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===Early life=== Mirza Ahmad Sohrab was born "about 1894" ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP021.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 21]), to a family who were already, or very shortly became [http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Baha'i_Faith Baha'i]. Sohrab was born near Esphahan in the village of [http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Isfahan_Province|Sedeh, Isfahan Province, Persia] (now [[Iran]]). Sohrab's father Abdu'l-Baghi was a descendent of [[Muhammad]]. Abdu'l-Baghi was a farmer "possessed of broad lands" and also chief dyer of the town. Both sides of Sohrab's family, his mother and his father, claimed descent from the Imam Husayn, grandson of Muhammad. His mother died when Sohrab was a few months old, while she herself was still a teenager, and he was taken to live with his maternal grandmother in [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]]. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP025.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 25]) <table><tr><td>After the family had become Baha'i, they were persecuted by the citizens of the town and Sohrab with a maternal uncle, left his grandmother's home forever. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP038.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 38]) He and his uncle traveled about the countryside as doctors, and now and then meeting other Baha'is. By instruction from Abdul Baha, he and his uncle parted company, the uncle returning to Esphahan, while Sohrab went on to meet Abdul Baha in Acca. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP048.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 48]) Here he was put to work, copying, and reciting the words of Baha U'llah, but where he stayed only 39 days before moving on to Port Said. ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP056.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 56]) In Port Said, Sohrab worked selling merchandise, for Ahmad Yasdi who kept a store there. While living here, he studied the Bible with "...a Scottish lady who ran a missionary school." ([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP060.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 60]) It was here that he met "...another Baha'i teacher, the greatest of them all. Mirza Abul Fazl of the College of Tehran..." who invited him to come to America with him.([http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP062.gif ''My Baha'i Pilgrimage'', page 62] However Sohrab had first to train a replacement for the shop and he did not leave until nine months later, bound for Washington, D.C. but stopping first in New York City where he addressed a small group of Baha'i.</td><td>http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/Sohrab.JPG Original context of this picture is [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/MBP059.gif here]</td></tr></table>
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