Tablets to Napoleon III: Comparison - Winters,Jonah (1999)
Comparison of the First and the Second Tablets to Napoleon
Prepared as part of Wilmette Institute notes and commentary on the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh. Add or read comments or links pertaining to the first tablet or the second tablet.
Keywords: Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III); Tablets to kings and rulers; Wilmette Institute notes on the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh

Tablets to the Kings - Universal House of Justice (1989)
Two questions on the Tablets to the Kings: which ones were delivered and how, and the response of Queen Victoria.
See the original of this letter online at scribd.com. Note one error: the letter on scribd.com mentions "three questions," but there were only two (the sender's original letter to the House is on file).
Keywords: Lawh-i-Malikih (Tablet to Queen Victoria); Queen Victoria; Research Department, Questions and answers; Tablets to kings and rulers

Tablets to the Rulers (Surat al-Muluk) - Cole,Juan (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.
Keywords: Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings); Tablets to kings and rulers

Tablets, Communes and Holy Utterances - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá (Behais Supply and Publishing Board, 1897)
The first prayer book and first compilation of Bahá'í writings published in the West. Most of the selections are from Bahá'u'lláh, save for pages 18–21 which are from Abdu'l-Bahá.
See references about this tablet — including its probable date and publisher — at bahai-library.com/chronology/1897-00.
Keywords: Anton Haddad; Prayer; Prayer texts; Tablets, Communes and Holy Utterances (book)

Tablets, Instructions and Words of Explanation: For the Assemblies and Meetings of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada - Sohrab,Ahmad; Abdul-Bahá (1919)
First publication of the entire Tablets of the Divine Plan "presented in talks given by Sohrab at the 11th annual Mashrekol-Azkar Convention, Bahá'í Congress, and Feast of El-Rizwan," April 26-30 1919.
While this book contains both text from Sohrab and Tablets of Abdu'l-Bahá, Sohrab alone is cited as the author at worldcat.org and hathitrust.org.
Keywords: Star of the West; Tablets of the Divine Plan

Tablette de la Médecine (Lawh-i-Tibb) - Bahá'u'lláh (2019)
Tablette de Bahá’u’lláh (début 1870?). Traduction provisoire incluant une note de la Maison Universelle de Justice ainsi qu'un commentaire de Stephen Lambden.
See other translations and study guides: bahai-library.com/title/tibb. See also some of Daoust's other translations at amazon.fr.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Health and healing; Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician); Lifestyle

Tablette de la Vierge - Bahá'u'lláh (2020)
Tablette de Bahá’u’lláh (1852). Traduction française provisoir.
See also related materials: A letter from the UHJ and an English translation.
Keywords: Lawh-i-Huriyyih (Tablet of the Maiden)

Tablette du Paradis de la Justice (Lawḥ-i-Riḍvánuʼl-ʻAdl) - Bahá'u'lláh (2020)
Tablette de Bahá’u’lláh, traduction française provisoire.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq; Lawh-i-Ridvanul-Adl (Tablet of the Paradise of Justice)

Tablettes additionnelles, Extraits et Causeries: Tablettes supplementaires données par 'Abdu'l-Bahá à 'Akká - Daoust,Pierre, translator (2020)
Provisional French translation of "Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks."
See English original.
Keywords: `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Tablettes révélées après le Kitab-i-Aqdas - Bahá'u'lláh (2021)
Traduction de Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas.
This is an "official" translation, prepared by the French Panel named by the Universal House of Justice and published by the French publishing trust, la Maison d'éditions bahá'íes. See also Bibliothèque baha'ie. See also English original.
Keywords: Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Tafsir and the Meaning of the Qur'an: The Crucifixion in Muslim Thought - Lawson,Todd (2010)
Using Qur'án 4:156-7 as an example, classical tafsīr, “scholastic" exegesis, has not always taken account of the way all Muslims understand the Quranic text. Other understandings may be found in poetry, philosophy, mysticism and even historical writing.
Presented at the "New Approaches to Qur'an and Exegesis" conference at the Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, Virginia.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; History (general); Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Islam; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ, Crucifixion of; Mysticism; Philosophy; Poetry; Quran

Tafsír as Mystical Experience, by Todd Lawson: Review - Buck,Christopher (2020)
Mirrored from readingreligion.org/books/tafsír-mystical-experience. See also Book preview on Google Books.
Keywords: Glory (general); Imams; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Qá'im; Return; Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow); Tetrads and heptads; Walaya

Tahirih - Johnson,Lowell (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of South and West Africa, 1982)
Overview of the life of Qurratu'l-`Ayn, "Solace of the Eye," aka Zarrín-Táj, "Crown of Gold."
Also available as a Microsoft Word document.
Keywords: 19th century; Biography; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Tahirih and Women's Suffrage - Universal House of Justice (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1990)
Two letters on Táhirih's association with women's suffrage, and the authenticity of the words "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women".
The following two letters were both in response to similar questions from the same individual, and published in the same issue of Bahá'í Studies Bulletin (January 1990). Published and name retained with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Authenticity; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Change; Criticism and apologetics; Equality; Gender; Iran (documents); Martha Root; Ranks, stations and functions; Research Department, Questions and answers; Social change; Suffrage; Transformation; Women; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Tahirih Qurratul-ayn - Momen,Moojan; Lawson,Todd (World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, 2011)
Keywords: 1852; Biography; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Táhirih's Message to the Modern World - Root,Martha L. (Baha'i World, 1941)
Transcript of a radio address from Sunday April 21, 1940, telling the story of Ṭáhirih, describing her as the foremost woman of her generation known across Persia for her beauty, intelligence, and courage, who gave her life for the emancipation of women.
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org.
Keywords: Australia; Austria; Biography; Education; Equality; Gender; India; Iran (documents); Marianne Hainisch; Poetry; Rai Bahádur Sapru; Veils; Women; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Tahirih, Letter of the Living, and Khadijih Bagum, Wife of the Báb - Shahrokh,Darius (Windows to the Past, 1992)
Life stories of two key heroines of Bábí history.
From a series of deepening talks prepared from Persian and English sources, distributed on cassette tape in the 1990s and converted to online audio in the 2000s. See About Windows to the Past.
Keywords: 1840s; Biography; Báb, The; Khadijih Bagum (wife of the Báb); Letters of the Living; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Tahirih, The Pure, Iran's Greatest Woman - Root,Martha L. (1938)
Life story of Tahirih, the "heroine" of the Faith of the Bab.
Keywords: 1840s; 1850s; 1852; Biography; Martha Root; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Táhirih: A Portrait in Poetry - Banani,Amin (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2000)
An account of Tahirih allowing her own voice, through her poems, to speak for herself, her time, and her motivations; it is her poetry that both reveals the layers of her complex motivations and makes her accessible.
See also journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/116.
Keywords: 1840s; 1852; Biography; Poetry; Tudeh Party of Iran; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Táhirih: A Religious Paradigm of Womanhood - Maneck,Susan (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1989)
Táhirih, the Bahá'í archetypal paradigm of womanhood, is remembered by Bahá’ís as the courageous, eloquent, and assertive religious innovator whose actions severed the early Bábís from Islam completely.
See also Commentary (Cundall, 1992).
Keywords: Equality; Women; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

"Tahirih: A Religious Paradigm of Womanhood," by Susan Stiles Maneck: Commentary - Cundall,Janet (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1992)
See also original article.
Keywords: Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Equality; Family; Gender; Navvab (Asiyih Khanum); Women; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Tahirih (1816 - 1852) - Ouwehand,Terre (Voices from the Well, 1984)
Written for performance in 1984, published 2015.
See also a presentation "Now They Are Hanging Women" by Jaine Toth.
Keywords: 1852; Arts and crafts; Drama; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Taiwan Bahá'í Chronicle: An Historical Record of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Faith in Taiwan - Sims,Barbara R. (Bahá'í Publishing Trust of Taiwan, 1994)
Bahá'í activities in Taiwan and personal histories, 1952-1992. Includes earliest pamphlet published in Chinese.
Keywords: 1952; 1992; 20th century; Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Photographs; Taiwan

Take My Love to the Friends: The Story of Laura R. Davis, by Marlene Macke: Review - Echevarria-Howe,Lynn (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2008)
Key figures in the development of the Bahá'í community in Canada.
See also journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/348.
Keywords: 20th century; Biography; Canada; Laura Davis; Marlene Macke

Takfir, declaration of unbelief: includes excerpts from Risáliy-i-Siyasiyyih - Universal House of Justice (2001)
Questions from an individual about the Muslim practice of takfir, declaring someone an unbeliever, whether this is practiced in the Bahá'í Faith, and questions related to "church and state", followed by the House's response.
Transmitted by email. Contributed by and name retained with permission of recipient. Also available in updated Microsoft Word format, prepared by M. Thomas (2022).
Keywords: Church and state; Context, Taking verses out of; Contradictions; Criticism and apologetics; Membership; Politics; Provisional translations; Religious leaders (clergy); Risaliy-i-Siyasiyyih (Treatise on Leadership); World order

Taking Care with Translation of Sacred Scripture - Price,Edward (2016)
Examination of the importance of using reliable translations of the Qur’án. Includes technical discussion of the meanings of Islam, Muslim, and Allah, aspects of the Arabic language, and errors of translation.
Mirrored from divinecurriculum.com.
Keywords: Arabic language; Bible; Bible translations; Christianity; Criticism and apologetics; God, Names of; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Quran; Quran translations; Translation; Unity of religion

Tales of Magnificent Heroism: The Impact of the Báb and His Followers on Writers and Artists - Weinberg,Robert (Baha'i World, 2019)
This concise survey explores how this particular episode in humanity’s religious history resonated so strongly through the decades that followed.
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org, which includes illustrations, not included in the PDF below, of individuals discussed in the article (part of the collection Arts, Culture & the Media).
Keywords: Appreciations; Biography; Báb, The; Bábísm; Charlotte Despard; Comte Arthur de Gobineau; E. G. Browne; Introductory; Iran (documents); Isabella Grinevskaya; Jules Bois; Laura Clifford Barney; Leo Tolstoy; Mark Tobey; Matthew Arnold; Muhammad Iqbal; Mírzá Habib-i-Shirazi; Painting; Poetry; Robert Hayden; Thomas Kelly Cheyne (T. K. Cheyne); William Michael Rossetti; Writing; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Talk "Arise" at Anchorage Conference - Sears,William (1976)
Address to the International Teaching Conference, Anchorage, July 1976.
To understand the context of this talk, Sears makes a remark that, by the date of his talk, the 5-year plan is actually a 2 1/2-year plan, and (2) it is mentioned that it is a Teaching conference at Alaska, and there are messages from the Universal House of Justice to the conference on July 1976. Audio posted online at http://bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng.htm
Keywords: Alaska, USA; Anchorage, AK; Conferences, International; Plans; United States (documents); William Sears

