Lessons in Leadership - Khadem,May (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2018)
A personal journey of learning about leadership; widely shared false assumptions have led many off-course in addressing the challenges in the fight against blindness, and other public health concerns.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/249. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Blindness; Capacity building; Change; Charity and relief work; Consultation; Disability; Ethics; Governance; Health and healing; Justice; Leadership; Servitude; Social action; Social and economic development; Transformation

Lessons on Detachment in the Tablet to Pope Pius IX - Shawamreh,Cynthia C. (1998)
Written for the Wilmette Institute Add or read links or comments pertaining to this Tablet here.

Lessons on the Beha Revelation - Harris,Hooper (Charles E. Sprague, 1901)
Early overview of Bahá'í theology from a biblical perspective.

Letter from Haifa in the Time of Mourning, 1922: from Emogene Hoagg to Nelly French - Hoagg,Emogene (World Order, 1971)
The commemoration of 'Abdu'l-Baha's passing and the first public reading of his Will, including the appontment of Shoghi Effendi.
Pilgrim's note describing the time of the ascension of Abdu'l-Bahá. Letter from the National Bahá'í Archives in Wilmette, Illinois.
Keywords: 1922; Emogene Hoagg; Grief; Haifa, Israel; Nellie French; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Ascension of

Letter from Mr. Faizi to Lineberger Family: The Hidden Words - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim
Summary of the author's summer school lessons: short study guide on The Hidden Words and its five major themes.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. See also scan of original. Text at bottom of letter reads "Linegerger" but this appears to be a typo; see bahai.works/Baha'i_News/Issue_398. Some of the references to the Hidden Words used in these notes are not very clear.
Keywords: Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Study guides

Letter from the Guardian to John B. Cornell, 1946 - Shoghi Effendi (1946)
Letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, noting how many letters he now had to deal with, encouraging Bahá'í youth to play a greater role in the activities of the Faith, and that questions about secondary administrative matters should be put to the NSA.

Letter from the Guardian to John B. Cornell, 1955 - Shoghi Effendi (1955)
A letter stating Bahá'ís should seek guidance with local Bahá'í leadership in matters of divorce.

Letter of Jane LeDeau - Auth,Janice (2000)
The story of Abdu'l-Bahá’s visit to Pittsburgh PA on May 7, 1912, as told through the eyes of a fictional observer at His talk. While the descriptions are specific to Pittsburgh at that time, this script can help serve as an example for other communities.
Keywords: 1912; Drama; Pittsburgh, PA; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Letter of the Báb to His Wife - Báb, The (2025)
Letter of the Báb to His wife, Khadijah Bagum, written sometime between June 1845 and September 1846 in Shiraz, following a family meeting regarding the Báb's claim and proclamation.
Keywords: Báb, The; Báb, Writings of; Khadijih Bagum (wife of the Báb)

Letter on Bahá'í attitudes towards politics and scholarship - MacEoin,Denis (LA Study Class Newsletter, 1979)
Thoughts on whether the Faith is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the problems faced by people in the world outside, partly due to lack of involvement in politics.
See related discussions at Debates between MacEoin et al., and see scans of the original pages and the full set of LA Study Group newsletters.

Letter on Racism in the United States - Universal House of Justice (2020)
Letter on need for American people to grasp the moment to create a reform of its social order related to racial prejudice, and the Bahá’í community’s distinctive contribution to the eradication of racism.
Mirrored from bahai.org.
Keywords: Racism; Reform; Social action; United States (documents)

Letter on responding to attitude changes on homosexuality - Universal House of Justice (2014)
Challenges centrality of sexuality to life; confronts dichotomy of condemnatory and accepting attitudes against homosexuality; dissuades Bahá’ís from debating or coercing non-Bahá’ís and mentions occasions for standing up against oppression of homosexuals
Title added for this online version. See also a Letter on views on homosexuality (UHJ, 2013) and The Baha’i Teachings and Homosexuality (offsite), a statement and FAQ on the official website of the Baháʼís of the United States.
Keywords: Homosexuality; Human rights; LGBTQ

Letter on the Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah - von Goumoens,Alfred (Oesterreichischer Soldatenfruend, 1852)
Austrian captain Alfred von Goumoëns witnessed and reported on the attempted assassination of Násir ad-Dín Sháh and sent this letter to an Austrian newspaper.
Goumoens witnessed the assassination attempt on August 15 1852 and wrote this letter August 29 1852, which was published in the newspaper Oesterreichischer Soldatenfruend ("Austrian Soldier Friend") on October 12 1852, vol. 123, p. 514. Shoghi Effendi quotes this letter in God Passes By pages 65-66. Read more about von Goumoens' letters at bahaipedia.org/Travelers_and_Scholars_on_the_Babi/Bahá'í_Faiths.
Keywords: 1852; Iran (documents); Nasirid-Din Shah, Attempt on

Letter to Corinne True re Women on the House of Justice - Abdul-Bahá (1909)
Translation by Amín Faríd of a short letter stating that "men and women are equal in all rights save in the Universal House of Justice; for the Chairman and the members of the House of Justice are men according to the Text of the Book."
Keywords: Equality; Gender; Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Membership on; Women

Letter to Dr J. W. Freudenberg, Auckland, New Zealand - Shoghi Effendi (1946)
Letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi about philosophy, body, mind, soul, evolution, and about not taking many of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's statements as dogmatic finalities.
Standalone version, extracted from Shoghi Effendi - Uncompiled Letters. Part of this letter appears in Arohanui: Letters to New Zealand (1982).
Keywords: Animals; Aristotle; Context, Taking verses out of; Criticism and apologetics; Evolution; Innovation; Man-made doctrines and dogmas; Manifestations of God; Materialism; Memory and memories; Mind, spirit, soul; Nature; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Western; Plato; Science; Socrates; Soul; Translation

Letter to Frau Alice Schwarz-Solivo of a Talk by Abdu'l-Baha - Fallscheer,Josephina (Der Sonner Der Wahrheit, 1933)
On the 'freedom of will', inheritance and instinct.
Original document provided by Thellie Lovejoy. Errors from original retained. Also online at de.bahai.works/Sonne_der_Wahrheit. See also Letter to Mrs. A. Schwarz, Stuttgart. Regarding Dr. Fallscheer, see also the "Letter by Frau Anna Grossmann." Note: There is occasional discrepancy of spelling between "Falscher" and "Fallscheer." And in vader_history_bahai_switzerland (see PDF) her name is given as Fallscheer-Zürcher.
Keywords: 1910; Animals; Arts and crafts; Children; Death; Fate, destiny and predestination; Free will; Innocence; Josephine Fallscheer; Metaphors and allegories; Philosophy; Pilgrims notes; Suffering; Symbolism; Weaving

Letter to Grace Holley - Abdul-Bahá (1919)
Short message of greeting and praise.
Typed from a photocopy from the U.S. National Bahá'í Archives.
Keywords: California, USA; Grace Holley; Isabella Brittingham; United States (documents); Visalia, CA; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Letter to Isabella Brittingham on Reincarnation and Return - Getsinger,Edward C. (1916)
A letter written by Getsinger read before the Washington D.C., Baha’i Assembly, April 16, 1916, to "Mrs. B," presumably Isabella Brittingham.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection.
Keywords: Edward Getsinger; Isabella Brittingham; Reincarnation

Letter to Jináb-i-Áqá Mírzá Bádí'u'lláh Khán of Abadih - Shoghi Effendi (1997)
Answers four questions: (1) re "Crimson Scroll"; (2) re the "Sacred Night"; (3) re the "Tablet of the Bell"; and (4) using the Kitab-i-Aqdas for bibliomancy.
Sec. Shoghi Effendi/Jináb-i-Áqá Mírzá Bádí`u’lláh Khán of Abadih. 23 April 1941, in hand of Núru'd-Dín Zayn.[1]
Keywords: Aqa Mírzá Badiullah Khan of Abadih; Badi calendar; Bibliomancy (stichomancy); Báb, Declaration of; Consultation; Crimson; Crimson Book; Crimson scroll; Decision making; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Lawh-i-Naqus (Tablet of the Bell); Prayer; Sacred Night; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh

Letter to John B. Cornell - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1943)
Short personal letter relating answers from Shoghi Effendi to various questions of Cornell, on voting age, the election of the House, the "Source of all knowledge," etc.
In his brief autobiography, Dr. Cornell states that he "enrolled as a Bahá'í youth in 1938 when 15," perhaps why Khanum refers to "people of 15," below. Submitted by Cornell in 1999 for posting online here.
Keywords: 1943; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Children; Consultation; Elections; Youth

Letter to Lili Hermann re Abdu'l-Bahá envisioning a break in the line of Guardians - Grossmann,Anna (1958)
From letter written by Frau Anna Grossmann (wife of Hermann Grossmann, Hand of the Cause and member German-Austrian NSA) to Mrs. Lili Olitaki Hermann, pioneer in Salzburg, June 5, 1958.
See also the Letter by Dr. Fallscheer to Frau Alice Schwarz-Solivo and paragraph 42 of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
Keywords: 1958; Guardianship; Josephine Fallscheer; Pilgrims notes

Letter to Martha Root - Abdul-Bahá (1920)
A letter to believers in America.
Colophon reads: "signed: 'Abdu'l-Bahá Abbas; Dated: 28th of 2nd Kanoun (January), 1920; Translated by Dr. Ali Kuli Khan, August, 1935; Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Wilmette."
Keywords: Fanaticism; Imitation; Martha Root; Peace; Prejudice; Teaching; United States (documents); Unity; War

Letter to Marzieh Gail - Shoghi Effendi (1942)
Letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, stating that not being reappointed to Bahá'í committees gives people more opportunity to engage in the teaching work, and expressing pleasure at the Bahá'ís' lack of prejudice towards minority group members.

