Major Themes of the Creative Word: Series of Books for Deepening and Studying - Smith,Melanie; Lample,Paul (Palabra Publications, 1987)
Five activity books "designed to draw the student into a study of the profound concepts found in the Bahá’í Revelation." Youth Can Move the World, The Significance of Bahá’u’lláh’s Revelation, Spiritual Conquest of the Planet, The Covenant, etc.
Includes topical Indexes of the Bahá'í Writings. Available for free download from palabrapublications.com/downloads.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Revelation of; Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Covenant; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Deepening; Glossaries; God, Word of; Indexes and catalogues; Paul Lample; Plans; Study guides; Teaching; Youth

Making the Crooked Straight - Schaefer,Udo; Towfigh,Nicola; Gollmer,Ulrich (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Two pages on a prophecy concerning the advent of Man Yuzhiruhu'llah.
This was included as an attachment to a Letter from the UHJ, Designation of Mirza Yahya in the Writings of the Bab. See also its other attachment Will and Testament of The Báb. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/justice_yahya
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Báb, The; Covenant; Criticism and apologetics; Irfán Colloquia; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Prophecies

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Moayyad,Heshmat (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1998)
A commentary for Bahá’ís examining the balance of critical thought with loyalty to Bahá’í institutions.
See also a PDF of the page scans of the original issue.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Institutions; Making the Crooked Straight (book)

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Fazel,Seena (World Order, 2004)
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Hutter,Manfred (Journal of Contemporary Religion, 1997)
Mirrored with permission from www.udoschaefer.com.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Cannuyer,Christian (Mélange de Science Religieuse, 1997)
This review is also available in English and German. Mirrored with permission from www.udoschaefer.com.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Cannuyer,Christian (1997)
This review is also available in English and French. Mirrored with permission from www.udoschaefer.com.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Palin,Iain S. (Baha'i Journal (UK), 2000)
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Fazel,Seena (Interreligious Insight, 2004)
Keywords: Christianity; Criticism and apologetics; Interfaith dialogue; Making the Crooked Straight (book)

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - Cannuyer,Christian (Baha'i Studies Review, 1998)
This review is also available in French and German, and as a PDF of scans of the original journal.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review - MacEoin,Denis (2001)
See also responses by Tony Lee, Udo Schaefer, and Kavian S. Milani.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight, review by Denis MacEoin: Responses - Lee,Anthony; Milani,Kavian Sadeghzade; Schaefer,Udo (2001)
Responses by Tony Lee, Kavian Milani, and Udo Schaefer to Denis MacEoin's review of Making the Crooked Straight by Udo Schaefer et al.
See also MacEoin's original review.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Making the Crooked Straight: A Contribution to Baha'i Apologetics [excerpt] - Schaefer,Udo; Towfigh,Nicola; Gollmer,Ulrich (George Ronald, 2000)
Front- and back-matter of the book only: Contents, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.
Jack McLean's "Foreword" is also online, followed by a letter to World Order regarding their issue devoted to Francesco Ficicchia and Bahá'í apologetics, at bahai-library.com/mclean_foreword_crooked_straight. The PDF below is a replica of the published version, with the same line breaks and page breaks.
Keywords: Authority; Christianity; Context, Taking verses out of; Criticism and apologetics; Freedom and liberty; Infallibility; Interfaith dialogue; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Laws; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Methodology; Opposition; Politics; Protestantism; Reference works; Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá

Making the Crooked Straight: Foreword, and letter to World Order - McLean,Jack (2000)
Foreword to the published book, followed by a letter to the editor for World Order regarding their issue devoted to Francesco Ficicchia and Bahá'í apologetics.
See another version of this Foreword, as scanned from the published book. See also The Refutation of Francesco Ficicchia and the Dangers of Silence.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book)

Making the Invisible Visible: Introductory Books on the Bahá'í Faith - MacEoin,Denis (Religion (iFirst), 2012)
Overview of contemporary issues in Bahá'í scholarship from an outsider's perspective, including definition of "New Religious Movement," links to Islam, and the succession of authority in light of the truncated guardianship and the lack of schisms.
Posted with permission of author.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Encyclopedias; Introductory; Reference works

Man Is Man: `Abdu'l-Bahá on Human Evolution - Neshati,Ramin (Lights of Irfan, 2009)
Bahá’ís believe in the essential harmony of science and religion, yet they reject Darwinian evolutionary theories which are strongly supported by the scientific community. How can we resolve this seeming impasse?
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #74, Bosch Bahá'í School, California (May 24-27, 2007). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/74/neshati_evolution.
Keywords: Charles Darwin; Evolution; Irfán Colloquia; Science

Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents - Vanderbilt,Cornelius (Crown Publishers, 1959)
An account of Vanderbilt, famed businessman and philanthropist, meeting pioneer Larry Hautz in Rhodesia, circa 1955.
See this book online at books.google.com.
Keywords: 1955; Southern Rhodesia

Man's Religions - Noss,John B. (The Macmillan Company, 1956)
Half-page overview of Bahá'í history and thought.
Keywords: Bahá'í history

Man's Religions: Fifth Edition - Noss,John B. (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1974)
Half-page overview of Bahá'í history and thought; this is a re-written version of the section from Noss' 1956 edition.
Keywords: Bahá'í history

Man: The Crown of Creation or Its Destroyer? - Schaefer,Udo (2001)
When will deficient humans, no longer able to solve the existential problems of humanity, change for the better? The survival of mankind depends on a new ethic and a substantially new way of thinking.
Based on a talk given in Stuttgart in 2001. Mirrored with permission from www.udoschaefer.com/articles/english.html.
Keywords: Free will; Human nature; Philosophy; Udo Schaefer

Management of Small Rural Businesses: Some Views of the European Bahá'í Business Forum - Zahrai,Michel P. (European Bahá'í Business Forum, 1998)
The challenge and benefits of restoring pride in rural non-farm businesses.
Originally online as a free download from ebbf.org, preserved at archive.org.
Keywords: Agriculture; Business; Ethical Business Building the Future (EBBF); European Bahá'í Business Forum (EBBF); Migration; Rural development; Sustainable development; Wealth and poverty

Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran, A Socio-Legal Analysis by Sajjad Adeliyan Tous and James T. Richardson: Review - Buck,Christopher (Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2024)
Mirrored from academia.edu. The original monograph is available on researchgate.net (off-site). See book at cambridge.org/nz/universitypress/....
Keywords: Human rights; Iran (documents); Iranian revolution (1979); Law; Minorities; New religious movements (NRM); Persecution, Iran; Sociology

Manifestations of God and the Master: Representation of in Portraits, Photographs, and Dramatic Presentations - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice
Excerpts on the use of imagery of the Central Figures in art, stage, and print.
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Bahá'u'lláh, Photographs of; Báb, Portrait of; Drama; Manifestations of God; Portraits; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Pictures and portraits

Mankind is One - Coleman,Rhea M. (Baha'i News, 1989)
Three short stories of pioneering , with references to American Pueblo and Argentinian Mapuche traditional belief, written by a former pioneer to Argentina.

Mantle of the Prophet, The: Religion and Politics in Iran, by Roy Mottahedeh: Review - Walker,Lauran (1997)

Many Messengers of God, A Native American Perspective: Deganawidah The Peacemaker - Bidwell,Paula (2011)
Collection and analysis of proofs from the Bahá'í Writings about prophets from indigenous cultures. Includes illustrated slide-show presentation of the paper.
Essay first written for the Wilmette Institute Course on the Kitáb-i-Íqán and Gems of Divine Mysteries, then presented at the Irfan Colloquia session #107, Louhelen Bahá'í Center, October 7-10 2011. See also an illustrated presentation of this paper [PDF, 12MB].
Keywords: Canada; Deganawida (Great Peacemaker); Native Americans; United States (documents)

Map of Goals for the Ten Year World Crusade - Shoghi Effendi (Baha'i World, 1956)
Shoghi Effendi's map of progress goals for the Ten Year World Crusade, 1953-1963.
Scanned for John Conkling, 2004. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; Plans; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)

Map of Persia - Author unknown (Nabil's Dawnbreakers, 1932)
Map included in the 1932 edition of Dawnbreakers.
Note: these images are small, as they were scanned in the early years of online graphics.
Keywords: Dawn-Breakers (book); Iran (documents); Maps

Map of Stages in Baha'u'llah's Successive Exiles from Tihran to Akka - Labib,Muhammed (1968)
Map of Stages in Bahá'u'lláh's Successive Exiles from Tihran to Akka, compiled and designed by Labib in 1968, includes an extensive list of which tablets Bahá'u'lláh revealed and where.
This map was first scanned by J. Winters (2000) from a creased copy, later scanned at high resolution from a better copy on behalf of A. Graves (2021) — compare the older version. Approved by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Italy.
Keywords: 1853; 1868; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Banishment of; Bahá'í history; Exile (banishment); Maps

Map of the Travels of Baha'u'llah - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Hawaiian Islands, compiler (1991)
The progressive exiles of Bahá'u'lláh through the Middle East. Includes timeline.
Reprinted here by permission. Place names on the map have been corrected, caption text below the map has been correctly transliterated, and alternative names (modern or new names) have been added to help locate the named places [Mike Thomas, 2017]; see legend, below [PDF].
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Banishment of; Bahá'í history; Basics; Chronology and timelines; Exile (banishment); Introductory; Maps

Maps and charts in Baha'i World volumes - Conkling,John, compiler; Winters,Jonah, editor (2010)
List of all inserts and maps included in volumes of the Bahá'í World books.
All documents in this collection were published as pull-outs from the original editions of Bahá'í World. A 'pocket' was glued into the books open on one side. The maps were inserted in the pockets. In some volumes a pocket was glued inside both the front and back cover. Most of the images in this collection were professionally scanned at 600ppi at Kinko's, as arranged and sponsored by John Conkling, between 2005-2010. Some were digitally edited to remove paper folds and tape marks by Scott Jaenicke. They were then resized and edited by Jonah Winters, 2010.
Keywords: 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; Charts; Maps; Population; Statistics; Visuals

