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Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith

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Date 1867-12-00, sorted by event description, descending

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1867 Winter
186-		 Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí and six other prominent Bahá'ís were arrested in Cairo (Mansúra) for being Bahá'ís at the instigation of the corrupt Persian consul, Mírzá Husayn Khán-i-Giránmáyih. They were banished to Khartoum, where Haydar-`Alí spent the next 9 years in confinement. [BBR257; BKG250; GBP178, SDH32-66]

This same Mírzá Husayn Khán-i-Giránmáyih, a few months later, tried to exhort money from Mirza Abu'l-Qásim, a man who had been settled in Egypt for a number of years as a merchant. He had been introduced to the Faith by the Bahá'ís of Mansúra. In 1866, shortly after his arrival from Adrianople where he had visited Bahá'u'lláh. [BBR257-264]

 - Persecution; - Persecution, Arrests; Egypt; Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí (Angel of Carmel); Persecution, Egypt
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