Letter to Mrs A.M. Bryant re interment of the remains of The Bab on Mt. Carmel - Woodcock,May; Bryant,A. M. (1909)
Brief description of the interment of the remains of the Bab on Mt. Carmel on 21 March 1909.
From a photocopy of an unsigned typescript copy copied from the Bahá'í National Archives in Honolulu in May, 1982 by Duane Troxel, then an archivist for the NSA of Hawaii and one of its members. See also Remains of the Bab in Tehran and Further extracts concerning the remains of the Bab in Tehran.
Keywords: 1909; Báb, Burial of; Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, Remains of; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Pilgrims notes

Letter to Mrs. A. Schwarz, Stuttgart - Fallscheer,Josephina (1910)
Philosophic conversations of the Master with a French consular official. The nineteenth letter from Dr. Fallscheer to Schwarz.
This text was published in a German Bahá'í journal Sonne der Wahrheit, vol. 12 number 04, pp. 40-42. In vader_history_bahai_switzerland.pdf, her name is given as Fallscheer-Zürcher.
Keywords: 1908; Charles Darwin; Dualism; Evolution; Islam; Josephine Fallscheer; Monism; Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Pilgrims notes; Time; Zoroastrianism

Letter to the Bahá'ís of Macy Nebraska - Shoghi Effendi; Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1947)
One-paragraph letter of greeting from the Guardian, with a short intro from Ruhiyyih Khanum, stating that the original population of the United States has a "great future" and will find "great blessings" in accepting Bahá'u'lláh.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. This was published by Ruhiyyih Khanum ("R. Rabbani," below) in a booklet entitled "To The Indian And Eskimo Bahá'ís of The American Continent," on page 11.
Keywords: Macy, NE; Native Americans

Letter to the Believers in Portland, Oregon: 1914 June 1 - Sohrab,Ahmad, translator (1914)
One-paragraph letter of greeting and encouragement, sent from Hotel Tiberias, Syria; includes historical picture of the hotel.
See also Supplication To the Believers of God and the Maid-servants of the Merciful, Portland, Oregon (1914-08) and Letter to the Portland Spiritual Assembly (1914-10).

Letter to the Ecole des Jeunes May Bolles Maxwell Conference - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1997)
Keywords: Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Conferences, Youth; France; Strasbourg, France; Youth

Letter to the Friends, Throughout the East and the West, through the Spiritual Assemblies - Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Haifa (1938)
3-page report by Z. N. Zeine on questions directed at a Dr. 'Abdu'llah Jawid in Khorasan "as a result of recording himself as a Bahá'í on his military identity card" and his subsequent demotion after declining to stop promoting the Faith.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection.
Keywords: Haifa Spiritual Assembly (1922-1938); Human rights; Identity cards; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; `Abdu'lláh Javid

Letter to the Geyserville (California) Bahá'í Summer School - Fathe-Aazam,Shidan (1953)
Short letter from a famous travel-teacher (and later member of the NSA of South and West Africa, and Counsellor for Africa).
Exact facsimile; any errors from original retained.
Keywords: Geyserville, CA; Summer schools

Letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, 1998 - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1998)
Keywords: Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; United States (documents)

Letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, May 19 1994 - Universal House of Justice (1994)
A lengthy response inspired by the US community's 1994 "Vision in Action" initiative, addressing the slowness of the growth of the Faith in America and the impact of negative trends in American society on the nation's Bahá'í community.
This is often referred to simply as "the May 19th letter," e.g. in the published letter 1995 U.S. National Bahá'í Convention.
Keywords: Growth; United States (documents); Unity; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Letter to the Portland, Oregon Spiritual Assembly: 1914 October 14 - Abdul-Bahá (1914)
Text and photograph of a hand-written letter that offers praise for the Portland assembly; identifies Williams Jennings Bryan, then Secretary of State, as a candle for peace; and warns of some "corrupted souls" coming to America (i.e. covenant breakers).
Letter provided by the United States National Bahá'í Archives. See also Supplication To the Believers of God and the Maid-servants of the Merciful, Portland, Oregon (1914-08) and Letter to the Believers in Portland, Oregon (1914-06).

Letter to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine - Shoghi Effendi; Holley,Horace (1947)
Shoghi Effendi's summary of the relationship of the Bahá'í Faith to Palestine, written as an introduction to the pamphlet "The Faith of Bahá'u'lláh: A World Religion." Includes Holley's letter to the UN the next year on Bahá'í shrines in Palestine.
These two documents (the Guardian's 1947 statement and Holley's 1948 letter) are not directly connected, but are clearly related. As well, both are posted together at un.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre; Horace Holley; Israel; Palestine; Politics; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; United Nations

Letter to the United States and Canada on Racism, 1961 - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1961)
Keywords: Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Canada; Native Americans; Race unity; Racism; United States (documents)

Letter to the World's Religious Leaders - Universal House of Justice (2002)
On historic challenges that leaders of religion must respond to, if spiritual leadership is to have meaning in the new global society.
Mirrored from Bahai.org: Messages of the Universal House of Justice.
Keywords: Basics; Integration and disintegration; Interfaith dialogue; Letter to the Worlds Religious leaders (2002); Peace; Religious leaders (clergy); Unity; Unity of religion; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages; World peace

Letter [on Babis and Nestorians] - Wright,Austin (Missionary Herald, 1853)
Letter from November 1852, with a brief mention of the assassination attempt on the Sháh.
See also Wright's previous letters to the American Oriental Society, from 1851 and 1853.
Keywords: Austin Wright; Iran (documents); Nasirid-Din Shah, Attempt on; Nasirid-Din Sháh

Letters and Essays, 1886-1913 - Gulpáygání,Mirza Abu'l-Faḍl (Kalimat Press, 1985)
Treatises of "the greatest and most learned of all Bahá'í scholars" about Alexander Tumansky; on meeting Abdu'l-Bahá; and on the meaning of angels, resurrection, civilization, tests, angels, holy spirit, and the saying "Knowledge is twenty-seven letters."
Contributed by and posted with permission of publisher. Please support this online re-printing by ordering a copy of the book. A portion of this book scanned, with images, is available at books.google.com.
Keywords: 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; Alexander Tumansky; Angels; Christianity; Civilization; Egypt; Egypt; Holy Spirit; Iran; Islam; Knowledge is twenty-seven letters; Moses; Muhammad (Prophet); Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl Gulpáygání; Palestine; Perfection; Pilgrims notes; Resurrection; Russia; Tests and difficulties; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Letters and Essays, The Master in Akká, and In Iran: Studies in Babi and Baha'i History vol. 3: Reviews - Lawson,Todd (Iranian Studies, 1988)
Reviews of three books by Kalimat Press.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Bábísm; Myron Phelps; Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl Gulpáygání

Letters and Extracts of Writings from the Guardian Published in the US Bahá'í News 1924 - 1934 - Shoghi Effendi (1924)
See also Directives from the Guardian.
Keywords: Albert Vail; Bahá'í News; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Letters from a 19th-century Kansas Baha'i - Herrmann,Duane L. (World Order, 1996)
An examination of two letters written by Barbara Ehrsam in Enterprise, Kansas in 1899.
PDF below generated from the Word document posted at academia.edu. See also Profiles of some Enterprise Bahá'ís.
Keywords: 19th century; Bahá'í history by country; Barbara Ehrsam; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Kansas, USA; United States (documents)

Letters from Jessie Revell - Revell,Jessie (1952)
Two letters, from Shoghi Effendi's secretary at the time, to believers in the United States.
See obituary Jessie Revell, 1891-1966, Bahá'í World, Volume XIV, p.300.
Keywords: 1952; 1954; Jessie Revell; Pilgrims notes

Letters from Lynch to Laura Dreyfus-Barney: Materials for the Geneva Bahá'í Bureau's History - Lynch,Anne (2002)
Four letters from the Laura Dreyfus-Barney Collection at the French Baha’i National Archives (Paris), from 1946 and 1962, capturing a small slice of contemporary European history.
First posted to the H-Bahá'í listserver, then at www.linard.name/bahai/publications/geneva-bureau. On Lynch, see “In Memoriam. Anne Slastiona Lynch, 1892-1966,” in The Bahá’í World volume XIV, pp. 355-356.