Maps of the regions of North America - Tarr,Ralph Stockman; McMurry,Frank Morton (Complete World Geography, 1912)
Maps of the five regions of North America as published in an American geography book in 1912 and known to have been read by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Haifa/'Akka while writing Tablets of the Divine Plan.
See also a map of the Places named by Abdu'l-Bahá in TDP and a letter from the NSA of Canada on a Canadian question. See the entry for this book at amazon.com; also an article by Dale Lehman on the Tablets of the Divine Plan.
Keywords: 1912; Canada; Greenland; Maps; Tablets of the Divine Plan; United States (documents)

Margaret Ariel Gallagher: Field Sergeant of the Western Frontier - Metherd,Nevada (1993)
Gallagher (1920-2001) was an American Bahá'í and auxiliary board member.
Mirrored with permission from the Bahá'í Faith Website of Reno, Nevada; no longer online, but available at archive.org.
Keywords: 1920; 2001; Biography; Margaret Ariel Gallagher; United States (documents)

Margaret Danner, the Black Arts Movement, and the Bahá'í Faith - Hollinger,Richard (elixir-journal.org, 2016)
Short overview of the life of a black Bahá’í poet of some renown in the 1960s and 1970s. Includes one sample poem.
Mirrored with permission from www.elixir-journal.org.
Keywords: 1960s; 20th century; Biography

Marginality and Apostasy in the Bahá'í Community - Momen,Moojan (Religion, 2007)
Study of a particular type of articulate and well-educated ex-Bahá'ís, here termed "marginal" and "apostates," who first appeared in the West about 25 years ago and reached the peak of their activity in the last decade.
Also available as a PDF scan of the original document. Below are two items: (1) the original article and (2) the follow-up commentary; both items mirrored with permission from www.momen.org/relstud. See also a published response, Challenging Apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Bahá'í Community’. Some web-posted responses from people mentioned in this article are linked from the bottom of www.bahai-faith.com/Momen.html. See also Bahá'í and Subud Dissent: Developments in the 2000s and Debates between MacEoin et al.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; H-Bahá'í (email list); Talisman (email list)

Marian Crist Lippitt: Short Biographical Monograph - Terry,Peter (1999)
Controversial both during her lifetime and after, Lippitt was a trained engineer who applied her rigorous intellect to the study of metaphysics and epistemology, and is best known for developing an education philosophy titled "The Science of Reality."
See more at Reality, Soul and the Worlds of God (offsite).
Keywords: 1897; 1985; Biography; Cosmology; God, Worlds of; Marian Crist Lippitt; Philosophy

Mark of the Beast and Implanted Computer Chips - Universal House of Justice (1998)
Concerns about implanted computer chips as the "Mark of the Beast," and the response of individual Bahá'ís to government.
Keywords: Beast (Bible); Bible; Book of Revelation (Bible); Computer chips; Government; Interpretation; Number of the beast; Numerology; Research Department, Questions and answers; Science; Technology

Mark Tobey's City Paintings: Meditations on an Age of Transition - Badiee,Julie (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1989)
On the evolutionary character of Tobey's "City Paintings" during the decades of the 1930s-50s: they may be understood as modern reinterpretations of the traditional themes of the Apocalypse, Hell, the Day of Judgment, and New Jerusalem — the Bahá'í age.
See also journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/issue/archive.
Keywords: 1930s; 1950s; Age of transition; Arts and crafts; Mark Tobey; Painting

Mark Tobey: A retrospective exhibition: Review - Pokorny,Brad (One Country, 1998)
Mirrored with permission from www.onecountry.org/oc94/oc9416as.html

Marking Boundaries, Marking Time: The Iranian Past and the Construction of the Self by Qajar Thinkers - Cole,Juan (Iranian Studies, 1996)
Persian-speaking intellectuals in the 19th century (Akhundzadah, Majd al-Mulk, 'Abd al-Baha, I'timad al-Saltanah) experienced a triple confluence of alterity, primitivism, and mimesis in their conceptualization of Iranian selfhood in their time.
First presented at the Conference of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, December 1995

Marking the Bicentenary of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh - Universal House of Justice (2017)
Thoughts on the meaning of Bahá'u'lláh's life and current Bahá'í activities, inspired by the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Mirrored from universalhouseofjustice.bahai.org.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of; Holy days

Marking the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Bāb - Momen,Moojan (Asian and African Studies Blog, 2019)
Guest post for the launch of the British Library's "Discovering Sacred Texts" exhibition, on three unique haykal and calligraphy works of the Bāb and Bahā’u’llāh which are on display for the first time.
Mirrored from blogs.bl.uk. See also Momen's The Star Tablet of the Bab. See also the British Library's Discovering Sacred Texts learning resource and exhibition [archive.org].
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; British Museum and British Library; Báb, Writings of; Calligraphy; Centenaries; Haykal (temple)

Marriage and Sexuality - Danesh,Hossain (1991)
Transcript of a talk at a private home in Springfield, Virginia, recorded and distributed for teaching and deepening.
Posted with permission of Dr. Danesh. This transcript posted in 1997, later corrected and edited by Danesh and Sara Clarke, 2000. Talk given in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Augusto López-Claros. Transcribed and submitted by Steve Pulley, who writes: "This version is slightly edited due to the vagaries of the tape recording I received. A Spanish translation has been used in both Chile and Bolivia for teaching and deepening purposes."
Keywords: Hossain Danesh; Marriage; Sexuality

Marriage and the Nuclear Family: A Bahá'í Perspective - Khavari,Khalil A. (Baha'i Studies Notebook, 1983)
Bahá'í concepts of the purposes of marriage, courtship and dating, family communication, and children.
See Bahá'í Studies Notebook 3.1 table of contents.
Keywords: Family; Marriage

Marriage Breakdown in North America: A Psychosocial Perspective - Mothersill,Kerry (Baha'i Studies Notebook, 1983)
What are the effects of marital breakdown, what are its causes, and what can be done to enhance marital and family stability?
See Bahá'í Studies Notebook 3.1 table of contents.
Keywords: Divorce; Individualism; Marriage; Materialism; Psychology

Marriage certificates of The Bab and Baha'u'llah - Author unknown, compiler (Baha'i World, 1934)
Marriage certificates of The Báb (1842) and Bahá'u'lláh (1835).
Printed on pages 53 and 63, respectively.
Keywords: 1842; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Báb, Family of; Báb, The; Marriage; Marriage certificate; Relics

Marriage, Bahá'í: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1992)
Bahá'u'lláh said everyone should marry. Marriage unites the physical and spiritual in a "fortress for well-being" and provides for the nurturing of children. People should choose partners carefully. Discusses the ceremony, solving problems and divorce.
Keywords: Introductory; Marriage

Marriage, Consent of Parents to - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read notes or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Marriage; Parents

Marriage: the Eternal Principle - Eyford,Ruth; Eyford,Helgi (Baha'i Studies Notebook, 1983)
The role marriage plays in our ultimate purpose to know and worship God. The practical implications of marriage from a Bahá'í perspective. To what extent can we accept modern secular answers and therapists' techniques to marital problems?
See Bahá'í Studies Notebook 3.1 table of contents.
Keywords: Marriage

Marriages, Preserving Bahá'í - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Also available as a scan of the original booklet. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Consultation; Divorce; Family consultation; Marriage; Marriage, Civil; Reconciliation; Year of patience (year of waiting)

Mars Frontier - Stockman,Robert (2010)
A novel about the first landing on Mars, exploration of the planet, and its eventual settlement. Contains some content of indirect relevance to the Bahá'í Faith.
The novel attempts to make reasonable assumptions about the technology available to send humans to Mars in the 2020s, but speeds up the pace of settlement for dramatic purposes. It also sets the exploration and settlement of Mars in the context of exploration of the moon, Venus, asteroids, Mercury, and the outer solar system. Contents mirrored with permission from rsmd.net/mars.
Keywords: Fiction; Science fiction; Space exploration; Universe

Marshall Islands population statistics - Universal House of Justice (1996)
Populations of the Marshall Islands, and explanation of a directive by the Universal House of Justice that teachers travel to an island that was uninhabitable because of radiation.
Transmitted by email.
Keywords: Islands; Marshall Islands; Oceania; Population; Statistics

Martha Root's gravesite in Honolulu, driving directions - Troxel,Duane, compiler; S,Farid, compiler (2004)
Photo directions to the resting place of Martha Louise Root, in Honolulu Hawaii.
These directions are also available in PDF designed for printing.
Keywords: Hawaii, USA; Martha Root

Martha Root: "Herald of the Kingdom" - Casterline,Barbara (Baha'i News, 1972)
Two-part overview of Root's life and a concise history of her travels.
Keywords: 20th century; Biography; Hands of the Cause; Martha Root; South America

Martinique - Paccassi,Patricia (1995)
Article written in the mid-nineties for possible inclusion in the Bahá'í Encyclopedia, posted with permission at bahaihistorycaribbean.info. See also photos and history.
Keywords: 1967; 1970s; Fort-de-France, Martinique; French West Indies; Lesser Antilles; Windward Islands

Martyrdom - Lawson,Todd (Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Oxford Islamic Studies Online, 2008)
Overview of the history of and sacred texts about martyrdom in Islam, with a passing mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Mirrored with permission of author from oxfordislamicstudies.com.
Keywords: Islam; Martyrdom

Martyrdom and Servanthood in the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths: A Struggle to Defend a Cosmic Order - Akerdahl,Per-Olof (Martyrdom in the Modern Middle East, 2014)
From mystical Islam stems the ideal of servanthood, which is preferred over a concept of martyrdom that includes physical death; on ideological motivations for the persecution of Bahá'ís in different socio-historical circumstances.
Mirrored from nomos-elibrary.de. Download complete issue, dehghani_martyrdom_middle_east.pdf.
Keywords: Martyrdom