Talk at U.S. Bahá'í National Convention - Baker,Dorothy (1953)
Reflections on pilgrimage and the Guardian.
Originally posted at bahaistudy.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Dorothy Baker; Pilgrimage; Shoghi Effendi; United States (documents)

Talk given 2 May 1912 at the Chicago Plaza Hotel - Abdul-Bahá (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1991)
New translation of a short talk for which the original Persian text was recently (as of 1991) discovered in the Wilmette archives.
Keywords: Chicago, IL; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Talks at other places; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Talk Given by Abdu'l-Baha to Theosophists at Marseille - Abdul-Bahá (Abdu'l-Baha in France, 1911-1913, 2017)
Text of a talk on materialism and philosophy, adapted from a newspaper article.
The text below is taken from the book Abdu'l-Bahá in France, 1911-1913, by Jan Jasion (Éditions Bahá'íes France, 2017), pp. 247-254. It is mirrored with permission from badiblog.blogspot.com/2021/10/talk-given-by-abdul-baha-to.html.
Keywords: France; Marseilles, France; Theosophical Society; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Talk given by Hand of the Cause of God A.Q. Faizi, Australia - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (Conqueror of Hearts, 1969)
Discussion of "Standards and Values, "Explanations from the Writings of the Báb," and "How to Study the Book of Íqán"
Keywords: Abu'l-Qásim Faizí; Australia; Báb, Writings of; Ethics; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Melbourne, Australia; Sydney, Australia

Talks at the United States National Bahá'í Convention - Mitchell,Glenford (2009)
Two talks given in Wilmette, on two subsequent days. Topics include meekness, administrative principles, the Covenant with humankind, and how Bahá'í ideals will be realized.
Title given for this online copy of the talk; original titles not known; contact me if you know.

Taqiyyah (Dissimulation) in the Babi and Bahá'í Religions - Manuchehri,Sepehr (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2000)
The historical application of taqiyyah and instances where Bábís cooperated with the authorities in suppression of their peers, and the attitude of government officials towards these individuals.
The draft of this paper, below, differs from the published version, which can be downloaded here: manuchehri_taqiyyih_babi_bahai.pdf. See also an updated, corrected, spell-checked Microsoft Word version with improved formatting, and an updated PDF, both prepared by Mike Thomas (2023).
Keywords: Azali Bábís; Bahá'í history; Bábí history; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Shaykhism; Steadfastness; Taqiyyah (dissimulation)

Tattoos, Permissibility of - Universal House of Justice (2003)
Submitted by David Bowie
Keywords: Cultural diversity; Ethics; Moderation; Tattoos

Taxation, Drought and the Golden Rule - Podger,Neil (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
Agriculture is basic to human survival; the Bahá'í teachings provide a broad-based way of bringing stability and a planned continuity to the farming enterprise and the communities to which farmers belong.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Agriculture; Calamities and catastrophes; Charity and relief work; Golden Rule; Social and economic development; Taxation

Teaching As Worship: Pedagogy of the Spirit in the Narratives of Bahá'í Educators - Snipes,Tracey Booth (2007)
How Bahá'ís' perception of their role as educators, along with their interpretation of religious philosophy and professional experience, help shape their teaching and work; the effect of human secularism and religious theory on the academic experience.
PhD dissertation for the University of North Carolina, Greenboro. Online with permission of author's family, mirrored from libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?id=1208.
Keywords: Education; Leadership; Respect; Unity; Worship

Teaching Bahá'í History in Schools: A Resource Material - Handal,Boris (2010)
A self-contained lesson addressing the history and growth of the Faith and the lives of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, designed for primary-school students in the broader community; contains learning objectives, learning activities, and audio-visual resources.
Keywords: Education; Learning

Teaching Christians More Effectively: Handbook and Seminar - Young,David F. (1999)
Bahá'í views of Christianity; questions Christians might ask; interpretation of the Bible; theology of miracles, baptism, sin, Armageddon, and heaven and hell; social issues.
Mirrored from link at bahaisects.wordpress.com.
Keywords: Antichrist; Armageddon; Baptism; Beast (Bible); Bible; Christianity; Criticism and apologetics; Devil (Satan); False prophets; God; Heaven and hell; Interpretation; Jesus Christ; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Manifestations of God; Miracles; Mirrors; Moses; Proofs; Prophecies; Questions and answers; Rapture (Bible); Resurrection; Return; Sin; Teaching

Teaching Problems / Success in Teaching - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (Baha'i News, 1949)
Three versions of an article: first published as "Teaching Problems" in March 1949, then as "Success in Teaching" in June 1949, and a Persian translation.
This item was first a pamphlet published in March 1949 by the U.K. Bahá'í Publishing Trust under the title Teaching Problems. In June that same year it was published as an insert in Bahá'í News under the title "Success in Teaching." It was published again as a pamphlet in 1965, by the Bahá'í Publishing Trust in Wilmette, Illinois. The Persian translation is by Faruq Izadinia, 2021.
Keywords: Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Covenant; Listening; Materialism; Statistics; Teaching

Teaching regions of the United States and Canada (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)

Teaching regions of the United States and Canada (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)

Teaching Seminar conducted by Hand of the Cause A. Q. Faizí in Hawaii - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (Conqueror of Hearts, 1967)
Lengthy notes from five sessions of talks, including question-and-answer periods.
Keywords: Abu'l-Qásim Faizí; Hawaii, USA; Talks

Teaching Stories - Robarts,John
A humorous talk by a Hand of the Cause on how to call on the power of God's angels to help propagate the Faith. Stories include teaching in the 1950s in Botswana.
Date unknown. Mirrored from bahaiexplorer.com.
Keywords: John Robarts; Teaching

Teaching the Bahá'í Faith and the Role of the Institutions - Universal House of Justice (1996)
On the "sacred obligation" of teaching the Bahá’í Faith, the role of the institutions in teaching, and on questioning vs. obeying the institutions.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Institutions; Spiritual Assemblies; Teaching; Transformation

Teaching the Cause of God: A Two-Edged Sword - Nakhjavani,Ali (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
We cannot separate the spiritual life of the individual from the spiritual life of the community; 18 major themes from Bahá’í Writings and subjects which give us guidance in our independent efforts individually to teach the Faith.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/nakhjavani_teaching.
Keywords: Alí Nakhjavání; Teaching

Teaching the Faith in Australia 1963-1975: Personal Recollections - Moani,Hedi (Australian Baha'i Studies, 1999)
Recollections of Melbourne Australia 1963-65; Geelong and the formation of the first LSA 1965-1968; the International Conference in Sydney 1967; Perth 1968-1970; youth club at the University of Melbourne; pioneering at Alice Springs and Darwin.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: 1960s; 1963; 1967; 1970; Australia; Biography; Melbourne, Australia; Teaching

Teaching the Faith, Magic Moments, Meeting Great Souls - McLean,Jack (2012)
Autobiography of a prominent Bahá'í scholar, written on occasion of the 50th anniversary of his conversion.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: 1960s; 20th century; Bahá'í scholars (English-language); Biography; Gatineau, QC; Hands of the Cause; Jack McLean; Laura Clifford Barney; Life (general); Ottawa, ON; Paris, France; Salt Spring Island, BC; Teaching

Teaching The Masses - Arbab,Farzam
Audio posted online at http://bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng.htm
Keywords: Farzam Arbab; Mass teaching; Teaching

Teaching The Masses - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Teaching

Teaching, Guidelines for - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Republication of The Individual and Teaching: Raising the Divine Call.
This compilation was first published as a 40-page booklet under the title "Raising the Divine Call" (US Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1977), which is online at bahai-library.net (and other places), and as "Gift of Teaching" (UK Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1977). Introductory letter published in "Gift of Teaching" also included. Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Teaching

Technology, Values, and the Shaping of Social Reality - Weinberg,Matthew (Baha'i World, 2019)
On a Bahá'í view on technology, its role in advancing civilization, the critical issue of technological choice and its mechanisms, consultative processes, and the case of the Internet.
Mirrored from
Keywords: Ethics; Internet; Reality; Technology

Tehran, Iran - Momen,Moojan (The Baha'i Encyclopedia, 2009)
On the capital city of Iran and birthplace of Bahá’u’lláh, called by Him the "Land of Tá" (Ard-i-Tá), site of numerous important events in Bahá’í history.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-encyclopedia-project.org
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Iran (documents); Tehran, Iran

Television Address of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami - Universal House of Justice; Bahá'í International Community (1998)
Questions and answers about a historically unique television interview of Iranian President Khatami, given on CNN Wednesday, Jan 7, 1998.
Prepared by the BIC Office of Public Information. See also Transcript of interview with Khatami.
Keywords: Bahá'í International Community; Human rights; Iran (documents); Opposition; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; United Nations; United States (documents)

Temas e Destinatários da Epístola aos Reis (Súray-i-Mulúk): Epístola revelada por Bahá'u'lláh, em Adrianópolis (1868) - Oliveira,Marco (2004)
Study Guide to Súriy-i-Mulúk.
Este texto pretende apresentar um breve estudo dos temas e destinatários da Epístola aos Reis (Súriy-i-Mulúk). Talvez possa ajudar quem não estiver muito familiarizado com o estilo de escrita do fundador da religião Bahá’í. Lembro-me que sempre senti alguma dificuldade em compreender o estilo de escrita de Bahá'u'lláh; o texto não está dividido em capítulos e os temas cruzam-se de forma natural. Entre palavras de advertência ou louvor a algum crente, podemos encontrar orações e citações das escrituras do passado. Além disso, as referências a Deus são geralmente seguidas por alguns dos Seus títulos (exemplo: "o Omnisciente", "o Omnipotente", "o Amparo no Perigo", "o que Subsiste por Si Próprio"). Entre parêntesis rectos indica-se o nº do parágrafo citado. From povodebaha.blogspot.com.
Keywords: Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings); Tablets to kings and rulers

Temiar religions, 1994-2008 - Benjamin,Geoffrey (2011)
A study of the rise and decline of the Baha’i Faith amongst the Temiars of Malaysia. Link to paper (offsite).
Paper presented at the International Conference on Religion in Southeast Asian Politics: Resistance, Negotiation and Transcendence (Singapore, 12 December 2008), an extension of the author's PhD dissertation "Temiar Religion" (Cambridge, 1967), and soon to be published as a chapter in the author's book Temiar Religion 1964–2008 (Singapore: NUS Press, forthcoming).
Keywords: 1990s; 1994; 2000s; 2008; Malaysia; Temiar people

Temple Song - Waite,Louise R. (Baha'i News, 1910)
Sheet music and audio for an early American Bahá'í song.
Available from Star of the West, volume 1, issue 4, pg. 30. Encoding of another work of Louise Waite's has begun as well: Bahai Hymns of Peace and Praise. The musical score, MIDI, and audio output were obtained utilizing the Mediawiki Score extension with the Lilypond syntax (obtainable in the wiki source of the Star of the West issue mentioned above). The work is in the public domain outside of the U.S. due to the author having passed over 70 years ago (May 27, 1939 per p. 8 of Music, Devotions, and Mashriqu'l-Adhkar) and within the U.S. due to it having been published before 1923 (in 1908 per p. 39 of ibid.). See also Bahá'í Hymns of Peace and Praise (Waite, 1908).
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Music

