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Mishkín-Qalam or Meshkin Ghalam? The Name, Its Meaning and Its Spellings

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Mishkín-Qalam, Meshkin Ghalam, Meshgin Ghalam, Mishkin Qalam and Mushkin Qalam all name the same man: the Persian master calligrapher born Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Iṣfahání (1824–1912), one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá’u’lláh. In Persian his title is written مشکین‌قلم and pronounced mesh-keen qa-lam (IPA: [meʃˈkin ɢæˈlæm]). The English spellings differ because there is more than one way

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Mishkin Qalam Birth Year: Why 1824 Ends a Long Debate

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In the Name of the One God, the Most Glorious A Note on the Age and Year of Birth ofJináb-i-Mishkín-Qalamthe Renowned Bahá’í Calligrapher(1824 – 1912) Arman Arian Concerning the year of birth of Jináb-i-Muhammad-Husayn-i-Isfahání, who bore the title “Mishkín-Qalam,” there exist at least two prominent accounts. The one holds that he was born in or

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