Martyrdom in Jihad - Winters,Jonah (1997)
Unlike Judeo-Christianity, Islam does not contain a core of martyrdom. Rather, it occurs in three disparate areas: war/jihad, asceticism, and Shi'ism. I examine the relationship between jihad and martyrdom and their classical and contemporary meanings.
This paper is part of my MA thesis (Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, 1997).
Keywords: Islam; Jihad (Holy war); Martyrdom; Sufism; Terrorism; War

Martyrdom of Hájí Muhammad-Ridá: 19 Historical Accounts - Rabbani,Ahang (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2007)
Accounts of the 1889 martyrdom of Haji Muhammad Rida Isfahani in Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) in Russian Turkestan.
Keywords: 1889; 1890; 1891; 1903; 1911; Ashgabat; Biography; Hájí Muhammad-Ridá Isfahání; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Turkmenistan; Turkmenistan

Martyrdom of the Bab - Merrick,David (2008)
Martyrdom of the Bab, told in plain English and suitable for reading aloud. Based on many early accounts.
Latest Printable Version with pictures: http://www.paintdrawer.co.uk/david/folders/Spirituality/005=Collections/holydays.htm
Keywords: Báb, Martyrdom of; Iran (documents); Tabríz, Iran

Martyrdom of the Bab: An Outline for Researchers - Merrick,David (2019)
The events of the Martyrdom of the Bab, including the weeks before and days after, presented through complementary and contrasting accounts with commentary, suitable for anyone investigating the events in detail.
Mirrored from paintdrawer.co.uk/david/folders/Research/Bahai/Bab/bab-martyrdom-outline.htm.
Keywords: Báb, Burial of; Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, Remains of; Báb, The; Chronology and timelines; Eyewitness; Iran (documents); Outlines and summaries; Tabríz, Iran

Martyrs of Manshad - Manshadi,Siyyid Muhammad TabiÃÅb (World Order, 1996)
Detailed eyewitness account of martyrdoms in Iran in 1903.
This is an updated version of the piece that was first published in World Order, Fall 1996; revised and expanded for online publication, 2005, as volume 6 of Witnesses to Bábí and Bahá'í History. See also image scans of the original World Order article, rabbani_astani_martyrs_manshad.pdf, and image scans of the original Persian text, manshadi_martyrs_manshad_persian.pdf. See also Treatise on Persecution of Bahá'ís in 1903 and The Events and Tragedies of Manshád.
Keywords: 1903; Eyewitness; Iran (documents); Manshad upheaval; Manshad, Iran; Martyrs; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran; Upheavals; Yazd upheaval; Yazd, Iran

Martyrs of the Second Revolt at Nayriz - Rabbani,Ahang, compiler (1999)
A list, compiled from three histories, of those who died in the 1852 revolt at Nayriz.
See also Memories of Hájí Muhammad Nayrízi, An eyewitness account of the Bábís of Nayriz, and Narrative of Mulla Muhammad Shafi` Nayrizi.
Keywords: 1852

Martyrs, Bábí - Smith,Peter; Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2005)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/martyrs-babi-babi.
Keywords: 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; Iran; Martyrs; Shaykh Tabarsí siege

Marxism Yesterday and Today - Leys,Colin (The Baha'i Faith and Marxism, 1987)
Marxist movements today and the prospects for change. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Communism; Marxism; Philosophy

Marxism, Human Nature, and Society - Adkin,Laurie E. (The Baha'i Faith and Marxism, 1987)
On Marxism, human nature, alienatation and emancipation, and feminism. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Communism; Human nature; Marxism; Sociology

Mary Bird in Persia - Rice,Clara C. (Church Missionary Society, 1916)
An impressionistic picture of the Bahá'í Faith published by the Church Missionary Society in 1916; includes a statistical estimate.
See also one-paragraph excerpt on the Babis in Bird's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan. Mirrored from anglicanhistory.org/me/ir/bird1916/03.html. See this book online in various formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Church Missionary Society; Iran

Mary Magdalene: Lioness of God in the Bahá'í Faith - Osborn,Lil (2013)
On the symbolic role of Mary Magdalene in the Baha’i tradition as a female archetype in the context of the doctrine of "return," and thus linked to the poet Tahirih, heroine of the Babi-Baha’i dispensation.
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Equality; Juliet Thompson; Mary Magdalene; Women; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Mashrak-el-Azkar: Descriptive of the Bahá'í temple - Remey,Charles Mason (Bahá'í Publishing Society, 1917)
Preliminary designs for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár to be built in America, showing nine varying treatments in different styles of architecture; includes discussions of the Ashkhabad temple and Bahá'í history, and a 1908 letter to Star of West.
This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org. Also available in Open Office format. See also optimized scan of book. See also Remey's Illustrated description of a design in the Persian-Indian style of architecture for the first Mashrak-el-Azkar to be erected in America (1920). While Remey later broke the covenant (see uhj_mason_remey_followers), at the time he wrote this book he was an influential figure in the Bahá'í community and was later appointed Hand of the Cause. This document is thus not "covenant-breaker" material.
Keywords: Architecture; Ashgabat; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Turkmenistan; United States (documents); Wilmette, IL

Mashriq al-Adhkār - Encyclopædia Britannica (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2015)
Online at britannica.com/topic/mashriq-al-adhkar.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Ishqabad

Mashriqu'l-Adhkar - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1998)
Compilation on the Bahá'í temple, the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, "Dawning Place of Remembrance."
See also compilation_readings_mashriq_adhkar and compilation_functions_importance_hazirat-quds.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Mashriqu'l-Adhkár - Badiee,Julie (The Baha'i Encyclopedia, 2009)
On the "Dawning Place of the Praise of God," a term used to refer to a Bahá’í House of Worship and its surrounding dependencies.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-encyclopedia-project.org.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Architecture; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design

Mashriqu'l-Adhkár - Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2010)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mashreq-adkar.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design

Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, Extracts on the Institution of - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1985)
Readings on the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, in both English (unpublished) and German (published as Das Bahá'í-Haus der Andacht Bedeutung und Bestimmung).
This document is available in a published German translation (Bahá'í-Verlag, June 1985, posted with permission), a scan of the unpublished English original, and both a Word document and PDF of the English original (prepared by B. Lyons).
Keywords: Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Singing

Mashriqu'l-Adhkar: Sacred Architecture and the Bahá'í Faith - Sewell,Kenneth B. (1992)
The nature of Bahá'í architecture, the spiritual intentions of the unique design of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, sacred geometry, and the author's original building design. Link to thesis (offsite).
Honors thesis for Ball State University.
Keywords: Architecture; Mandalas; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Mason Remey and Joel Bray Marangella - Jones,Chad (2001)
Short research note about Remey's claim to the Guardianship, which may have been inspired by Joel Marangella.
Mirrored from the old Ocean website [archive.org]. See also Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him.
Keywords: Charles Mason Remey; Covenant-breaking; Joel Marangella

Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him - Universal House of Justice (1997)
Letter from the US NSA on the importance of commitment to the covenant, a letter from the UHJ on covenant-breaking, and the history "Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him."
Also available as a PDF, updated 2008: uhj_mason_remey_followers.pdf. See also the 2008 revised version at covenantstudy.org, and Mason Remey and Joel Bray Marangella. Voir aussi traduction en français.
Keywords: 20th century; Biography; Charles Mason Remey; Covenant; Covenant-breakers (individuals); Covenant-breaking; Donald Harvey; Giuseppe Pepe; Guardianship; Joel Marangella; John Carre; Leland Jensen; Rex King (Reginald King)

Massacres de Babis en Perse - Nicolas,A.L.M. (Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1936)
On events in 1903 in Rasht, Isfahan, Yazd, and Tehran, written by a French consul in Iran.
Another version of this book has been scanned by afnanlibrary.org.
Keywords: 1903; A. L. M. Nicolas; Iran (documents); Isfahan, Iran; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran; Rasht, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Yazd, Iran

Material and Spiritual Worlds - Khan,Peter J. (2010)
Four talks on the Five-Year Plan given at the North Island Bahá'í Summer School, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2010.
These talks are also online in video format at YouTube.com.
Keywords: Cosmology; Creation; God, Worlds of; Peter Khan; Spiritualization

Materialism Wearing Away at Our Kids - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2012)
The materialism of modern society and media is distracting many of our children. Adults must be aware that they are key role models for their kids.
For the letter that is quoted below, see here.
Keywords: Abuse; Children; Institute process; Materialism; Media (communication); Power; Spirituality; Violence

Materialism: Moral and Social Consequences, by Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian: Review - Carlson,Erik (2019)
Originally posted at bahai-studies.ca/materialism-moral-and-social-consequences [archive.org].

Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion - Browne,E. G., compiler and translator (Cambridge University Press, 1918)
An early collection of historical documents related to Bahá'í and Bábí studies. (Not fully complete.)
Hand-typed by Doug Couper, 1999. Other than a number of missing pages, this online version of the book is exact replica of original, except: underscore used to indicate under-dot; Ayn and hamza both indicated by straight apostrophe ('). Arabic and Persian text in original not included here. Anomalies from original (occasional missing periods, unaccented words) retained. This book is also available in image format: Duane Troxel scan and [26 MB] Microsoft scan [30 MB].The 2013 paperback edition is also available for preview on Google Books, which lists the publication history as "First published 1918, reprinted 1961, first paperback edition 2013."
Keywords: 1848; 1850s; 1880s; 1890s; 1912; 19th century; Alan Coupe; Bahá'í history; Biography; Bábísm; E. G. Browne; Robert Bruce

Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Gender in the Writings, and Matters of Translation - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2002)
A collection of letters about gender pronouns in Writings, a compilation concerning the translations of Shoghi Effendi, the literary style of translation, and guidance on translating the Writings into indigenous languages.
The following was posted in 2002 as a single page of minimally-formatted HTML at worldlanguageprocess.org/essays/uhj_on_gender.htm. This text was converted to a series of separate Word documents and formatted (2021) and then saved-as PDF; see other items from the original post: Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Universal Auxiliary Languages.
Keywords: Diversity; Equality; Gender; Gender pronouns; God, Gender of; Indigenous people; Pronouns; Research Department, Questions and answers; Style (Writings); Translation

Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Universal Auxiliary Language - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice; Research Department of the Universal House of Justice (2002)
A collection of resources on the International Auxiliary Language: compilation from the Bahá'í Writings, letter and memorandum from the Research Department, and two bibliographies listing citations from the Writings and from scholarship.
The following was posted in 2002 as a single page of minimally-formatted HTML at worldlanguageprocess.org/essays/uhj_on_gender.htm. This text was converted to a series of separate Word documents and formatted (2021) and then saved-as PDF; see other items from the original post: Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Gender in the Writings and Matters of Translation.
Keywords: International auxiliary language; Language; Lesser Peace; Research Department, Questions and answers; Speculation

Mathnaví of the Blessed One - Bahá'u'lláh (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2024)
Provisional translation of the Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak, with introduction and notes.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Poetry of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak

Mathnaví-yi Mubárak - Bahá'u'lláh (2024)
Provisional translation of a mathnavi (poem) written in Constantinople in 1863 following His initial declaration in Baghdad. Translated in rhyming couplets with extensive annotations, summary, preface, and introduction.
See also a provisional translation by Frank Lewis (1999).
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Declaration of; Introductory; Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Mathnavi; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Metaphors and allegories; Poetry; Poetry; Recitation; Reed; Rumi (Mevlana); Self; Spring; Sufism; Translation; Turkey

Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak - Bahá'u'lláh (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
Provisional translation
See also the translator's introduction to this text. See also a rhymed translation, by Kay Lynn Morton (2024).
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Poetry of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Kurdistan; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Mysticism; Poetry; Sufism; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq; Turkey

Maturation and Learning in the Bahá'í Community - Levick,David (Australian Baha'i Studies, 1999)
The paradigm for Bahá'í decision-making and consultation; relativist vs. subjectivist ontology; hermeneutic-dialectic methodology; the unconscious process of decision-making vs. learning a mature and conscious process of decision-making.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Learning; Maturity of humanity

May Ellis Maxwell - Universal House of Justice, compiler (Baha'i World, 1925)
Detailed biography, published in A Compendium of Volumes of the Bahá'í World I-XII, 1925-1954; includes photo.
The French portions were spell-checked.
Keywords: 1910s; 20th century; Biography; May Maxwell

May Knowledge Grow in our Hearts: Applying Spiritual Principles to Development Practice - Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity (2010)
On how an organization can employ the methods of science and the principles of religion together while working for a more humane and just world, via the case of India's Seva Mandir (Temple of Service). [Link to PDF, offsite.]
The document linked below is housed at globalprosperity.org/resources.
Keywords: India; Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity (ISGP); Rajasthan, India; Religion (general); Science; Seva Mandir; Social and economic development

May Maxwell and the Maxwells of Montreal - McLean,Jack (2019)
Presentation of Violette Nakhjavani's book The Maxwells of Montreal.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com/slides.
Keywords: 1870; 1952; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Biography; Canada; Lua Getsinger; May Maxwell; Montreal, QC; Phoebe Hearst; Shoghi Effendi; William Sutherland Maxwell

Mayflowers in the Ville Lumière: The Dawning of Bahá'í History in the European Continent - Savi,Julio (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
In intellectual and artistic Paris of the fin de siècle, a young American becomes the catalyst for the spiritual awakening of a group of early believers. The paper examines the mysterious ways through which they came to recognize the dawn of the new era.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/97/savi_mayflowers.
Keywords: Agnes Alexander; Edith MacKay; Edith Sanderson; France; Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney; Laura Clifford Barney; Paris, France; Thomas Breakwell

Mazhar [Manifestation] - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed., 1960)
Definition of a type of theophany in which the divinity or its attributes are made visible in human form.
See the online entry for this at referenceworks.brillonline.com. See other articles from Encyclopaedia of Islam and Glossary.
Keywords: Encyclopaedia of Islam; Islam; Manifestations of God

Mazhar-i Ilahi (Manifestation of God) - Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2016)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at iranicaonline.org/articles/mazhar-e-elahi.
Keywords: Manifestations of God

Mazra'ih: A Footnote - Graves,Anita
Overview of the Bahá'í Holy Place of Mazra'ih, its connection with Lilian Vaughan Barron McNeill and her husband Angus McNeill, and the Cyprus connection to that beautiful property situated near 'Akká.
See also chronology/1949-08-16.
Keywords: Angus McNeill; Biography; Hartmut Grossmann; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazra'ih); Lilian Barron McNeill

Meaning and Significance of Certitude - Skrenes,Ruhiyyih (1998)
Nature of Certitude and the process of its attainment as described in the Kitab-i-Iqan.
Presented as a homework assignment for the Wilmette Institute's "Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh" Course, year one.
Keywords: Certitude; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)

Meaning of the Bahá'í Ring Symbol - Sears,William
Date not given; contact me if you know. Originally posted at bahaistudy.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Greatest Name; Ringstone symbol; Symbolism; Talks

Meanings of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar - McGlinn,Sen (1997)
Summary of the full meanings of Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, "The Dawning Place of the Remembrance of God."
This was posted to an internet listserver and is written informally and as part of a larger conversation. Edited with permission for inclusion here. See also McGlinn's article Exploring the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, which includes "Entry by troops and the institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar," "The House of Worship and the House of Justice," "The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar as a Meeting," and "The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar as a Building."
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Measuring Success: An Exploratory Study of United States Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assemblies and the Five Year Plan - Jezari,Armin J. (2010)
Applied research project on what degree a typical Local Spiritual Assembly in the United States is adopting elements of effective public administration based on the Five Year Plan (2006-2011).
Research project for Masters of Public Administration, Texas State University. Mirrored from academia.edu.
Keywords: Administration; Five Year Plan (2006-2011); Institute process; Local Spiritual Assemblies; Plans; Spiritual Assemblies; Statistics

Medhat Pasha - Alkan,Necati (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2012)
Bio of the 19th century Ottoman statesman, who served both as governor and grand vizier. Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/medhat-pasha. See also Midhat Pasha and ‘Abdu’l-Baha in ‘Akka.
Keywords: 1880; 19th century; Midhat Páshá; Turkey

Mediation, Transformation and Consultation: A Comparative Analysis of Conflict Resolution Models - Sinclair,Guy (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
The Bahá'í principle of consultation as a framework for mediation, transformation, and the process of conflict resolution. The need for dialogue between all those concerned with such goals.
Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Conflict; Conflict resolution; Consultation; Peace; War

Medieval Ignorance: The silence of Iranian polity towards Bahá'í persecution - Latif,Iqbal (The Iranian, 2002)
An outsider's view of Iran's treatment of its Bahá'í community.
Mirrored from iranian.com.

Medieval Islam: The Influence of Islam on Judaism and Christianity - Khursheed,Anjam (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1997)
Prior to the Renaissance, Islam inspired revivals in the cultural traditions of Christianity and Judaism, indicating a harmony between the three religions. The reforms inspired by Islam were a prelude to the modern scientific revolution.
See the table of contents and editor's note in the complete issue, vol. 2.
Keywords: Christianity; Civilization; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Renaissance; Science

Meditation - Khan,Peter J. (Australian Baha'i Bulletin, 1979)
A short summary of the Bahá’í approach to meditation and its relevance to peace and intuition.
Keywords: Intuition; Meditation; Peace; Peter Khan

Meditation and Health - Friedman,Paul (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2001)
Prayer and meditation as synergistic forces of transformation; transcendental meditation; forms of Bahá'í meditation: pondering and reflecting, silent wordless reflection, seeking divine wisdom, or using repetition of words or phrases.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Health and healing; Meditation

Meditation, Prayer, and Spiritualization - Universal House of Justice (1983)
Practicing personal spirituality and methods for achieving spiritual growth.
Later published in Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86 (letter 375). See also this letter on bahai.org/library.
Keywords: Ethics; Living the life; Materialism; Meditation; Norway; Obligatory prayer; Prayer; Reading the Writings; Repetition; Requisites for spiritual growth; Service; Spirituality; Spiritualization; Summer schools; Teaching; Work

Meeting a Prophet - Bell,Archie (The Spell of the Holy Land, 1915)
Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Sea of Galilee.
For a more accurate description about the station of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, see The Station and Titles of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by Shoghi Effendi.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Buddhism; Christianity; Confucius; Conversion; Decline and renewal of religion; Equality; Health and healing; Humility; Islam; Israel; Judaism; Miracles; Mirza Ahmad Sohrab; Philosophers; Philosophy; Priesthood; Religion (general); Sea of Galilee, Israel; Service; Statistics; Teaching; Unity; Unity of religion; Zoroaster (Zarathustra); `Abdu'l-Bahá

Meetings for women only - International Teaching Centre (1997)
It is acceptable and perhaps even sometimes necessary for Bahá'ís to hold gender-segregated meetings.
Transmitted by email.
Keywords: Equality; Gender; Meetings; Women

Meetings, Bahá'í - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Meetings

Mehrangiz Afnan (1937-2018) - Anonymous (Lights of Irfan, 2019)
Afnan was an Iranian Bahá'í and medical doctor who settled in Canada where she and her husband, Muhammad Afnan, established an Institute for Bahá’í Studies in Persian; the couple worked in the Bahá'í Research Department in Haifa for a number of years.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/lights20_mehrangiz-afnan.
Keywords: 1937; 2018; Bahá'í studies; Biography; Canada; Dundas, ON; Mehrangiz Afnan; Mississauga, ON

Members of the Universal House of Justice 1963-2023 and Hands of the Cause: Timeline - Bolhuis,Arjen, compiler; Rezai,Sana, compiler (2003)
List of names and dates of all who served on the House of Justice or as Hands.
Elections for the House of Justice are held in April of each term. The years shown here are thus "rounded off." See also Wikipedia: Members of the UHJ and House Member Composition.
Keywords: 1963; 2023; 20th century; Appointed arm; Biography; Chronology and timelines; Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Hands of the Cause, Institution; Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Election of; Universal House of Justice, Members of

Membership in the National Organization for Women - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (1998)
A statement on behalf of the NSA about which criteria Bahá'ís should consider when deciding what organizations to participate in, and whether they are politically active.
The recipient of this letter, John B. Cornell, introduces this letter as follows: "On the forum called Bahá'í Men, someone asked whether Bahá'ís should join the National Organization for Women. I asked our NSA and received this reply." Contributed by and posted with permission of Cornell.

