Shoghi Ghadimi

Shoghi Ghadimi
BornJanuary 1, 1910
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
DiedNovember 22, 1999
Brussels, Belgium
NSA memberNorth West Africa
1956 - 1958
Belgium
1962 - 1978

Shoghi Ghadimi (January 1, 1910 - November 22, 1999) was a Persian Bahá’í who pioneered to Africa and Europe.

Biography[edit]

Ghadimi was born into a Bahá’í family in Ashgabat in Turkmenistan in 1910. In November 1940 he married Mulik Khamsi, a daughter of Siyyid Ahmad Khamsi-Báqirof, and they had two children and pioneered to Iráq at some point.[1] They later pioneered to Tunisia, settling in Tunis,[2] and in April 1956 Ghadimi was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of North West Africa when the body was established as Treasurer of the body.[3][4]

In 1958 the Ghadimi's pioneered to Belgium and settled in Liege where Shoghi was later elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly.[1] In 1960 he taught a session on the life of Bahá’u’lláh at a Bahá’í conference held on the National Day of Belgium.[5] As of 1963 he was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Belgium,[6] and that year he attended the First International Convention in Haifa and cast a vote in the first election of the Universal House of Justice as a member of the body. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Belgium for sixteen years,[1] retiring in 1978 and embarking on a travel teaching trip to Mauritius with his wife that year.[7] In July 1984 he addressed a major teaching conference in Cotonou, Benin.[8]

In later life Ghadimi continued undertaking travel teaching trips to promote the Faith touring Africa, the Antilles, Asia, Canada, and Europe. He passed away in Brussels, Belgium, in 1999.[1]

Publications[edit]

  • 1971 - Le courage d'aimer[9]
  • 1982 - La mesure de l'amour est l'amour sans mesure[10]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 305. View as PDF.
  2. Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 330, Pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
  3. Anthony A. Lee, The Baha'i Faith in Africa: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962, Brill: Leiden/Boston, 2011, p 92
  4. Baha'i News (1956). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 306, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  5. Baha'i News (1960). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 350, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  6. Baha'i News (1963). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 389, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  7. Baha'i News (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 563, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  8. Baha'i News (1985). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 646, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  9. https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Le_courage_d_aimer.html?id=NQ6auQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
  10. https://books.google.com.au/books/about/La_mesure_de_l_amour_est_l_amour_sans_me.html?id=S-YHtAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

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