Ásíyih Khánum
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Ásíyih Khánum (1820-1886) (Arabic: عصية 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 Mirza Isma'il-i-Vazir, a nobleman. Her date of birth is unknown, but it is most likely near 1820.
She and Bahá'u'lláh married some time between September 24 and October 22, 1835, in Tehran. She had seven of his children, of whom only three lived to adulthood.
She was given the title Navváb by Bahá'u'lláh. 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, possibly to ensure separation between Bahá'u'lláh's two wives. 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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- Smith, Peter (1999). A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1851681841.
- Cameron, Glen and Momen, Wendi (1996). A Basic Bahá'í Chronology. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0853984022.
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