Temples, Bahá'í - Rafati,Vahid; Sahba,Fariborz (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bahaism-ix.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design

Temples, Bahá'í - Buck,Christopher (World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, 2011)
Keywords: Fariborz Sahba; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design

Temples, Bahá'í - Buck,Christopher (Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, 2010)
Keywords: Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design

Temples: Service in Bahá'í Temples - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (Compilation of Compilations, 2000)
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Service; Volunteering

Ten Days in the Light of Akka - Grundy,Julia M. (1907)
A lengthy recollection of conversations with Abdu'l-Bahá and notes of his lectures.
Also available as a scan of the original book [PDF 11 MB] and updated, formatted Microsoft Word document, prepared by M. Thomas (2023). See also Julia's Journey: A Life Illumined by the Light of Akká (R. Shaw, 2023).
Keywords: 1905; Akka, Israel; Julia Grundy; Pilgrims notes

Ten Thousand Miles in Persia or Eight Years in Iran - Sykes,Percy Molesworth (John Murray, 1902)
Brief overview of Babism, including estimate of numbers of Bahá'ís and Azalis in Kirman.
Author note: H.M. Consul, Kerman and Persian Bulchistan. Awarded Silver Medal by the Society of Arts, 1897; the Back Grant in 1899; and the Gold Medal in 1902 by the Royal Geographical Society, London.
Keywords: Azali Bábís; Bábí history; Bábísm; Iran (documents); Kirman, Iran; Population; Statistics

Ten Year Retrospective, 24 July 2023 - Executive Committee of the Association for Bahá'í Studies North America (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2023)
Retrospective outlining some of the ABS' key developments over the last ten years in response to the invitation of the Universal House of Justice to help build “the capacity of the friends to contribute to the prevalent discourses of society”.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: 2013; 2023; Bahá'í studies; Canada; Public discourse (discourses of society); Research; United States (documents)

Tending the Garden: A Biography of Emeric and Rosemary Sala - Weinstein,Ilona Sala (One Voice Press, 1998)
Detailed story of two pioneers from Canada to South America and Africa, told through reference to letters, papers, and archival documents.
Also online in uncorrected HTML at bahai.works/Tending_the_Garden.
Keywords: 20th century; Africa; Apartheid; Biography; Canada; E-books; Emeric Sala; Latin America; Mexico; Montreal, QC; Rosemary Sala; South Africa; Tending the Garden (book); Travelogues

Terah: Personal reminiscences of teaching, traveling, loving - Cowart-Smith,Terah (Baha'i News, 1981)
Brief recollections of teaching in North America. Includes short letter from the Guardian.
This article is noted as an excerpt from the book Terah, by Mrs. Terah Cowart-Smith of Greensboro, North Carolina. It was published in the February 1981 Bahá’í News. However, this book is not listed at worldcat; if you know anything about it, email us.
Keywords: 1950s; Biography; Canada; Dundas, ON; Greensboro, NC; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); Travel Teaching

Term Limits for Members of Spiritual Assemblies - Universal House of Justice (2022)
Quotations from Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice on matters regarding Bahá'í elections, and why there are no term limits for members of Bahá'í assemblies.
Keywords: Elections; Spiritual Assemblies

Terrorism, Freedom from: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1996)
Keywords: Terrorism

پيام بيت العدل اعظم الهى خطاب به كنفرانس هيئت هاى مشاورين قارّه ای ٣٠ دسامبر ٢٠٢١ ("Message to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors on the Nine Year Plan") - Universal House of Justice (2021)
Overview of the 9-Year Plan, "the first major undertaking in a sacred twenty-five-year venture, generational in its scope and significance," implemented Ridvan 2022. English and Persian, parallel.
See also original English, which also has links to versions in French and Spanish.
Keywords: Nine Year Plan (2022-2031); Translation, Parallel

Tests: Their Spiritual Value - Seto,Mamie L. (Bahá'í Publishing Committee, 1940)
Abdu'l-Bahá's views on the spiritual effects of suffering and trials, and their necessity for personal growth of the soul.
The exact date of this first edition is uncertain; MacEoin's bibliography says "Reissued n.d. [between 1940 and 1954], Wilmette, Ill., Bahá'í Publishing Committee, 15 pp. ed., 16. New York: Bahá'í Publishing Committee, n.d. [193-]. Collins 2394-5." This booklet was re-issued in 1944, in a 25-page edition (larger font, but with the same content), under the name The Spiritual Meaning of Adversity.
Keywords: Soul; Suffering; Tests and difficulties

Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age - Saiedi,Nader (2014)
A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Bahá'í history, key writings, and the need for scholarly study, translation, and contextual analysis of Bahá'í texts.
Original audio recording, which includes 11 out of the 12 talks, are at soundcloud.com/bahai-blog/sets/nader-saiedi-text-and-context. Talk #12 can be found at Saiedi's own website. See also partial transcript of Talk #5. Notes: - Only talk number 4 has bad recording quality, please skip if you can't follow anymore. - In talk number 10, at 1 hour and 32 minutes, Dr. Saiedi mentions a definition of a Bahá'í by 'Abdu'l-Bahá. This appears to be a text from Shoghi Effendi in Persian, online at https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GTB/gtb-18.html#pg8 (personal communication, A.B.).
Keywords: Administrative Order; Agriculture; Amanuensis (scribe); Arabic language; Archives; Ark; Authenticity; Authority; Bahá'u'lláh, Banishment of; Bahá'u'lláh, Childhood of; Bahá'u'lláh, Declaration of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í Faith, Evolutionary nature of; Bahá'í Writings; Bahá'í history; Bahá'í studies; Betterment of the world; Bible; Báb, Writings of; Causality (causation); Christianity; Church and state; Colonialism and imperialism; Commentary on the Surih of Kawthar; Commentary on the letter Há; Compassion; Concessions; Constitutional Revolution (Iran, 1905-1911); Consultation; Contradictions; Corruption of texts; Creation; Crisis; Culture, Western; Democracy; Detachment; Doubt; Dreams and visions; East and West; English language; Equality; Estrangement; First and Last; Formative Age; Free will; Freedom and liberty; God; God Passes By (book); God, Image of; God, Knowledge of; God, Tests of; God, Will of; God, Worlds of; He is God (Invocation); Heart; Hermeneutics; Heroic age; Hidden Imam; Hidden Words, First (Arabic); Historical consciousness; Honor; Humility; Imam Husayn; Imams; Independence; Independent investigation of truth; Indexes and catalogues; Injustice; Interdependence and interconnectedness; International Bahá'í Archives; International auxiliary language; Interpretation; Iran (documents); Iranian revolution (1979); Islam; Joseph (Prophet); Judaism; Justice; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Kawthar (fountain); Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Knowledge; Land reform; Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World); Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf); Lawh-i-Ishraqat (Tablet of Splendors); Lawh-i-Maqsud (Tablet of Maqsud); Leadership; Living the life; Maid of Heaven; Manifest and Hidden; Manifestations of God; Manifestations of God, Recognition of; Manuscripts; Mariner; Materialism

Text, Author, Reader and the Relationship with the Sacred - Tinto,Iscander Micael (2008)
A preliminary survey of how the relationship between sacred scripture, its reader, and the author — the Manifestation of God — originates and develops, in the light of critical theory.
First presented at the Irfan Colloquium Session 83; also on academia.edu and in Italian.
Keywords: Interpretation; Literature; Manifestations of God; Reading; Scripture

TextBrowser, Bahaiwritings, and Bahai-browser.org: Web apps for browsing the Bahá'í Writings with customizability - Zamir,Brett (2022)
Tutorial videos on an experimental web app to browse Writings with high customizability and in parallel.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Search; Software

Texts, Sacred, Numbers and Classifications of - Universal House of Justice (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
Three letters, from 2002, 2010, and 2013, about numbers of Sacred Texts catalogued by the Bahá'í World Center and their classification into "authenticated," "revised," and "transcribed."
Below is (1) a letter to the House from 2001 and (2) their response from 2002, which was (3) later published in 2009, followed by (4) an update letter sent in 2010 and (5) another in 2013. Original email for the 2001 letter submitted by and posted with permission of recipient, and name retained with permission of recipient; posted here in 2002. Later reprinting mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/justice_classification; posted in 2009. Original emails for the 2010 and 2013 letters are on file; names have been removed.
Keywords: Archives; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í World Centre; Báb, Writings of; Classification (library); Irfán Colloquia; Research Department, Questions and answers; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Statistics; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Texts, Sacred, Permission to Distribute Electronic Copies of - Universal House of Justice (2000)
Sacred Writings and anything produced by the Bahá'í World Center or the Bahá'í International Community may be electronically redistributed.
See also Notes on copyright. Submitted by recipient; original PDF on file.
Keywords: Bahá'í Writings; Copyright and trademarks; E-books; Internet; Publishing; Publishing, Policy and practice

Textual Context and Literary Criticism: A Case Study based on a Letter from Shoghi Effendi - Keil,Gerald C. (Lights of Irfan, 2010)
The importance of systematic analysis of the written word prior to the process of exegesis to achieve clarity from the very start; textual questions; a specific example.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #77 in German, Tambach, Germany (July 19-22, 2007). First published in German in Beiträge des 'Irfán-Kolloquiums 2007/8, volume 5 under the title "Textzusammenhang und Kritik: Ein Fallbeispiel anhand eines Briefes von Shoghi Effendi," 2009. Translated into English by the author. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/77/keil_auslegung.
Keywords: Badi calendar; Iran (documents); Irfán Colloquia; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Naw-Rúz; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Tehran, Iran; Universal House of Justice

Textual Resurrection: Book, Imám, and Cosmos in the Qur'án Commentaries of the Báb - Brown,Vahid (Lights of Irfan, 2004)
on the notions of textuality underlying the Báb's Qur'ánic commentaries; the history of Qur'ánic commentary in Islam as context; the Báb's readings of the Qur'án as 'messianic performances'.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #53, Bosch Bahá'í School, California (May 27-30, 2004). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/53/brown_text.
Keywords: Báb, Writings of; Commentaries; Irfán Colloquia; Islam; Quran

Thankful in Adversity: Using Bahá'í Writings and Benefit Finding to Enhance Understanding and Application of Mental Health Recovery Principles - Dykema,Lindsay-Rose (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2018)
Both the Bahá’í Writings and the literature on "benefit finding" can enhance the understanding and applications of mental health recovery principles; the spiritual dimension of recovery.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/245. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Health and healing; Mental health; Psychology; Tests and difficulties

