'Abdu'l-Bahá
1844–1921, Akká, Egypt, Europe, and North America
'Abdu'l-Bahá, son of Bahá'u'lláh and the authorized interpreter of his father's teachings. He was imprisoned in Akká for 40 years. When released in 1908 he traveled to Europe and America, meeting workers, prisoners, orphans, and presidents. He spoke from within the paradox of imprisonment and freedom. His voice is accessible, warm, and never abstract — he brought every teaching into a story about a person.
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He spent 40 years imprisoned in the prison city of Akká in Ottoman Palestine. After the Young Turk Revolution freed him he traveled widely in the West. He was 64 when he began those journeys. He died in Haifa in 1921.
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