The Concept of Sin in the Bahá'í Faith - Merchant,Ali K. (Global Religious Vision, 2000)
Just as Bahá'ís don't believe in the existence of evil as a real entity, likewise sin is but the absence of holiness. All the forces within us are God-given and thus potentially virtuous; their absence casts the shadow of sin.
Mirrored from globalvisionpub.com.
Keywords: Armageddon; Christianity; Evil; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Mahabharata; Sin

The Concept of Spirituality - Hatcher,William S. (Baha'i World, 1986)
Widely-read ABS monograph, re-published in the Bahá'í World. Includes chapters "The Nature of Man," "Process of Spiritual Growth," and "Collective Dimension of Spirituality."
This article is also online as a formatted PDF from the Bahá'í Studies monographs webpage, or by direct download from hatcher_concept_spirituality_bsn11.pdf.
Keywords: Arc of ascent and descent; Character; Criticism and apologetics; Education; Evil; Free will; God; Human nature; Interfaith dialogue; Journey (spiritual); Materialism; Philosophy; Purpose of life; Science; Soul; Spirituality

The Concept of the "Perfect Man" (Pole) in Sufism and the Bahá'í Notion of the Manifestation of God - Ioannesyan,Youli A. (Lights of Irfan, 2001)
While there is an obvious similarity between the Sufi concept of the "Perfect Man" and the Bahá'í concept of the "Manifestation of God," there are also striking differences; the theologies of at-Tirmidhí, Ibn al-'Arabí, Dáwud-al-Qaysarí, and Haydar Amulí.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #28, London School of Economics (July 14-6, 2000). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/28/ioannesyan_perfect.
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia; Manifestations of God; Perfect Man (Sufism); Qutb (Pole); Sufism

The Condition of non-Bahá'í Relatives after Death - Universal House of Justice (1991)
Four questions: Do the non-Bahá'í parents of believers become Bahá'ís in the next world? What is the definition of "kin"? What is the requisite spiritual state of the believer? What conditions are associated with the divine bounty?
Mirrored with permission of recipient from bahaistudies.net and bahairesearch.com.
Keywords: Ancestors and descendants; Death; Family; Life after death (afterlife); Non-Bahá'í relatives; Parents; Research Department, Questions and answers; Soul

The Conflict Resolution Movement - Gonzales,Steven (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1999)
What exactly is conflict resolution? Why do so many different disciplines lay claim to it? This article is an introduction to the field, a review of conflict resolution in history, and a survey of contemporary legislation worldwide.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/278.
Keywords: Conflict resolution; Law

The Conservation and Restoration of Calligraphy by Mishkín Qalam - Ishikawa,Shingo; Ravines,Patrick (2004)
Three versions of a paper explaining the procedure for preserving manuscripts at the Bahá'í World Centre, using the example of calligraphy by Mishkín Qalam. Includes high-resolution sample of Qalam's artwork.
Keywords: Arabic language; Archives; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre; Calligraphy; Haifa, Israel; International Bahá'í Archives; Mishkín-Qalam; Preservation and conservation (archives); Restoration and renovation

The Consolation of Theology: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism - Arjomand,Said Amir (Journal of Religion, 1996)
Overview of the Shi'i doctrine of occultation, or the "Hidden Imam," and how this idea evolved into a principle of salvation: historical background; hidden God / sealed prophecy; theodicy and law; rationalization. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Purchase this paper online at journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jr/1996/76/4. Also later published in Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: collected essays (Brill, 2016). See also the author's Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation and Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism.
Keywords: Hidden Imam; Imams; Islam; Shia Islam (Shiism); Twelfth Imam

The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic - Schirazi,Asghar (I. B. Tauris, 1997)
Passing mention of the Bahá'ís, in the context of persecutions under Khomeini and human rights violations.
Keywords: Ayatollah Khomeini; Human rights; Mentions

