| Contents and individual articles |
Title |
Year |
Direct download of complete PDF |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 1 - مقالات |
General: Bahá'í literary and artistic style |
1989 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_1.pdf -[26 MB, archive.org] |
| An introductory miscellany covering the mystical writings of Bahá'u'lláh, the literary devices in ʿAbdu'l-Bahá's Persian writings, Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl's style, the poet ʿAndálib, Bahá'í calligraphers, and the relationship between classical Persian literature and Bahá'í texts. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 2 - مقالات |
General: Bahá'í poets, mystics, and Persian arts |
1990 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_2.pdf -[40 MB, archive.org] |
| Biographies of the Bahá'í poet/satirist Ghulámuriḍá Rúḥání and the poets ʿAzízu'lláh and Amínu'lláh Miṣbáḥ; a survey of Bahá'í poets of the past quarter-century; essays on Islamic mysticism in relation to the Bahá'í Faith; and articles on Persian decorative and fine arts and children's literacy. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 3 - مقالات |
Ṭáhirih (Qurratu'l-ʿAyn) |
1991 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_3.pdf -[37 MB, archive.org] |
| Entirely devoted to Ṭáhirih: her life and era, her prose writings, the Báb's tablets addressed to her, her connection to Shaykhí thought, her influence on poets of the Indian subcontinent, Bahá'í women poets from Ṭáhirih to the present, and a bibliography of sources on her (Part 1). |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 4 - مقالات |
Bahá'u'lláh's writings, arts, and Ṭáhirih bibliography, cont. |
1992 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_4.pdf -[39 MB, archive.org] |
| Focused primarily on Bahá'u'lláh's writings: their classification, stylistics, prayers, and the nature of revelation. Also includes articles on Bahá'í calligraphy (particularly Mishkín Qalam), Bahá'í perspectives on art and architecture, music, and Part 2 of the Ṭáhirih bibliography. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 5 - مقالات |
The Varqá family |
1993 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_5.pdf -[48 MB, archive.org] |
| Largely devoted to Mírzá ʿAlí-Muḥammad Varqá and his son Rúḥu'lláh: their lives, martyrdom, poetry, and family history (including Valíyu'lláh Varqá). Also includes articles on Ḥájí Aḥmad Ḥamdí, Orientalists and the Bahá'í Faith, Persian memorial architecture, and contemporary Persian free verse. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 6 - مقالات |
The Báb and His writings |
1994 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_6.pdf -[203 MB, archive.org] |
| Devoted largely to the Báb: His station in Bahá'í perspective, the style and classification of His writings, the Qayyúmu'l-Asmáʾ, the concept of bayán, the role of women in His writings, and the life of Khadíjih Bagum (the Báb's wife). Also includes articles on Persian carpet-weaving, illumination (tadhíb), and modern Persian prose. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 7 - مقالات |
Nabíl-i-Zarandí (Nabíl-i-Aʿẓam) |
1995 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_7.pdf -[55 MB, archive.org] |
| Centered on Nabíl-i-Zarandí: his life, his poetry, and his historical chronicle (the Nabíl Narrative). Also covers historical studies of the Bábí and Bahá'í movements in Russian scholarship (Part 1), the Conference of Badasht, Bahá'í social and political thought in 19th-century Iran, the Sabian faith, women in Bahá'í writings, and traditional Iranian brick architecture and cartography. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 8 - مقالات |
Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-ʿAlí Iṣfahání |
1996 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_8.pdf -[25 MB, archive.org] |
| Devoted to the celebrated Bahá'í teacher Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-ʿAlí ("the Angel of Carmel"): his life, tablets revealed in his honor, his work Dalá'il al-ʿIrfán, and personal reminiscences. Also includes articles on the Hidden Words, Iranian music and Bahá'í musicians, the new world order, Iran's role in Islam, and Mírzá Ibráhím the court photographer. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 9 - مقالات |
The Samandar family (Shaykh Kázim Samandar) |
1997 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_9.pdf -[45 MB, archive.org] |
| Centered on Shaykh Muḥammad Kázim Samandar and his family, including Hand of the Cause Ṭarázulláh Samandarí: their lives, tablets revealed in their honor, and personal reminiscences. Also covers Niʿmatu'lláh Dhikáʾí Bayḍáʾí, Shoghi Effendi's Persian style and his place in Bahá'í history, the Seven Valleys, and essays on libraries, folk poetry, and book arts. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 10 - مقالات |
Abu'l-Qásim Faydí (Hand of the Cause) |
1998 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_10.pdf -[189 MB, archive.org] |
| Largely devoted to Hand of the Cause Abu'l-Qásim Faydí: his life, writings, fiction, calligraphy, the journal Varqá, and his international services. Also includes a second part of the Russian scholarship survey, articles on the Hidden Words, Persian miniature painting, humor in Persian literature, and Mullá Muḥsin Fayḍ Káshání. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 11 - مقالات |
Shoghi Effendi (the Guardian) |
