Ali Nakhjavani

Ali Nakhjavani

'Ali-Yullah Nakhjavani (born September, 1919 in Haifa, Israel) served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, between 1963 and 2003.

Biography

After he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the American University of Beirut in 1939, in the early 1940s Mr. Nakhjavani returned to Iran, his ancestral home, residing first in Tehran, then in Tabriz and finally in Shiraz. He was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Iran from 1950 to 1951. In 1951, Mr. Nakhjavani and his family moved to Uganda, where he worked as a teacher and lecturer during a period of large scale growth in the religion.cite web | last =Hassall | first = Graham | title = References to Africa in the Bahá'í Writings | work = Asian/Pacific Collection | publisher = Asia Pacific Bahá'í Studies | date = 2003-08-26 | url = http://bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=hassall_africa_bahai_writings&language= | accessdate = 2008-06-21] cite web
title = Overview Of World Religions
work = General Essay on the Religions of Sub-Saharan Africa
publisher = Division of Religion and Philosophy, University of Cumbria
url = http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/sub/geness.html
accessdate = 2008-04-16 ] He was a member of the Auxiliary Board for the Propagation in Africa from 1954 to 1961 and chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of Central and East Africa from 1956 to 1961. In 1961, Mr. Nakhjavani was elected to the International Bahá'í Council and served as its president. He was elected to the Universal House of Justice in 1963.

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