The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh  (2017)  by Earl Redman

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

North Africa

Morocco, International Zone

Manouchehr Hezari and Hormoz Zendeh — Muhammad-Ali Jalali — Hussein and Nosrat Ardekani — ‘Alí-Akbar, Sháyistih and ‘Abbás Rafí’í — Elsie Austin — Richard and Mary Suhm — Evelyn and Richard Walters

Spanish Morocco

Fawzi and Bahia Zein — Luella McKay, John and Earleta Fleming, and Alyce Janssen

Rio de Oro (now Spanish Sahara)

Amín Battah — Muhammad Mustafa Soliman

French West Africa (includes parts of what are now Ivory Coast, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mauritania)

Labib and Habíb Esfahaní

The Gambia

Fariburz Rúzbihyán

Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau)

José Xavier Rodrigues and Hilda Summers

Italian Somaliland (now part of Somalia)

Suhayl Samandarí, Ursula and Mihdi Samandarí

French Somaliland (now Djibouti)

Fred Schechter — Sabrí and Fahíma (Raissa) Elias

Hadhramaut (now part of Yemen)

Adíb Radí and Vahídih Baghdádí, and Husayn Halabi

Southern Africa

British Cameroon (now part of Cameroon)

Enoch Olinga

French Equatorial Africa (now Congo)

Max Kanyerezi

French Togoland (now Togo)

David Tanyi — Vivian Wesson and Mavis Nymon

French Cameroon (now part of Cameroon)

Samuel Njiki Njenji and Meherangiz Munsiff

British Togoland (now part of Ghana)

Edward Tabe and Albert Buapiah

Ashanti Protectorate (now part of Ghana)

Benedict Eballa

Northwest Territories Protectorate (now part of Ghana)

Julius Edwards — Martin Manga

St Thomas Island (now Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe) and Spanish Guinea (now Equatorial Guinea)

Elise Schreiber

Ruanda-Urundi (now Rwanda and Burundi)

Mary and Rex Collison — Dunduzu Kaluli Chisiza

Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Ezzatu’llah Zahra’i — ‘Aynu’d-Dín and Tahireh ‘Alá’í — Claire Gung — Kenneth and Roberta Christian

South West Africa (now Namibia)

Edward Cardell

Bechuanaland (now Botswana)

John, Audrey and Patrick Robarts

Swaziland

Bula Mott Stewart, John and Valera Allen

Basutoland (now Lesotho)

Elizabeth and Frederick Laws

Indian Ocean

Kuria Muria (Oman)

Munír Vakíl

Socotra Islands

Kamálí Sarvístání

Seychelles

Kámíl ‘Abbás — ‘Abdu’l Rahman Zarqani

Comoros Islands

Mehraban Sohaili

Mauritius

Ottilie Rhein

Reunion Island

Opal and Leland Jensen

Chagos Islands

Pouva Murday

Andaman Islands

Khodadad M. Fozdar

Nicobar Islands

Jeanne Frankel and Margaret Bates

Cocos Islands

Frank Wyss

India and the Himalayas

Diu Island

Gulnar Aftábí, Kaykhusraw Dahamobedi and Bahíyyih Rawhání

Daman

Ghulám-‘Alí Karlawala

Goa

Roshan Aftábí and Firoozeh Yeganegi

Mahé

Lionel Peraji — Qudratullah Rowhani and Khodarahm Mojgani

Pondicherry

Sa’íd and Shawkat Nahví — Shyam Beharilal Bhargava

Karikal

Shírín Núrání and Salisa Kirmání

Sikkim and Tibet

Udaya Narayan Singh

Bhutan

Shapoor Aspandiar Rowhani and Ardishir Furúdí

China, Indonesia and Malaysia

Macao

Frances Heller — Carl and Loretta Scherer

Hainan Island

John Chang

Brunei

Charles Duncan and Harry Clark — John Fozdar

Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia)

Elly Becking and Lex Meerburg

Mentawai Islands (part of Indonesia)

Raḥmatu’lláh and Írán Muhájir

Portuguese Timor (now East Timor)

Harold and Florence Fitzner and José Marques (Moucho)

The Pacific Islands

Mariana Islands

Robert Powers and Cynthia Olson

Caroline Islands

Virginia Breaks

Admiralty Islands

Violet Hoehnke

Solomon Islands

Gertrude and Alvin Blum

New Hebrides

Bertha Dobbins

Loyalty Islands

Daniel Haumont

Marshall Islands

Marcia Stewart

Gilbert and Ellice Islands (now Kiribati)

