Muhammad el-Burghani el-Kazvini. | ____________________________________________ | | | Haji Mulla Muham- Haji Mulla Muham- Haji Mulla 'Ali, mad Taki, called by mad Salih. who embraced the Shi'ites Shahid-i | the Babi doc -Thalith ('The Third | trines. Martyr'). | | | Mulla Muhmmad. = Kurratu'l-'Ayn.
Order. | Name. | Original number. | Relation to head of family. | Age in 1884. | Remarks. |
1. | Subh-i-Ezel | 1. | Head. | 56 | |
2. | Fátima. | 9. | Wife. | -- | Died, apparently soon after arrival. |
3. | Rukayya. | 10. | " | 48 | Appears also to bear the name of Badr-i-Jihán, since a petition written in Greek to the Commissioner of Famagusta on September 13th, 1886, is signed "[Greek text]." In this petition the writer asks leave for herself and her two daughters Tal'at and Safiyya to go to Constantinople. In reply she is informed that only her husband [Subh-i-Ezel] is a State prisoner, and that she is free to go where she pleases. |
4. | Núru'lláh | -- | Son. | -- | Was residing in Persia in 1889, and seems never to have been included amongst the exiles (probably because he parted from Subh-i-Ezel previously to 1868), as his name nowhere appears. It is only from information given to Captain Young by Subh-i-Ezel that his existence is known to me. He has thrice visited his father in Cyprus, once before, and twice since the English occupation. The last time is said to have been in 1878. |
Order. | Name. | Original number. | Relation to head of family. | Age in 1884. | Remarks. |
5. | Hádí. | -- | Son. | -- | Also lives in Persia. The first portion of the preceding remarks applies to him also. |
6. | Ahmad. | 2. | Son. | 31 | Left for Constantinople on May 3rd 1884. Seems to have visited his father since then. |
7. | 'Abdu'l-'Alí. | 3. | " | 27 | Resident in Famagusta. See Introduction. |
8. | Safiyya. | 5. | Daughter. | 23 | Named in some of the documents "Rekié" (~~~) and "Refié" (~~~), but, as it would seem, incorrectly. She went to Constantinople on September 21st 1886, married a man named Hasan 'Abdu'r-Rahmán Efendí, and returned without her husband to Cyprus on December 12th 1888. |
9. | Behjat Raf'at | 6. | " | 22 | Also called in some documents "Bákir," on which the following comment is made by the Local Commandant of Police:- "Bákir" means in Turkish a virgin or girl. Subh-i-Ezel has no daughter called Bákir." |
10. | Rizván 'Alí. | 4. | Son. | 21 | Resident in Famagusta. See Introduction. |
11. | Tal'at | 7. | Daughter. | 20 | Accompanied her sister Safiyya to Constantinople, and returned thence with her (see above). Described as "either a widow, or left by her husband." |
Order. | Name. | Original number. | Relation to head of family. | Age in 1884. | Remarks. |
12. | Fátima. | 8. | Daughter. | -- | Died on August 29th 1871. |
13. | Muhammad. | -- | Son. | 17 | Though the names of these occur on nearly all the lists, I could discover no |
14. | Fu'ád. | -- | " | 15 | other trace of their existence. |
15. | 'Abdu'l-Wahíd | -- | " | 13 | Called in some of the documents 'Abdu'r-Rashíd. |
16. | Maryam. | -- | Daughter. | 11 | |
17. | Takiyyu'd-Dín | -- | Son. | 8 | Called in some of the documents Ziyá'u'd-Dín. >From an undated Turkish document preserved at Famagusta it appears that the last three are the children of Badr-i-Jihán (see No. 3 supra). From this document the following particulars are also derived. |
18. | Fátima. | -- | Daughter-in-law. | 21 | Wife of Ahmad (see No. 6 supra). |
19. | 'Ádila. | -- | Grand-daughter | 4 | Daughter of Ahmad and Fátima. |
20. | Sheykh 'Alí Sayyáh, of Kára-Bágh | 11. | Head. | See p. 380 supra. | Died August 4th 1871. See pp. 380-381 supra, and note 2 on former. |
Order. | Name. | Original number. | Relation to head of family. | Age in 1884. | Remarks. |
21. | Fátima. | -- | Wife. | 47 | After the death of Sheykh 'Alí Sayyáh. married Mushkín Kalam, and was with him at Nicosia in 1884. It does not appear that she accompanied him to Acre in 1886. |
22. | Jalálu'd-Dín. | -- | Son. | 25 | Was employed as Land Registry clerk at Kyrenia in 1889. |
23. | Jamálu'd-Dín. | " | 23 | Was employed as a trooper in the Cyprus Military Police in 1889. | |
24. | Kamálu'd-Dín. | " | 21 | Sheykh 'Alí Sayyáh's family are described as having arrived "from Babylon" in a | |
25. | Jamáliyya. | -- | Daughter. | 16 | state of destitution. No allowance seems |
26. | Rukayya. | -- | Servant. | 47 | to have been made to them till two years after his death, i.e. in October 1873. This allowance was stopped in the case of the sons on April 1st 1884, but the allowance to the widow and daughter was continued, and thus went to increase Mushkín Kalam's pension, which, in 1884-5, amounted to £58.17.0. As the estimates for 1889-90 still shew a sum of £20.13.0 payable to Mushkín Kalam's family, and as he lost his pension on leaving Cyprus for Acre in September 1886, while his sons' pensions ceased in 1884, it would appear certain that Fátima, Jamáliyya, and the servant Rukayya. remained in Cyprus. |
Order. | Name. | Original number. | Relation to head of family. | Age in 1884. | Remarks. |
27. | Mushkín-Kalam, of Khurásán. | 12. | Head. | -- | From the colophon of a MS. transcribed by Mushkín Kalam and presented by him to Mr Cobham on his departure for Acre, it appears that in the year [A.H. 12]91 (=A.D. 1874) he was still, to use his own phrase, "imprisoned for the love of God" (~~~) at Famagusta. He subsequently went to Nicosia, and thence to Larnaca, where he was in 1884. His final departure from Cyprus is notified by Mr Cobham in a letter dated September 18th 1886:- "The Persian heresiarch and calligraphist Mushkín Kalam left Cyprus for St. Jean d'Acre on the night of Tuesday September 14-15, renouncing his pittances and the protection of the Island Government. He found an unwonted opportunity in a Syrian vessel going direct to Acre, the head quarters of the Báb [sc Behá'u'lláh]... I am extremely sorry to lose him as a Persian munshí." He was still in April 1890 at Acre, where I met him (see Introduction). |
28. | (Name not given). | -- | Servant. | After his marriage with Sheykh 'Alí Sayyáh's widow, Mushkín Kalam obtained |
Order. | Name. | Original number. | Relation to head of family. | Age in 1884. | Remarks. |
possession of both the servants allotted to the exiles. "It is not clear," observes the Receiver General, "why Mushkín Kalam should have both the servants, but Government need not, I think, object to the arrangement if Subh-i-Ezel consents, which I doubt his doing." | |||||
29. | 'Abdu'l-Ghaffár. | 13. | Head. | -- | Escaped from Cyprus on September 29th 1870, during the fair held at Famagusta, in company with two other prisoners. According to Subh-i-Ezel he went to Acre, but, though a Behá'í, was somewhat coldly received. He subsequently settled in Beyrout and changed his name. |
30. | Muhammad Bákir, of Isfahán. | 14. | Head. | -- | Died at an advanced age on November 22nd 1872. |
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