Letters from the Past - Herrmann,Duane L. (Wagon Magazine, 2018)
A young couple move into a new home in grief over their lost child and discover hidden letters which reveal a painful past as well as a message of hope.
See thewagonmagazine.com [archive.org].
Keywords: Fiction; Stories

Letters inscribed upon His sacred scroll: An anthology of poetry by Australian Bahá'ís 1999 - Belton,Belinda, compiler (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2000)
A collection of 16 poems.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: 1999; Arts and crafts; Australia; Poetry

Letters of Abdu'l-Bahá - Townshend,George (The Mission of Bahá'u'lláh and Other Literary Pieces, 1952)
An appreciation of the spiritual power of the writings of Abdu'l-Bahá.
Keywords: George Townshend; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Letters of Living, Dawn-Breakers, Quddús, Terraces - Universal House of Justice (2000)
Five unrelated questions: Identity of the Letters of the Living; "List of Illustrations" in the Dawn-Breakers; Status of the Writings of Quddus; Naming of the Terraces at the Arc; and The Bab's Tablets in the Dawn-Breakers.
Submitted by and name retained with permission of recipient. Also available as a Microsoft Word document, prepared by M. Thomas (2024).
Keywords: Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Dawn-Breakers (book); Letters of the Living; Quddús; Research Department, Questions and answers; Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb (Haifa)

Letters of Shoghi Effendi, Arranged Chronologically - Shoghi Effendi (2020)
Compilation of all the Guardian's messages, arranged in chronological order as individual "rich text" files. This arrangement allows us to see the flow of guidance from Shoghi Effendi over time, and perhaps identify patterns.
This collection is an updated version of bahai-library.com/shoghi-effendi_uncompiled_letters — which we're keeping online because it includes HTML versions of many of these letters, not just zipped rtf files as below. Also archived at dropbox.com.
Keywords: Chronology and timelines; Indexes and catalogues; Shoghi Effendi, letters of

Letters of the Living (Hurúf al-Hayy) - Afnan,Muhammad; Lawson,Todd; Smith,Peter; et al. (The Baha'i Encyclopedia, 2009)
Title given by the Báb to His first eighteen disciples.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-encyclopedia-project.org. End note [below] says: Information for this article was received from Muhammad Afnan, Todd Lawson, Peter Smith, Bijan Bayzaee (Office of Persian-American Affairs, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States), and Nader Saiedi.
Keywords: Letters of the Living

Letters of the Quranic Dispensation and Letters of the Living (huruf) - Universal House of Justice (Lights of Irfan, 2003)
Some meanings of the term huruf ("letters") in Bahá'í texts, including Letters of the Bayan, Letters of the Living, and Letters of the Quranic Dispensation.
First posted here in 1997; later published in Lights of Irfan and posted at irfancolloquia.org. See discussion of and commentary on this letter
Keywords: Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Christianity; God Passes By (book); Huruf (letters); Imam Husayn; Imams; Irfán Colloquia; Islam; Letters of the Living; Research Department, Questions and answers; Words and phrases

Letters to Alain Locke - Shoghi Effendi; Afnan,Ruhi; Locke,Alain; et al. (2010)
Collection of letters between Shoghi Effendi, his secretary, and Alain Locke, and related historical material on Locke.
See other items about Locke linked from bahai-library.com/locke_index.
Keywords: Alain Locke; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; United States (documents)

Letters to and from the editor - Various (dialogue magazine, 1986)
All letters to dialogue not posted elsewhere, and responses from its editors.
The following items, which were originally published in separate issues, have been combined here for ease of filing. Letters which respond to a specific article have already been posted along with that article (e.g. South Africa); only the remainder are included below. See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.

Letters to and from US Presidential Archives - Piff,David, compiler (1984)
A collection of correspondence circa 1984 from and to archivist David Piff concerning Bahá'í-related holdings. Also included is some correspondence between offices of the presidents and the US National Spiritual Assembly and the BIC.
These letters were sent from or received by David Piff (then archivist at the Bahá'í World Center, in 1984) in an attempt to find and acquire copies of materials contained in the presidential libraries of Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. Following is some ephemera also from the Piff collection. All letters scanned by Robert Stauffer and posted online with permission of Piff.
Keywords: Archives; United States (documents); United States, Presidents

Letters to Australia and New Zealand - Shoghi Effendi (Australian Bahá'í Publishing, 1971)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here
Keywords: Australia; New Zealand; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Letters to Bahá'í princesses: Tablets revealed in honour of the women of Ibn-i Asdaq's household - Parvis Brookshaw,Dominic (Lights of Irfan, 2004)
A study and translation of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's tablets to the daughters of Hand of the Cause of God, Ibn-i Asdaq: Laqá'iyya, Huviyya, Rúhá and Talí`a. Includes various biographies and other tablets.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #48, Center for Bahá'í Studies, Acuto, Italy (July 10-13, 2003). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/48/brookshaw_daughters.
Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í royalty; Biography; Hands of the Cause; Ibn-i-Aṣdaq (Mírzá `Alí-Muḥammad); Irfán Colloquia; Qajar dynasty; Royalty; Women; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Letters to Grace Holley and Visalia LSA - Shoghi Effendi; Esslemont,John E. (1925)
Small collection of correspondence between Shoghi Effendi and the LSA of Visalia, California.
Typed from photocopies from the Bahá'í World Center and the U.S. National Bahá'í Archives. Notes in [brackets] by Larry Gates.

Letters to Louise R. Waite - Abdul-Bahá (1902)
Letters to Louise Spencer Waite (aka "Shahnáz," the royal falcon) from Abdu’l-Baha. Translated by Ameen Fareed, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Zia Bagdadi, et al.
Mirrored with permission from markfoster.net/shahnaz.html, then proofread and formatted; may still contain transcription or typo errors. Some of these letters appeared in Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. See a brief bio, and mention of these tablets, in Louise R. Waite: Her Grave to Finally Receive a Headstone.
Keywords: Louise Waite; Names and titles; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Letters to Various Individuals - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (Conqueror of Hearts, 1965)
Keywords: Abu'l-Qásim Faizí; Questions and answers

Letters Written on Behalf of the Guardian - Universal House of Justice (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Three questions: Letters Written on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi; Status of Research Department Memoranda; Bahá'í Writings Based in Fact? Includes clarification on the authenticity of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's published talks.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/justice_guardian.
Keywords: Ambiguity; Authenticity; Authority; Bible; Chronology and timelines; Contradictions; Criticism and apologetics; David (Bible); Empedocles; Fourth heaven; Heaven and hell; Infallibility; Interpretation; Irfán Colloquia; Jesus Christ; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Paris Talks (book); Philosophers; Philosophy; Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); Pythagoras; Shoghi Effendi, Letters written on behalf of; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Solomon (Solayman); Speculation; Star of the West; Torah; Unity; Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Research Department; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Station of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Lettres à un bon catholique - Utrillas,Jose Luis Marques (Maison d'Editions Bahá'íes d'Espagne, 1987)
Translation of "Letters to a Good Catholic," in Spanish, in which Utrillas narrates his personal adventure, his inner crises and mental readjustments, his experience as a post-conciliar priest, and his secularization.
Read about the Spanish original. Description taken from amazon.es.
Keywords: 20th century; Biography; Catholic Church; Christianity; Jose Luis Marques Utrillas; Spain

Lev Tolstoi and the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: A Bibliography - Collins,William P.; Jasion,Jan T. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1991)
The great spiritual crisis of Tolstoi’s life led him to a search for a pure faith. Late in life, this search led to his examination of the Bábí–Bahá’í religions. A bibliography of material on Tolstoi’s association with the Bahá'í Faith.
This article is posted online at the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Leo Tolstoy; Russia

Lexus and the Olive Tree, The, by Thomas Friedman: Review - Pokorny,Brad (One Country, 1999)
Mirrored with permission from www.onecountry.org/e111/e11116as.htm.

Liberal Democracy and the Bahá'í Administrative Order: An Analysis - Abizadeh,Arash (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1990)
Comparison of the Bahá'í political system with two dominant types of liberal democracy, namely Responsible Government and Separation of Powers, as potential models for global government. (Link to PDF, offsite.)
PDF online at journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/422.

Liberation Theology and its Potential for Guidance Towards Peace on Earth: A Bahá'í Perspective - Fallon,Fleur (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
Bahá'u'lláh prescribed both a moral code for individuals based on knowing God and a design for a system of world government. These offer the most holistic answer for liberation theologians today.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Christianity; Christianity; Empowerment; Interfaith dialogue; Liberation theology; Mahatma Gandhi; Martin Luther; Non-violence; Peace; Social action; St. Francis of Assisi; Theology; Violence; Wealth and poverty

Library and Archival Resources at the Bahá'í World Centre - Collins,William P. (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1985)
Overview of the nature of the Bahá'í World Centre; historical resources at the BWC; Centre for the Study of the Holy Texts; access to BWC resources; classification schemes.
Paper presented at the Second Annual Los Angeles Bahá'í History Conference, 30 August - 2 September 1984. Link to document at hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/journals/bsb.
Keywords: A. L. M. Nicolas; Annotations (notes); Archives; Authenticity; Bahá'í Faith, Evolutionary nature of; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Bahá'í Writings; Bahá'í studies; Bibliography; Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts (Haifa); Classification (library); Computers; Confidentiality; Dating of Writings; Digital archiving; Digitization; Growth; Haifa, Israel; Indexes and catalogues; International Bahá'í Archives; International Bahá'í Library; Libraries; Manuscripts; Maps; Microfilms; Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl Gulpáygání; Newspaper articles; Periodicals; Preservation and conservation (archives); Primary sources, Access to; Privacy; Relics; Research; Research Department, Questions and answers; Scholarship; Scribes; Shoghi Effendi; Translation; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Universal House of Justice, Research Department; Visuals; Wisdom; ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari

Libro de Certeza - Bahá'u'lláh (Editorial Baháʼí de Espanã, 1995)
Spanish translation of Kitab-i-Iqán, The Book of Certitude.
El texto ha sido escaneado, y no es oficial. Includes glossary, at end.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)

Lidia Zamenhof - Dale,John T. (1996)
Brief biography of the daughter of Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.
Posted to the Bahá'í listserver Talisman 1. Lightly edited and reposted here with permission.
Keywords: 1904; 1942; Biography; Constructed languages; Esperanto; International auxiliary language; Language; Lidia Zamenhof; Poland; United States (documents); Unity; World War II

Life After Death from a Bahá'í Perspective - Kerr,Diane Robinson (2014)
Quotations from the Writings with some explanations, to trace the journey of the soul, the purpose of life, description of the afterlife, and the nature of belief itself.
Mirrored with permission from the author's website, where she has many other articles, and two ebooks for sale: The Coming of Age of Humanity and Mending the Circle: A Practical Guide to Facilitating Groups.
Keywords: Life after death (afterlife); Soul

Life after Death: A Study of the Afterlife in Religions, by Farnaz Ma'sumian: Review - McLean,Jack (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1998)
Also online at journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/344. See also original scan.
Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Life after death (afterlife); Near-Death Experiences (NDE); Reincarnation; Zoroastrianism

Life after Death: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (2002)
Keywords: Death; Life after death (afterlife); Soul

Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi - Phelps,Myron Henry; Khanum,Bahiyyih (The Knickerbocker Press, 1903)
Abdu'l-Bahá's life, as told by his sister Bahiyyih Khanum in 1903, with additional experiences by Myron Phelps.
See Supplementary Notes for further information about this work. See also Review of Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi.
Keywords: 19th century; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahá'u'lláh; Myron Phelps; Pilgrims notes; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi, by Myron Henry Phelps: Review - Hall,G. Stanley, editor (American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education, 1905)
See also Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Introductory; Myron Phelps

Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi, The by M. H. Phelps: Review - Hall,G. Stanley, editor (American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education, 1904)
Sympathetic review of one of the earliest English-language books on the Faith.
Author not given; Stanley Hall, editor? This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.

