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- ↑ "of "Saving the Savior" was by turns a Black Panther, a Black Muslim, an Ahmadi, and finally a Baháʼí."
- ↑ Steven Propp Josu: Prisoner at Shalem: The Story of a Religious Revolutionary 2005 "Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin wrote Saving the Savior: Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion? (2001), which expounds the same theme, that Jesus survived the crucifixion and moved to Kashmir, India, married and .."
- ↑ BahaiStudies Abu Bakr leaves the Jamaat
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