The Constitutional Movement and the Bahá'ís of Iran: The Creation of an 'Enemy Within' - Momen,Moojan (British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2012)
Bahá'ís had a complex relationship with the Constitutionalist Movement, sometimes supporting it and sometimes abstaining from involvement, but the impact of the Bahá'ís on the reformers and on the Revolution has been underestimated.
Posted by author at academia.edu. See also original Word document. Volume 39, Issue 3, (2012), pages 328-346.
Keywords: Constitutional Movement (Iran); Iran (documents); Iranian constitution; Reform

The Constitutionality of Teaching Islam: The University of North Carolina Qur'an Controversy - Buck,Christopher (Observing the Observer: The State of Islamic Studies in American Universities, 2012)
Legal commentary on the lawsuit Yacovelli v. Moeser, filed in 2002 against UNC Chapel Hill over its academic orientation program requiring freshmen to read selected passages from the Qur’an. Includes review of Sell's Approaching the Qur'an.
Keywords: 2002; Chapel Hill, NC; Islam; North Carolina, USA; United States (documents)

The Constructive Imaginary - Karlberg,Michael (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2020)
In a 2007 letter on the closing of the BIHE, the Universal House of Justice introduced the concept of "constructive resilience"; on the relationship of this to other concepts in discourses on social change, and its relevance to the exigencies of the age.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/313. See also complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Administrative Order; African Americans; Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE); Indigenous people; Institute process; Justice; Native Americans; Non-violence; Oppression; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Protest; Race; Resilience; Social change; Social justice

The Continuing Contest between Exclusivism and Pluralism: Thoughts on the 2002 Day of Prayer for Peace - Savi,Julio (World Order, 2002)
Origins and purpose of the Catholic "Day of Prayer in Assisi," and interfaith dialogue.
Mirrored with permission from juliosavi.it.
Keywords: 2002; Christianity; Exclusivism; Interfaith dialogue; Peace; Pluralism; Prayer

The Conversion of Mormonism - Townshend,George (Church Missions Publishing Company, 1911)
This booklet by a gentile setting up churches and schools in Utah is very kind toward the Mormons. The writer, broad minded about Utah's majority religion, outlines Mormon history before detailing his own church's mission to Utah. (No mention of Bahá'í.)
Keywords: George Townshend; Mormonism (Latter Day Saints)

The Conversion of the Great-Uncle of the Báb - Rabbani,Ahang (World Order, 1999)
The history of Hájí Mírzá Sayyid Muhammad (1798-1876), maternal uncle of the Bab.
Keywords: 1876; 19th century; Bahá'u'lláh; Biography; Báb, Family of; Báb, The; Báb, Uncles of; Conversion; Dating of Writings; Hidden Imam; Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad; Imams; Islam; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Prophecies; Questions and answers; Qá'im; Shia Islam (Shiism); Twelfth Imam; Uncles

The Conversive Turn in Bahá'í Scripture: An Intersubjective Communications Model for Bridging Global Diversity - de Ramirez,Susan Berry Brill (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
Communications which manifest equality of participants bring diverse persons and elements of the world together. Bahá'í consultation exemplifies the capacity of language to transform the world through the unifying power of interpersonal connections.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/138. See also Conversive Relationality in Bahá'í Scholarship: Centering the Sacred and Decentering the Self (Brill de Ramirez, 1995).
Keywords: Consultation; Cultural diversity; Diversity

The Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism - Lawson,Todd (Religions, 2021)
On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths: the Oneness of God, the Oneness of Religion, and the Oneness of Humanity. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Also online at mdpi.com where it is also available in epub format.
Keywords: Alast (Primordial Covenant); Apocalypse; Arabic language; Bible; Christianity; Constitutions (general); Covenant; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Epics; God, Names of; Interfaith dialogue; Invocations; Islam; Joseph (Prophet); Judaism; Light; Light verse (Quran); Moses; Muhammad (Prophet); Northrop Frye; Opposites; Pairs of words; Prophets; Quran; Return; Revelation; Typology; Unity; Unity of humanity; Unity of religion; Words and phrases

The Countenance of the Blessed Beauty in the Mirror of Mawlúd Tablets - Seddigh,Foad (Lights of Irfan, 2018)
Review of four tablets in compilation from the Universal House of Justice about the commemoration of the anniversary of the birth of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, and guidance from 2015 intended to harmonize their lunar and solar dates.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/seddigh_mawlud.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Báb, Birth of; Days of Remembrance (book); God, Day of; Holy days; Idol worship; Lawh-i-Mawlud (Tablet of the Birth); Tree (metaphor); Words and phrases; Worship

