RELIGIOUS FIGURE

`Abdu'l-Bahá

1844 - 1921

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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (; Persian: عبد البهاء, IPA: [ʔæbdolbæhɒːʔ];, 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921), born ʻAbbás (Persian: عباس, IPA: [ʔæbːɒːs]), was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, who designated him to be his successor and head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was later cited as the last of three "central figures" of the religion, along with Baháʼu'lláh and the Báb, and his writings and authenticated talks are regarded as sources of Baháʼí sacred literature. He was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family. At the age of eight, his father was imprisoned during a government crackdown on the Bábí Faith and the family's possessions were looted, leaving them in virtual poverty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. `Abdu'l-Bahá is the 622nd most popular religious figure (up from 820th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Iran (up from 137th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

`Abdu'l-Bahá is most famous for being the son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. He was a prominent member of the Bahá'í Faith and was appointed as the head of the religion by his father.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, `Abdu'l-Bahá ranks 622 out of 3,187. Before him are Anne Catherine Emmerich, Rāhula, John Wesley, Abbas ibn Ali, Zayd ibn Thabit, and Simon Magus. After him are Rabanus Maurus, Atiśa, Jacobus da Varagine, Thecla, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and Ali al-Hadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, `Abdu'l-Bahá ranks 20. Before him are Alexandra of Denmark, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Peter I of Serbia, Friedrich Ratzel, Mary Cassatt, and Pablo de Sarasate. After him are Ismail Qemali, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Muhammad Ahmad, Charles-Marie Widor, Abdur Rahman Khan, and Julius Wellhausen. Among people deceased in 1921, `Abdu'l-Bahá ranks 15. Before him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Alfred Hermann Fried, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Menger, Talaat Pasha, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. After him are John Boyd Dunlop, Antoni Grabowski, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Alexander Blok, and Engelbert Humperdinck.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, `Abdu'l-Bahá ranks 72 out of 631. Before him are Shapur II (309), Cyrus I (-690), Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Tekuder (1247), and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149). After him are Psamtik III (-590), Osroes I (50), Babak Khorramdin (798), The Iron Sheik (1942), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), and Sogdianus of Persia (-500).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, `Abdu'l-Bahá ranks 10. Before him are Esther (-600), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Báb (1819), and Ibn Majah (824). After him are Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), Anastasius of Persia (550), Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad (985), Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252), and Al-Juwayni (1028).

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