Manúchihr Hakím
Manúchihr Hakím | |
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| Born | 1910 Tehran, Iran |
| Died | January 12, 1981 Tehran, Iran |
| NSA member | France 1962 - 1963 Iran 1964 - ???? 1980 - 1981 |
Manúchihr Hakím (1910 - January 12, 1981) was a Persian Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran. He was martyred in 1981 in the wake of the 1979 Revolution in Iran.
Biography[edit]
Hakím was born in Tehran in 1910 into a Baháʼí family. His father was Dr. Arastú Khán Hakím. He attended the Tarbíyat School in Tehran and then studied medicine in France on a government grant specializing in anatomy. In 1938 he married Germaine in France and they had a son, Paul, and daughter Christine. He returned to Iran to undertake his compulsory military service and then worked as Chair of Anatomy at the University of Tehran.[1]
At some point Hakím returned to France where he completed a degree at Medical College in Paris allowing him to become a Professor, and he served briefly on the National Spiritual Assembly of France,[2] before returning to Iran where he received a longterm position at the University of Tehran.[1] He was an active member of the Baháʼí community after returning to Iran, chairing the Board of Directors of the Baháʼí hospital of Tehran for many years and expanding and organizing its facilities, and as of 1964 he had been elected to the National Spiritual Assembly.[3]
In his career at the University of Tehran Hakím became a respected academic conducting research and contributing to medical textbooks and he also engaged in philanthropy co-founding the Mithaqiyyih Hospital and the Tehran Elderly Care Home.[4] In 1976 he received the Legion d'honneur award from the French government for humanitarian service.[1]
In August, 1980, the membership of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran was abducted in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. They were presumed martyred and a new National Spiritual Assembly was elected with Hakím being re-elected to the body.[5] On January 12, 1981, a group posing as patients entered his surgery and shot him because he was a Baháʼí. On January 15 a funeral was held which was attended by over four thousand people.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 745. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1962). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 378, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 403, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
- ↑ http://iranpresswatch.org/post/20910/41-years-arrest-torture-execution-bahai-doctors-iran/
- ↑ https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/members-national-spiritual-assembly-nsa-who-replaced-members-first-nsa-after-they-were
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 746. View as PDF.