1999 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_11.pdf -[59 MB, archive.org] |
| Devoted to Shoghi Effendi: his Persian and English writings, his translations, his vision of the future, his ethical philosophy, the Guardianship in the formative age, and a review of the Bahá'í community during his ministry. Also includes a comparative study of Achaemenid and ancient Greek architecture. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 12 - مقالات |
Persian literature and Bahá'í scholarship in the 20th century |
2000 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_12.pdf -[49 MB, archive.org] |
| A broad literary survey: 20th-century Iranian fiction writers and traditionalist poets, modernism in Persian poetry, an introduction to Bahá'í poetry in the first century of Bahá'í history, Persian as a language of prayer, Ṭáhirih as a forerunner of women's liberation, the Bahá'í Faith and the Iranian constitutional movement, and a major survey of Persian literary scholarship from Qazvíní to Kadkaní. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 13 - مقالات |
Nabíl-i-Akbar (Áqá Muḥammad Fáḍil Qáʾiní) |
2001 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_13.pdf -[181 MB, archive.org] |
| Centered on Nabíl-i-Akbar: his life, his Táʾíyyih ode, and associated figures including Shaykh Muḥammad-ʿAlí Qáʾiní and ʿAzízu'lláh Sulaymání Ardakání. Also includes articles on Sufism and the Bahá'í Faith, contemporary Persian poetry in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, elements of Persian poetry (classical vs. modern), and 19th-century Bahá'í community life. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 14 - مقالات |
ʿAbdu'l-Bahá |
2002 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_14.pdf -[164 MB, archive.org] |
| Devoted to ʿAbdu'l-Bahá: his life and era, his Western travels, his family, his Persian and Arabic writings (including the Risáliy-i-Siyásiyyih and Risáliy-i-Madaníyyih), Arabic literary assessments of his works, and a full bibliography of his writings. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 15 - مقالات |
Modernity and reform in Iran |
2003 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_15.pdf -[43 MB, archive.org] |
| Thematic volume on tajaddud (modernity/renewal): Bahá'í influence on the Iranian intellectual reform movement, modernist thought among Iranian intellectuals, modernity in the writings of the Báb, modernity in the poetry of Bahá'í poets, Bahá'í schools in Iran, and Western philosophical debates on modernity. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 16 - مقالات |
Religious minorities and social change in Iran |
2004 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_16.pdf -[149 MB, archive.org] |
| Focuses on the intersection of the Bahá'í Faith with Iranian society: the conversion of Zoroastrians and Jews to the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'í contributions to medicine and public health in Iran, legal changes affecting religious minorities from the Qajar period onward, the Risáliy-i-Madaníyyih (The Secret of Divine Civilization) and political thought, Islamic and Bahá'í mysticism compared, and children and family in Islamic and Bahá'í |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 17 - مقالات |
Ibn Aṣdaq (Hand of the Cause) and associated figures |
2005 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_17.pdf -[172 MB, archive.org] |
| Centered on Hand of the Cause Ibn Aṣdaq: his life, his family, tablets addressed to women of his family, and the broader figure of Asmá'u'lláh al-Aṣdaq. Also includes articles on Rúḥíyyih Khánum, Sanáʾí (the classical Persian poet), Sufi samáʿ, traditional Iranian architecture, the golden ratio in art, and economic perspectives of Shoghi Effendi. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 18 - مقالات |
General: Civilization, justice, and Iranian history |
2006 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_18.pdf -[145 MB, archive.org] |
| A wide-ranging thematic volume: essays on the Bahá'í concept of justice and world peace, globalization and world civilization, freedom of thought in the Bahá'í Faith, the future of Iran, the Súriy-i-Istiqlál, Shah ʿAbbás's religious policy, the city of Isfahan, the development of Bahá'í administrative order, Ṭáhirih as a reformer, and the nature of the Bahá'í Faith as a world religion. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 19 - مقالات |
Education, the future, and social renewal |
2007 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_19.pdf -[56 MB, archive.org] |
| Themes of education and the future: Bahá'í influence on education in Iran (late Qajar/early Pahlavi), the future of the Persian language, ʿAbdu'l-Bahá's American visit and the Tablets of the Divine Plan, family spirituality, unity in diversity, the role of art in Bahá'í thought, and a biographical article on Keith Ransom-Kehler. |
| خوشه هایی از خرمن ادب و هنر 20 |
General: Iran, modernity, and Bahá'í thought |
2008 |
kharman_adab_honar_complete_20.pdf -[36 MB, archive.org] |
| A retrospective and forward-looking volume: Bahá'í teachings and modernity in Iran, social and religious conditions in early 19th-century Iran, the concept of the new world order, the figure of Khiḍr, ʿAbdu'l-Bahá's promotion of gender equality, a Bahá'í perspective on religious diversity, ʿAbdu'l-Bahá's vision of Iran's past, present, and future, and a polemical study on otherness and the Bahá'í Faith. |
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