Mirza Muhammad Husayn Munajjim-bashi
Mirza Muhammad Husayn Munajjim-bashi (d. 1920) was an early Persian Bahá’í who met with Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad.
Biography[edit]
Munajjim-bashi was from Tafrish. In his career he was an astronomer. He was a Bábí and in the 1850's he visited Baghdad where he was able to meet with Bahá’u’lláh.[1] In his personal life he married Hajir, daughter of Mirza Hashim Tafrishi and sister of Badr-i-Jahan, a wife of Mírzá Yaḥyá, although Hajir remained a faithful Bahá’í.[2][3] His wifes brother, Mirza Farajullah Tafrishi, was the father of Maryam who married Nabíl-i-Akbar.[4][2]
After returning to Iran from Iraq Munajjim-bashi moved from Tafrish to Tehran in order to protect his children from persecution of the Bábí Faith in Tafrish.[1][5] He became a Bahá’í and in January, 1877, he was arrested when the homes of prominent Bahá’ís of Tehran were raided,[6] and imprisoned until May that year.[7]
Munajjim-bashi passed away in 1920.[1] He had at least two children who were also members of the Bahá’í community, Dr. Muhammad Khan Munajjim and Shah Jahan Khanum who married Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Khan Mustawfi Tafrishi.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran 1851-1921: Volume 1, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 15]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran 1851-1921: Volume 1, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 72]
- ↑ Juan Cole, Religious Dissidence and Urban Leadership: Bahá'ís in Qajar Shiraz and Tehran, published in Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 37, pages 123-142
- ↑ Moojan Momen, The Baha’i Communities of Iran 1851-1921, Volume 1: The North of Iran, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 232
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran 1851-1921: Volume 1, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 72]
- ↑ Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran 1851-1921: Volume 1, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 25]
- ↑ Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran 1851-1921: Volume 1, George Ronald: Oxford, 2015, p 26]