Membership of Religious Groups in the U.S., 1996 - World Almanac and Book of Facts (1996 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, 1996)
Numbers of adherents, holy days, and headquarters of religious groups in the U.S. and Canada in 1998; statistics on Cardinals, Popes and world faiths including Atheists, Ethnics, Mandaeans, Parsis (Zoroastrians), Shintoists, and Spiritists.
This document is only partly formatted. Text originally posted at elibrary.com, which later became highbeam.com, which no longer has this document.
Keywords: 1996; Population; Statistics; United States (documents)

Membership, Joining and Leaving Religious Movements and Organizations - Smith,Peter (2020)
Reflections from the perspective of sociology of religion on belonging, joining, and leaving a faith group: membership, conversion, 'deconversion,' and sociological factors impacting conversion and deconversion; includes videos.
Mirrored with permission from Dr. Smith's website: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Essay written 2019, videos prepared 2020; see author's website.
Keywords: Conversion; Membership; Sociology; Withdrawal

Memoirs of a Bahá'í in Rasht 1889-1903: Autobiography of Mírzá Yahyá `Amídu'l-Atibbá Hamadání - Rabbani,Ahang, editor and translator (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2007)
Personal account of some activities of the Bahá'í community in Iran and persecutions they endured.
Keywords: 1889; 1890s; 1903; Biography; Rasht, Iran

Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov: A Summary - Sharon,Moshe (2011)
Summary of pages 25-91 of the Arabic text of the "Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov," a fraudulent work.
Read more in the encyclopedia article Dolgorukov Memoirs (M. Momen, 1996). See also the author's The "Memoirs of Dolgorukov" and "The Protocols of the Elders Of Zion".
Keywords: 1840s; Biography; Conspiracy theories; Criticism and apologetics; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Russia; Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov, Prince

"Memoirs of Dolgorukov" and "The Protocols of the Elders Of Zion" - Sharon,Moshe (2007)
Comparison of two fraudulent anti-religion works: "Elders of Zion" is one of the most notorious anti-Semitic books, long used by opponents of Judaism; "Memoirs" are the supposed anti-Bábí political confessions of the Russian Amb. Dimitri Dolgorukov.
This paper was first posted at honestlyconcerned.info [archive.org]. Read more in the encyclopedia article Dolgorukov Memoirs (M. Momen, 1996). See also the author's Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov: A Summary.
Keywords: Conspiracy theories; Criticism and apologetics; Iran (documents); Russia; Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov, Prince

Memoirs of Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein - Jones Edelstein,Frances Bradford (1999)
Memoirs of the first pioneer to Famagusta (as requested by Shoghi Effendi to pioneer from the City of the Covenant to the City of the Arch-Breaker of the Covenant), and pilgrim to Haifa in December 1953. First written June 1985, completed April 1999.
See also Personal Recollections of Famagusta.
Keywords: 1950s; 1952; 1953; 20th century; Alabama, USA; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahá'u'lláh, Photographs of; Bahá'í Radio; Biography; Birmingham, AL; California, USA; Conventions, Regional; Cyprus; Famagusta, Cyprus; Frances Bradford Edelstein (Frances B. Jones); Great Jubilee (1952-1953); Haifa, Israel; Juliet Thompson; Kentucky, USA; Laura Clifford Barney; London, England; Louis G. Gregory; Louisville, KY; Lucerne, QC; Marjorie Morten; Mark Tobey; Montclair, NJ; Myra Bryant; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); New Jersey, USA; New York, USA; Palo Alto, CA; Pilgrim House, Western (Haifa); Pilgrimage; Pilgrims notes; Pilgrims notes (general); Pioneers; Plans; Race; Second Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1946-1953); Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1937-1944); Shoghi Effendi; Sioux Falls, SD; South Dakota, USA; Switzerland; Tablets of the Divine Plan; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); United Kingdom; United States (documents)

Memoirs of Nora Crossley (1893-1977) - Crossley,Nora (1921)
Autobiography of an early British Bahá'í, known for cutting her famous hair to help fundraise for the Chicago temple. Includes two Tablets of Abdu'l-Bahá, one to Crossley and one mentioning her and praising her "self-sacrifice."
See summary, excerpts, and biography at bahaiblog.net (R. Weinberg, 2021). Also available in RTF format.
Keywords: 1893; 1977; Biography; Funds; Manchester, England; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Nora Crossley; United Kingdom

Memorials of the Faithful - Abdul-Bahá (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971)
'Abdu'l-Bahá's volume of short biographies of Bábí and Bahá'í figures and heroes, translated from the original Persian text and annotated by Marzieh Gail.
See also an updated, annotated version in Word format (prepared by M. Thomas, 2024). See also the official version at bahai.org.
Keywords: 19th century; Biography; Memorials of the Faithful (book); Stories; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Memorials of the Faithful, by Abdu'l-Bahá: Review - Price,Ron (Australian Baha'i Studies, 1999)
On the themes, biographies, and importance of this book.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Memorials of the Faithful (book); Ron Price

Memorials of the Faithful: Revisited - Price,Ron (Associate, 2001)
Literary themes in Abdu'l-Bahá's book of biographies.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-faith.manvell.org.uk. See also the full PDF for issue 35.
Keywords: Memorials of the Faithful (book); Ron Price

Memorials of the Faithful: The Democratization of Sainthood - Momen,Moojan (Lights of Irfan, 2016)
Hagiography in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the precedent of Faridu'd-Din's "Memorials of the Saints"; Abdu'l-Bahá innovations in this traditional literary format.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/momen_sainthood.
Keywords: Attar of Nishapur; Hagiography; Islam; Memorials of the Faithful (book)

Memorials of the Faithful: Virtues of Inner and Outer Transformation - Koswan,Marlene (Lights of Irfan, 2016)
A study of the virtues identified for the faithful individuals mentioned in "Memorials of the Faithful" and how they exemplified character, manners and conduct, using the "Seven Valleys" as a guide for human conduct.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #135 (Louhelen, 2015). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/135/koswan_memorials.
Keywords: Character; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Memorials of the Faithful (book); Virtues

Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Cobb,Stanwood (Avalon Press, 1962)
Recollections by eminent American Bahá'í author Cobb (1881–1982).
This book is also online in the compilation In His Presence: Visits to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by Roy Wilhelm, Stanwood Cobb, and Genevieve L. Coy. Also available as a corrected, proofread Word document: cobb_memories_abdul-baha.docx.
Keywords: 1906; 1908; 1910s; Akka, Israel; Pilgrims notes; Stanwood Cobb; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Yazdi,Ali M. (Baha'i World, 1986)
Recollections by a prominent Iranian-American Bahá'í.
Go to Bahá'í World vol 18 table of contents. This article has also been published on
Keywords: 1910s; Akka, Israel; Alexandria, Egypt; Biography; Egypt; Haifa, Israel; Iran (documents); Pilgrims notes; Ramleh, Egypt; Sea of Galilee, Israel; Yazd, Iran; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Commission of inquiry; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Death threats to; `Abdu'l-Bahá, House of (Haifa); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Knighthood (KBE); `Alí M. Yazdí (Azíz Yazdí)

Memories of Ashchi: Background - Rabbani,Ahang; McGlinn,Sen (1999)
Background information on and a start at translation of the narratives of Aqa Husayn Ashchi.
Written in an informal style because these notes were posted to an internet discussion group. Edited and posted with permission of authors.
Keywords: 1920s; 19th century; Aqa Husayn Ashchi; Bahá'u'lláh; Biography

Memories of Hájí Muhammad Nayrízi - Nayrizi,Haji Muhammad (1999)
A short account of events in the 1853 Nayriz uprising.
See also Martyrs of the Second Revolt at Nayriz, An eyewitness account of the Bábís of Nayriz, and Narrative of Mulla Muhammad Shafi` Nayrizi.
Keywords: 1853; Eyewitness

Memories of Hands of the Cause of God - Boyd,Jack (2014)
Personal memories of meeting Zikrullah Khadem, John Robarts, and Tarazullah Samandari.
Keywords: 1960s; Biography; Hands of the Cause; John Robarts; St. Catharines, ON; Zikrullah Khadem; Ṭaráẓu’lláh Samandarí

Memories of My Life: Translation of Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán's Khátirát-i-Hayát - Rabbani,Ahang (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
Bio of the life of Habíbu'lláh Afnán-i-A`lá'í, born 1875, especially his years with the family of the wife of the Báb, Khadijih Bagum, and her sister, Zahrá Bagum.
Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org. See another version of this translation, with Preface and Appendices, at rabbani_habibullah_afnan_memories.
Keywords: 1875; 19th century; Afnan; Biography; Khadijih Bagum (wife of the Báb)

Memories of Nine Years in Akka - Afroukhteh,Youness Khan (George Ronald, 1952)
Translation of Khatirát-i-Nuh-Saliy-i-‘Akká, the memoirs of Dr. Yúnis Afrukhtih, who served ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as secretary and interpreter from 1900-1909. Includes discussion of the history of Covenant-breaking.
This memoir was published in various translations and editions in 1952, 1967, 1983, and 2003. This version mirrored from scribd.com. See also a Portrait of Abdu'l-Bahá extracted from this book.
Keywords: 1900; 1900s; 1909; Akka, Israel; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Memoirs and chronicles; Memories of Nine Years in Akka (book); Youness Khan Afroukhteh; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Memories of Talks with the Guardian - Takano,Hiroyasu (2016)
Memories of a pilgrimage in 1954. Takano was the only Japanese Bahá'í other than Saichiro Fujita to meet the Guardian.
Keywords: 1954; Hiroyasu Takano; Japan; Pilgrims notes