That 'Eureka' Moment: The Role of Reflection and Inspiration in Scientific Discovery - Moqbel,Redwan (2005)
Delivered at the 29th ABS Annual Conference "Science, Religion and Social Transformation," Cambridge MA, August 11-14 2005. Mirrored with permission from www.bahai-studies.ca/proceedings. Author affiliation: professor of medicine, and director of the pulmonary research group at the University of Alberta
Keywords: Inspiration; Science

That Promising Continent: Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, the Writings and Letters of Shoghi Effendi and the Letters Written on his Behalf on Africa - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (1998)
Updated version of "That Vast but Promising Continent," a compilation originally prepared by the UHJ and International Teaching Centre to stimulate among Bahá'ís in Africa a greater awareness of their high spiritual destiny, strengths, and opportunities.
Keywords: Africa; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

That Uncertain Feeling - Tichenor,James (2024)
A college freshman who has agreed to hold her first devotional meeting with a fellow Book One participant learns that she must hold it on her own and panics. Her tutor arrives with encouragement but finds that true accompaniment requires something more.
Keywords: Institute process; Plays

The 10th Stage of History: The First 50 Years: 1963-2013: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2006)
In 1953 Shoghi Effendi outlined a ten stage sequence or framework for the study of contemporary history from a Bahá'í perspective. In this framework the 10th, and final stage, began in 1963. All of my pioneering life has taken place in this stage.
The focus for the poetry and prose found in this document is on the first half century of this tenth and final stage of history(1963-2015)beginning, as that stage did, with the world's first global and democratic election. The Universal House of Justice, the trustee of the global undertaking set in motion by events over a century ago, and associated with the life of Bahá'u'lláh, has been at the centre of my life since 1963 when I was 19. The Universal House of Justice, with its seat in Haifa Israel, represents another institutional stage in the fully legitimate institutionalization, routinization as the sociologist Max Weber might have put it, of Bahá'u'lláh's charismatic Force. My poetry and prose in this document deals with aspects of the first fifty-two years since this apex of Bahai Administration was put in place, and since this 10th stage of history has begun to unravel decade by decade from 1963 to 2015. In many ways my life goal has been to serve as a precisioned instrument for this trustee of the global undertaking outlined in the massive corpus of Bahá'u'lláh's writings: 1852-1892. These early decades, the first half century, of this 10th stage of history, as well as the 9th stage(1953-1963) during which I was first associated with this Faith, can also be seen as part of a prelude to an eventual mass conversation to the Bahá'í Faith. Often not very precisioned an instrument, this pioneer tells his story, his Faith's story and his society's story--only part of these now massive and complex stories. The subject matter here, part of a large poetic opus-epic, I dedicate to that trustee. I trust I offer, too, a perspective on the feeling of confidence with which Bahá'ís the world over contemplate the future of our planet and our race in spite of the many calamities of our time.
Keywords: Ron Price

The 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahá'í Secondary Literature - Sours,Michael W. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1998)
This edict, issued the year the Bahá'í era began, permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return of Jews to the Holy Land was thought by Christians to be an event anticipated by biblical prophecy, heralding the Second Advent of Christ.
See also journal.bahaistudies.ca
Keywords: 1844; Christianity; Edict of Toleration (1844); History (general); Israel; Jews; Judaism; Palestine; Prophecies

The 1893 Russian Publication of Baha'u'llah's Last Will and Testament: An Academic Attestation of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Successorship - Buck,Christopher; Ioannesyan,Youli A. (Baha'i Studies Review, 2017)
On the content of the Kitab-i-Ahdi, its manuscript history, and textual variants; Andalib's eyewitness account of its unveiling; Tumanski's scholarly work; contemporary attestation of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's successorship by Tumanski and other Russian notables.
See also Posledneye Slovo Bekha-Ully [Bahá'u'lláh's Last Word]. Purchase online from the publisher, ingentaconnect.com. Also posted by author at academia.edu. While the date shown on the PDF is 2013, actual publication was 2017.
Keywords: 1893; Alexander Tumansky; Covenant; Eyewitness; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh; ‘Andalíb

The Abrahamic Covenant as the Pathway to the Glory of God: Exploring the Mysteries of Divine Unity - Estes,Ray; Lane,Miles (2006)
77 audio files of talks and interviews by a born-again Christian who became a Bahá'í, and related material, including presentations on spiritual truths and the rapture of "end times," and archive of the website innermeanings.com.
Files originally sent by Estes and Louis Jordan for posting in 2013.
Keywords: Adam and Eve; Bible; Chapel Hill, NC; Christianity; Covenant; Jesus Christ; Noah (Bible); Prophecies; Return

"The active force and that which is its recipient" - Conow,Betty Hoff (dialogue magazine, 1988)
Metaphysics of gender and the Lawh-i-Hikmat; universal spiritualism; social indoctrination of gender roles.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans. Please let us know if you know the source for the statement "God is usually referred to as “He,” following the Semitic religious tradition, although ‘Abdu'l-Bahá explains this usage as being just that, a tradition."
Keywords: Active force and its recipient; Buddhism; Christianity; Cosmology; Creation; Equality; Gender; God; God, Gender of; Gods and Goddesses; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Sufism; Taoism; Women; Zoroastrianism

The Active Force and That Which Is Its Recipient: A Bahá'í View of Creativity - Johnson,Rick (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2017)
On creativity and the pervasive nature of this concept in Bahá’í thought. The universe is coded to be creative; it exists in a perpetually generative, dynamic state and that creativity is the fundamental reality of the universe.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/224. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Creation; Creativity; Philosophy

The Afnán Family: Some Biographical Notes - Rabbani,Ahang (2007)
Genealogy of the Báb and biographies of his descendants; meaning of afnan.
See also Witnesses to Bábí and Bahá'í History and Genealogy of the Aghsan and the Afnán.
Keywords: 19th century; Afnan; Bahá'í history; Biography; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Báb, The; Bábí history; Genealogy; Tree (metaphor)

The Age Fifteen as the Age of Spiritual Maturity - Universal House of Justice (1998)
On the meaning of maturity and why 15 is considered the age that a believer can take control of his spiritual destiny.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats.
Keywords: Age of maturity (children); Children; Membership; Parents

The Age of Anxiety and the Century of Light: Twentieth-Century Literature, the Poet's Mission, and the Vision of World Unity - Bushrui,Suheil Badi (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2003)
W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Kahlil Gibran were writers who recognized and confronted the spiritual and intellectual crisis of their time. The mission of the poet is to bear witness, maintain the integrity of language, and express truths.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/103.
Keywords: 20th century; Arts and crafts; Literature; Literature, English; Poetry

The Aghsan - Gonzales,Grover (2021)
The article gives a new, different view of the development of the Bahai Covenant, the end of the Guardianship, overview of the meanings of aghsán ("branches"), the sons of Bahá'u'lláh, the expulsion of Abdu'l-Bahá's seven grandsons, and succession.
Also available in Word format.
Keywords: Aghsan; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Guardianship

The Ahmadiya Movement - Walter,H. A. (Oxford University Press, 1918)
Old commentary on similarities and difference between the Ahmadiya and Bábí-Bahá'í movements.
Author note: Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. This document is also online at scribd.com.
Keywords: Ahmadiyya; India; Islam

The Amazing Nashville Baha'i Community in the 1960s - Hatcher,John S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2019)
"From the Editor's Desk": Hatcher's personal memories of time in Nashville; overview of the lives of Robert Hayden and Magdalene Carney.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/260.
Keywords: 1960s; Bahá'í history by country; Biography; John Hatcher; Magdalene Carney; Nashville, TN; Robert Hayden; United States (documents)

The American Bahá'í Community in the Nineties - Stockman,Robert (America's Alternative Religions, 1995)
Overview of the American Bahá'í community in the 1990s: contemporary issues; priorities and concerns; the Bahá'í impact on American society; the future and social turmoil.
Keywords: 1990s; Bahá'í history by country; United States (documents)

The American Bahá'í Community, 1894-1917: A Preliminary Survey - Smith,Peter (Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í History, 1982)
A comprehensive and detailed survey of the American community from 1894 to 1917. Includes bibliography as appendix, "Some Studies of Bahá'í Communities" (2015).
First portion of article posted as a free preview at books.google.com. See also this article as a formatted Word document. Complete volume available upon request in Microsoft Word or PDF formats. See also the 2015 bibliography "Some Studies of Bahá'í Communities" in PDF or RTF.
Keywords: 1890s; 1894; 1910; 1910s; 1917; Stoyan Krstoff Vatralsky; United States (documents)

The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation - Rather,Dan (The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation, 2001)
Commentary on Bahá'í persecutions, by a famous TV news anchor.
On Dan Rather, see wikipedia/wiki/Dan_Rather. See also a newspaper article about Nosrat Scott.
Keywords: Human rights; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; United States (documents)

The Anatomy of Figuration: Maimonides' Exegesis of Natural Convulsions in Apocalyptic Texts (Guide II.29) - Buck,Christopher (Sephardic Heritage Update, 2020)
Insights of medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides on figurative language and symbolic exegesis in his book The Guide for the Perplexed. The Bahá'í Faith is mentioned in the Introduction; some interpretations are similar to concepts from the Iqan.
Keywords: Apocalypse; Bible; Christianity; Interpretation; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Maimonides; Messianism; Metaphors and allegories; Philosophy; Prophecies; Symbolism

The Anecdote of the Jar - Hatcher,John S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2017)
"From the Editor's Desk": Discussion of a piece of pottery by Bernard Leach; overview of the articles and poems in this issue of the Journal.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/232. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Bernard Leach; John Hatcher

The Angel in the Garrison - Holley,Horace (Star of the West, 1924)
An essay critiquing modern psychology's materialistic approach, advocating a shift in consciousness towards spiritual understanding, and referencing the story of Job as a metaphor for spiritual transformation.
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org. The original publication can be found at bahai.works.
Keywords: Job (Bible); Mahatma Gandhi; Psychology; Religion (general); `Abdu'l-Bahá

"The Angle of Ascent": Process and Achievement in the Work of Robert Hayden - Boyles,Ann (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1992)
Hayden's poetry explores the process of individual and collective social and spiritual transformation in the contexts of contemporary culture, the Bahá'í Faith, black history, art, literature, nature, disease, and suffering.
Keywords: Poetry; Robert Hayden

The Anti-Bahá'í Campaign - Akhavi,Shahrough (Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in the Pahlavi Period, 1980)
Detailed historical account of the 1955 persecutions in Iran.
Also available as a Microsoft Word document and as a PDF scan of the original pages. Footnotes are missing from the HTML below, but are in the PDF.
Keywords: 1955; Hojjatieh Society; Mohammad Taghi Falsafi; Persecution, Iran

