Muhammad Kebdani

Muhammad Kebdani
Bornc. 1940
ABMAfrica
1964 - 1968
CounsellorNorthwestern Africa
1968 - 1975
Northern Africa
1975 - 1980
Africa
1980 - 1995

Muhammad Othmani Kebdani (b. 1940) is a Bahá’í who served as a Continental Counselor for Africa.

Background

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Kebdani was a Bahá’í from Morocco who worked as a school teacher.[1] In 1962 he was arrested alongside thirteen other Bahá’ís for his beliefs and imprisoned in Kenitra Prison for a period of nineteen months during which he was tortured,[2] and in early 1963 he was sentenced to be executed.[1] John Robarts was able to visit him and the other prisoners when returning to Africa from the First Bahá’í World Congress in mid 1963.[3]

Kebdani and the other Moroccan prisoners were released in December 1963,[4][5] due to diplomatic efforts made by the international Bahá’í community through the United Nations and appealing directly to the Moroccan government.[6] As of 1964 he had been appointed as an Auxiliary Board member and that year he served as the director of a Bahá’í summer school in Meknes.[2]

In 1968 the Universal House of Justice appointed Kebdani to the Continental Board for Northwestern Africa as a Counselor,[7] In 1975 the House of Justice split the Board into separate Boards for Northern and Western Africa and Kebdani was appointed to the new Board for Northern Africa,[8] serving until 1980 when the House merged the Boards in Africa into a single Board.

Kebdani was appointed to the Continental Board for Africa for a five year term in 1980 and he was appointed for additional terms in 1985 and 1990.[9]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baha'i News (1963). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 384, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 405, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 806. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 398, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 395, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 412, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (August 1968). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 449, Pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ https://bahai.works/MUHJ63-86/153/Formation_of_Five_New_National_Spiritual_Assemblies_during_Ri%E1%B8%8Dv%C3%A1n_1975_and_Readjustment_of_the_Zones_of_African_Continental_Boards_of_Counselors
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (February 1981). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 599, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
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