The Covenant - Nakhjavani,Ali (2005)
From a conference at Centro Studi Bahá'í, Acuto, Italy, February 19-26 2005.
If you can listen to these files and suggest titles, or find out the full names of speakers, please email me. Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng/nakhjavani/akuto.htm.
Keywords: Alí Nakhjavání; Covenant

The Covenant - Remey,Charles Mason (1919)
"A brief statement of the Covenant God made with mankind through the prophets of the past and has fulfilled in these latter days, in the Bahai Movement." Includes excerpts of tablets and talks of Abdu'l-Bahá.
This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org. Also available as a corrected Word document. See also scan of original brochure. While Remey later broke the covenant (see uhj_mason_remey_followers), at the time he wrote this paper 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.

The Covenant - Shahrokh,Darius (Windows to the Past, 1995)
Overview of two covenants: one with all Prophets regarding the next Manifestation, specifically the Covenant of the Bab; and Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant protecting the divine word from human interference and safeguarding the unity of Bahá'ís and all humankind.
From a series of deepening talks prepared from Persian and English sources, distributed on cassette tape in the 1990s and converted to online audio in the 2000s. See About Windows to the Past.
Keywords: Covenant

The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh - Handal,Boris (Australian Baha'i Bulletin, 2008)
Overview of the Bahá'í Covenant, the nature of Covenant-breaking, and the spiritual foundation for being firm in such a fundamental principle.
A modified version of this paper was published in Australian Bahá'í Bulletin (2008), updated for posting online (2022). Also available in Word format.
Keywords: Covenant

The Covenant of Baha'u'llah - Taherzadeh,Adib (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1972)
Link to book (offsite).
See a page about this book at bahaipedia.org. See also the companion volume Child of the Covenant.
Keywords: 1921; 1963; Administrative Order; Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Báb, Station of; Covenant-breakers (individuals); Criticism and apologetics; Custodians; Guardianship; Hands of the Cause; Interregnum (1957-1963); Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Life after death (afterlife); Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Shoghi Effendi, Family of; Soul; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh; Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá

The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh and The Ministry of the Custodians: Reviews - Danesh,John; Fazel,Seena (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1993)
Review of works by Adib Taherzadeh and the Bahá’í World Centre.
See also original scan PDF, from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/191.

The Covenant of Baha'u'llah: A Compilation - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the British Isles, compiler (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1963)
Lengthy compilation published as a book, first put together in 1950, of quotations from Scripture — Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Bábí, and Bahá’í — about the Covenant of God, the Eternal Covenant, and the Greater and Lesser Covenants.
Also available as a Microsoft Word document.
Keywords: Christianity; Covenant; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism

The Covenant: An Analysis - Townshend,George (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1950)
A study guide in outline form on the idea of a covenant, Messengers and their missions, the covenant between the Messenger and the faithful, and covenant-breaking. Includes an appendix, compilation on the covenant.
Also available in RTF.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; George Townshend; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Quran

The Covenant: Brit Olam - Terry,Peter (1997)
The concept of covenant is found in the Bible, the Qur'an, and Bahá'í writings. Using the form of an inter-religious dialogue, this paper correlates references to covenant in four religions, demonstrating the distinctive characteristics of each.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Covenant; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Quran

The Creative Act and the Spirit - Wilder,Bonnie (The Creative Circle, 1989)
Essay on the connections between art and the Bahá'í teachings, from the perspective of personal artistic experience. (First 90% of article only, pages 17-34.)
From books.google.com. Pages 35-36 of this article were not included in the Google preview.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Creativity; Education; Painting; Reflection; Visuals

The Creative Circle: Art, Literature, and Music in Baha'i Perspective - Fitzgerald,Michael, editor (Kalimat Press, 1989)
Essays on the arts including poetry, music, film, etc. and their role in the Bahá'í community.
Only three articles and the Preface/Foreword are currently available from this book. See also a review. From books.google.com, reposted with permission.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Creativity; Film; Literature; Music; Poetry