Memories of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Memoirs of Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán - Rabbani,Ahang, editor and translator (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2005)
Autobiography of a close confidant of the holy family. Includes appendices on Bahá'í historical places in Shiraz, the Afnán family genealogy, and excerpts from Houshmand Fatheazam’s diary
See also a published, slightly abridged version of this document at rabbani_khatirat_hayat. See also Habibullah Afnan's The Genesis of the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths in Shíráz and Fárs. This document is also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: 1890s; 1900s; Afnan; Akka, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Báb, The; Egypt; Haifa, Israel; Iran (documents); Pilgrims notes; Restoration and renovation; Shíráz, Iran; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Memories of the Sojourn of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris - Blomfield,Lady Sarah Louisa (Baha'i World, 1937)
Memoir of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s four-month stay in Paris in 1911. Notes taken by the author's daughters were later published as the book Paris Talks.
Mirrored from bahai.org/abdul-baha/articles-resources. Original version online at bahai.works.
Keywords: 1911; Biography; France; Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; Paris, France; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Memories: Bill Sears interviews Mrs. True - Sears,William; True,Corinne (1951)
Stories starting from 1907 in Haifa.
Title "Memories" given by the name of the file when I received it, which was "Corrine True - Memories - Interviewed by Bill Sears in 1951.mp3."
Keywords: 1907; 20th century; Corinne True; Haifa, Israel; Interviews; William Sears

Memorization - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (2006)
Also available as PDF. Mirrored from www.ruhiresources.org/news/2006/01/21/compilations/memorization/.
Keywords: Institute process; Memorization; Study circles

Men and the Bahá'í Faith: The Role of Indigenous Men in the Early Bahá'í Community in the British Isles - Osborn,Lil (2016)
Includes slide-show included when presenting the paper at the Bahá'í Studies Seminar, Kellogg College, Oxford (July 2016).
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Biographies (general); Brotherhood; Equality; Freemasonry; Gender; Men; Secret Societies; Suffrage; United Kingdom; Women

Men on the Horizon - Murchie,Guy (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932)
Lengthy travel diary, the first book of a renowned journalist, war correspondent, and author/artist who would adopt the Bahá'í Faith in 7 years and published more extensively on Bahá'í-inspired themes explicitly after 1955.
Online at raskb.com [archive.org].
Keywords: 20th century; Alaska, USA; Biography; China; Hawaii, USA; Japan; Korea; Philippines; Russia; Travelogues

Mental Tests - Universal House of Justice (1995)
Meaning of the phrase "mental tests" in the writings of Abdu'l-Bahá and of Shoghi Effendi. Includes short compilation of relevant passages.
See also three talks by House member Peter Khan also from 1995: Mental Tests, Nature of Tests, and an audio recording on tests called Victories and Crises.
Keywords: Covenant; Crisis; Mental tests; Research Department, Questions and answers; Suffering; Tests and difficulties; Victory

Mental Tests - Khan,Peter J. (1995)
An address by Dr. Khan, of the Universal House of Justice, in Australia. Needs proofreading.
Manually transcribed. Words not understood are indicated by ellipses. May contain typist errors, still needs more proofreading, and may be a transcription of "Victories and Crises"; email me if you can help compare. See also two talks by Khan on the same topic also from 1995, Nature of Tests and an audio recording called Victories and Crises, and a 1995 letter from the Universal House of Justice on Mental Tests.
Keywords: Mental tests; Peter Khan; Spirituality; Tests and difficulties

Mention of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths in the New York Times 1852 - 1922 - Various (New York Times, 1852)
45 articles and brief mentions, spanning 70 years.
Mirrored from nhbahais.com. See also Historical mentions of the Bábí/Bahá'í Faiths, Newspaper Collections and the Bahá'í Faith, and Bábí Attempt on the Life of the Shah, 1852: Coverage in the New York Times.
Keywords: 1852; 1922; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'í Faith, Early Western Accounts of; Bahá'í World Centre; Bábísm, Early Western Accounts of; Covenant-breaking; India; Iran (documents); Mahatma Gandhi; Mentions; Newspaper articles; Persecution, Iran; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Mentions of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Encyclopedia Iranica: Sixty Excerpts - Algar,Hamid; Momen,Moojan; MacEoin,Denis; et al. (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1985)
Excerpts of 60 articles in the Encyclopedia, with links to the offsite originals, which contain a reference to the Faith. These items are not long enough to warrant a separate entry in this Library, yet are included here for ease of discovery.
The following selections, along with the articles posted as separate entries at bahai-library.com/series/Encyclopaedia Iranica, comprise all content about or related to Bahá'í Studies in that encyclopedia as of April 2013; if you find anything we missed, or see a new article posted there, please email us. As short excerpts, these are "fair use." For the purpose of keyword searches, the Iranica's transliteration has been changed to the Bahá'í standard, and underdots omitted.
Keywords: Bábísm; Encyclopedia Iranica; Encyclopedias; Iran (documents); Mentions; Reference works

Mentions of the Faith in the Journal of the American Foreign Services Association - Various (The Foreign Service Journal, 1937)
All 14 issues containing keyword "Baha'i." With the exception of articles "Murder in Tehran" and "Lethal Encounter in Iran," the other 12 references to the Bahá'í Faith are just in passing, with few details.
Documents online at afsa.org/foreign-service-journal, found using query afsa.org/fsj-archive?search_term=bahai. The only two articles from these journals are also posted as standalone items Murder in Tehran and A Lethal Encounter in Tehran.
Keywords: Consuls; Mentions; Robert Imbrie; United States (documents)

Message from Acca - Haddad,Anton (1900)
A lengthy report of Abdu'l-Bahá's teachings to the Bahá'ís in America. Can be seen as a precursor to Tablets of the Divine Plan.
See entries for this book at worldcat and Google Books. It was also published in Isaac Adams, Persia by a Persian. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes. However, as this book was "corrected" by Abdu'l-Bahá himself, it may be more reliable.
Keywords: 1890s; Akka, Israel; Anton Haddad; Pilgrims notes; Tablets of the Divine Plan

Message of the Universal House of Justice to the World's Religious Leaders: Panel Discussion Comments - McLean,Jack (2002)
Overview of some prominent global theologians and historians of religion, and issues facing interfaith dialogue.
Panel Discussion, Association for Bahá’í Studies Annual Conference, Mississauga (August 30-September 2, 2002). Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Letter to the Worlds Religious leaders (2002)

Message of the World Spiritual Crusade received from the Guardian - Furutan,Ali-Akbar (1953)
Notes taken by Furútan in the early years of the 10-year plan (1953-63) and distributed at the request of Shoghi Effendi.
This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Divine Assistance; Heroism; Love; Pilgrims notes; Reason; Sacrifice; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); `Alí-Akbar Furútan

Message on clusters, institutes, and growth - International Teaching Centre (2007)
Message from the Counsellors on growth and enrollments.
This document is online at messagesbahaiworldcentre.blogspot.ca and elsewhere.
Keywords: Clusters; Growth; Growth, Intensive Program of; Homefront pioneering; Institute process; Institutes; Pioneering

Message on the occasion of the opening of the 2014 World Cup - Universal House of Justice (2014)
Letter in response to the Brazilian president's invitation for a statement on global peace and harmony, reflecting the Brazilian government's aim to leverage the World Cup to further the cause of peace and combat racial discrimination.
See also Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS) article. Also available in PDF.
Keywords: 2014; Brazil; Collaboration and cooperation; Peace; Race; Sports; Unity; Virtues; Youth

Message on World Peace - Universal House of Justice (2019)
Letter about important steps the world made towards world peace, and the current situation, in relation to the activities the Bahá'ís are involved with.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats. See also "The Promise of World Peace" in multiple languages.
Keywords: Basics; Calamities and catastrophes; Consultation; Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; History (general); Institute process; Integration and disintegration; Lawh-i-Hague (Tablet to The Hague); League of Nations; Lesser Peace; Message on World Peace (2019); Paris Peace Conference (1919); Peace; Public discourse (discourses of society); United Nations; United Nations Millennium Forum and Summit; Unity; Unity of humanity; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages; War; World peace

Message to First Canadian National Convention - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1948)
Message to the delegates and friends attending the First Canadian National Bahá'í Convention, Montreal, 1948; also published in Baha’i News Sept/Oct 1948. It is not clear if this hand-typed document preceded, or followed, the published version.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. The Word document and its PDF below were compared with, and supplement with information from, the copy online at bahaitalks.blogspot.com.

