How Sufism became Meher Baba in Australia - by A Foley in USA, 9 Jul 2017
"How Sufism became Meher Baba in Australia" Speaker: Tony Foley Occasion: Usual Sunday program at Meherabode, Los Angles, 9 July 2017 Purpose • To provide a chronology of how Sufism became Meher Baba in Australia • In doing so, I hope share information which might bring clarity to two contentious issues in the Baba and Sufi worlds, namely: • Murshida Rabia Martin’s role in recognizing and adopting Avatar Meher Baba as her Sufi Order’s leading light • Shiek Momen’s (Baron Von Frankenberg) acceptance of Meher Baba as the leading light of the International Sufi Order for which he was the Australian Representative. 1880’s – Baron’s parents & birth • Parent marry in San Francisco on 29 Jan.1887 (Press Clipping - Australian Town & Country Journal) • Father: Friedrich Wilheim von Frankenberg-Luduiosdorf • Mother: Jessie Elliot - father was the founder of Drug House of