The Creative Word and the Meaning of Unity: An Annotated Survey of Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Ittihád (Tablet of Unity) - Monjazeb,Shahrokh (2010)
On the contents of the Tablet of Unity and its relevance for the social life of humanity, including a provisional English translation from the earliest Persian/Arabic published source.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Lawh-i-Ittihad (Tablet of Unity); Unity

The Crisis in Babi and Bahá'í Studies: Part of a Wider Crisis in Academic Freedom? - MacEoin,Denis (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 1990)
Response to Cole's review of MacEoin's "Hierarchy, Authority, and Eschatology in Early Bábí Thought" with comments on "outsider" scholarship versus faith-based approaches.
See related discussions in Debates between MacEoin et al., especially Cole's and MacEoin's follow-up essays, and see MacEoin's earlier Hierarchy Authority and Eschatology in Early Bábí Thought.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Bábísm; Criticism and apologetics; Scholarship

The Crisis of Identity - Sabet,Shahrzad (Baha'i World, 2023)
Exploring how the Bahá’í principle of the oneness of humanity can resolve the seemingly intractable tension between oneness and diversity.
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org, where it is available in a nicer HTML format.
Keywords: Community building; Cultural diversity; Freedom and liberty; Gender; Globalization; Identity; Independent investigation of truth; Love; Peace; Psychology; Race; Racism; Sociology; Soul; Transformation; Unity; Unity in diversity; Unity of humanity

The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism: A Sociohistorical Perspective - Arjomand,Said Amir (International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1996)
Background of the history and theology of concepts like Qa'im, Mahdi, ghayba, and the hidden twelfth Imam. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
See more in the online book Occultation of the Twelfth Imam (A Historical Background).
Keywords: Hidden Imam; Imams; Islam; Mahdi (Mihdi); Occultation; Prophecies; Qá'im; Shia Islam (Shiism); Twelfth Imam

The Criteria of Knowledge: Beyond Inspiration - Savi,Julio (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2014)
On the epistemology of inspiration and intuition; 4 criteria of human knowledge: sense perception, intellect, scriptural tradition, and inspiration. Abdu'l-Bahá adds a fifth: the inmost heart.
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Knowledge; Philosophy

The Crucial Heart - Jarvik,Barbara (dialogue magazine, 1988)
Short story about religious tolerance in Israel.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Fiction; Israel; Stories; Tolerance

The Crucible: Poems - McLean,Jack (1995)
53 poems, some written after the passing of the author's father, Allan James McLean (d. 1995).
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Poetry

The Cultivation of Belief: 'The Gardener,' Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Inquiry Into Religion - Dargis,Manohla (New York Times, 2013)
A review of The Gardener, a meditative documentary by an outsider which is partly about the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Cinema; Documentaries; Film

The Cyprus Exiles - Momen,Moojan (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1991)
History of Mirza Yahya's family and the four followers of Bahá'u'lláh exiled with them in Cyprus. Includes genealogies.
This copy has been scanned from the original and may contain errors. Mirrored with permission from momen.org. See also Microsoft Word version.
Keywords: 1868; 1870s; 19th century; Aqa Muhammad-Baqir (Qahvih-chiy-i Mahallati); Aqa `Abdu'l-Ghaffar; Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Cyprus; Cyprus exiles; Exile (banishment); First Bahá'ís by country or area; Islands; Mishkín-Qalam; Mírzá Aliy-i-Sayyah-i-Maraghihi (Mullá Ádí-Guzal); Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal)

The Dangers of Reading: Inlibration Communion and Transference in the Qur'an Commentary of The Bab - Lawson,Todd (Scripture and Revelation, 1997)
Tafsír (traditional Qur'an commentary) and the writings of the Bab.
Keywords: Interpretation; Islam; Quran; Tafsir (exegesis)

The Dawn of Knowledge and Most Great Peace - Dealy,Paul Kingston (Bahá'í Publishing Society, 1903)
Early collection of lectures on Bahá'í teachings and history with reference to the Bible, and a "supplement" by Abdu'l-Bahá.
See a page about Dealy in Hoonaard's Origins of the Bahá'í Community in Canada, online at Amazon and archive.org.