Message to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors on the Nine Year Plan - Universal House of Justice (2021)
Features of the new 9-Year Plan, "the first major undertaking in a sacred twenty-five-year venture, generational in its scope and significance," to be implemented Ridvan 2022.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in .docx, and .html formats. Also available in French and Spanish. See also Persian interlinear. Also available in outline format in PDF or Word (J. Seow), and as a formatted/paginated version with added paragraph numbers and references in PDF or Word (M. Thomas). See also a study guide (R. McClelland). See also three follow-up messages from the Universal House of Justice: To all National Spiritual Assemblies, To the Auxiliary Board members, and To the Bahá'ís of the World (bahai.org). This and related letters from Nov. 2021 - Jan. 2022 are also published in the booklet The Nine Year Plan: 2022-2031 (Palabra, 2022). See also 5-Year Plan 2006-2011, 5-Year Plan 2011-2016, and 1-Year Plan 2021-2022.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Clusters; Community building; Counsellors; Education; Encouragement; Institute process; Local Spiritual Assemblies; Nine Year Plan (2022-2031); Pioneering; Plans; Public discourse (discourses of society); Social action; Society building; Statistics; Training Institutes; Transformation

Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada, 1969)
Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Bahá'í Writings that their future is very great, and that they themselves best help to fulfill these promises by taking the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh to their own people.
Keywords: Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Bahá'u'lláh; Canada; Central America; Cities; Civilization; Cultural diversity; Deepening; Education; Equality; Ethics; First Nations, Canada; God; God, Word of; Human nature; Indigenous people; Introductory; Inuit people; Language; Latin America; Light; Literacy; Morality; Native Americans; Nature; North America; Prayer; Race; Reconciliation; Service; Teaching; Translation; United States (documents); Unity; Unity of humanity; Virtues

Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1996)
The HTML of this book, below has not been fully proofread. See a better proofed and formatted version of the book at bahai.works. Also available in proofread Microsoft Word version, prepared by M. Thomas (2022). Below is the Table of Contents without the book. See the complete book at Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86.
Keywords: 1963; 1986; Abu'l-Qásim Faizí; Adelbert Mühlschlegel; Age of maturity (children); Agnes Alexander; Amoz Gibson; Architects; Ashgabat; Auxiliary board members; Baghdad, Iraq; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahji, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of; Bahá'u'lláh, Houses of; Bahá'u'lláh, Love for; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Bahá'í Institutes; Bahá'í International Community (general); Bahá'í Radio; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í Writings; Bahá'í meetings; Bahá'í schools; Behavior; Births and deaths; Bolivia; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Calamities and catastrophes; Change; Charity and relief work; Charles Mason Remey; Chastity; Chicago, IL; Children; Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; Conferences, Youth; Confidentiality; Consolidation; Constitutions (Bahá'í); Constitutions (general); Consultation; Conventions; Conventions, International; Conventions, National; Conversion; Counsellors; Covenant; Criticism and apologetics; Cry from the Heart, A (book); Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Decision making; Deepening; Divorce; Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); Education; Elections; Elucidation; Enoch Olinga; Equality; Ether (concept); Ethics; Excellence; Exemption; Five Year Plan (1974-1979); Forbearance; Formative Age; Foundation stones and groundbreaking; Frankfurt, Germany; Funds; Gardens; Gender; Germany; Glenford Mitchell; God, Love for; Gradual implementation of laws; Growth; Guardianship; Haifa, Israel; Hands of the Cause; Hasan Balyuzi; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Healing prayer, Long; Holy days; Holy places; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazra'ih); House of Bahá'u'lláh (Takur); House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá (Akká); Human rights; Huqúqu'lláh; In Memoriam; India; Infallibility; Inspiring the Heart (compilation); International Teaching Centre; Interpretation; Iran (documents); Iraq

Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86 - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1996)
The HTML of this book, below has not been fully proofread. See a better proofed and formatted version of the book at bahai.works. Also available in proofread Microsoft Word version, prepared by M. Thomas (2022). Below is the complete book without the Table of Contents. See the Table of Contents at Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86.
Keywords: 1963; 1986; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1968-1973 - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1976)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: 1968; 1973; Agnes Alexander; Alvin Blum; Lutfullah Hakim; Matthew Bullock; Músá Banání; Ridván messages; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages; Ṭaráẓu’lláh Samandarí

Messages from the Universal House of Justice: 1986-2001 - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2009)
Messages from the fourth epoch of the Formative Age.
Also available as an updated Microsoft Word document, proofread and updated by Mike Thomas (2023).
Keywords: 1986; 2001; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Messages of Shoghi Effendi to the Indian Subcontinent: 1923-1957 - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust of India, 1995)
Revised and expanded version of Dawn of a New Day.
First posted in 2005 as uncorrected HTML; formatted in 2011 and re-posted as PDF. See also an updated, proofread Word document (M. Thomas, 2019). Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: 1923; 1957; Dawn of a New Day (book); India; Shoghi Effendi, letters of

Messages to America - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1947)
Selected messages to the American Bahá'ís from Shoghi Effendi from 1932 to 1946.
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; United States (documents)

Messages to Canada - Shoghi Effendi (Canada Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1965)
See the newer 1999 version here. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Canada; Canada; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Messages to Canada: 1999 edition - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Canada Publications; Canada Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1999)
Updated and expanded version of the 1965 book.
This file was received directly from the NSA of Canada, digitally, by request, with permission for posting to the Bahá'í Library. It is presumably fully proofread. See the older 1965 version here. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Canada; Canada; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Messages to the Antipodes (Australasia) - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publications Australia, 1997)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here. See also the 2021 second edition in PDF [8MB] and Word formats, prepared by Mike Thomas (2023).
Keywords: Australasia; Australia; Messages to the Antipodes (book); New Zealand; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Messages to the Bahá'í World - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971)
General messages of Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'ís, written between 1950 and 1957.
Keywords: Messages to the Bahá’í World, 1950-1957 (book); Shoghi Effendi, letters of

Messengers of God in North America, Revisited: An Exegesis of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Amír Khán - Buck,Christopher; Addison,Donald (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
The indigenous peoples of the Americas have their own claim to wisdom tradition, which derive from Messengers of God to First Nations. This principle is anchored in the Tablet to Amír Khán Áhan.
See also Native Messengers of God in Canada? A Test Case for Bahá'í Universalism. Mirrored with permission from oj.bahaistudies.net/. Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Canada; Exegesis; Indigenous people; Interfaith dialogue; Native American messengers; Native Americans; Tablet to Amir Khan; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure - Momen,Moojan (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
The argument about exactly when Bahá'u'lláh became aware of his mission. Relevant issues and rival perspectives.
Mirrored with permission from www.momen.org/relstud/. PDF posted at oj.bahaistudies.net. Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Amr (word); Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of Revelation of; Bahá'u'lláh, Declaration of; Báb, The; Concealment; Criticism and apologetics; Dalail-i-Sabih (Seven Proofs); Hadith of Kumayl; Iraq; Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Manifestations of God, Gradual disclosure of; Mirrors; Shahifiy-i-Shattiyyih (Book of the River); Words and phrases

Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure - Cole,Juan (2002)
Lengthy collection of notes on Baha'u'llah's relationship to Subh-i-Azal, with quotations from Fadil Mazandarani's Zuhur al-Haqq histories, compiled and edited from posts sent to an academic email list.
See also M. Momen's Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure (2007), and the complete Tarikh-i Zuhur Al-Haqq.

Messianic Expectations in Nineteenth Century Christian and Islamic Communities - Rabbani,Ahang (2006)
The phenomenon of messianism and its manifestations in early-modern American Christianity and in Iranian Islam.
Presentation delivered in Austin, Texas, February 11, 2006.
Keywords: 19th century; Christianity; Expectations; Islam; Messianism; Prophecies; Return

Metaphor and the Language of Revelation - Woodman,Ross (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1997)
To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the Word as the originating power of creation.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Bible; Birds; Breath; Bride (metaphor); Báb, Grammar of; Báb, Trial of; Báb, Trial of; Christianity; Creation; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Disconnected letters of the Quran; Flowers; God; God, Throne of; God, Word of; God, Worlds of; Henry Corbin; Houris (huris); Hurqalya (imaginal realm); Islam; Jerusalem, Israel; John Milton; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Life after death (afterlife); Literature; Literature, English; Lover and the Beloved; Maid of Heaven; Manifestations of God; Metaphors and allegories; Mind, spirit, soul; Mirrors; Mount Carmel; New Jerusalem; Nightingales; Northrop Frye; Poetry; Prayer; Progressive revelation; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Quddús; Questions and answers; Quran; Resurrection; Return; Revelation; Ross Woodman; Self-knowledge; Shaykhism; Soul; Symbolism; Síyáh-Chál (Black Pit, Tehran); Typology; Unity of religion; William Blake; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality: Ahmad Ahsá'í, Figuration, and the World of Images - Lawson,Todd (Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory, 2024)
Overview of the life of Shaykh Ahmad; his thoughts about the technical rhetorical terms mithál, mathal, and mithl (images), which functioned more as metaphor than simile or parable in the Qur'an and the words of the Imams.
Keywords: Akhbari (Shiite school); Alam-i-Mithal (World of images); Hadith; Imams; Metaphors and allegories; Mujtahid; Northrop Frye; Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism); Usuli (Shiite school)

Metaphors in Education - Handal,Boris (2008)
Knowledge is associated with the development of spiritual capabilities such as justice, confidence, patience, service, etc. Educational research and its methodologies are a vehicle to find knowledge and a tool to help us achieve our highest selves.
Also available in Word format.
Keywords: Education; Metaphors and allegories

Method in Religious Studies: Theistic and Agnostic - McLean,Jack (2000)
Response to an assertion by Christopher Buck that the term religious studies is misleading, in that, while the object of the study is religious, the method is not; thoughts on how a scientific methodology would work.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Annemarie Schimmel

Methodologies and Development Strategies - Arbab,Farzam (1985)
Mirrored from bahaiexplorer.com, which notes: "While the date is unknown it appears to have been from the mid 1980s, sometime after 1983. It should not viewed as a record of current development methodologies."

