Maláyir
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Maláyir, or Malayer, is a city in Iran's Hamadan Province.
History[edit]
Bábí Karbala’i Rahmatu’llah actively taught the Bábí Faith in Maláyir in the 1850's,[1] and after the Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh in 1863 a Bahá’í community was established.[2]
In 1903 violence broke out against the Bahá’í community of Maláyir due to a local clergyman promoting prejudice against Bahá’ís.[3] Many Bahá’ís were forced to move out of the city and two Bahá’ís, Mirza Ismai'l-Khayyat and Aqa 'Aliy-i-Zargar, were martyred.[4]
As of the early 1930's a Local Spiritual Assembly had been established in Maláyir however in the decade the Chief of Public Safety for the city summoned a member of the Assembly and advised them that the Bahá’ís of the city should adopt another religion and asked that he provide a list of all Bahá’ís in Maláyir. The member refused and due to oppression in the city the Assembly was disbanded before 1936,[5] although in the early 1940's land surrounding the graves of Bahá’í martyrs who had been buried in Maláyir was able to be refurbished.[6]
In 1955 two properties in Maláyir owned by the Bahá’í community, officially registered as the property of Shoghi Effendi due to the National Assembly of Iran having no official status, were seized by the police due to a local clergyman advising that they were affiliated with the Bahá’í community prompting the police to fear a riot from Muslims in the city.[7]
The 1979 Revolution in Iran resulted in severe oppression of Bahá’í communities of Iran with Bahá’í Administration being made illegal in 1983, as a result there is no organized Bahá’í institution in Maláyir. In 2007 the Director General of Iran's Central Security Office wrote a letter to all higher education facilities in Iran, including Malayer University, advising them that Bahá’í students must be expelled due to their religion.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran, 1851-1921: Volume 2, George Ronald: Oxford, 2021, p 157
- ↑ Robert H. Stockman, The World of the Bahá’í Faith, Routledge: London, 2021, p 550
- ↑ H. M. Balyuzi, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: The Centre of the Covenant, George Ronald: Oxford, 1971, p 106
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 385. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1937). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. New York City, NY. Volume 6 (1934-1936), Pg(s) 98. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1945). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. Wilmette, Ill. Volume 9 (1940-1944), Pg(s) 25. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/tolou-newspaper-bahai-properties-malayer-occupied
- ↑ https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/bahais-must-be-expelled-university