The Anti-Bahá'í Society - Abedi,Mehdi; Fischer,Michael M. J. (Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition, 1990)
Autobiographical stories of Abedi and his involvement in opposition to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran with the "Anjoman-e Zedd-e Bahá'íyat."
This autobiography includes descriptions and language that some might find offensive. This excerpt of Debating Muslims presents Abedi's recollections of his involvement in organized opposition to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran. The other section of this book that deals with the Bahá'ís is Fischer's 30-page essay "Social Change and the Mirrors of Yazd: Bahá'ís of Yazd." That essay was later reprinted in the book The Bahá'í Faith and Islam, published by the Association for Bahá'í Studies (1990), and it is partially online at Google books, pp. 222-250. Also available as PDF.
Keywords: Hojjatieh Society; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

The Anti-Secular Regulation of Religious Difference in Egypt - Azmi,Meriam Wagdy (2021)
Religious minorities lack recognition by the government. Secularism could remedy this, but some argue that it actually leads to religious tension. Egypt's problem is the way it espouses Islam and Shari'a as its identity and the basis for public order.
Master's thesis for the Department of Law, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University in Cairo. Mirrored from fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1634.
Keywords: Egypt; Human rights; Persecution; Persecution, Egypt

The Apocalypse: An Exegesis - Riggs,Robert (1998)
Detailed study of astrology, numerology, and other esoterica, in an attempt to understand The Revelation of St. John the Divine through eyes of Bahá'í interpretation.
Updated version of the earlier book Apocalypse Unsealed. Also available in Open Office format and RTF. See also a critical review.
Keywords: Apocalypse; Bible; Book of Revelation (Bible); Christianity; Numerology; Prophecies; Quotations from the Bible

The Application of Bahá'í Principles in a Business Context - Daly,Kirsten (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org. Copy-edited by J.W., 2011.
Keywords: Business; Ethics; Work

The Approach of Abdu'l-Baha to the Problem of Tolerance - Sabeti,Erfan (2003)
Exploring the differences between forbearance, indifference, acceptance, turning away, freedom, and tolerance, to distinguish matters of opinion and belief from scientific and aesthetic ones.
Presented at Irfan Colloquium session #48, Acuto Italy, July 2003.
Keywords: Freedom and liberty; Philosophy; Politics; Science; Tolerance; Truth

The Arabic Bayan: From A.L.M. Nicolas' French translation - Báb, The (1980)
The version of this document posted at H-Bahai is incomplete; the version below is both complete and posted with the translator's permission. See also Nicolas' 4-volume French original of the Persian Bayan, a partial translation of the Persian Bayan from French by Velasco, and Peter Terry's Summary and Themes of the Persian Bayán.
Keywords: A. L. M. Nicolas; Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan); Báb, Writings of

The Arabic Grammar of the Báb - McCants,William F. (2002)
Muslim detractors of the Bab have often criticized his grammar. Did the Bab make grammatical errors due to a poor knowledge of the language, or did he intentionally coin a new grammar?
Keywords: Arabic language; Báb, Grammar of; Báb, Writings of; Criticism and apologetics; Grammar; Language

The Arc Project: A Poetic Experience: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2006)
In the late 1980s I began to write more and more poetry as the construction projects on Mt. Carmel proceeded and the unfolding magnificence of the Terraces came more and more into view at the Bahá'í World Centre
Just ten days after the Arc Project and the Terraces on Mt. Carmel were officially completed on May 23rd, 2001 and the "awe-inspiring, worldwide effects" began to be reflected in messages being received from the Bahá'í world centre--NASA launched the Wilkenson Microwave Anistrophy Probe(WMAP). This satellite orbited about one million miles above earth and measured microwave radiation that had travelled 13 billion light years and was generated 380,000 years after the Big Bang, so scientists theorized. This poetry, my poetry, orbited around the Bahá'í World Centre, measured a spiritual radiation generated in the womb of a travailing age, and was inspired by the construction of these Terraces and the Arc Project at the Bahá'í World Centre in the years 1987 to 2001.
Keywords: Arc project; Ron Price

The Archeology of the Kingdom of God - Lepain,Jean-Marc (2015)
Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the Greek to Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought, contrasted with the theosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, and hermeneutics of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
This electronic publication is with the permission of the author, the translator, and the publisher Kalimat Press. See original publication, in French, at bahai-biblio.org.
Keywords: Abhá Kingdom; Alam-i-Mithal (World of images); Alchemy; Arabic language; Aramaic language; Archetypes; Avicenna (Ibn Sina); Certitude; Cosmology; Cosmology; God; God, Worlds of; Hermeneutics; Interpretation; Islam; Judaism; Kabbalah; Language; Lawh-i Haqqun-Nas (Tablet of the Right of the People); Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food); Life after death (afterlife); Life after death (afterlife); Manifestations of God; Metaphysics; Mysticism; Neoplatonism; Ontology; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Islamic; Psychology; Quran; Search; Sharh-i Kuntu Kanzan Makhfiyan (Commentary on the tradition of the Hidden Treasure); Shaykhism; Spiritualization; Sufism; Theosophy; Translation

The Architectures of Thinking - Segura,Jordi Vallverdu; Nakano,Josuke (Journal of the Sociology and Theory of Religion, 2022)
Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships between the subject and their surroundings. By sharing an environment and its relationships, members of a community define their values, attitudes, and "reality."
This article is online under CC license at revistas.uva.es. See full journal Los problemas sociales, económicos y religiosos desde la perspectiva bahá’í.
Keywords: Architecture; Arts and crafts; Buddhism; Built environment and urban planning; Calamities and catastrophes; Change; Christianity; Climate change; Community (general); Cultural diversity; Dualism; Emptiness; Environment; Ethics; Europe; God; Japan; Light; Monism; Nature; Nothingness; Ontology; Philosophy; Politics; Psychology; Religion (general); Shintoism; Sociology; Temples; Unity

The Aristotelian Substratum of the Bahá'í Writings - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2003)
There is a pervasive and far-reaching congruence of Aristotle and the Bahá’í Writings. This Aristotelian substratum makes it is possible to resolve many apparent paradoxes in the Writings.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #42, London (July 19-21, 2002). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/42/kluge_aristotelian.
Keywords: Aristotle; Contradictions; Criticism and apologetics; God; Irfán Colloquia; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy, Greek; Proofs; Science; Soul

The Art of Rhetoric in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi - McLean,Jack (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Outline and illustration of six defining elements of Shoghi Effendi's rhetorical art, which show both classical and particular or atypical uses.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #60, Bosch Bahá'í School, California (May 26-29, 2005). This is an updated version of the Lights of Irfan paper, published as chapter eight, “Rhetoric: The Language of Persuasion,” in A Celestial Burning: The Writings of Shoghi Effendi. See earlier version at irfancolloquia.org/60/mclean_rhetoric.
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia; Rhetoric; Shoghi Effendi; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Style (Writings)

The Art of Sacred Reading: In Search of a Bahá'í Approach - Velasco,Ismael (2006)
Embracing paradox: the experience of contradiction and the logic of reconciliation; "Loving sympathy": the example of Montaigne; sacred text and sacred reading: a journey into the Book of Certitude.
Keywords: Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Michel de Montaigne; Philosophy; Reading

The Art of Translation - Miller,Brian A. (elixir-journal.org, 2017)
Translation is a form of art — an act of transposition, transformation, and interpretation. Illustrated with translation examples from the Qu'ran and Bahá'u'lláh's "Ode of the Dove."
Mirrored with permission from www.elixir-journal.org.
Keywords: Islam; Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove); Quran; Quran translations; Ted Cardell; Translation

The Artist and the Grammarian - Rogers,Otto Donald (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2009)
On the process and meaning of creating art; its effect on the mind and the brain, the nature of painting; spiritual foundations of the natural world.
27th Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lecture. Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/147.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Creation; Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lectures; Internet

The Ascent of Mount Carmel: Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Báb - Hatcher,John S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2019)
"From the Editor's Desk": Symbolism of the terraces on the shrine of the Bab; St. John's poem "Ascent of Mount Carmel"; overview of the articles in this issue of the Journal.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Báb, Birth of; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Centenaries; Christianity; Haifa, Israel; John Hatcher; Letters of the Living; Mount Carmel; Mysticism; Pilgrimage; Poetry; Purity; St. John of the Cross; Symbolism; Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb (Haifa); Water (metaphor)

The Atlanta Bahá'í Community and Race Unity: 1909-1950 - McMullen,Michael (World Order, 1995)
History of the Bahá'í faith in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, a city whose Bahá'í community dates back almost to the earliest beginnings of the Bahá'ís in the United States.
Article corrected, formatted, and mirrored with permission from a rough version posted at bahaindex.com, with later additions by Don Calkins.
Keywords: 1909; 1950; Atlanta, GA; Bahá'í history by country; Georgia, USA; Race; United States (documents); Unity

The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al Din Shah in 1852: Millennialism and Violence - Momen,Moojan (2004)
A new account of the events of 1852, referencing a document that has not been previously used which sheds a different light on the events; also broader context of the study of violent millennialists and contemporary incidents like Waco and Aum Shinrikyo.
Lecture in the University of Haifa "Lectures in Bahá'í Studies" series, March 23 2004. Mirrored from bahai.haifa.ac.il. Later updated as a published article, 2008.
Keywords: 1850s; 1852; Millennialism; Nasirid-Din Shah, Attempt on; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Violence

The Atypical international status of the Holy See - Bathon,Matthew N. (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2001)
Political nature of the Vatican; includes discussion of the Bahá'ís and Bahá'í international organization
Author note: Matthew N. Bathon, J.D. Candidate 2001, Vanderbilt University Law School; B.S., University of Evansville. Mirrored from highbeam.com (formerly elibrary.com).
Keywords: Papacy; Popes; Vatican City

The Australian-New Zealand Bahá'í Connections - Carr,David Brown (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
History and relationship of the early Australian and New Zealand Bahá'í communities, the magazine Herald of the South, and some brief biographies.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: 20th century; Australia; Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Herald of the South (magazine); New Zealand

The Authenticity Project - Radpour,Mary K. (2001)
An effort to integrate Bahá’í ethical principles and the psychological dynamics of growth. In both presentation and long-form notes formats.
A presentation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 28-July 1, 2001. Mirrored with permission from bahaistudies.net/otherworks/.
Keywords: Authenticity; Ethics; Growth; Psychology

The Authority of the Feminine and Fatima's Place in an Early Work by the Bab - Lawson,Todd (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
While Tahirih inspired many in Europe and eventually America, she is very much a daughter of her own culture, history, mythology, and religion. She was a religious mystic who felt a new day arising in the world, and seen by some as the "return" of Fatima.
First published in The Most Learned of the Shi‘a: The Institution of the Marja‘ Taqlid, ed. Linda Walbridge (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 94-127; see lawson_authority_feminine_2001.pdf.
Keywords: Alast (Primordial Covenant); Báb, Writings of; Fatimah (daughter of Muhammad); Gender; God, Worlds of; Henry Corbin; Hurqalya (imaginal realm); Imams; Iran (documents); Islam; Return; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism); Typology; Women; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

The Authority of the Institutions According to the Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Bahá: A Text Analysis - Keil,Gerald C. (2017)
Abdu'l-Bahá's Will and Testament is the indispensable starting point for understanding the Bahá'í Administrative Order, and the competencies and areas of responsibility of the various institutions. The text must be examined as a cohesive whole.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Authority; Covenant; Exegesis; Infallibility; Institutions; Interpretation; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Science; Technology; Universal House of Justice; Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá

The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Iraq - Cole,Juan (ISIM Paper #7, 2006)
Clerical participation within Iraq's emerging democracy. Does not mention the Bahá'í Faith.

