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Timeline of the Persecution of #IvelBahais:

▪️Mid-1800s: The #Bahai Faith is established, nearly 50% of the population of #Ivel embrace the faith.

▪️1941: #Bahais are arrested, severely beaten and subjected to extortion. Houses and belongings plundered.

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▪️1946: A school established by #Bahais is open to all the children of Ivel.

▪️1961: The Baha'is complete a bath house for use by all in #Ivel as a service to their community.

▪️1983: More than 130 Baha'is are imprisoned and held captive w/o any food or water.

#ItsTheirLand
▪️2010: About 50 #Bahai homes are subject to arson attacks and demolition.

▪️Aug 2020: Judge #HasanBabaie issues a final and binding decision that #IvelBahais are not legal owners of their ancestral lands.

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Evidence that #Hashiya writing is alive and well in #ToddLawson much delayed publication of his revised #PhD from 1988 with some caveats #Babi #ShiiTafsir #Shaykhis #Bahais 1/ ImageImage
As with most of #ToddLawson writing it is elegantly composed and insightful not least on the very notion of #tafsir as the mystical encounter with the divine in which the letters express the #deus_revelatus of the 14 #impeccables of the #Shii tradition 2/
Nevertheless the somewhat odd idea - that #Corbin himself peddled and which #Lawson perpetuates - that the #Bab constituted the culmination of the #Shii tradition is one that has been consistently critiqued by #Shaykhis and the wider #TwelverShii tradition 3/
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We're live-tweeting the @OurCommons hearing on human rights in Iran today. Follow along for details on the testimony.
@OurCommons Maryam Shafiepour, a former political prisoner, is testifying first. She was a politically active university student - and just 22 years old - when she was first summoned for interrogations.
@OurCommons Maryam testifies that she was in solitary confinement for 63 days, denied medical treatment for one year despite the order of judicial authorities, & was held in unhygienic conditions.
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