MIRZA AHMAD SOHRAB

                            BIOGRAPHY      Mirza Ahmad Sohrab was born "about 1894" ( My Baha'i Pilgrimage , page 21), to a family who were already, or very shortly became Baha'i. Sohrab was born near Esphahan in the village of 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. ( My Baha'i Pilgrimage , page 25) Mirza Ahmad Sohrab hailed from Isfahan, in Iran. He emigrated to Acre at the age of 12. After a short stay there he was sent by Sir Abbas Effendi to Port Sa...

BROKEN SILENCE    THE STORY OF TODAY’S STRUGGLE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Mirza Ahmad Sohrab                                 Bahais in this country, who had been called Berthalin by Abdul Baha and who has used this name ever since, the idea was that it would be a valuable service to the Cause if, after the dosing of the Fair, our exhibit could be transport­ed to the city. After some consultation, it was decided to take this step as a purely temporary activity, and ona November 7th, 1939 Bahai Bookshop was opened at 828 Lexington Avenue,a lease having been signed for the duration of six months, I admit that we were fully con­scious that, in all probability, the National Spiritual As­sembly of the Bahais of the United States and Canada would resent this further heralding of the Bahai name...