Roy and Elena Fernie

Samoa

Lilian Wyss

Tonga

Stanley Bolton — Dudley and Elsa (Judy) Blakely

Cook Islands

Edith Danielsen — Dulcie Dive

Society Islands

Gretta Stevens Lamprill and Gladys Parke

Tuamotu Archipelago

Jean Sevin

Marquesas Islands

Gretta Jankko

Galapagos Islands

Gayle Woolson and Haik Kevorkian

Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile

Adela and Salvador Tormo

Chiloe Island, Chile

Zunilda Gonzales Jara de Palacios and Louise Groger

Alaska

Kodiak Island

Jack Huffman and Rose Perkal — Ben Guhrke

Aleutian Islands

Jenabe and Elaine Caldwell — Elinore Putney

Baranof Island

Helen Robinson — Grace Bahovec — Gail Avery

Canada

Yukon

Joan and Ted Anderson

Keewatin

Dick Stanton

Franklin

Jameson and Gale Bond

Labrador

Howard Gilliland and Bruce Matthew

Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia

Edythe MacArthur

Gulf Islands, British Columbia

Catherine and Cliff Huxtable

Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick

Doris Richardson

Magdalen Islands, New Brunswick

Kathleen Weston — Kay Zinky

Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Irving and Grace Geary — Frederick and Jeanne Allen

St Pierre and Miquelon Islands, near Newfoundland

Ola Pawlowska

Anticosti Island, Quebec

Mary Zabolotny

The Caribbean, and Central and South America

Key West, Florida

Arthur and Ethel Crane — Howard Snider

The Bahamas

Ethel and Maurice Holmes — Gail and Gerald Curwin — Andrew and Nina Matthisen

Windward Islands

Esther Evans and Lillian Middlemast

Leeward Islands

Earle Render — Ben and Gladys Weeden — David Schreiber — Charles and Mary Dayton

Dutch West Indies

Matthew Bullock — John and Marjorie Kellberg

Margarita Island

Katharine Meyer

British Honduras (now Belize)

Shirley Warde and Cora Oliver

Dutch Guiana (now Suriname)

Elinor and Robert Wolff

British Guiana (now Guyana)

Malcolm King

French Guiana

Eberhart Friedland

Europe

Spitsbergen

Paul Adams

Lofoten Islands

Loyce Lawrence — Mildred Clark

Faroe Islands

Eskil Ljungberg

Orkney Islands

Charles Dunning

Shetland Islands

Brigitte Hasselblatt

The Hebrides

Geraldine Craney

Frisian Islands

Elsa Maria Grossmann — Ursula von Brunn — Geertrui Ankersmit

Channel Islands

Evelyn Baxter and Ḍiá’u’lláh Aṣgharzádih

Liechtenstein

Amír Húshmand Manúchehri

San Marino

Tabandeh and Sohrab Payman

Monaco

Nellie French — Shamsí and ‘Azízu’lláh Navídí — Olivia Kelsey and Florence Ullrich

Andorra

William Danjon

Balearic Islands

Virginia Orbison — Tove and Jean Deleuran — Charles Ioas

Sardinia

Marie Ciocca

Sicily

Emma Rice — Florence, Stanley, Gerrold, Carol and Susan Bagley

Malta

Una Townshend, Olga Mills and John Mitchell

Greece

Sheila and Amin Banani — Dwight and Carole Allen

Rhodes

Elizabeth Bevan

Crete

Rolf Haug

Cyprus

Abbas and Semire Vekil — Hugh and Violet McKinley

The Atlantic Ocean

Azores

Richard and Lois Nolen

Madeira

Elizabeth Hopper, Ada Schott, Ella Duffield and Sara Kenny

Canary Islands

George and Marguerite (Peggy) True — Gertrude Eisenberg — Shoghi-Riaz Rouhani

Cape Verde Islands

JoAnne and Howard Menking

St Helena

Elizabeth Stamp

Falkland Islands

John Leonard

After the Ten Year Crusade, 1968-1990

Romania

Fereydoun Khazrá’í

Moldova

Annemarie Krüger-Brauns

White Russia (now Belarus)

Helmut Winkelbach

Mongolia

Sean Hinton

Sakhalin Island

‘Abbás and Rezvánieh Katirai

Appendix I: Knights of Bahá’u’lláh by Goal Area

Appendix II: Knights of Bahá’u’lláh by Name

Bibliography

Notes and References

Index