The Dawn-Breakers Movie - Keene,James J. (1986)
Sample sections of a movie script of historical fiction: preface, first scene, and appendices 1-5: Dawn-Breakers chronology, story outline and plot, and character visualizations.
See also The Dawn-Breakers Novel. This book is part of the Bahá'í Themes series. Purchase online at amazon.com.
Keywords: Dawn-Breakers (book); Film

The Dawn-Breakers Novel - Keene,James J. (2021)
Sample chapters from a book of historical fiction: preface and chapters 1-3: Anticipation of the mission of the Báb, the Shaykhi movement in Karbala, and proclamation of the mission of the Báb.
See also The Dawn-Breakers Movie. This book is part of the Bahá'í Themes series. Purchase online at amazon.com
Keywords: Dawn-Breakers (book)

The Dawn-Breakers: A Summary - Kersten,Martijn (2002)
Outline, in point form, of each chapter.
Mirrored with permission from sites.google.com/site/akbweb.
Keywords: Dawn-Breakers (book); Outlines and summaries

The Day of Victory - Khanum,Ruhiyyih; Gibson,Amoz (1963)
Two notable talks given at the First Bahá'í World Congress (London, 1963).
Audio posted online at http://bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng.htm. I have another version of these audio files from a different website, email me if you need it.
Keywords: Bahá'í World Congress, First (1963); London, England

The Days of a Man - Jordan,David Starr (World Book Company, 1922)
One-paragraph mention of meeting Abdu'l-Bahá in 1912.
See entire book at archive.org.
Keywords: 1912; Mentions; Pilgrims notes

The Death of Death: A Study of Self-Annihilation and Suicide in the Light of Sufi Thought and Bahá'u'lláh's Early Texts - Kerr,Bernardo Bortolin (2014)
On theories of suicide in the field of conventional psychology and the writings of Bahá'u'lláh.
Posted by author at academia.edu. Also available as a Microsoft Word document.
Keywords: Psychology; Self-annihilation (fana); Sufism; Suicide

The Death Penalty: Australian Legal Institutions vs the Bahá'í Faith? - Le Lievre,Roger (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
The Bahá'í teachings accept the application of the death penalty as a punishment for murder as an expression of retributive justice.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Australia; Capital punishment; Justice; Laws

The Declaration of the Báb in Bahá'í Imagination: Introducing a Woman and an African into the Sacred History of the Bahá'í Community - Lee,Anthony (2025)
The account of the declaration of the Báb to Mullá Husayn on May 22, 1844, as told by Nabil in Dawn Breakers vs. the accounts of two eyewitnesses, the Báb's wife Khadijih Bagum and his servant Haji Mubarak; "academic history" vs. "sacred history."
Also online at academia.edu/AnthonyALee.
Keywords: 1844; 19th century; Bahá'í history; Báb, Declaration of; Dawn-Breakers (book); Hagiography; History (general); Hájí Mubarak; Khadijih Bagum (wife of the Báb); Munirih Khanum; Nabíl-i-A‘ẓam

The Deft Adjustment: English-language poetry in present-day Israel - White,Roger (dialogue magazine, 1988)
Discussion of Israeli and Jewish poems, and reviews of the books Voices within the Ark, Modern Hebrew Poetry, Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, Seven Gates: Poetry from Jerusalem, and Voices Israel.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Poetry; Roger White

The Deification of Jesus - McLean,Jack (World Order, 1980)
The apotheosis of Christ is a common factor to all branches of Christianity. This paper examines the historical development of this belief, from the writings of St. Paul, gnosticism, and the debates between Arius, Cyril, and Nestorius. Also in French.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com. See also original scan, and proofread Word version (prepared by Gengadran Arun, 2022).
Keywords: Christianity; Jesus Christ

The Dervish of Windsor Castle: The Life of Arminius Vambery - Alder,Lory; Dalby,Richard (Bachman & Turner, 1979)
Two-paragraph discussion of Curzon and the Babis.
Keywords: 1890s; Arminius Vambery; Bábísm; Franz Josef; George Curzon; Hungary; Iran (documents); Nasirid-Din Sháh; Sufism