Life as Metaphor - Hatcher,John S. (Baha'i World, 1986)
What is the moral rationale for physical reality? What is the proper relationship of human beings to physical reality? There are metaphorical reminders of our true nature and essential reality (e.g. the ageing process).
Go to Bahá'í World vol 18 table of contents.
Keywords: John Hatcher; Life (general); Metaphors and allegories; Philosophy

Life Crises among the Religiously Committed: Do Sectarian Differences Matter? - Ebaugh,Helen Rose Fuchs; Richman,Kathe; Chafetz,Janet Saltzman (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1984)
Study of Catholic Charismatics, Christian Scientists, and Bahá'ís, in terms of their perceptions of the number, types and reactions to crises they had experienced. Sectarian differences exert a consistent effect.
Mirrored from nhbahais.com.
Keywords: Sociology; Stress; Tests and difficulties

Life Histories of Bahá'í Women in Canada, by Lynn Echevarria: Review - Srivastava,Prem Kumari (Religion and Gender, 2014)
See an excerpt of this book. Mirrored with Creative Commons and author's permission, from religionandgender.org/index.php/rg/article/view/9841.

Life Histories of Bahá'í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century - Echevarria-Howe,Lynn (Peter Lang, 2011)
Introductory chapter of a study of the essential features of living a Bahá'í life, examining experiences of a diverse group of Canadian Bahá'ís through a sociological framework and a women-centred perspective. Includes newspaper article about Echevarria.
See a flyer about this book, a review of it, or order it from peterlang.com. Also see excerpts at amazon.com. Posted with permission of both author and publisher.
Keywords: 20th century; Canada; Women

Life Histories of Bahá'í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century by Lynn Echevarria: Review - Hoonaard, van den,Deborah K. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2014)
Mirrored with permission from
Keywords: 20th century; Canada; Women

Life of Agnes Alexander - Troxel,Duane (1998)
Essay prepared for the Bahá'í Esperanto League's 25th anniversary booklet (see wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'í_Esperanto-League).
See also a longer version of this article, "70 Years of Service," and the Autobiographical Materials of Agnes Alexander, ed. Thomas Linard, and Family Tree (below). See family tree, below. (Footnotes are missing from this piece.)
Keywords: 1875; 1971; Agnes Alexander; Biography; Genealogy

Life of Hugh McKinley, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh - McKinley,Olive (Solas, 2004)
History of Hugh McKinley, correspondent of Shoghi Effendi, and his father, David McKinley — lives of interest not only to Bahá'ís but to the Irish in general.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 4. See also In Memoriam: Hugh McKinley (Ismael Velasco, 2007). Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: David McKinley; Hugh McKinley; Ireland; Knights of Bahá'u'lláh

Life of Tahirih: The Wonderful Life of Kurratu'l-Ayn - Mazandarani,Asadu'llah Fadil (Star of the West, 1923)
The Life of the great Heroine of the Bábí Faith
Keywords: 1840s; 1852; Biography; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Life, Death and Immortality: The Taoist Religion in Singapore and the Bahá'í Faith - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1997)
Main features of Taoist practices in Singapore compared with Bahá'í which, at first glance, could not be more disparate; whether unity may be found behind the apparent dichotomy; spanning the gulf between these two distinct religions from different times.
See the table of contents and editor's note in the complete issue, vol. 2.
Keywords: China; Chinese religion; Philosophy; Philosophy, Chinese; Singapore; Soul; Taoism

Lifeblood of the Cause - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1970)
Selections from the writings of the Guardian on the proper appreciation of the importance and meaning of contributing to Bahá'í Funds.
Also available in HTML and ePub formats at miscellanie.com/allthetexts/compilations.html.
Keywords: Funds

Light after Death: The Baha'i Faith and the Near-Death Experience - Bryson,Alan (Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1993)
The parallels between the NDE and the Bahá'í writings concerning life after death.
Keywords: Death; Life after death (afterlife); Near-Death Experiences (NDE); Science; Soul

Light and Mercy: Mental Health and Tests and Difficulties - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2021)
The physical and mental impact of the continuing pandemic is evident around us, and the members of the Baha’i community are not immune. This publication will be of assistance and support to the friends both individually and collectively.
Mirrored from bahaibooks.com.au. Also available in epub format.
Keywords: Blessings; Deeds; Disability; Happiness; Health and healing; Human nature; Mental health; Mind; Patience; Prayer; Psychology; Purpose of life; Self-knowledge; Service; Soul; Spirituality; Suffering; Teaching; Tests and difficulties; Work

Light of Divine Guidance: Volume 1 - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1982)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here
Keywords: Europe; Germany; Light of Divine Guidance (book); Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Light of Divine Guidance: Volume 2 - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1985)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here
Keywords: Europe; Germany; Light of Divine Guidance (book); Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Abdul-Bahá (Bahá'í World Centre, 2021)
Tablets of ‘Abdul-Bahá describing aspects of the life of Bahá’u’lláh including the tribulations He suffered, events in His homeland, the purpose and greatness of His Cause, and the nature and significance of His Covenant.
Mirrored from bahai.org (HTML export of Word doc), where it is also available in PDF format. See also an updated, numbered Microsoft Word version (M. Thomas, 2022/2024). See also a press release about this publication (BWNS 2021-05-01), and scan of the book's index. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Abraham; Administration; Akka, Israel; Alexandria, Egypt; Angels; Aqa Mírzá Asadullah; Arc of ascent and descent; Attainment unto the Divine presence; Badasht, Iran; Baghdad, Iraq; Bahji, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Bahá'u'lláh, Banishment of; Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Bayan; Bible; Birds; Báb, Remains of; Báb, Sarcophagus for; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Christianity; Complaining; Conference of Badasht (1848); Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Cypress trees; Day of the Covenant; Divine Assistance; Drama; Egypt; Esther (Bible); Exile (banishment); Fars, Iran; Fasting; Forgery and interpolation; Free will; Freedom and liberty; Gabriel (angel); Gardens; Genealogy; Gradual implementation of laws; Haifa, Israel; Holy Spirit; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); House of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahji); Human nature; Interpretation; Inventions; Iran (documents); Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Jesus Christ; Joseph (Prophet); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lakes; Laura Clifford Barney; Laws; Life after death (afterlife); Light of the World (book); Manifestations of God; Mazandaran, Iran; Moses; Mount Carmel; Muhammad (Prophet); Murgh-Mahallih (Abode of the Birds, Iran); Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl Gulpáygání; Mírzá Hadiy-i-Dawlat-Abadi; Mírzá Husayn Khan; Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Obligatory prayer; Oft-repeated seven verses; Opposition; Persecution; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Peter (Apostle); Philosophy; Phoenix; Pilgrimage; Plays; Prayer; Prayer texts; Prisons; Prophecies; Quddús; Ridván; Sarcophagus; Service; Shimiran, Iran; Shíráz, Iran; Spiritual Assemblies; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq; Teaching; Tehran, Iran; Tents; Tests and difficulties; Turkey

Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Study Guide - Bayat,Ehsan, compiler (2024)
Detailed study guide of Tablets of 'Abdul-Bahá describing aspects of the life of Bahá'u'lláh, including the tribulations he suffered, events in his homeland, the purpose and greatness of his Cause, and the nature and significance of his Covenant.
Also available in Microsoft Word format. See also original book.
Keywords: Light of the World (book); Outlines and summaries

Lighthouses of kindness are scattered among us - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2010)
The beauty of those who care for others and do special things in their communities.
Mirrored with permission of author from stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2886419.
Keywords: Addiction; Kindness

Lighting the Western Sky: The Hearst Pilgrimage and the Establishment of the Bahá'í Faith in the West by Kathryn Jewett Hogenson: Review - Ruhe-Schoen,Janet (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2014)
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/358. See also PDF scan.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Amalie Bachrodt; Anne Apperson; Anton Haddad; Bahji, Israel; Covenant-breaking; Edward Getsinger; First pilgrims; Haifa, Israel; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Julia Pearson; Lua Getsinger; Margaret Peeke; Marion Miller Kheiralla; Mary Virginia Thornburgh-Cropper (Maryam Khánum); May Maxwell; Phoebe Hearst; Pilgrimage; Pilgrims; Robert Turner