The Azálí-Bahá'í Crisis of September, 1867 - Cole,Juan (Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements, and the Babi-Baha'i Faiths, 2004)
On the history of a fateful weekend during which the Bábí movement in the nineteenth-century Middle East was definitively split into the Bahá'í and Azalí religions.
Online at scribd.com.
Keywords: 1867; Azali Bábís; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Challenges (confrontations); Bahá'í history; Bábí history; Covenant; Edirne, Turkey; Most Great Separation; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Turkey

The Bab - Momen,Moojan; Lawson,Todd (World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, 2011)
Keywords: 1850; Biography; Báb, The

The Bāb - Encyclopædia Britannica (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2024)
Online at britannica.com/biography/the-Bab and britannica.com/summary/Babism.
Keywords: 1850; Biography; Báb, The

The Báb and 'Alí Muhammad, Islamic and Post-Islamic: Multiple Meanings in the Writings of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad Shírází (1819-1850) - Heern,Zackery Mirza (Religions, 2023)
Writings of the Báb can be understood as a commentary on the Qur'án, the original Qur'án, and divine revelation; the metaphors and symbolism of Gate (Báb), Remembrance (Dhikr), and Point (Nuqtah). Link to article (offsite).
Published in the Religions special issue "The Bahá'í Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations," online at mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/3/334, where it is also available in HTML, XML, and epub formats.
Keywords: Báb (Gate); Báb (Gate); Báb, The; Báb, Writings of; Dhikr (Remembrance); Hidden Imam; Iran (documents); Islam; Metaphors and allegories; Point; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Shia Islam (Shiism)

The Bab and Babeeism: Part 1 - Arbuthnot,Robert K. (Contemporary Review, 1869)
Part one of an early, relatively lengthy overview of Bábí theology and history.
See also Part Two.
Keywords: Bábísm; Comte Arthur de Gobineau; Mírzá Kazem-Beg

The Bab and Babeeism: Part 2 - Arbuthnot,Robert K. (Contemporary Review, 1969)
Part two of an early, relatively lengthy overview of Bábí history and theology.
See also Part One.
Keywords: Bábísm; Comte Arthur de Gobineau; Mírzá Kazem-Beg

The Bab and Babism - Rees,John David (Littell's Living Age, 1896)
An early, brief account of Bábí history and speculation about the presence of the Bábís (i.e. Bahá'ís) in contemporary Iran by a British colonial official and traveller.
Mirrored from digital.library.cornell.edu/l/livn/. See also Norwegian translation, also published 1896.
Keywords: Bábí history

The Báb and the Bábí Community of Iran - Vahman,Fereydun, editor (Oneworld Academic, London, 2020)
On the Báb's life, teachings, and writings; the Bábí community's formation, conflicts, and transition to the Bahá'í Faith; social, theological, and historical perspectives. Includes table-of-contents, select articles, and link to book preview.
The three articles already online (Lawson, Momen, Zabihi-Moghaddam) have been linked below. Contents mirrored from bahai.works. A large section of the book is shown as a free preview at at books.google.com. Also for sale in Persian translation (Báb va Jámiʻiy-i-Bábíy-i-Írán: Yádnámiy-i-Divístumín Sálgard-i-Mílád-i-Báb, 1819–2019).
Keywords: 19th century; Abjad system; Atabat (Holy cities); Bushihr, Iran; Báb, Childhood of; Báb, Declaration of; Báb, The; Báb, Trade of; Báb, Writings of; Bábísm; Colonialism and imperialism; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Grammar; Iran (documents); Iran, General history; Islam; Karbala, Iraq; Mullá Ḥusayn Bushrú'í; Najaf, Iraq; Prophecies; Qá'im; Return; Science; Shaykhism; Shíráz, Iran; Worldview; Zoroastrianism

The Báb and the Bábí Religion - Gulpáygání,Mirza Abu'l-Faḍl (Letters & Essays 1886-1913, 1985)
A general overview of Bábí history and thought, written in Arabic in 1896.
Keywords: Bábísm; Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl Gulpáygání

The Bab and the Babis - Sell,Edward (Essays on Islam, 1901)
An early account of the Babis and Bahá'ís.
This entire book is available online in a variety of formats at archive.org. See also Word document.
Keywords: Bábísm

The Báb in Shiraz: An Account by Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán - Rabbani,Ahang, editor and translator (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2008)
Recollections of the early years of the Bab and his family, and the times following his declaration; written by a relative.
See also the full treatment of this time period in Habibullah Afnan's The Genesis of the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths in Shíráz and Fárs.
Keywords: 19th century; Afnan; Biography; Báb, Family of; Báb, The; Bábí history; Eyewitness; Iran (documents); Manuscripts; Persecution; Persecution, Destruction; Persecution, Iran; Pilgrims notes; Shíráz, Iran

The Bab in the World of Images - Ma'sumian,Bijan; Masumian,Adib (Baha'i Studies Review, 2013)
History of the portraits drawn of the Bab, especially that of Aqa Bala Bayg of Shishvan, the only artist who actually met the Bab.
Keywords: Aqa Bala-Big Naqqash-bashi; Báb, Portrait of; Báb, The; Portraits

The Báb on the Rights of Women - Zabihi-Moghaddam,Siyamak (Religions, 2023)
Statements of the Báb on issues such as mutʿah and tahlíl marriages, polygyny, bridal consent, divorce and spousal relations, and their significance for the rights of women in Muslim juridical opinions and social customs. Link to article (offsite).
Published in the Religions special issue "The Bahá'í Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations," online at mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/6/705, where it is also available in HTML, XML, and epub formats.
Keywords: Abortion; Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Abuse; Africa; Báb, Family of; Báb, Laws of; Consent (marriage); Divorce; Equality; Gender; He Whom God shall make manifest; Human rights; Inheritance; Iran (documents); Islam; Laws; Love; Marriage; Middle East; Polygamy; Women; Year of patience (year of waiting)

The Báb's Bayan: An Analytical Survey - Afnan,Muhammad (World Order, 2000)
Analysis of the Bayan and its contents: fundamental beliefs and worldview, moral principles, laws, administration of society, and future expectations.
Translation and update of essay originally published in French in Encyclopedie philosophique universelle (1992).
Keywords: Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan); Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Báb, Writings of; Bábísm; Outlines and summaries

The Báb's Business Etiquette - Bahá'í Inspiration (2020)
Anecdote about how the Bab changed unseemly business practices while he was a merchant in Bushihr, as quoted by Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan.
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=E6hnJ6Uazc4.
Keywords: 1840s; Bushihr, Iran; Business; Báb, The; Economics; Ethics; Iran (documents)

The Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God - Lawson,Todd (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
A preliminary translation and discussion of the Bab's Risála fi's-Sulúk, one of his earliest extant compositions. It provides a brief discussion of the mystic quest, and sheds light on the Báb's relationship to the Shaykhi movement and to Sayyid Kázim.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #30, Louhelen Bahá'í School (October 6-8, 2000). Republished in The Bahá'í Faith and the World's Religions, ed. Moojan Momen (George Ronald, 2005); see lawson_babs_epistle_2005.pdf. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/30/lawson_epistle. See also the Arabic text, at h-net.org.
Keywords: Báb, Writings of; God; Hadith; Hadith of Kumayl; Imam Ali; Imams; Irfán Colloquia; Islam; Journey (spiritual); Mysticism; Quran; Risala fis-Suluk I and II (Journey towards God); Spirituality

The Báb's Farewell Address to the Letters of the Living - Báb, The; Nabil-i-Azam (1844)
The Báb's farewell speech to the Letters of the Living, extracted from Nabil-i-A'zam's
For the authenticity of this text, see this memorandum (2020) of the Research Department of the Bahá'í World Center, which includes a quotation from a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi where he clarified that words attributed to the Báb or any of His disciples "are by no means their exact words. They constitute the substance of their message, and thus are not as definite as the quoted words of Bahá'u'lláh or the Master."
Keywords: 1844; Báb, Speech to the Letters of the Living; Báb, The; Báb, Writings of; Christianity; Dawn-Breakers (book); Deeds; Detachment; Divine Assistance; God, Day of; Jesus Christ; Pilgrims notes; Purity; Teaching

The Báb: Newspaper Articles and Other Publications 1845-1859 - Jasion,Jan T., compiler (2019)
List of 1490 articles from newspapers, books, and journals referencing The Báb and the Bábís, from Europe, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand.
Also available in OpenOffice format.
Keywords: 1840s; 1845; 1850s; Bábísm, Early Western Accounts of; Indexes and catalogues; Mentions; Newspaper articles; Newspapers

The Báb: The Herald of the Day of Days - Balyuzi,Hasan M. (George Ronald, 1973)
The classic biography of The Báb, by the eminent historian who also wrote the major biographies of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
This book is now online for public use at Project Gutenberg.
Keywords: 1850; 1940s; Biography; Báb, The; E-books; Hasan Balyuzi

The Báb: The King of Messengers - Ghadimi,Riaz (Juxta Publishing Co., 2009)
A talk by Dr. Riaz Ghadimi, published posthumously in English.
Book based on a lecture in Persian, "The Báb, the King of the Messengers," delivered 8 July 1984 in Toronto. Mirrored with permission from juxta.com/books/the-bab-the-king-of-messengers. See publisher's Books for the World license.
Keywords: 19th century; Biography; Báb, The

The Báb; Husayn Bushru'i; Ruh al-Quddus; Tahirih - Momen,Moojan; Lawson,Todd (Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, 2004)
Entry "The Bab" from vol. I pp. 92-93; "Husayn Bushru’i" from vol. II p. 383; "Ruh al-Quddus" from vol. III pp. 709-710; "Tahirih" from vol. III. p. 835.
Keywords: Biography; Báb, The; Letters of the Living; Mullá Ḥusayn Bushrú'í; Quddús; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

The Babi and Bahá'í community of Iran: A case of 'suspended genocide'? - Momen,Moojan (Journal of Genocide Research, 2005)
A description of the four phases of the persecutions that the Babis and Baha’is in Iran have suffered (the Babis, the early Bahá'ís, during the Pahlavi dynasty, and following the 1979 Islamic revolution) and how they fit in with categories of genocide.
Keywords: 1840s; 1903; 1930s; 1955; 1979; Genocide; Iran (documents); Iran, Bahá'í history; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

The Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to World Religion, by Peter Smith: Review - McLean,Jack (1988)
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.

