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1939 21 Feb 193- |
Situation in Egypt: Background Information "riots which broke out with exceptional fury in Ismá'ílíyyih, when angry crowds surrounded the funeral cortege of Muhammad Sulaymán, a prominent Bahá'í resident of that town, creating such an uproar that the police had to intervene, and having rescued the body and brought it back to the home of the deceased, they were forced to carry it without escort, at night, to the edge of the desert and inter it in the wilderness." [GPB367-368] |
Lua Getsinger; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Cairo, Egypt; Alexandria, Egypt; Port Said, Egypt; Ismailia, Egypt; Egypt | first Bahá'í cemetery |
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