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It was in the village of Kawmu's- Sa'ayidih, in the district of Beba, of the province of Beni Suef in Upper Egypt, that, as a result of the religious fanaticism which the formation of a Baha'i assembly had kindled in the breast of the headman of that village, and of the grave accusations made by him to both the District Police Officer and the Governor of the province-- accusations which aroused the Muhammadans to such a pitch of excitement as to cause them to perpetrate shameful acts against their victims-- that action was initiated by the notary of the village, in his capacity as a religious plaintiff authorized by the Ministry of Justice, against three Baha'i residents of that village, demanding that their Muslim wives be divorced from them on the grounds that their husbands had abandoned Islam after their legal marriage as Muslims.
(364:3)
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