The Babi and Bahá'í Religions: An Annotated Bibliography - MacEoin,Denis (1997)
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Bibliography; Bábísm

The Babi Concept of Holy War - MacEoin,Denis (Religion, 1982)
An influential and controversial article, one of the first modern academic examinations of Bábí history. Discusses Islamic jihad, Bábí jihad, martyrdom, and political struggles.
See follow-up discussions of this article listed at Debates between MacEoin et al., specifically a critique of this article. See also Dying for God: Martyrdom in the Shii and Babi Religions (J. Winters, 1996).
Keywords: Bábísm; Criticism and apologetics; Islam; Jihad (Holy war); Martyrdom

The Babi Movement in Iran: From Religious Dissent to Political Revolt, 1844 - Fuad,Ahmad Nur (1998)
Development of the Bábí movement and the political implications of its religious teachings, as seen in its shift from purely religious dissent to political dissent.
Thesis for Master of Arts degree in the department Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University under the supervision of Todd Lawson. Document online with permission at collectionscanada.gc.ca.
Keywords: 1844; Bábí history; Bábísm; Iran (documents); Shia Islam (Shiism)

The Babi Movement: A Resource Mobilization Perspective - Smith,Peter; Momen,Moojan (In Iran: Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, 1986)
Babism from a sociological standpoint, esp. the place of the Babis in their contemporary cultural and economic classes.
See also image scan of complete book.
Keywords: Báb, The; Bábísm; Iran (documents); Letters of the Living; Mírzá Asadullah Fadil-i-Mazandarani; Shaykhism; Sociology; Zuhur al-Haqq (Zuhurul-Haqq)

The Bábí Uprising in Zanjan - Walbridge,John (Iranian Studies, 1996)
A study of the Bábí uprising in Zanjan in 1850, examining the social, economic, and political background as well as the motivations of both the Bábís and their opponents.
See also the author's Document and Narrative Sources for the History of the Battle of Zanjan. Included in author's compilation Essays and Notes on Bábí and Bahá'í History. Mirrored with permission from www.h-net.org.
Keywords: 1850; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Upheavals; Zanjan upheaval; Zanjan, Iran

The Bábí-Bahá'í Community in Khorasan - Foadi,Minou (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2022)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at referenceworks.brillonline.com. (As of Oct 2022, it is not yet at iranicaonline.org.)
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Iran (documents); Khurásán, Iran

The Bábí-State Conflict at Shaykh Tabarsi - Zabihi-Moghaddam,Siyamak (Iranian Studies, 2002)
On the background and events of the Shaykh Tabarsi conflict; developments, both in the political sphere and within the Bábí community, that led to the outbreak of open warfare in 1848; and objectives of the Bábí participants in the conflict.
See also the lecture The Babi-State Conflicts of 1848-1853 (audio). See also a version of this article published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies (2004). PDF below created from Microsoft Word version by Mike Thomas (2022); see also original scan.
Keywords: 1840s; 1848; Bábí history; Dawn-Breakers (book); Iran (documents); Shaykh Tabarsí siege

The Babi-State Conflicts of 1848-1853 - Zabihi-Moghaddam,Siyamak (2003)
Overview of four conflicts between the Babis and the Qajar state: one at Shaykh Tabarsi in Mazandaran (1848), one in Zanjan (1850), and two in Nayriz (1850, 1853).
Lecture in the University of Haifa "Lectures in Bahá'í Studies" series, December 23 2003. Mirrored from bahai.haifa.ac.il/past_lectures.htm. See also two versions of this article, one published in Iranian Studies (2002) and one in Journal of Bahá'í Studies (2004). Later published in The Báb and the Bábí Community of Iran, ed. Fereydun Vahman (2020).
Keywords: 1840s; 1848; 1850s; 1853; Dawn-Breakers (book); Iran (documents); Nayriz upheaval; Nayriz, Iran; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Qajar dynasty; Shaykh Tabarsí siege; Upheavals; Zanjan upheaval; Zanjan, Iran

The Babis - Lorey,Eustache de (Queer Things about Persia, 1907)
Translation of an article which appeared in the official gazette of the Persian government, followed by a letter from de Gobineau, on the torture of Babis after the assassination attempt on the Shah, 1852.
Preface and table of contents included for context. This complete book is available in many file formats at archive.org. It is also referenced in Peggy Caton's book A Persian Ode: Musical Life in Safavid and Qajar Iran [amazon.com]. See also Bábí Attempt on the Life of the Shah, 1852: Coverage in the New York Times.
Keywords: 1852; Bábísm; Comte Arthur de Gobineau

The Babis - Sell,Edward (The Church Missionary Intelligencer, 1896)
An early 10-page overview of Bábí history and beliefs, published in a monthly journal of missionary information.
Keywords: Bábí history

The Babis - Heckethorn,Charles William (The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries, 1897)
Neutral-to-sympathetic overview of: The Bab, the founder; progress of Babism; Bábí doctrine; recent history of Babism.
Online at books.google.com.
Keywords: Bábísm

The Bábís of Nayriz: History and Documents - Rabbani,Ahang, editor and translator (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2006)
Extensive collection of historical documents: autobiographies, narratives, genealogies and chronologies, the transition from the Bábí to the Bahá'í community, provisional translations, and a list of Bábí martyrs.
See also Narrative of Mulla Muhammad Shafi` Nayrizi.
Keywords: 19th century; Bábí history; Iran (documents); Martyrdom; Martyrs; Nayriz, Iran; Pilgrims notes

The Bábís of Persia: I. Sketch of Their History, and Personal Experiences amongst Them - Browne,E. G. (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1889)
Results of Browne's investigations into the doctrines, history, and circumstances of this "most remarkable" religious phenomenon, and outline of things yet to be studied.
See also The Babis of Persia II: Their Literature and Doctrines.
Keywords: Báb, The; Bábí history; E. G. Browne

The Bábís of Persia: II. Their Literature and Doctrines - Browne,E. G. (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1889)
Overview of Bábí literature and doctrine.
See also The Babis of Persia I: Sketch of Their History, and Personal Experiences amongst Them.
Keywords: Báb, The; Báb, Writings of; Bábí history; E. G. Browne

The Babites - Jessup,Henry H. (The Outlook, 1901)
Sympathetic overview of Bábí and Bahá'í history, including a meeting and a detailed conversation with Abdu'l-Bahá.
Also available as a Microsoft Word document. See also a slightly shorter version of this article, Babism and the Babites.
Keywords: 19th century; Bábísm; Christian missionaries; Henry Jessup

The Babs and Their Prophet - Oliphant,Laurence (Haifa, or Life in Modern Palestine, 1887)
Excerpt from a book described by E.G. Browne as "the first published notice of Behá and the Bábí colony at Acre"; includes PDF of complete book.
This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org, and a complete PDF is below.
Keywords: 19th century; Akka, Israel; Bábísm; Haifa, Israel; History (general); Laurence Oliphant; Palestine

The Babs of Persia - Chaplin,Thomas (The Times of London, 1871)
Eight versions/excerpts of an article originally published in The Times of London Oct. 5, 1871, and then reprinted elsewhere.
Sources below compiled by Kurt Asplund (2022). See further information and citations/links at bahaipedia.org.
Keywords: Mentions; Newspaper articles; Thomas Chaplin; Times (newspaper); United Kingdom

The Background and Centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture - Lambden,Stephen (Revisioning the Sacred: New Perspectives on a Bahá'í Theology: Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 1997)
History of the theological position of the incomprehensibility-unknowability of God in past major Abrahamic religions and its importance and significance for contemporary Bahá'ís.
This is an updated version (2011) of the paper that appeared in Reason and Revelation. If any fonts or symbols do not display properly, see Lambden's latest version at the below link (latest update when checked in March 2023). Mirrored with permission from hurqalya.ucmerced.edu, and with permission of publisher.
Keywords: Apophatic theology; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Báb, Writings of; Christianity; Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh (letter); God; God, Knowledge of; God, Names of; God, Worlds of; Greatest Name; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); He is God (Invocation); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Judaism; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food); Lawh-i-Kímíya II or Lawh-i-Máríyyih (Tablet on Alchemy II or Tablet of Mary); Madínatu't-Tawhíd (City of Unity); Manifestations of God; Neoplatonism; Philosophy, Christian; Philosophy, Islamic; Philosophy, Jewish; Prayer; Revisioning the Sacred (book); Some Answered Questions (book); Tablet to Auguste Forel; Tafsir-i Bayti az Sadi (Commentary on a Verse of Sadi); Tafsir-i-Hú (Commentary on the phrase He Is (God)); Theology; Veils

The Badí' (Bahá'í) Calendar: An Introduction - Momen,Moojan (2014)
Summary of the nature of Bahá'í calendar, the way the Badí' calendar works, and the reason for the 2014 revisions inaugurated by the Universal House of Justice.
Mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Badi calendar; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of; Báb, Birth of; Calendars (general); Gradual implementation of laws; Holy days; Iran (documents); Laws; Naw-Rúz; Tehran, Iran; Twin Holy days

The Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America: Alain Locke and Robert Abbott - Buck,Christopher (Baha'i Studies Review, 2011)
W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain L. Locke and Robert S. Abbott, ranked as the 4th, 36th and 41st most influential in African American history, all expressed interest in the Baha’i ethic of world unity, from family to international relations, and social crisis.
See also a presentation on this same topic. Mirrored with permission from christopherbuck.com.
Keywords: African Americans; Alain Locke; Chicago Defender (newspaper); Race; Race amity; Race unity; Robert S. Abbott; United States (documents); W. E. B. Du Bois; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

The Bahá'í Approach to Cosmopolitan Ideas in International Relations - Mooten,Nalinie N. (2005)
On Western cosmopolitan thought from its infancy to the present day and on a Bahá’í cosmopolitan model to International Relations (IR), which reinforces ideas based on essential oneness.
PhD thesis in Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. See also the author's "The Bahá'í Contribution to Cosmopolitan International Relations Theory" in lecture and article formats. This thesis is online at afnanlibrary.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í International Community; Cosmopolitanism; Ethics; Globalization; International relations; Lesser Peace; Peace; United Nations; Unity; World citizenship; World order

The Bahá'í Approach to Cosmopolitan Ideas in International Relations - Mooten,Nalinie N. (2006)
A Bahá’í approach to the cosmopolitan tradition in International Relations theory; contributions the Bahá’í model can offer to this growing tradition; cosmopolitanism as articulated by the Cynics in ancient Greece and by Enlightenment philosophies.
See another version of this paper, as published in Online Journal of Bahá'í Studies, and see the author's thesis on this topic. Presented as a lecture in the University of Haifa "Lectures in Bahá'í Studies" series, November 14 2006. Mirrored from bahai.haifa.ac.il.
Keywords: Bahá'í International Community; Cosmopolitanism; Ethics; Globalization; International relations; Lesser Peace; Peace; United Nations; Unity; World citizenship; World order