Lights of 'Irfán Book 10: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2009)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 6 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 11: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2010)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are mirrored with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 12: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 13: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2012)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 14: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2013)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 4 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 15: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2014)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 16: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2015)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from The Irfan Colloquia. See also complete volume [PDF, 6 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 17: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2016)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights17. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 18: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2017)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights18. See also complete volume [PDF, 3 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 19: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2018)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights19. See also complete volume [PDF, 6 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 1: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2000)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items mirrored with permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 20: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2019)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights20. See also complete volume [PDF, 5 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 2: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2001)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 1 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 3: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 1 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 4: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2003)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 3 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 5: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2004)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 9 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 6: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2005)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 5 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 7: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2006)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 4 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 8: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 4 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 9: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2008)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 5 MB].
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia

Lights of Guidance (second part): A Bahá'í Reference File - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1988)
Part 2 of the classic Bahá'í reference book. This is its first online edition.
There is no division of the print copy; it has been divided here due to technical limitations.
Keywords: All subjects; Lights of Guidance (book)

Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1988)
The classic Bahá'í reference book. This is its first online edition.
A special thanks to Charles Hornby and the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ecuador for their generous permission allowing us to publicly post this invaluable Bahá'í resource as well as to those volunteers who originally typed up and proofread the digital document on which this formatted version was based. Also available in PDF, export from ebook. For those who are interested to republish this work, we were informed of the following by the Publishing Trust: "Permission for publication of “Lights of Guidance” on the Internet is allowed, and if there is any cost involved in obtaining it, the usual 10% royalty applies, to the name of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ecuador, as per the author’s request." Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Abjad system; Abortion; Adam and Eve; Administration; Alchemy; Alcohol; All subjects; Archives; Arts and crafts; Astrology; Auxiliary board members; Backbiting and gossip; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Ancestry of; Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Bayan; Begging; Bible; Birth control; Burial (funeral); Burning Bush; Báb, Laws of; Báb, Portrait of; Báb, The; Calamities and catastrophes; Chastity; Children; Christianity; Committees; Compilations; Congregational prayer; Consultation; Contradictions; Conversion; Copyright and trademarks; Counsellors; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Cremation; Crime; Criticism and apologetics; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Day-year principle; Dayspring; Death; Divorce; Drama; Drugs; Economics; Education; Elections; Emanuel Swedenborg; Endowments; Equality; Evil; Extraterrestrial life; Family; Fasting; Fear; Firesides; Food; Funds; Future Manifestations of God; Gambling; Gender; God; God, Fear of; God, Names of; Greatest Name; Guardianship; Hands of the Cause, Institution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Health and healing; Helen Hornby; Holy days; Huqúqu'lláh; Infallibility; Institutions; International Teaching Centre; Islam; Israel; Jesus Christ; Jews; Judaism; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Laws; Letters of the Living; Life after death (afterlife); Lights of Guidance (book); Living the life; Lord (name of God); Love; Man-made doctrines and dogmas; Manifestations of God; Marriage; Marriage, Civil; Mary (Mother of Jesus Christ); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Masturbation

Lily Áhy Ayman (1929-2018) - Anonymous (Lights of Irfan, 2019)
Ayman was a prominent Iranian educationalist who later became a Bahá'í, moving with her family after the Revolution and finally settling in the USA and becoming actively involved in various Bahá'í educational projects.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/lights20_lily-ayman.
Keywords: 1929; 2018; Biography

Links to Bahá'í blogs, resources, organizations
Keywords: Bahá'í Library Online; Cross-reference; Internet; Websites

List and Map of 114 Youth Conferences in 2013 - Bahá'í World News Service (2013)
List of pages at bahai.org (offsite) with reports, descriptions, and videos of youth events across the globe. The accompanying map gives an impression of the spread of the worldwide Bahá'í community.
Mirrored from news.bahai.org/community-news/youth-conferences — visit that site to see the interactive map and the sortable list of conference reports. The bare-bones text below, lacking this functionality, is posted here only for cross-reference and linking purposes.
Keywords: 2013; Bahai.org (website); Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, International; Conferences, Youth; Maps; Statistics; Visuals; Worldwide; Youth

List of 350 Kindle Books in the "Baha'i" Category - Mancey,Andrew, compiler (2021)
List of all the English-language titles in the Bahá'í category in Amazon's Kindle e-book library.
Find these titles at amazon.com/Kindle-Store.
Keywords: E-books

List of Articles by Christopher Buck on BahaiTeachings.org - Buck,Christopher (2014)
List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
This is a compilation of articles posted at bahaiteachings.org/author/christopher-buck. See also articles by Nader Saiedi on bahaiteachings.org and articles by John Hatcher on bahaiteachings.org.
Keywords: Aboriginal people; Atonement; Attar of Nishapur; Australia; Australia; Badi calendar; Bahaiteachings.org; Bahá'u'lláh; Buddhism; Báb, The; Canada; Christianity; Contentment; Cultural diversity; Death; Devil (Satan); Ethics; Evil; Excel files; Gender; God; God, Gender of; Hinduism; Holy days; India; Indigenous people; Iran (documents); Islam; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Life after death (afterlife); Media (communication); Metaphors and allegories; Music; Mysticism; Names and titles; Native American messengers; Native Americans; Parents; Phoenix; Poetry; Prayer; Progressive revelation; Prophecies; Race; Racism; Science; Simurgh (Simorg); Sin; Some Answered Questions (book); Symbolism; Tablet to Amir Khan; Theodore Roosevelt; United States (documents); Unity; Women; World Religion Day; Zoroastrianism

List of Articles by John Hatcher on BahaiTeachings.org - Hatcher,John S. (2021)
List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher.
This is a compilation of articles posted at bahaiteachings.org/author/john-hatcher. See also articles by Nader Saiedi on bahaiteachings.org and articles by Christopher Buck on bahaiteachings.org.
Keywords: Abortion; Adam and Eve; Bahaiteachings.org; Bible; Bread; Children; Christianity; Covenant; Death; Decline and renewal of religion; Depression; Devil (Satan); Ethics; Eucharist; Evil; Free will; God; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Heaven and hell; Houris (huris); Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Islam; John Hatcher; John Milton; Justice; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Laws; Life after death (afterlife); Literature; Literature, English; Love; Maid of Heaven; Manifestations of God; Metaphors and allegories; Muhammad (Prophet); Mírzá Mihdi (Purest Branch); Philosophers; Philosophy; Plato; Purpose of life; Sacrifice; Science; Seal of the Prophets; Sin; Socrates; Some Answered Questions (book); Soul; Spirituality; Suffering; Suicide; Tests and difficulties; Trinity; Wine (metaphor)

List of Articles by Nader Saiedi on BahaiTeachings.org - Saiedi,Nader (2017)
Links to 40 essays about Baha'i teachings on spiritual unity, justice, freedom, democracy, and global peace, critiquing materialism, nationalism, and advocating societal reform.
Items listed at bahaiteachings.org/author/nader-saiedi. See also articles by John Hatcher on bahaiteachings.org and articles by Christopher Buck on bahaiteachings.org.
Keywords: Capitalism; Causality (causation); Colonialism and imperialism; Communism; Corruption; Culture; Democracy; Detachment; East and West; Enlightenment, Age of; Equality; First and Last; Freedom and liberty; Globalization; Historical consciousness; Human rights; Identity; Interdependence and interconnectedness; Iran (documents); Lawh-i-Hague (Tablet to The Hague); Laws; Materialism; Montesquieu; Nationalism; Nature; Nobility; Peace; Philosophy; Philosophy, Western; Politics; Prejudice; Reality; Reality of things; Reason; Ridván; Risaliy-i-Siyasiyyih (Treatise on Leadership); Science; Seal of the Prophets; Secret of Divine Civilization (book); Slavery; Social change; Social justice; Sociology; Spirituality; Struggle for existence; Tablet to Auguste Forel; Traditions; Transformation; Unity; Unity of humanity; Us and them

List of Bahá'í Studies and Translations - Lambden,Stephen (2018)
A list of content available at Lambden's personal website, Hurqalya Publications, with select links to manuscripts, texts, introductions. Includes Shaykhi and Bábí studies, bibliographies, genealogies, provisional translations.
This academic UC Merced Website, maintained by Dr. Stephen Lambden, remains IN PROGRESS. Pages will be regularly be added, revised and uploaded.
Keywords: Adam and Eve; Afnan; Akka, Israel; Alchemy; Angels; Antichrist; Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem; Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Titles of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í Studies Bulletin; Bahá'í studies; Basmala (Bismillah); Bayan; Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan); Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Bible; Biographies (general); Báb, Writings of; Bábísm; Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys); Christian missionaries; Christianity; Colors; Cosmology; Dajjal; Dalail-i-Sabih (Seven Proofs); Disconnected letters of the Quran; Dua Al Sahar (Dawn supplication); Edirne, Turkey; Eschatology; Gnosticism; Greatest Name; Hadith; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Haifa, Israel; Hands of the Cause; Haykal (temple); He who knoweth his self knoweth his Lord (Hadith); Hurqalya (imaginal realm); Hájí Mulla Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani; Imams; Interfaith dialogue; International auxiliary language; Iran (documents); Iraq; Islam; Isra and Miraj; Israel; Istanbul, Turkey; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Jerusalem, Israel; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Kitáb-i-Badi (Wondrous Book); Kitáb-i-Panj Shan (Book of Five Modes); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)); Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur or Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Tablet of the Verse of Light or Commentary on the Disconnected Letters); Lawh-i-Basítatu'l-Haqíqah (Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality); Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to Hardegg); Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food); Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner, Arabic); Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); Lawh-i-Qina (Tablet of the Veil); Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician); Lawh-i-Vasaya; Light verse (Quran); Manifestations of God; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Moses; Mount Sinai, Egypt; Names and titles; New Jerusalem; Periodicals; Prophecies; Provisional translations; Provisional translations; Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove); Qayyum (Self-subsisting); Qayyumul-Asma (book); Qayyumul-Asma (book), chapters; Quran; Qá'im; Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing); Reversal, Mystery of (Shaykhism, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Lawh-i-Qina); Ridván; Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Lote Tree); Scholarship; Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i; Shaykh Bahá'í; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism); Siyyid Kazim-i-Rashti; Stephen Lambden; Sufism