The Desire of the World: Materials for the contemplation of God and His Manifestation for this Day - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1982)
Compiled from the Words of Bahá’u’lláh. Includes a compilation of names and titles of God and of Bahá'u'lláh.
Mirrored from bahaiebooks.org.
Keywords: Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Bahá'u'lláh, Titles of; E-books; God; God, Names of; Names and titles; Prayer; Prayer texts

The Destiny of America and The Promise of World Peace - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (New York Times, 2001)
Statement published as a full-page ad in New York Times on prerequisites for world peace: acceptance of the oneness of humanity; eradication of racism; emancipation of women; elimination of wealth disparity; end to nationalism; religious harmony.
Mirrored from bahai.us. See a news report about this statement at news.bahai.org/story/147.
Keywords: National Spiritual Assembly, statements; New York, USA; Newspapers; Peace; Promise of World Peace (statement); Statements; United States (documents)

The Development of Humankind - Savi,Julio (Lights of Irfan, 2000)
From a religious perspective, beyond their material and intellectual development, human beings can attain spirituality. Human life is like a school: the teacher is the spiritual Master, the text is the revealed book, the pupil is each human being.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/savi_humankind.
Keywords: Development; Irfán Colloquia

The Development of Metaphysics in Persia: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy - Iqbal,Muhammad (Bazm-i-Iqbal, 1908)
Short philosophical observations on the theology of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.
This book is available in a number of formats at archive.org. Another version, published by Luzac & Co. (London) with different formatting and pagination, is here (archive.org). For a reader friendly version, see Project Gutenberg, which has diacritics. See also Iqbál and the Bábí-Bahá'í Faith (A. Schimmel, 1990), Allamah Iqbal’s First Book (J. Walbridge, 2000), and Wikipedia.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Buddhism; Bábísm; Interfaith dialogue; Iran (documents); Islam; Life after death (afterlife); Metaphysics; Muhammad Iqbal; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Reform; Shaykhism; Soul; Sufism

The Development of Precast Exposed Aggregate Concrete Cladding: The Legacy of John J. Earley and the Implications for Preservation Philosophy - Cellini,Jenna (2008)
Architectural use of concrete and different concrete types, with many references to the Bahá'í temple in Wilmette. Link to thesis (offsite).
Thesis for the Degree of Master of Science in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania.
Keywords: Architecture; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Philosophy

The Development of Shaykhi Thought in Shi'i Islam - Rafati,Vahid (1979)
Dissertation submitted for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Also available in Microsoft Word format prepared by Mike Thomas (2017/2022). See also Moojan Momen's The Works of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsá'í: A Bibliography.
Keywords: Islam; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism)

The Development of the Bábí / Bahá'í Communities: Exploring Baron Rosen's Archives - Ioannesyan,Youli A. (Routledge, 2013)
19th-century private letters and diplomatic correspondence from a prominent Russian scholar, one of the first to study the rise of the Babis. Excerpt from book: contents and Introduction. (Offsite.)
Online at orientalstudies.ru.
Keywords: 19th century; Alexander Tumansky; Archives; Bahá'í studies; Baron Rosen; Bábísm; E. G. Browne; Manuscripts; Russia

The Development of the Bábí/Bahá'í Communities: Exploring Baron Rosen's Archives, by Youli Ioannesyan: Review - Buck,Christopher (Nova Religio, 2015)
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu.
Keywords: Alexander Tumansky; Bahá'í studies; Baron Rosen; Bábísm; Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia

The Development of the Bahá'í Faith in Malwa: 1941-1974 - Garlington,William (Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi, and Baha'i Studies, 1999)
A socio-cultural examination of Bahá'í mass teaching as experienced in Central India.
See also the author's Bahá'í Proselytization in Malwa, Bahá'í Faith in Malwa: a contemporary religious movement, and Development of the Bahá'í Faith in India. Mirrored with permission from www.h-net.org.
Keywords: 1941; 1974; Hinduism; India; Malwa, India; Zoroastrianism

