- 1943-00-00 — Fereidoon Adamiyyat, one of the most influential and widely acknowledged Iranian historians of the 20th century, argued in his Book, Amir Kabir and Iran, considered perhaps the most influential scholarly work of history published prior to the Islamic Revolution, that British intelligence officers were behind a plot which led to the creation of the Bábí Faith. He falsely claimed that Arthur Conolly, a British intelligence officer who was executed in Bukhara in 1842, had in his Journey to the North of India through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan admitted that Mulla Husayn Bushrui, the first follower of the Báb, was an agent working for him. Adamiyyat further concluded that without the aid of foreign powers such a religious sect could not have survived for so long, thus giving further credence to the conspiracy theories of his time and culture. Although He subsequently came to accept that Conolley had never made such a claim and removed the allegations in later editions of his book, the influence of his initial claim proved to be lasting among Iranians.
Note:Amir Kabir was the 19th century Iranian Qajar minister who ordered the execution of many members of the early Bahá'í movement.
[Iran Press Watch 1407] - 1949-00-00 — The painter Reginald Turvey returned to South Africa from England where he had become a Bahá'í through his association with the well-known painter, Mark Tobey. He was unaware of the existence of Agnes Carey who was in a nursing home in Durban and so he spent a lonely 13-year period of steadfastness in the Faith. For his patience, devotion and subsequent services to the African Bahá'ís, he was given the title of "The Father of the Bahá'ís of South Africa" by Shoghi Effendi when he was on pilgrimage in 1956.
[Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa since 1911]
In 1986, the year of his passing, George Ronald published a book titled Reginal Turvey - Life and Art:annal, letters and recollections. It was collected and edited why Lowell Johnson.
A brief biography and some of his paintings can be found at Bahá'í Library Online and more of his paintings can be viewed at Strauss&co and at MutualArt.
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