List of Descendants of Mirza Buzurg of Nur, the Father of Baha'u'llah - Browne,E. G., translator (Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion, 1918)
Brief genealogy of Bahá'u'lláh and His family.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Biography; Genealogy; Mírzá Buzurg; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal)

List of Transcripts at bahai.works - Various (2025)
Links to 66 transcripts offsite.
HTML copied from bahai.works (Category Transcripts needing proofreading.
Keywords: Adib Taherzadeh; Alí Nakhjavání; Amoz Gibson; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Bahá'í World Congress, First (1963); Charlotte Masaryk; Community building; Corinne True; Curtis Kelsey; Dawn-Breakers (book); Ervin László; Firuz Kazemzadeh; Hasan Sabri; Horace Holley; Jessie Revell; John Robarts; Leroy Ioas; Marion Hofman; Martha Root; Mount Carmel; Obligatory prayer, Long; Prophecies; Shoghi Effendi; Soul; Steven Phelps; Teaching; Ugo Giachery; William Hatcher; William Sears; Wine (metaphor); Zikrullah Khadem; Ṭaráẓu’lláh Samandarí

List of useful published resources for Bahá'í Studies - Winters,Jonah (1998)
A (now-outdated) bibliography of academic books helpful to Bahá'í studies.
Note: this document has not been updated since 1998.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Bibliography

List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Arabia and the Arabs, Arabic Philosophy, Science and Literature - Author unknown (Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1911)
A single entry "Daghistani" and a section "Muhammadanism / Sects / Babis."
See also List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Persia.
Keywords: Indexes and catalogues; Libraries; New York, USA; United States (documents)

List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Persia: Babism and Behaism - Author unknown (Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1915)
Section "Religion / Parsees / Babism and Behaism."
See also List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Arabia and the Arabs, Arabic Philosophy, Science and Literature.
Keywords: Indexes and catalogues; Libraries; New York, USA; United States (documents)

Lists of Articles - Poirier,Brent (2009)
Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites.
Keywords: Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Ark; Ayyám-i-Há; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Beauty; Bible; Biography; Báb, Laws of; Cause (word); Christianity; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Creation; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Deeds; Elijah (Prophet); Future Manifestations of God; God, Day of; God, Fear of; God, Pleasure of; God, Will of; God, Word of; Guardianship; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Hair (general); Hidden Treasure (Hadith); Home visits; Houris (huris); House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá (Akká); Interpretation; Islam; Jonah (Bible); Joseph (Prophet); Judaism; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf); Laws; Metaphors and allegories; Moses; Names and titles; New creation (phrase); Noah (Bible); Obligatory prayer, Long; Progressive revelation; Prophecies; Quran; Return; Samson (Bible); Self; Shoghi Effendi; Stories; Study guides; Teaching; Tests and difficulties; Thousand (number); Unity in diversity; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Water (metaphor); Will and testament (general); Words and phrases; Youth; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Ascension of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Knighthood (KBE)

Literary Criticism, Theology and Deconstructionism - McLean,Jack (2001)
A dynamic tension exists between literary criticism and theology as distinct but mutually beneficial forms of discourse, which can enrich Bahá'í Studies by deepening exegesis and by correlating Bahá'í teachings with progressive movements.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Literature; Literature, English; Theology

Literary History of Persia, Volume 4: Modern Times (1500-1924) - Browne,E. G. (Cambridge University Press, 1928)
Volume 4 contains the first extensive catalogue of Bábí and Bahá'í literature published in English. To this day, the four-volume set is an essential text for students of Iranian literature.
See volumes 1-3 at bahai-library.com/browne_literary_history. H. M. Balyuzi notes that this book has "copious references to the Bábí and the Bahá'í Faith"; see E.G. Browne and the Bahá'í Faith at scribd.com.
Keywords: 18th century; 1924; 19th century; Literature; Literature, Persian

Literary History of Persia: Volumes 1-4 - Browne,E. G. (T. F. Unwin, 1902)
The essential text for students of Iranian literature through the ages.
This series was first published in 1902-06 by Unwin and later reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 1956-1959. Some of these PDFs were scanned by archive.org in 2011, where they can be downloaded in other formats (see archive); others were scanned by Duane Troxel in the 1990s. The text versions below are not edited or proofread; they are simply text extracted from the PDFs. For the Babi/Bahá'í period, see Volume 4.
Keywords: E. G. Browne; Literature; Literature, Persian

Literary Imitation in Three Poems Attributed to Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn - Shayani,Sahba (Hawwa, 2023)
The poetry of Tahirih has largely been ignored by historians, partly from politico-religious intolerance, but also because of a lack of detailed information and primary sources; comparison of three of her most famous istiqbál poems.
Mirrored with CC permission from brill.com/view/journals/haww. Full volume: Hawwa, Volume 21 (2023): Issue 4 (Dec 2023): Special Issue: “From the Seed of Love We Sow”: Further Research on Tahirih Qurrat al-'Ayn, edited by Omid Ghaemmaghami and Sasha Dehghani.
Keywords: Adam and Eve; Arabic language; Creation; Equality; Fatimah (daughter of Muhammad); Gender; Hafez; Heart; Heaven and hell; Iran (documents); Literature, Persian; Love; Lover and the Beloved; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Pen; Persian language; Poetry; Return; Rumi (Mevlana); Self-annihilation (fana); Sufism; Trinity; Wine (metaphor); Women; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Literary Style — Translation - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, compiler
Compilation including a statement from Abdu’l-Bahá about translation, extracts from letters written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice, and a description of the writings of Shoghi Effendi excerpted from Priceless Pearl.
More details about this compilation are in Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Gender in the Writings and Matters of Translation (2002). The original date of this compilation is not given, but the cover letter written in 2002 says it was "prepared some time ago."
Keywords: Style (Writings); Translation

Literatura Bahá'í en Español - Velasco,Ismael, compiler (2004)
A partial and unformatted list (from 2004) of books in Spanish.
Many documents in Spanish are online at bibliotecabahai.com/ and bahaipr.org/libros.htm.

Little 'aliens' who spontaneously break into song - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2009)
On raising our children ("little aliens") and what they're learning from the contemporary world they see.
Mirrored with permission of author from www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1662615.
Keywords: Children; Childrens classes; Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity (ISGP)

Little Badasht: Aids for the Study of Nabil's Narrative - Author unknown, compiler (1980)
Study guide of The Dawn-Breakers designed for a youth audience. Includes chronology of the time period, and maps of Persia.
Mirrored from the old Ocean website [archive.org]. PDF dated 1980-10-20, included in Ocean in 2001.
Keywords: Chronology and timelines; Dawn-Breakers (book); Iran (documents); Maps

Little Book of Comfort / Librito Reconfortante - Shams,Lesley (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of India, 2015)
The reason for suffering and tools to transform it; words of comfort and prayers. La razón del suframiento y herramientas para transformarlo; palabras de consuelo y oraciones.
Keywords: Comfort; Interfaith dialogue; Prayer texts; Spirituality; Stories; Suffering; Tests and difficulties; Transformation

Little Gems - Bayat,Ehsan (2024)
This is a story for young adults (10+) of a Baha’i family and his family’s impact on a neighborhood through active participation in the Institute process.
Keywords: Children; Childrens books; Institute process; Neighborhoods; Stories

Living Purposefully in a Time of Violence - Hanson,Holly (2001)
Contemplation of Bahá'í responses to the global issues raised by 9/11.
Keywords: Purpose of life; Terrorism; Violence; War

Living Religions of the World - Spiegelberg,Frederic (Thames and Hudson, 1957)
2-page overview of Bábí history and Bahá'í principles, including brief discussion of Bahá'í mystical literature and an excerpt from a 1911 translation of the Seven Valleys.
Keywords: Bábí history

Living the Life - Shoghi Effendi (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Revision of the older Excerpts from the Writings of the Guardian On The Bahá'í Life. Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. See also a PDF scan of the earlier version. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Life (general); Living the life; Virtues

Llamado a las Naciones - Shoghi Effendi (1977)
Spanish translation of Call to the Nations, selected writings of Shoghi Effendi.
This document, and many more in Spanish, are online at Bahá'ís de Puerto Rico.
Keywords: Call to the Nations (book); World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (book); World order

Lo sviluppo socio-economico della comunità bahá'í - Forconi,Luca (2022)
Panoramica sull’azione sociale baha’i con gran parte dei contenuti estratti e tradotti dal documento "For the Betterment of the World" (OSED / BIC, 2018), integrati da alcuni cenni alla letteratura in ambito economico.
Also available as Powerpoint document: forconi_sviluppo_socio-economico_comunita.pptx. See also For the Betterment of the World.
Keywords: For the Betterment of the World (document); Social action; Social and economic development

Local Spiritual Assemblies - Universal House of Justice (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg.
Keywords: Local Spiritual Assemblies; Spiritual Assemblies