The Dialogue between Yin-Yang Concepts and the Bahá'í Faith - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
Yin-yang, a pivotal theory in Chinese thought influencing government, architecture, relationships, and ethics, has many similarities with the Bahá’í Faith, including the origin of matter, the nature of history, man-woman relationships, and health.
See the table of contents, editor's note, and biographical data in the complete issue, vol. 6.
Keywords: Balance; China; Equality; Gender; Health and healing; Philosophy; Philosophy, Chinese; Relativism; Taoism; Unity; Women; Yin Yang

The Diary of Ahmad Sohrab: Diary Letters and Notes - Sohrab,Ahmad (1913)
Letters from Abdu'l-Bahá's secretary during His travels to North America, written July 1913 - Oct 1914.
The scans below were sent by different people at different times; July 1913 to October 1914 were posted in tif and pdf format in 2020; April 1–30 1913 and June 17–30 1913 were posted in pdf only in 2021.
Keywords: 1913; 1914; Mirza Ahmad Sohrab; Pilgrims notes; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá

The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, during his tour through Europe in 1873 - Shah,Nasir al-Din (John Murray, 1874)
Contains no mention of the Bábí or Bahá'í Faiths, but is useful for historical context, and a window into the Sháh's worldview.
Keywords: 1873; Biography; Culture, Western; Europe; History (general); Iran (documents); Nasirid-Din Sháh; Shahs; Travelogues

The Dichotomies of Charles Dickens still hold true today - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2011)
On the state of the present-day world, which swings between the extremes of unprecedented achievements and unimaginable horrors.
Mirrored with permission of author from www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2986996.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Charles Dickens; Literature; Literature, English; Wealth and poverty

The Difficult Art of Translation: Selected Extracts From Letters Written By and On Behalf of the Universal House of Justice Concerning the Translations of Shoghi Effendi - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, compiler (2002)
Seven selections, from 1964-1999, on various matters regarding translation.
More details about this compilation are in Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Gender in the Writings and Matters of Translation (2002). The original date of this compilation (if prior to 2002) is not given.
Keywords: Style (Writings); Translation

The Difficulties of the Young Turk Party - Cobb,Stanwood (The North American Review, 1912)
Reflections on the character and political fortunes of the Young Turks, written shortly before the partitioning of Ottoman empire.
Online at jstor.org/stable/25119678.
Keywords: Stanwood Cobb; Turkey; Young Turks

The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah: Its Continuing Place In History - Wilson,Helen T. (2000)
Historical context of the Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh and some of the Guardian's objectives in writing it.
Presented as a homework assignment for the Wilmette Institute's "Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh" Course.
Keywords: Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh (letter); World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (book)

The Dispensation of the Bab - Handal,Boris (2023)
Detailed, systematic presentation of the Báb's teachings; Bábí prophecies relating to Bahá'u'lláh; the extent to which the Báb's laws have been carried forward into the Bahá'í revelation.
Posted with permission of author. Please consider purchasing a copy from amazon.com.
Keywords: 19th century; Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Biography; Báb, Laws of; Báb, Teachings of; Báb, The; E-books; Iran (documents)

The Distance Traversed - Knowlton,Bev; Young,Joan (2022)
Overview of early travel teaching in Canada by various individuals, including contact with the Piikani First Nation (aka Peigan Reserve).
Keywords: Piikani First Nation, AB; Travel Teaching

The Divine Art of Living - Báb, The; Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá (Bahá’í Publishing, 1944)
Collection of thematically arranged quotations.
Mirrored from bahaiebooks.org. Four editions are also online at archive.org: 1960, 1979, 1986, and 2006.
Keywords: Basics; Blessings; Certitude; Death; Deeds; Divine Art of Living (book); E-books; Faith (general); Family; God; Health and healing; Human nature; Life after death (afterlife); Living the life; Love; Mabel Hyde Paine; Materialism; Meditation; Prayer; Sacrifice; Spirituality; Tests and difficulties; Thankfulness and gratitude; Trust; Virtues

The Divine Institution of Marriage - Anonymous (Baha'i Studies Notebook, 1983)
See Bahá'í Studies Notebook 3.1 table of contents.
Keywords: Marriage

