(Making The Crooked Straight by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, Ulrich Gollmer, p. 630)
Baha'i scholars write about the Azali community... Azalis finally integrated into Muslim society
Today, it would appear that there is no longer an Azali leader. Indeed, there does not even seem to be an Azali community. With the exception of isolated efforts exerted by a Cypriot grandson of Mirza Yahya Azal, Jalal Azal, who died in 1971, and by an Azali in Iran called Qasimi, who published a small number of Azali writings between the 1940s and 1960s, there have been no further attempts to promote the cause of Mirza Yahya Azal or to publish Azali books. There is evidently no collection of writings and no Azali archive, as MacEoin’s research has shown. Azal's descendants who still live in Cyprus are Muslims and know little about the history of their family or about their religious past. Riza Ezel, grandson of Mirza Yahya Azal, who tends his grandfather’s grave, regards Mirza Yahya Azal as a Muslim saint. A sociological study has established that the Azalis do not form a distinct, active group, and that a kind of paralysis has set in. No growth is taking place. The Azalis do not present themselves as such, but are integrated into Muslim society, making use of the services provided by and for the wider Muslim community.
(Making The Crooked Straight by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, Ulrich Gollmer, p. 630)
(Making The Crooked Straight by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, Ulrich Gollmer, p. 630)
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