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Samuel Graham Wilson
1858–1916
A Presbyterian missionary and writer, he spent most of his working life in Tabriz, Persia, and turned those years into vivid books about Iranian society, religion, and daily life. His work gives modern readers a close-up view of the region as he knew it in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha
by Samuel Graham Wilson
About the author
Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1858, Samuel Graham Wilson was an American Presbyterian missionary, educator, and author. Sources consulted for this profile consistently connect him with long service in Tabriz, Persia, where he worked in mission education and wrote about the country, its customs, and its religious life.
Wilson is best remembered for books including Persian Life and Customs and Persia: Western Mission, along with later religious studies such as Bahaism and Its Claims. His writing reflects both firsthand observation and the outlook of a Protestant missionary of his era, which makes his work historically valuable while also very much a product of its time.
He died in Tabriz in 1916. A suitable verified portrait image was not clearly available from the pages reviewed, so no profile image is included here.