Afnán (, "Branches") is a term in literature of the Baháʼí Faith referring to maternal relatives of the Báb, and is used as a surname by their descendants.
Afnán (, "Branches") is a term in literature of the Baháʼí Faith referring to maternal relatives of the Báb, and is used as a surname by their descendants.
The Báb's wife was named Khadíjih-Bagum, who had two brothers, Hajjí Mírzá Abu'l-Qasim and Hajjí Mírzá Siyyid Hasan. The descendants of these two brothers-in-law of the Báb, along with the descendants of his maternal uncles are known as the Afnán. The Afnán are of the Sayyid class, i.e. claiming descent from the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).