Localities where Bahá'ís live (United States, 1935) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1937)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1935; Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1932) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1934)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also these locations on a Google map, prepared by Tyler McLaughlin. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1932; Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1938) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1942)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1938; Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1940) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1945)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1940; Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1944) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1949)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1944; Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1946) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1952)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1946; Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1956): detailed map - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1956)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1956; Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1956): simplified map - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, compiler (Baha'i World, 1956)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1956; Maps; Statistics; Worldwide

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1963): The Bahá'í World Community - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1970)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1963; Maps; Statistics; Worldwide

Locke, Alain - Buck,Christopher (Encyclopedia of African American History, Volume 1, 2010)
See other items about Locke linked from bahai-library.com/locke_index. Mirrored with permission from christopherbuck.com.
Keywords: 1885; 1954; Alain Locke; Biography

Locke, Alain Leroy - Harris,Leonard (American National Biography Online, 2014)
The life and work of Locke (1885-1954), the African-American philosopher and literary critic who helped initiate the Harlem Renaissance during the interwar period; there is a brief mention of his sympathy for the Bahá'í Faith.
Excerpted from anb.org. Also available in PDF.
Keywords: 1885; 1954; 20th century; Alain Locke; Biography

Locke, Shock, and Abbott: Baha'i Theology and the Acceleration of the African American Civil Rights Movement - Mount,Guy Emerson (2010)
African American responses to Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 visit to America, Abdu'l Baha's teachings among prominent African American leaders, and the nature of the 'Black Church' during the wider 'Progressive Era' of Jim Crow segregation.
Paper presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association meeting, 2010. See also Index to Alain Locke materials.
Keywords: 1912; African Americans; Alain Locke; Race; Race amity; Race unity; Robert S. Abbott; United States (documents); W. E. B. Du Bois; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Locked In: A Medical Mystery - Dighton,Stephen D. (Xlibris Corporation, 1996)
A presentation of the principles of the Bahá'í Faith as lived by an ordinary person in an extraordinary situation.
Mirrored with permission from schoolmarmwood.org, and available for purchase at amazon.com.
Keywords: E-books; Fiction

Logic and Mysticism - Hatcher,William S. (2003)
Two presentations in Russia on the same topic.
Posted to Youtube by william.hatcher.org.

Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Nader Saiedi: Review - Buck,Christopher (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2024)
Review of Nader Saiedi's book that focuses on the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Childhood of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í Faith, Unique teachings; Banu Qurayza; Covenant; Heart; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Kitáb-i-Badi (Wondrous Book); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Bábu’l-ʻAtá (or Lawh-i-Banú-Qurayzih); Logos and Civilization (book); Mysticism; Peace; Philosophy; Progressive revelation; Revelation; Stages of the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Nader Saiedi: Review - Buck,Christopher (H-Baha'i, H-Net Reviews, 2004)
Mirrored with permission from christopherbuck.com.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Logos and Civilization (book); Nader Saiedi

Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Nader Saiedi: Review - Fazel,Seena; Parvis Brookshaw,Dominic (Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Logos and Civilization (book); Nader Saiedi

Logos, Mythos and Kerygma: The Logic of Reconciliation and the Occultation of the Promised Qá'im in Bábí-Bahá'í Scripture - Velasco,Ismael (2004)
Theological background of the Twelfth Imam in Shi'i Islam, comprehensive interpretation of Bahá'u'lláh's and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's position on the occultation and the Qá'ím, and the historicity of the 12th Imám in the Bahá'í writings.
This is an unfinished draft of a paper, and is still missing some references.
Keywords: Hidden Imam; Imams; Islam; Jabulqa and Jabulsa; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Logos; Mythology; Qá'im; Reconciliation; Shia Islam (Shiism); Twelfth Imam; Unity of religion

Long Healing Prayer: an early provisional translation - Bahá'u'lláh (1945)
Scanned by Howard Pearlman from a photocopy given to him by Marzieh Gail herself. See also the later authorized translation in Bahá'í Prayers.
Keywords: Healing prayer, Long; Prayer texts

Long Obligatory Prayer: Postures - Bahá'u'lláh (2003)
Text of the Long Obligatory Prayer (by Bahá'u'lláh), with small stick-figure pictures showing the postures described (prepared by Anonymous, 2003).
See all three obligatory prayers online at bahai.org.
Keywords: Genuflections; Obligatory prayer, Long; Visuals

Long Obligatory Prayer: Printable, Foldable Version - Anonymous, compiler (2021)
Layout of the Long Obligatory Prayer designed to be printed, trimmed to pocket size, and foldable. Available in more than 50 languages.
The Word versions can be adapted to each user's own needs -- including inserting the Prayer in a different language, e.g. from bahaiprayers.net (use paste option 'Merge formatting'). The below items were created by Arjen Bolhuis. Tip: After printing double sided on the short edge, first fold in different ways a couple of times, and only then cut the sides to make it a small handable booklet.
Keywords: Language; Memorization; Obligatory prayer; Obligatory prayer, Long; Prayer; Prayer texts; Spirituality; Texts in multiple languages; Translation; Translation, Parallel

Lontananza: Poesie, saggi e lettere (1955-2025) ("Remoteness: Poems, Essays, and Letters") - Savi,Julio (2024)
Anthology almost "all the poems I have written after 1955" arranged chronologically. In English, Italian, and French, plus links to audio of some poems recited in Italian (offsite).
Links to the three versions of this book at juliosavipoesie.com.
Keywords: 1955; 2025; Poetry

Looking for Mother's Helper, at Least 15 Years Old, Able to Swim - Kay,Barbara (National Post, 2012)
Short essay saying some complimentary things about Bahá'ís, notable partly because published in a mainstream newspaper by a well-known columnist.
Online at nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-looking-for-mothers-helper-at-least-15-years-old-able-to-swim.
Keywords: McGill University; Newspaper articles; Women

Loom of Reality: A Partial Inventory of the Works of the Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith - Phelps,Steven, compiler (2020)
A website with thematic compilations of quotations from the Bahá’í Writings and beyond, and a catalog of almost 25,000 works attributed to the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh, or Abdu’l-Bahá.
Search inventory holdings at this Library at bahai-library.com/inventory. See also The Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (S. Phelps, 2021). See excerpt from the Inventory Bibliography and Key to Source Codes. For a similar project, see oceanoflights.org.
Keywords: All subjects; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Basics; Báb, Writings of; Compilations; Cross-reference; Indexes and catalogues; Partial inventory; Philosophy; Reality; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Los Angeles Bahá'í Study Class Newsletter - Various (1976)
Informal study group notes and scholarly discussions, which were a precursor to dialogue magazine.
Mirrored with permission from h-net.org.
Keywords: Amin Banani; Anthony Lee; Bahá'í studies; Dialogue Magazine; Los Angeles, CA; Newsletters; Periodicals

Los Angeles, Living in - Universal House of Justice (1996)
Bahá'ís have not been advised to avoid living in Los Angeles, but should still recall the importance of pioneering and not congregating in insular communities.
Keywords: Cities; Los Angeles, CA; Pioneering; United States (documents)

Los Apóstoles de Bahá'u'lláh: Un cuadro básico de los 19 Apóstoles de Bahá'u'lláh - Villar,Husayn (2010)
A poster showing photos and names of the 19 "apostles" of Bahá'u'lláh. In Spanish, but useful for non-Spanish speakers as well.
Keywords: Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Visuals

Lost in Translation - Whitaker,Brian (Guardian (UK), 2002)
Transcribing Arabic into the Roman alphabet is fraught with difficulty. And in an age of electronic text, search engines and databases, the problem is only going to get worse.
This article contains no Bahá'í content, but is included for interest only. Mirrored from guardian.co.uk. See also a discussion of diacritics and transliteration and Marzieh Gail's Guide to Transliteration.
Keywords: Arabic alphabet; Arabic language; Software; Translation; Transliteration and diacritics

Lot and His Daughters - Universal House of Justice (2015)
Discussion of two Bahá'í references on the Biblical story of Lot; an interpretation of a Bible verse is not inevitably dependent on the Biblical source being authentic or reliable.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Judaism; Lot (Bible); Research Department, Questions and answers

Lotus in Concrete - Naharoy,S.; Sahba,Fariborz; Monteiro,John B.; et al. (ECC Concord, 2011)
A special-edition journal with photos of the temple in India, with essays "Bahá'í House of Worship," "Taj Mahal of the 20th Century," "Design and Construction," "Lotus and Other Design Highlights," "Shaping a Dream in Concrete."
Mirrored from lntecc.com.
Keywords: Architecture; Fariborz Sahba; India; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Architecture; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, New Delhi

Lotus Temple, New Delhi: The Gates of God - Religion World Talks (2022)
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=btsZgVATAHQ.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, New Delhi

Louis Gregory (1874-1951) - Hatcher,John S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2019)
Overview of the life of a famous Bahá'í lawyer, anti-racism educator and travel-teacher, and Hand of the Cause.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/254. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: 1874; 1951; Biography; John Hatcher; Louis G. Gregory; United States (documents)

Louise Dixon Boyle and Maria Montessori - Khan,Janet A. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2006)
American Louise Dixon Boyle (1875–1953) was an active Bahá'í who engaged with wider social issues. Here the focus is on her involvement in the field of education, particularly the work of the Italian physician and educator Dr. Maria Montessori.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca.
Keywords: 1875; 1953; Biography; Louise Dixon Boyle; Montessori (system)