The Baha'i Approach: Moderation in Civilization - Dahl,Arthur Lyon (1995)
Bahá'í approach to nature and ecology.
Originally posted at www.bcca.org/ief/ddahl95a.htm. Delivered to the "Colloquium on Ecology, Ethics, Spirtualities," Klingenthal, France, 27-29 October 1995.
Keywords: Civilization; Environment; Moderation; Nature

The Bahá'í Cause - Sohrab,Ahmad (Living Schools of Religion, 1956)
Brief overview of the Bahá'í Faith, with passing references to Sohrab's "New History Society."
Keywords: Introductory; Mirza Ahmad Sohrab; New History Society; United States (documents)

The Bahá'í Cause - Hare,William Loftus (The Open Court, 1924)
An account of the "Parliament of Living Religions," in London, 1924. Includes 2-page summary of presentations by Mountfort Mills and Ruhi Afnan.
The correct spelling is "Mountfort," but in this article it is noted as "Mountford," and sometimes is written as "Montfort". This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.
Keywords: 1924; Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; London, England; Montfort Mills

The Bahá'í Cause - Holley,Horace (Hartmann's Who's Who in Occult, Psychic and Spiritual Realms, 1925)
Two-page overview of Bahá'í history and teachings. (See also complete book for another dozen mentions.)
See also complete book [PDF, 34MB], which has references on pages 11, 15, 48, 49, 52-54, 85-87, 109, 165, 168, 171, 180, and 187.

The Bahá'í Cause Today - Miller,William McElwee Miller (The Moslem World, 1940)
A Christian missionary's outsider perspective on the history of the Bábí and Bahá'í faiths, teachings, literature, teachings, and prophecies.
Also available in Microsoft Word format (prepared by M. Thomas, 2024).
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics

The Bahá'í Cause Today: Review - Gail,Marzieh (World Order, 1941)
Critiques William McElwee Miller’s 1940 article on the Bahá’í Faith, highlighting inaccuracies, biases, and misinterpretations while defending Bahá’í teachings, leadership, and global unity principles.
Also online at bahai.works. Also available in Microsoft Word format (prepared by M. Thomas, 2024).
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; William McElwee Miller

The Bahá'í Church of Calabar, West Africa: The Problem of Levels in Religious History - Lee,Anthony (Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, 1997)
The growth of a 'Bahá'í Church' in Calabar indicates the enormous role played by the initiative of the African converts themselves, and that the points of attraction to the Bahá'í message were different from those expected by the pioneers.
Mirrored with permission from www.h-net.org/~bahai/bhpapers/vol1/africa1.htm.

The Bahá'í Community and Health Promotion: The Message and the Metaphor - Phillips,Robert (dialogue magazine, 1986)
There may be a connection between spiritual development and physical health, which is not often recognized in contemporary medicine. Lifestyle changes which improve health can be promoted by religious principles.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Health and healing; Lifestyle; Science; Social and economic development

The Bahá'í Community and the Life of the Mind - Martin,Douglas (2005)
Delivered at the 29th ABS Annual Conference "Science, Religion and Social Transformation," Cambridge MA, August 11-14 2005. Mirrored with permission from www.bahai-studies.ca/proceedings. Author affiliation: Member of the Universal House of Justice
Keywords: Douglas Martin; Mind

The Bahá'í Community as a Learning Organisation - Steiner,Roy (Baha'i Studies Review, 1996)
How a knowledge management system focussed on assisting individuals, communities and institutions could improve their success. Followed by commentaries by Kambiz Maani and Svenja Tams.
Commentaries by Kambiz Maani and Svenja Tams published in Bahá'í Studies Review, vol. 7 (1997)
Keywords: Growth; Knowledge; Learning

The Bahá'í Community in Edinburgh, 1946-1950 - Velasco,Ismael (Baha'is in the West: Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 2004)
Historical context of the rise of the Bahá'í community in Scotland, community development, diffusion of Bahá'í literature, and statistics of Bahá'í membership in Scotland as of 1997.
Keywords: 1940s; 1946; 1950; Bahá'í history by country; Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland

The Bahá'í Community of Ashkhabad: Its Social Basis and Importance in Bahá'í History - Momen,Moojan (Cultural Change and Continuity in Central Asia, 1991)
Origin and history of the Bahá'ís in Ishqabad (Ashgabat) in Turkistan, analysis of the social composition of this community, and its importance of in terms of the rest of the Bahá'í world.
This article was presented at a conference "Cultural Change and Continuity in Central Asia" and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in April 1987. The layout is exactly as in the book. This article has been scanned and may contained errors due to the process of scanning and optical character recognition. Mirrored with permission from www.momen.org/contents.htm.
Keywords: Ashgabat; Bahá'í history by country; Turkmenistan

The Bahá'í Community of Canada - Hoonaard, van den,Will C. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1997)

The Bahá'í Community of Canada: A Case Study in the Transplantation of Non-Western Religious Movements to Western Societies - Hoonaard, van den,Will C. (Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948, 1996)
The origins and early life of the Bahá'í community in Canada as a sociological case study in the transplantation of non-Western faiths into Western settings.
This article is extracted from the author's The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948. It is also an early draft of an article which later appeared in two different edited forms, one in the Journal of Bahá'í Studies 7:3 (1997), online as hoonaard_bahai_community_canada_jbs.pdf (see also bahaistudies.ca), and one in ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies (McGill University, issue 24: 97-118). See also author's account of his experience researching and writing a study of this magnitude in Inside The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada: A Personal Narrative.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Canada; Canada; Cultural diversity; Culture, Western; Growth; Sociology

The Bahá'í Community of Iran: Patterns of Exile and Problems of Communication - Momen,Moojan (Iranian Refugees and Exiles Since Khomeini, 1991)
An examination of the causes and patterns of migrations of Iranian Bahá'ís.
This article was published in Iranian Refugees and Exiles Since Khomeini (edited by Asghar Fathi, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary), Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, 1991, pp. 21-36. The layout is as in the book. This article has been scanned and may contained errors due to the process of scanning and optical character recognition. Mirrored with permission from www.momen.org/contents.htm.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Communication; Exile (banishment); Iran (documents); Iran, Bahá'í history; Migration; Persecution; Pilgrimage

The Bahá'í Community: A Summary of Its Organization and Laws - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1947)
An early manual and compilation on Bahá'í administration, community, and laws.
Also available in Word format (prepared by M. Thomas, 2021).
Keywords: Administration; Laws; Spiritual Assemblies

The Bahá'í Contribution to Cosmopolitan International Relations Theory - Mooten,Nalinie N. (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
Bahá’í concepts of global governance, unity in diversity, and ethical reform as contributions to a cosmopolitan International Relations theory.
See another version of this paper, delivered as a lecture, and see the author's thesis on this topic. Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í International Community; Cosmopolitanism; Ethics; Globalization; International relations; Lesser Peace; Peace; United Nations; Unity; World citizenship; World order

The Bahá'í Covenant - Nakhjavani,Ali (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
The continuing importance of the Bahá'í concept of the Covenant and its implications to an understanding of Bahá'í history; misconceptions about the covenant; covenant-breakers; the passing of Shoghi Effendi without writing a will or testament.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/nakhjavani_covenant
Keywords: Alí Nakhjavání; Covenant; Irfán Colloquia

The Bahá'í Educational Project: Towards a Universal System of Education - Bookwalter,Wm. Keith (2000)
Interpretation of guidance in the Baha' writings to formulate a method of using Bahá'í deepening and training materials that utilize research-based learning, teaching, and curriculum theory, both deductive and inductive, beyond institute-style courses.
See also the Spanish translation El proyecto educacional Bahá'í, and see Social Responsibility and Community Development: Lessons from the Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial in Honduras (Honeyman, 2010).
Keywords: Curriculum; Education

The Bahá'í Electoral Process: Servant Leadership or New Paradigm? - Poirier,Vickie Hu (2006)
Exploratory survey of the unique electoral and leadership model which exists in the Bahá’í community, and the extent of servant and transformational leadership in the Bahá’í model, its conceptual basis, and participation of women and minorities.
Thesis presented for Honors graduation, New Mexico State University. Mirrored with permission from spiritualadventurers.org.
Keywords: Administration; Elections

The Bahá'í Faith - Hassall,Graham (Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia, 2009)
Keywords: Introductory

The Bahá'í Faith - Buck,Christopher (The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice, 2012)
Keywords: Introductory; Social action

The Bahá'í Faith - Perkins,Mary; Hainsworth,Philip (Ward, Lock and Co., 1980)
An introductory book for people new to the Bahá'í Faith, in audiobook format.
Audio originally posted, with permission of authors, at bahaistudy.org, and reposted to archive.org under CC license. See more audiobooks prepared by Nicholas Bridgewater at sites.google.com. Part of this book is also online in Russian translation.
Keywords: Introductory; Philip Hainsworth

The Bahá'í Faith - Hartz,Paula R. (Chelsea House, 2002)
Overview of Bahá'í history, teachings, and scripture, with many photographs and illustrations; part of a "World Religions" series aimed at high school students. (Offsite.)
The following documents are online, posted with Creative Commons "Attribution Non-commercial" permission, at Scribd.com.
Keywords: Introductory

The Bahá'í Faith - Stockman,Robert (Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, 2002)
I have two versions of this draft paper, and they're slightly different. Not knowing which is newer or better, I've posted both, below. As well, see a later, re-edited version of this paper as published in World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, a 2011 edition of this encyclopedia.
Keywords: Introductory

The Bahá'í Faith - Stockman,Robert (Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, 2008)
Keywords: Introductory

The Bahá'í Faith - Osborn,Lil (Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements, 2021)
Origins; Bahá'u'lláh; `Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi; 'world religion' from 1957; beliefs and practices; controversies; persecution.
Free online in both HTML and PDF formats at brill.com.
Keywords: Introductory

The Bahá'í Faith - Holley,Horace (Bahá'ı́ Publishing Committee, 1933)
Essay published as a pamphlet, on the worldwide spiritual community, renewal of faith, the basis of unity, and a background of heroic sacrifice.

The Baha'i Faith - Bach,Marcus (They Have Found a Faith, 1946)
An outsider's view of the Bahá'í community from a "faith-based" perspective.
Keywords: Introductory; Marcus Bach

The Bahá'í Faith (Part One): Origins and the Báb - Holm,Filip (2020)
Part one of an academically-minded yet accessible video essay on the Babi and Baha'i Faiths as a work of public scholarship by a religious studies scholar who is part of the popular 'Religious Studies YouTube' community.
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=bc7AvTq1FGY. See also The Baha'i Faith (Part Two): Baha'u'llah and His Teachings
Keywords: 19th century