- Posted 2026-07-16 in Personal compilations: Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Audrie Reynolds, comp. Mighty River, A: Selections from the Bahá'í Writings (1977). A compilation from the Writings from a Native American perspective, emphasizing the natural organic character of the Faith within the world of creation.
- Posted 2026-07-15 in Published articles: Moojan Momen. The Messiah of Shiraz: Studies in Early and Middle Babism, by Denis MacEoin: Review (2009).
- Posted 2026-07-14 in Links: Steven Phelps, comp., Violetta Zein, comp., Adib Masumian, comp., Chad Jones, comp. LLM and NotebookLM Resources for Bahá'í Studies (2026). Links to Google Notebook AI collections of the Writings and Bahá'í historical journals.
- Posted 2026-07-14 in Published articles: Peter Smith. Motif Research: Peter Berger and the Bahá'í Faith (1978). Sociologist Berger identified two underlying messianic and gnostic themes as running through Bahá'í history; his approach is useful in studying other religious movements.
- Posted 2026-07-08 in Published articles: Mina Yazdani. Three Iranian Intellectual Icons of the 1960s and Their Attitudes Toward the Bahá'ís (2026). Three influential 1960s Iranian intellectuals perpetuated unfounded conspiracy theories linking Bahá'ís to foreign powers, inadvertently normalizing discrimination against their compatriots despite their progressive self-image.
- Posted 2026-07-08 in Published articles: Amrollah Hemmat, David A. Palmer. Three Purities and Three-Stage Ontologies, The: From Daoism to the Baháʼí Faith (2026). Using Daoism’s (Taoism) Three Purities, this study compares Daoist, Platonic, Sufi, and Bahá’í three-stage ontologies, highlighting creation, return, spiritual development, and ethical implications.
- Posted 2026-07-05 in Books: Arash Fazli, ed., Amitabh Kundu, ed. Dialogues on Development: Rethinking Development for a Just and Sustainable Future (2026). Explores development through justice, sustainability, and ethical values, integrating diverse perspectives on inequality, governance, livelihoods, ecology, technology, and knowledge. [Link to offsite document.]
- Posted 2026-07-05 in Essays and short articles: Clyde Arthur Keys. We All know What a Bahá'í is; What Is an 'Abdu'l-Bahá'í? (2026). Thoughts on the magnitude of `Abdu'l-Bahá's influence on Khalil Gibran and his writings. Two major characters in Gibran's works were possibly cloaked representatives of `Abdu'l-Bahá himself.
- Posted 2026-07-04 in Provisional translations: The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. Treatise on Spiritual Wayfaring unto God (Risálah fi's-Sulúk ilá Alláh) (2026). An early treatise that reinterprets religious law as inward ascent; ritual acts signify stages of the soul's journey; a fourfold structure of divine manifestation within the human reality; outward practice becomes symbolic of ontological transformation.
- Posted 2026-07-03 in Published articles: Mehrdad Bashiri. تاریخچه تأسیس انجمن ارتباط شرق وغرب (The Persian-American Educational Society: A Historical Overview) (2025). On the founding and work of this philanthropic effort, established in the United States in 1910, to send earthquake relief to Iran under the support of Abdu'l-Bahá, who advocated for strengthening Iran through trade and sciences rather than conflict.
- Posted 2026-06-23 in Letters from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. Tablet "Lawh-i-Jadhb" Not Authenticated (2022). This "Tablet" of Bahá'u'lláh well-known as Lawh-i-Jazb is not authenticated.
- Posted 2026-06-22 in Published articles: Mehrdad Bashiri. یک تراژدی تلخ در گستره تاریخ ایران: انقلاب بابی کشی در یزد (تابستان ۱۹۰۳ میلادی) (A Tragic Pogrom in Iranian History: The Anti Bahá'í Massacre of 1903 in Yazd) (2024). On a significant episode of persecution and a precursor to the tensions that contributed to the Constitutional Revolution; anti-Bahá’í violence encouraged by clerics and local politicians eventually ended under pressure from the central government.
- Posted 2026-06-18 in Essays and short articles: Grover Gonzales. Ruhíyyih Khánum's Two Cables Announcing the Death of Shoghi Effendi (2026). Some context for two cables sent Nov. 4 1957, the appointment of the International Bahá'í Council, and actions of some of the Hands. Includes appendix "Proclamation of Shoghi Effendi" (1951 February 9).
- Posted 2026-06-16 in Presentations: Christopher Buck. What Teachings of the Bahá'í Faith are New and Distinct? (2026).
- Posted 2026-05-20 in Letters from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. Infallibility of the Manifestations of God (1986). Affirming the essential infallibility of the Manifestations of God, clarifying individual interpretation’s limits, and emphasizing humility, faith, and contextual understanding of scripture.
- Posted 2026-05-15 in Essays and short articles: Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. 'Abdu'l-Bahá — the Master: Warwick Leaflets (2021). Introductory biography of 'Abdu'l-Bahá — Bahá'u'lláh's son, appointed leader, authorised interpreter, and selfless exemplar of Bahá'í life.
- Posted 2026-05-15 in Introductory: Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Life of Service — Following the Example of Abdu'l-Bahá, A: Warwick Leaflets (2021). Service to humanity as a spiritual duty, a form of worship, and the path to personal and collective happiness.
- Posted 2026-05-13 in Unpublished articles: Mohammad Norozi. Execution of the Jewish Tribe of Banú Qurayẓih, The: Historical, Religious, and Ethical Considerations (2025). Examination of the historical context of this event from the days of the Prophet Muḥammad, 627 CE.
- Posted 2026-05-12 in Books: Peter J. Khan, Janet A. Khan. Advancement of Women: A Bahá'í Perspective (1998). Explores Bahá’í teachings on gender equality, women’s education, family transformation, moral dignity, and how equal partnership between sexes advances peace and society.
- Posted 2026-05-12 in Videos: Filip Boicu, Steven Phelps. Games of Religion and the Game of Knowledge (2025). On the roles religion plays relative to growth, social change and development, justice, knowledge, and cosmology.
- Posted 2026-05-12 in Published articles: Neha Mohajer. No Shaykh, No Slave: Anti-Structure and Egalitarian Mysticism in Tahirih's Liminal Poetics (2026). Tahirih’s poetry rejects clerical and social hierarchy, using liminal mystical imagery to envision equality, women’s emancipation, spiritual renewal, and communal justice.
- Posted 2026-04-23 in Unpublished articles: Bahman Nadimi. Structural Assessment of the Bahá'í Peace Program, A (2026). Examination of the structural and theoretical foundations of Bahá'u'lláh's peace program and assesses the degree to which it departs from the inherited tradition of earlier peace proposals.
- Posted 2026-04-21 in Documents from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. Ridván 2025: Bahá'í Era 182 (2025). Annual message to the Bahá'ís of the world.
- Posted 2026-04-21 in Documents from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. Ridván 2026: Bahá'í Era 183 (2026). Annual message to the Bahá'ís of the world.
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