Ibrahim George Kheiralla
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Copyright 2007 by Will Johnson [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com], Professional Genealogist. All Rights Reserved. This page has been locked, if you'd like to comment on it, please email me. | Copyright 2007 by Will Johnson [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com], Professional Genealogist. All Rights Reserved. This page has been locked, if you'd like to comment on it, please email me. | ||
− | Ibrahim was born at Mount Lebanon in Syria and educated at Beirut University. He moved to Cairo where he went into business. While there he learned about the Bahai faith and accepted it. In 1892 he immigrated to New York, and then to Chicago where he started converting people to the Bahai religion. He married four times and had three children. He wrote several books and eventually broke with Abdul Bahai who was the head of the world movement. | + | If you enjoy the research done here, consider making a [http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=wjhonson@aol.com&amount=15.00&item_name=Ibrahim_George_Kheiralla_Fund financial contribution] to keep research like this going. |
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+ | Ibrahim George Kheiralla was born at Mount Lebanon in Syria and educated at Beirut University. He moved to Cairo where he went into business. While there he learned about the Bahai faith and accepted it. In 1892 he immigrated to New York, and then to Chicago where he started converting people to the Bahai religion. He married four times and had three children. He wrote several books and eventually broke with Abdul Bahai who was the head of the world movement. | ||
His early partner Anton Haddad wrote about this period [http://bahai-library.com/unpubl.articles/outline.haddad.html here]. | His early partner Anton Haddad wrote about this period [http://bahai-library.com/unpubl.articles/outline.haddad.html here]. | ||
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Ibrahim took some of his converts into a new society that he formed called the "Society of Behaists". From 1934 to 1937, Shua Ullah edited their periodical [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol8/bq.htm here]. | Ibrahim took some of his converts into a new society that he formed called the "Society of Behaists". From 1934 to 1937, Shua Ullah edited their periodical [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol8/bq.htm here]. | ||
− | Ibrahim had two daughters and one son. | + | Ibrahim had two daughters and one son George Ibrahim Kheiralla. Ibrahim's daughter Nabeeha married Ameer Hani Shehab, according to [http://bahai-library.com/unpubl.articles/outline.haddad.html Anton Haddad on page 10] |
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+ | Muhammed al-Ahari has collected the writings of Kheiralla's student August Stendtrend and published them as "The Complete Call to the Heaven of the Bayan." | ||
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+ | Muhammed al-Ahari adds this : "Further, George's daughter became a well-known art historian, Gulnar K. Bosch. While a son wrote a biography of the Prophet Muhammed "Islam and the Arabian Prophet," edited the journal "Arab World," made Hajj, wrote a history of the Saud family, and translated poetry by Kahlil Gibran and other Arab poets. His grandson Aly is a medical doctor, but I'm not sure if he is in Florida where his mother lived and died." | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
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*Behaism: In Reply to the Attacks of Robert P. Richardson. Open Court 29 (October 1915): 633-40. | *Behaism: In Reply to the Attacks of Robert P. Richardson. Open Court 29 (October 1915): 633-40. | ||
*O Christians! Why do you believe not in Christ? 192. Chicago: Goodspeed Press, 1917. Collins 12.53. Kheirallah's first book following his defection to Mirza Muhammad Ali, Abbas Effendi's half-brother, to whom it is dedicated. The last chapter is an autobiography. [c/r biography] | *O Christians! Why do you believe not in Christ? 192. Chicago: Goodspeed Press, 1917. Collins 12.53. Kheirallah's first book following his defection to Mirza Muhammad Ali, Abbas Effendi's half-brother, to whom it is dedicated. The last chapter is an autobiography. [c/r biography] | ||
− | * | + | *Ninety-Five Questions and Answers Concerning the Teachings of the Behai Religion, Which Is Organized as the Universal Religion of the World. 14. Kenosha, Wis.: Dr. Ibrahim G. Kheiralla, 1925. Collins 12.52. |
*Immortality: Hereafter of Man's Soul and Mind: Man Never Dies. 32. New York: Syrian-American Press, 1928. Collins 12.49. | *Immortality: Hereafter of Man's Soul and Mind: Man Never Dies. 32. New York: Syrian-American Press, 1928. Collins 12.49. | ||
*Miracles. 24. Newark, N.J.: W. E. Dreyer, 1943. Collins 12.51. | *Miracles. 24. Newark, N.J.: W. E. Dreyer, 1943. Collins 12.51. | ||
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==Secondary sources== | ==Secondary sources== | ||
− | *[http://www.bahai-library.org/books/bahaism/bahaism12.html Brief mention of him] | + | *[http://www.bahai-library.org/books/bahaism/bahaism12.html Brief mention of him] in ''Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha'', Samuel Graham Wilson. AMS Press, New York. Reprinted from the edition of 1915, New York. First AMS EDITION published 1970. ISBN 0404069959 |
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*[http://www.bahai-library.com/provisionals/khayrullah.html Biography] of Kheiralla, canned and prejudicial. | *[http://www.bahai-library.com/provisionals/khayrullah.html Biography] of Kheiralla, canned and prejudicial. | ||
*[http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/bahi.html More details] on Kheiralla, again apparently writen from a Bahai perspective. | *[http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/bahi.html More details] on Kheiralla, again apparently writen from a Bahai perspective. |