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Nor should reference be omitted to the emergence of a prosperous community in the newly laid out city of Ishqabad, in Russian Turkistan, assured of the good will of a sympathetic government, enabling it to establish a Baha'i cemetery and to purchase property and erect thereon structures that were to prove the precursors of the first Mashriqu'l- Adhkar of the Baha'i world; or to the establishment of new outposts of the Faith in far- off Samarqand and Bukhara, in the heart of the Asiatic continent, in consequence of the discourses and writings of the erudite Fadil- i- Qa'ini and the learned apologist Mirza Abu'l- Fadl; or to the publication in India of five volumes of the writings of the Author of the Faith, including His "Most Holy Book"-- publications which were to herald the vast multiplication of its literature, in various scripts and languages, and its dissemination, in later decades, throughout both the East and the West.
(195:2)
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