Love and Estrangement in the Bahá'í Community, by Arnold Nerenberg: Review - Morrison,Sidney Edward (dialogue magazine, 1987)
On personal feelings of alienation in the Bahá'í community, self image, and backbiting.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Alienation; Backbiting and gossip; Community (general); Depression; Disunity; Estrangement; Love; Tests and difficulties; Unity

Love for God and Bahá'u'lláh - Universal House of Justice (Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986, 1978)
Response to a Bahá'í individual's concern about not feeling sufficient love for God and Bahá'u'lláh compared to others.
Extracted from Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986 (#211).
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Love for; Deepening; God, Love for; God, Word of; Love; Meditation; Prayer; Service; Spirituality; Spiritualization

Love of God - Dunbar,Hooper (2006)
From "Serving the Divine Plan Programme"; see mentions of this program in uhj_turning_point_1996-2006 pages iii, viii, and 223, and haifalife.blogspot.ca. Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru.
Keywords: God; Hooper Dunbar; Love

Love Relationship between God and Humanity: Reflections on Baha'u'llah's Hidden Words - Savi,Julio (Scripture and Revelation: Papers presented at the First Irfan Colloquium, 1997)
An overview of God and man's relationship as expressed in Bahá'u'lláh's Hidden Words.
This is an early draft of an article which later appeared in Scripture and Revelation. First presented at the Irfan Colloquia session #2, March 1994.
Keywords: Covenant; God; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Love; Spirituality

Love's Odyssey: The Life of Thornton Chase - Stockman,Robert (1999)
Detailed overview of the first American Bahá'í. Provided in draft form as "Love's Odyssey" as well as a link to the PDF published as Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá'í.
See also Notes on the Thornton Chase Papers. This manuscript was later published as Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá'í (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2001), which is available for download, with the author's permission, at stockman_chase_first_american_bahai_scan.pdf [39 MB].
Keywords: 1847; 1912; Biography; Thornton Chase; United States (documents)

Love, Power and Justice - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Original website says this file was from "ABS Balyuzi Lecture." I don't know the place or date; contact us if you know. See also "Love, Power and Justice" article and L’amour, le pouvoir et la justice. Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Love, Power, and Justice - Hatcher,William S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1999)
The pursuit and abuse of power are moral choices for which there is no moral justification.
See also "Love, Power and Justice" audio lecture and L’amour, le pouvoir et la justice. Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/113.
Keywords: Authenticity; Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lectures; Ideology; Injustice; Justice; Literature; Love; Philosophy; Power; Relationships

Love, Power, and Justice: The Dynamics of Authentic Morality, by William Hatcher: Review - Pokorny,Brad (One Country, 1998)
Mirrored with permission from www.onecountry.org/e102/e10216as.htm.

Loving 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Understanding His Station - Handal,Boris (The Australian Baha'i, 2021)
Early Bahá’ís in the West struggled to understand the station of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Mystery of God.
See the entire issue online here. [PDF, 15MB]
Keywords: `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Station of

Loyalty to the Covenant and Critical Thought - Schaefer,Udo (2001)
A commentary for Bahá’ís examining the balance of critical thought with loyalty to Bahá’í institutions.
Talk given at a seminar on the Kitáb-i-Aqdas in Wiesbaden, January 2000.
Keywords: Covenant; Freedom and liberty; Institutions; Loyalty; Udo Schaefer

Lua Getsinger: Herald of the Covenant - de Mille,Amine (Baha'i News, 1971)
Biography of Getsinger, with recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá.
This document is online as a scan of the original, with images, at bahai-news.info. Also available as a RTF document.
Keywords: 1871; 1916; Biography; Lua Getsinger; Pilgrims notes

Lucha Contra el Hambre, La - Bahá'í International Community (1985)
Declaración a la 11a Sesión de Ministros del Consejo Mundial de la Alimentación de las Naciones Unidas, París, Francia, 1985.
10 al 13 de junio de 1985.
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Equality; Ethics; Food; Hunger; Statements; Wealth and poverty

Macau Bahá'í Community in the Early Years - Sims,Barbara R. (1991)
Brief overview of the history of Macau, and a detailed account of Bahá'í involvement 1953-1975, and stories of early believers.
Keywords: 1953; 1975; 20th century; Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Macau; Photographs; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)

Mackenzie and Franklin Islands in the Tablets of the Divine Plan - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada (2006)
Question to, and response from, the Archives of the NSA of Canada about why 'Abdu'l-Bahá addressed these then-sparsely-populated regions of Canada.
This letter was inspired by research into the maps consulted by 'Abdu'l-Bahá.. The following correspondence was scanned by the recipient (though sent by email, the emails themselves were lost and the recipient only has a paper copy) and later retyped. Both the original scans and the typed text are below.

Macnutt, Howard - Stockman,Robert (1995)
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project. Mirrored with permission from rsmd.net/research/macnutt-howard.
Keywords: 1859; 1926; Biography; Howard MacNutt

Macrocriticism: A Comparison of Nicolai Berdyaev and Shoghi Effendi - Lundberg,Zaid (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2012)
Comparison of "the most widely read of the Russian religious philosophers" with the background and style of Shoghi Effendi's religious, ethical, and social writings.
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Nicolai Berdyaev; Philosophy; Russia; Shoghi Effendi

Mafia, Mob and Shiism in Iraq: The Rebellion of Ottoman Karbala 1824-1843 - Cole,Juan; Momen,Moojan (Past and Present, 1986)
On the role of gangs in urban social history of the 19-century Ottoman empire; with a decline in government control, gangs ran protection rackets and acted as a parallel government, making alliances and becoming popular leaders against an alien threat.
Posted by author at academia.edu. Purchase original at jstor.org.
Keywords: 1840s; 1843; History (general); Iraq; Karbala, Iraq; Ottoman Empire; Shia Islam (Shiism)

Maharishi Ayurveda: A Bahá'í Exploration - Rawlings,Felicity (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2001)
Some of the therapeutic strategies of Maharishi Ayurveda and comparative assessment to the Bahá’í writings, and as seen in light of our the understanding of homeostasis, pathogeny, and the mind-body relationship.
See also the rest of this issue. See also an earlier version published in Journal Bahá'í Studies 4:3 (1992).
Keywords: Ayurveda; Health and healing; India; Maharishi Ayurveda; Meditation

Maharishi Ayurveda: A Bahá'í Exploration - Rawlings,Felicity (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1992)
Some of the therapeutic strategies of Maharishi Ayurveda and how they correspond to the Bahá’í writings on healing.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive. See also a later version published in Australian Bahá'í Studies 3 (2001).
Keywords: Ayurveda; Health and healing; India; Maharishi Ayurveda; Meditation

Mahatma Gandhi and the Bahá'ís: Striving towards a Nonviolent Civilization - Gandhimohan,M. V. (Bahá'í Publishing Trust of India, 2000)
Review of Ghandi's comments about the Faith as well as relationships between his ideas and those of the religion.
Mirrored with permission from gandhimohan.hpg.com.br [archive.org].
Keywords: 1869; 20th century; Biography; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Mahatma Gandhi; Non-violence

Mahdist Movements - Wilson,Samuel Graham (Modern Movements among Moslems, 1916)
An unsympathetic Christian missionary's early history of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths. Excerpt from longer book.
This entire book is available online and in PDF format here. See also Word document (of this chapter only).
Keywords: Bábísm; Criticism and apologetics

Mahmúd's Diary: The Diary of Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Zarqání Chronicling 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey to America - Abdul-Bahá; Mirza Mahmud-i-Zarqani (George Ronald, 1998)
Extensive account of the 1912 travels of Abdu'l-Bahá in the West.
Also available as an updated, proofread Microsoft Word file. The Universal House of Justice states of this work that it "...attaches great importance to this work which, as you may know, is regarded as a reliable account of `Abdu'l-Bahá's travels in the West and an authentic record of His utterances, whether in the form of formal talks, table talks or random oral statements. Mírzá Mahmúd was a careful and faithful chronicler and engaged in assembling and publishing his work with the permission of the beloved Master, as he states in the Introduction. Indeed, Shoghi Effendi drew upon it for details about the Master's visit to the West in writing God Passes By..." In response to a question whether the translation as a whole (including the observations of Mahmúd) were approved, the publisher states "The translation as a whole has not been 'approved' but, as mentioned in the Note from the Publisher at the beginning of the book: 'The translations of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's words recorded in the present volume were read and revised at the Bahá'í World Centre." As the digital copy of this text was taken from a version prior to final editing, there may be some discrepancies between this and the printed work. We have divided the book into "chapters" according to the month of the diary entry to allow for manageable online viewing (though the book can also be viewed as a whole if desired), but the book itself does not separate itself into chapters. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here. This work has been approved to be reproduced here by George Ronald, Publisher. You can purchase a copy of this book here.
Keywords: 1912; Mahmuds Diary; Mírzá Mahmud-i-Zarqani; Pilgrims notes; Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Mahoma, Profeta de Dios - Handal,Boris (Asamblea Espiritual Nacional de los Bahá'ís del Perú, 2005)
Overview of the life of Muhammad and the teachings of the Qur'an, and world Islamic culture.
Mirrored with permission from bibliotecabahai.com. Images in the book courtesy Wellcome Collection © CC 4.0.
Keywords: Biography; Islam; Muhammad (Prophet); Quran

Maintaining Minority Beliefs in an Indifferent Workplace - Vance,Deborah Clark (2003)
A study of how Bahá’ís of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds, living in the mid-Atlantic region, attempt to integrate the teachings of their minority religion into US American workplace cultures.
Panel presentation “Problems or progress?: A critical look at the professional lives of women through identity, religion and culture.” Presented at the 89th annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Miami (2003).