Ahmad Sohrab
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Early life=== | ===Early life=== | ||
| − | Mirza Ahman 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 [[Baha'i Faith|Baha'i]] family in [ | + | Mirza Ahman 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 [[Baha'i Faith|Baha'i]] family in the village of [http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Isfahan_Province|Sedeh, Isfahan Province, Persia] (now [[Iran]]) near Esphahan, Sohrab's father Abdu'l-Baghi was a descendent of [[Muhammad]]. Abdu'l-Baghi was the 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]]. |
===American Visit=== | ===American Visit=== | ||