Methodology and Bahá'í Studies: The Bridge between Realities - Hatcher,John S. (Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
The role of Bahá'í academics to bring to light aspects of the dual physical and spiritual aspects of reality.
Keywords: John Hatcher; Scholarship

Methodology in Bahá'í studies - Momen,Moojan (Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
How Bahá'í scholars can interact with secular academia. Bahá’í scholarship can develop in two ways: interior (scholarship that develops within the Bahá’í community, based on faith) and exterior (academic scholarship based on rationalistic methodology).
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Scholarship

Methods and qualities of the seekers of Reality in Some Answered Questions in the light of Bahá'í Scriptures - Savi,Julio (Lights of Irfan, 2009)
The criteria and qualities of the seekers of Reality. The senses, reason, and reliance on scriptural texts are inadequate means but can be usefully combined. It is only the bounty of the Holy Spirit which bestows enlightenment and certitude, however.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #83, Center for Bahá'í Studies: Acuto, Italy (July 3-6, 2008). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/83/savi_seekers.
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia; Philosophy; Reality; Search; Some Answered Questions (book)

Microsoft Word Autocorrect Tool for Bahá'í Words - House,David William (2018)
A set of about 180 proper nouns encountered in the Bahá'í Faith, which can be added to the custom dictionary in Microsoft Word to help automate their orthography and transliteration.
This is a backup of the webpage and software at completebiogas.com/bahai/autocorrect-tool.html.
Keywords: Software; Terminology; Transliteration and diacritics

Mid-East History during the Islamic Period: Chronology and Commentary - Miller,Brian A. (2000)
Brief overview of Islamic history.
Keywords: Chronology and timelines; History (general); Islam

Midhat Pasha and 'Abdu'l-Baha in 'Akka: The Historical Background of the Tablet of the Land of Bá - Alkan,Necati (Baha'i Studies Review, 2005)
Background of the tablet Lawh-i-Ard-i-Bá, revealed by Bahá'u'lláh on occasion of Abdu'l-Bahá travelling to Beirut to meet the governor of Syria. Includes an account by Mirza Haydar Ali of the Pasha's visit.
Mirrored with permission of author from academia.edu. PDF below from a Microsoft Word version prepared by Mike Thomas (2022); see also original PDF. See also encyclopedia article Medhat Pasha.
Keywords: Beirut, Lebanon; Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí (Angel of Carmel); Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba (Tablet of the Land of Ba); Lebanon; Midhat Páshá; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Migrants and Refugees in Europe - Universal House of Justice (2015)
Principles to guide the response of the Bahá’í community to the dramatic social changes concerning the 2015 influx into Europe of people fleeing conflict in the Middle East, especially Syria.
Keywords: Charity and relief work; Europe; Middle East; Migration; Refugees; Syria; War

Mihdí, Mírzá - Razavi,Shahriar (The Baha'i Encyclopedia, 2009)
On the son of Bahá’u’lláh, who entitled him "the Purest Branch," younger brother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Bahíyyih Khánum.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-encyclopedia-project.org.
Keywords: 1848; 1870; Biography; Mírzá Mihdi (Purest Branch)

Mikhail Sergeev, Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith: Review - Olshin,Benjamin (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2015)
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Church and state; Covenant; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Decline and renewal of religion; Enlightenment, Age of; Islam; Judaism; Modernity; Philosophy; Progressive revelation; Reform; Reformation (Christianity); Renaissance; Sociology; Traditions; Unity of religion

Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852 - Momen,Moojan (Nova Religio, 2008)
Events leading up to the assassination attempt, and political and social factors leading to the violence.
Updated version of a presentation from 2004. See also Millennialist Narrative and Apocalyptic Violence.
Keywords: 1850s; 1852; Millennialism; Nasirid-Din Shah, Attempt on; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Violence

Millennialism in Modern Iranian History - Cole,Juan (Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America, 2002)
Religions in Iran have been volatile and evolving, from a tool of the establishment to representing the voice of the oppressed, from passive to revolutionary. Bahá'u'lláh adapted these motifs to create a vehicle for socially-liberal and democratic ideals.
Adapted from personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2003/millen2.htm.
Keywords: 20th century; Constitutional Revolution (Iran, 1905-1911); Iran; Iran (documents); Millennialism; Pahlavi dynasty; Sociology; Tudeh Party of Iran

Millennialist Narrative and Apocalyptic Violence: The Case of the Babis of Iran - Momen,Moojan (Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 2018)
How apocalyptic narratives played out in events of 1848-50, stages in the escalation of the conflict, factors that increased the likelihood of violence, and developments after 1852 that moved the focus of the religion from pre- to post-millennialism.
Mirrored with permission from jbasr.com. See also Millennialism and Violence.
Keywords: 1848; 1850; 1852

Millennium Forum - Universal House of Justice (2000)
Keywords: Bahá'í International Community; Collaboration and cooperation; Conferences; Disarmament; Diversity; Environment; Equality; Globalization; Human rights; Interfaith dialogue; Justice; Millennium; Nature; Peace; Prosperity; Security; Social and economic development; Solidarity; Sustainable development; Tolerance; United Nations; United Nations Millennium Forum and Summit; United Nations Summits; United Nations conferences; Wealth and poverty; World peace

Milly: A Tribute to The Hand of the Cause of God Amelia E. Collins - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (George Ronald, 1977)
A moving personal biographical history of Amelia Collins.
Keywords: 1873; 1962; Abu'l-Qásim Faizí; Amelia Collins; Biography

Mind and Spirit: Convergence of Neuroscience and Revealed Knowledge - Vargha-Khadem,Faraneh (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 [archived]. Author affiliation: professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience and department head at the Institute of Child Health, University College, London
Keywords: Animals; Evolution; Mind; Psychology; Science; Soul

Mind: "The Power of the Human Spirit" - Filson,Gerald (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2023)
Correlating Bahá’í concepts of the mind with insights from philosophy; conceptual ways of knowing; implications of language for philosophy of mind; science and religion both shed light on the capacities and nature of the mind, including the spiritual.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Animal cognition; Animals; Mind; Mind, spirit, soul; Philosophy; Rationality; Reason; Religion (general); Science; Soul; Spirit (general)

Minimalism - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
See also Minimalism: A Bridge between Classical Philosophy and the Bahá’í Revelation. Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih (Tablet of the Universe); Minimalism; Philosophy

Minimalism from a Bahá'í Perspective - Rahnamaie,Mahyad Zaerpoor (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Minimalism accepts the objective reality outside human perception but may go beyond the reductionism of scientific objectivity. This is relevant to the Bahá’ís, as they favour a perspective in which reality is treated as a unified whole.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #89, Center for Bahá'í Studies, Acuto, Italy (June 28 - July 1, 2009). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/89/zaerpoor%20rahnamaie_minimalism
Keywords: Epistemology; Irfán Colloquia; Knowledge; Minimalism; Philosophy; Science

Minimalism: A Bridge between Classical Philosophy and the Bahá'í Revelation - Hatcher,William S. (Juxta Publishing Co., 2004)
An application of modern relational logic retroactively to problems in classical philosophy such as the existence and nature of God reveals answers which remarkably coincide with the answers found in the Bahá'í scriptures.
See also Hatcher's Minimalism presentation. See also Creating a new school of thought (review by B. Pokorny, 2003). Mirrored with permission from juxta.com. See publisher's Books for the World license.
Keywords: God; Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih (Tablet of the Universe); Metaphysics; Philosophy; Science; William Hatcher

Ministry of the Custodians: An Account of the Stewardship of the Hands of the Cause 1957-1963 - Universal House of Justice; Khanum,Ruhiyyih (Bahá'í World Centre, 1992)
Account of the stewardship of the Hands of the Cause of God from 1957-63, from the passing of Shoghi Effendi to the election of the House, riding the waves of crisis to the moment of victory — the fulfillment of prophecy.
Also available as an updated, corrected Microsoft Word document, prepared by Mike Thomas. While Ruhiyyih Khanum is not listed as an official author, we have included her as author here because, in the Introduction below, she says the book is "based on the files of the Hands in the Holy Land and on my personal experience as one of the Custodians of the Bahá'í Faith for five and a half years." As well, the Ruhi Book 8 (unit 2 section 1) says of this book "she [Khanum] presents a collection of messages from the Hands of the Cause of God."
Keywords: 1957; 1963; Appointed arm; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Custodians; Guardianship; Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; International Bahá'í Council; Ministry of The Custodians (book); Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Election of

Minorities and "Islamic" States: Explaining Bahá'í and Ahmadi Marginalization in Iran and Pakistan - Jamil,Uzma (2002)
Analysis of the marginalization of Bahá'ís in Iran and Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. Link to thesis (offsite).
Thesis for Master of Arts, Department of Political Science, McGill University (Montreal).

Minutes of the Fourteenth Session, 1928 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1928)
Petition to the League of Nations from the Spiritual Assembly of Baghdad regarding confiscation of property.
Keywords: 1920s; 1928; Baghdad, Iraq; Confiscation; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Iraq; League of Nations; Petitions

Minutes of the Nineteenth Session, 1930 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1930)
Half-page summary of the current status of "The Bahai Case," stating that no action has yet been taken.
Keywords: 1930; League of Nations

Minutes of the Sixteenth Session, 1929 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1929)
Petition from the Bahai Spiritual Assembly of Baghdad regarding the confiscation of property; measures taken after the Council's decision.
Keywords: 1929; Baghdad, Iraq; Confiscation; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Iraq; League of Nations; Petitions

Minutes of the Twentieth Session, 1931 June - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1931)
Two-page discussion of the status of "The Bahai Case" regarding confiscation of property in Iraq, possible resolutions, and setting up a "special Committee to consider the views expressed by the Bahai community in respect of certain houses in Baghdad."
Keywords: 1931; League of Nations

Minutes of the Twenty-first Session, 1931 October - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1931)
Report that the League of Nations commission "not yet succeeded in obtaining redress for the Bahai community in respect of the miscarriage of justice of which it was the victim."
Keywords: 1931; League of Nations

Minutes of the Twenty-fourth Session, 1933 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1933)
Report on the "Bahai Case" on the confiscation of houses in Baghdad, stating that "that nothing had as yet been done" though the Iraqi government proposed converting the property into a public space.
Keywords: 1933; League of Nations

Minutes of the Twenty-second Session, 1932 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1932)
On the confiscation of Bahá'u'lláh's house in Baghdad, "the redress of the miscarriage of justice from which the Bahai Community has been the victim has not been carried into effect" because "no measure had yet been taken by the Iraqi Government."
Keywords: 1932; League of Nations

Miracles - Stockman,Robert (1995)
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project. Mirrored with permission from rsmd.net/research/miracles.
Keywords: Eyewitness; Miracles; Pilgrims notes