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Ásíyih Khánum (c. 1820-1886) (Arabic: آسیه خانم), later and more widely known by her title Navváb, is Bahá'u'lláh's first and most well known wife. She is the daughter of Mírzá Ismá'il-i-Vazír, a nobleman.1
She and Bahá'u'lláh married some time between September 24 and October 22, 1835, in Tehran at the age of fifteen. She had seven of his children, of whom only three lived to adulthood:
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1844-1921)
- Bahíyyih Khánum (1846-1932)
- Mírzá Mihdí (1848-1870)
She was given the title Navváb by Bahá'u'lláh. The name Navváb was a respectable term Persian nobles referred to their wives by. Bahá'u'lláh also named her the Most Exalted Leaf and declared her his "perpetual consort in all the worlds of God." When the family rented and then acquired the Mansion of Bahji, she stayed in the House of `Abbúd. She died in 1886 in Akká. Her remains were moved to a new grave by Shoghi Effendi in December 1939 alongside her youngest son Mírzá Mihdí in the gardens below the Arc on Mount Carmel in Haifa in an area now called the Monument Gardens.
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References
- Smith, Peter (1999). A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1851681841.
- Cameron, G.; & Momen, W. (1996). A Basic Bahá'í Chronology. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0853984022.
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