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Tag "Palestine"

tag name: Palestine type: Geographic locations
web link: Palestine
related tags: - Middle East; Israel; West Asia
referring tags: Adasiyyih, Palestine; Akka, Israel; Asfiya, Palestine; Daliya, Palestine; Israel; Jaffa, Israel; Jenin, Palestine; Nughayb, Palestine; Nuqayb, Palestine; Samirih, Palestine; Sea of Galilee, Israel
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region); bahaipedia.org/Palestine

"Palestine" appears in:

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  1. 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahá'í Secondary Literature, The, by Michael W. Sours (1998). — This edict, issued the year the Baha'i era began, permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return ...
  2. `Abdu'l-Baha in Abu-Sinan: September 1914, by Ahang Rabbani (2005). — The story of Abdu'l-Baha's relocating the Haifa/Akka Baha'i community of some 140 people to a nearby...
  3. ['Abdu'l-Bahá] Declares Zionists Must Work with Other Races: From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York, July 17, 1919), by Marion Weinstein (1919-09-08). — An interview with 'Abdu'l-Baha on the League of Nations, Baha'i ideas for peace, and the Holy Land. ...
  4. Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts, Moojan Momen, ed. (1981). — A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Babi and Baha'i religions in contempo...
  5. Babs and Their Prophet, The, by Laurence Oliphant (1887). — Excerpt from a book described by E.G. Browne as "the first published notice of Beha and the Babi col...
  6. Bahá'í Settlements in the Jordan Valley, 1882-1954, The, by Shay Rozen (2011-04-05).
  7. Call of Mt. Carmel, The, by Maude Holbach (1912). — Includes passing references to Abdu'l-Baha and Akka, a description of life in Haifa at the time, and...
  8. Chosen Highway, The, by Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield (1940/1967). — Oral Baha'i histories collected by an eminent early English Baha'i, first published in 1940.
  9. Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria , by Thomas Cook (firm) (1876). — Many passing references to Haifa, Carmel, Akka, and the Holy Land; see e.g. pages 20-21, 30-31, 47-4...
  10. Easter in Palestine, 1921-1922, by Millicent Fawcett (1926). — Background of Tiberias, Akka, and Haifa, with passing mentions of The Bab and Abdu'l-Baha.
  11. Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, The: A World Religion, by Shoghi Effendi (1947-07). — A summary of the origin, teachings and institutions of the Baha'i Faith, prepared in 1947 for the Un...
  12. Handbook of Palestine, The, by Harry Charles Lukach (published as Harry Charles Luke) (1922). — Passing mentions of the Bab, Baha'is, and Subh-i-Azal, along with the history and geography of Akka....
  13. Humanitarian Responses to Global Conflicts, by Universal House of Justice (2015-01-13). — A letter to and response from the House about why Baha'is do not condemn the 2014 attacks on Gaza, a...
  14. In the Noble, Sacred Place: One Rainy Day in a Holy City, by Sandra Lynn Hutchison (2021 Spring). — A memoir of visiting Jerusalem — a contemporary pilgrim's note written as a literary piece — wit...
  15. Israel between East and West, by Raphael Patai (1953/1970). — Passing mention of Baha'is in Palestine in the 1940s, estimating that they numbered around 300.
  16. Itchyfeet: Travels with Reg Priestley, by Reginald L. Priestley (1991/2001). — Autobiography of a world traveller who visited many places in and around Israel while in the Palesti...
  17. Letter to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, by Shoghi Effendi, Horace Holley (1947/1948). — Shoghi Effendi's summary of the relationship of the Baha'i Faith to Palestine, written as an introdu...
  18. Letters and Essays, 1886-1913, by Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání, Juan Cole, trans. (1985). — Treatises of "the greatest and most learned of all Baha'i scholars" about Alexander Tumansky; on mee...
  19. Light of the World, The, by George Orr Latimer (1920). — A book chronicling Latimer's visit to the Holy Land, November 1919; includes words of Abdu'l-Baha.
  20. Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies, volume 2, by Esco Foundation for Palestine (1947). — One-page discussion of Baha'is being evicted from properties in Iraq, and their appeal to the League...
  21. Palestine: Depicted and Described, by G. E. Franklin (1911). — Four pages of pictures of Haifa, Carmel, and the American College at Beirut (Shoghi Effendi's alma m...
  22. Preface, by Firuz Kazemzadeh (1961-01). — The original introduction for the book. In editions after 1967, this preface has been replaced by a ...
  23. Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine, The, by Frederick Jones Bliss (1912).
  24. Remembering 'Abdu'l-Baha's Call for Unity, a Century after World War I, by Bahá'í World News Service (2018-11-26). — Collection of newspaper articles and photographs of Abdu'l-Baha, on the general theme of unity in th...
  25. Road to Nazareth, The: Through Palestine Today, by John Gibbons (1936). — Two-page discussion of the Babis and Mount Carmel, from a travel diary.
  26. Transnational Bahá'í Print Culture: Community Formation and Religious Authority, 1890-1921, by Farzin Vejdani (2012-12). — Explores how Baha’is used print culture (1890–1921) for community-building, scriptural canonizat...
  27. Treasures of the East: The Life of Nine Oriental Countries, by Zia M. Bagdadi (1930). — Descriptions of nine "Treasures" — Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jijaz (Arabia), Transjordania (A...
  28. "Two Great Powers" in the Lawh-i Maqsud, by Ismael Velasco (2014). — On the identity of the two countries that arose against the followers of Moses, referenced by Baha'u...
  29. What is Bahá'í Orientalism?, by Geoffrey Nash (2021). — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri...
  30. Young Turks and the Bahá'ís in Palestine, The, by Necati Alkan (2011). — Reform movements in turn-of-the-century Palestine and the influence of Abdu'l-Baha on his political ...

