active Bahá'ís, pioneering in different parts of the world.

Author

Mahíntáj Izádí

Publisher

Royal Falcon Books, which is an imprint of the Bahá’í Publishing Trust of India, F3/6, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-I, New Delhi, India

I.S.B.N.

81-7896-061-3