of Mustafá's work, Mustafá wrote poetry, which was requested by Edward Browne and is now kept at the Cambridge University Library. Browne met him on 22 April 1890 in Beirut, on his return from meeting Baháʼu'lláh. Browne wrote of the encounter, The Guardian of the Baháʼí faith, Shoghi Effendi listed Muhammad Mustafá as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh, giving him an equivalent level of distinction to Baháʼís as the Twelve Apostles are to Christians. Muhammad Mustafá's burial was personally managed by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, who wrote the epitaph for his tombstone. In Memorials of the Faithful, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote of him, He had three sons: Hosayn Eqbal (1864-1952), ʻAli Ehsan (1874-1917), and Ziaʾ Mabsut (1884-1937). A fourth son, Amin Abu'l-Wafa, was born 1878 but died 1898. Zia Mabsut was a leading Baháʼí in the United States, joined the editorial staff of the Star of the West from 1911 to 1915, accompanied ʻAbdu'l-Bahá on his journeys, supervised the construction of the Baháʼí House of Worship, played a leading role in the American race amity movement, and wrote his own memoirs, al-Reḥla al-baḡdādiya. One of ʻAli Ehsan's sons, Jamil Baghdadi (1913–87), was for many years the secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iraq and imprisoned for six years (1973–79) during a government crackdown on Baháʼí activities. Another son of ʻAli Ehsan, ʿAbbās Baḡdādi (1915-1975), was professor of geology at the University of Baghdad (1961–71), imprisoned during the crackdown, and died in prison on 20 January 1975. Another son of ʻAli Ehsan, Adib Rażi Baḡdādi (1905-1988), was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iraq as both treasurer or secretary, the first pioneer to southern Yemen (1 December 1952) and received the title Knight of Baháʼu'lláh, and was later of the National Spiritual Assemblies of Kuwait and Lebanon. Notes References Further reading Muhammad-Mustafá Baghdádí - biography at Bahá’í Chronicles Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh 1837 births 1910 deaths Iraqi Bahá'ís