Hippolyte Dreyfus
2 stories in the library.
A life in stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá's ministry (1892–1921)
The Lawyer Who Learned a Holy Tongue: Hippolyte Dreyfus
Hippolyte Dreyfus was a brilliant young Parisian lawyer with everything the world prizes when he encountered the Bahá'í teachings. Recognising their truth, he did something few Western believers had done: he set himself to master Persian and Arabic so that he could read the Writings in their own words and carry them to the French-speaking world. He became the first French Bahá'í and one of the Faith's earliest Western scholars and translators.
10 min
Thomas [Breakwell] wrote to the Master, happily saying that, if he
Thomas [Breakwell] wrote to the Master, happily saying that, if he were Persian, he would have chosen to be a martyr. He had been admitted to hospital, and was in the tuberculosis ward. But news from the young man continued to reach ‘Akká,…
1 min