2.   from the Chronology (24 results; expand)

  1. 1799-00-00 — Napoleon, returning from Egypt, captured Jaffa and laid siege to Acre. At this juncture the French...
  2. 1819-00-00 — 'Abdu'llah Pasha became the governor of `Akka in 1819. In 1832 when the Egyptians took `Akka he surr...
  3. 1831-00-00 — Egyptian occupation of `Akka. [BBR202; DH128] 'Abdu'llah Pasha was the governor of 'Akka from 181...
  4. 1844-03-21 — Edict of Toleration was issued by the Sultan of Turkey: The Muslim government of the Ottoman Empire ...
  5. 1868-10-30 — Christoph Hoffman, founder of the Templers, and Georg David Hardegg, his principal lieutenant, lande...
  6. 1880-06-18 — Baha'u'llah visited the Druze village of Yirkih (Yerka). `Abdu'l-Baha joined Him for the last four n...
  7. 1887-00-00 — Husayn, the young son of Àbdu'l-Baha and Munirih Khanum died in Akka at the age of three or four. ...
  8. 1914-11-01 — Turkey entered the war on the side of the Central Powers. Palestine was blockaded and Haifa was b...
  9. 1915-05-00 — The Baha'is of Haifa and `Akka returned to their homes from the village of Abú-Sinan. [DH147]
  10. 1915-07-00 — The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was a series of ten letters exchanged from July 1915 to March 1...
  11. 1916-05-16 — The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreeme...
  12. 1917-11-02 — The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent to Lord Walter Rothschild by British Foreign Secretary Ar...
  13. 1918-03-00 — The British Military Administration of Palestine began. [BBR488] Sir Ronald Storrs was detached f...
  14. 1919-07-17 — From the newspaper Globe and Commercial Advertiser in New York, Àbdu'l-Baha was quoted as saying : ...
  15. 1920-00-00 — The British Mandate for Palestine began. [BBR488] For `Abdu'l-Baha's attitude to the administra...
  16. 1920-04-27 — `Abdu'l-Baha was invested with the insignia of the Knighthood of the British Empire as Sir Abbas Eff...
  17. 1927-05-01 — The funeral of a believer resident in the Holy Land, Mira Moshen Afnan, was the first entirely Baha'...
  18. 1928-12-31 — Ruth White, who had met 'Abdu'l-Baha in New York in 1912 and who had been on pilgrimage in 1922, wro...
  19. 1929-05-04 — When the British Mandate in Palestine had been set up, an Order-in-Council had been enacted that all...
  20. 1933-00-00 — The construction of the Akka-Haifa highway. The town of Haifa was taking on a greater importance wi...
  21. 1938-00-00 — Shoghi Effendi remained in Europe for the year owing to terrorist activities in Palestine. [PP219] ...
  22. 1947-07-09 — Shoghi Effendi, as Head of the Baha'i Faith resident in the Baha'i World Centre, received a letter f...
  23. 1948-00-13 — War broke out in Palestine. Many Covenant-breakers fled the country. [DH118]
  24. 1948-05-14 — The British Mandate in Palestine ended and the state of Israel was proclaimed. The notion of a Je...
 
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