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 in Syria | + | 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. |
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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==Secondary sources== | ==Secondary sources== | ||
| + | *[http://www.bahai-library.org/books/bahaism/bahaism12.html Brief mention of him] | ||
*[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. | ||
