Cairo

Cairo, Egypt

2 stories took place here — most often featuring 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl and Bahá'u'lláh.

Cairo (today: Cairo, Egypt)

Stories at this place

Bahá'u'lláh's ministry (1853–1892) · 1 story

Progenitor of Virtue: Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl and Learning Made Perfect in Service

Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl had perfected nearly every branch of human knowledge — theology, philosophy, history, the sciences — and headed a renowned college before he was thirty. When he became a Bahá'í, he did not lay his learning aside; he laid it at the feet of the Cause, becoming its peerless scholar and carrying its proofs from Cairo to Paris to Green Acre, where Harvard and Columbia professors came to listen.

5 min

'Abdu'l-Bahá's ministry (1892–1921) · 1 story

The Cairo Community: The Faith Takes Root in Egypt

Esslemont's *Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era* records the early growth of the Bahá'í Faith in Egypt — the publication of Bahá'í pamphlets in Cairo from the 1890s, the establishment of small communities in Cairo and Alexandria, and the difficulties when the Egyptian religious authorities ruled, in the 1920s, that Bahá'ís were no longer to be considered Muslims.

3 min

Figures associated with this place

'Abdu'l-Bahá2 Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl2 Bahá'u'lláh1