The Divine Institution of Marriage: Bahá'í Studies Notebook - Various (Association for Bahá'í Studies North America, 1983)
Compilation of essays on marriage from a Bahá'í perspective.
These articles are also posted online at the ABS bahaistudies.ca.
Keywords: Marriage

The Divine Plan: A Skit - Author unknown
3-page screenplay dramatizing the building of the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh and its unfoldment and spread across the world.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. No date given, but Zahrah (Pearl) Schoeny is one of the narrators so this would have been dated before 1943.
Keywords: Arizona, USA; Phoenix, AZ; Plays; United States (documents); Zahrah Schoeny

The Dunns: Keys to Their Success - Featherstone,Madge; Waterman,Kaye (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
John Henry Hyde Dunn(c. 1855–1941) and Clara Dunn (1869–1960) were a pioneer Bahá'í couple in Australia.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: 1855; 1869; 1941; 1960; Biography

The Duty of Kindness and Sympathy Towards Strangers - Savi,Julio (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
Integrating immigrants into the culture of their new country is becoming a focus in some Western states. In 2007 the Italian government issued a “Charter on the Values and Significance of Citizenship and Integration,” which reflects such Bahá'í ideals.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/97/savi_kindness.
Keywords: Cultural diversity; Ethics; Integration (migration); Migration

The Dynamics of the Iranian Revolution: The Pahlavis' Triumph and Tragedy - Amuzegar,Jahangir (State University of New York Press, 1991)
One-paragraph discussion of a one-time Iranian conspiracy theory that the Bahá'ís and Freemasons were running the country.
Keywords: 1920s; Freemasonry; Mentions; Pahlavi dynasty; Reza Shah Pahlavi

The Early Years of the Babi Movement: Background and Development - Amanat,Abbas (1981)
Details of the rise of the Bábí religion, 1844-1847: military and social climate of Iran, millenarianism, the family of The Báb, conflicts within early Shaykhism, and shifts in The Báb's proclamation.
PhD dissertation for the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Mirrored with CC license from ora.ox.ac.uk.
Keywords: 1840s; 1844; 1847; 18th century

The Education of Youth and Our Twentieth Century Dilemma - Taherzadeh,Habib (Baha'i News, 1959)
Moral education is lacking in modern societies. Bahá'í moral precepts can guide us towards the goal of moral evolution, to usher in the Golden Age of human maturity and the dawn of Divine Civilization on this planet.
Mirrored from Bahai.works, where it is also available as PDF scan of the original.
Keywords: 20th century; Children; Education; Ethics; Ethics; Family; Materialism; Moral education; Science; Virtues; Youth

The Effect of Philosophical and Linguistic Gender Biases on the Degradation of Women's Status in Religion - Ma'ani,Baharieh Rouhani (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1997)
Women’s rights have been undermined for centuries; philosophical and linguistic gender-related biases and their effect on the degradation of women’s status in religion; suggestions for eradicating the causes of inequality in order to hasten world unity.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca.
Keywords: Bias; Equality; Gender; Language; Philosophy; Women

The Effect of Revelation on Artistic Expression - Rogers,Otto Donald (Baha'i Studies, 1982)
The themes and processes of visual art are the same as those of constructive evolution: man as an instrument, desire for order and beauty, use of materials, element of light, principle of unity, balance of polarities, and mobility through faith.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-studies.ca/monographs. See also an earlier version of this article, "The Function of Revelation in Artistic Expression."
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Beauty; Light; Unity

The Effects of addiction/alcoholism, acculturation, physical, emotional and sexual violence on the education of aboriginal children - Goreng-Goreng,Tjanara (The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges, 1995)
The social problems facing many Australian aboriginal children; the need to involve indigenous peoples themselves in responding to these problems.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org. Author affiliation: Director, Aboriginal Education Unit Charles Sturt University
Keywords: Aboriginal people; Abuse; Alcohol; Australia; Drugs; Family; Health and healing; Indigenous people; Psychology; Sexual violence; Trauma

The Emergence and Organization of Chinese Religions - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian (Lights of Irfan, 2014)
The nature of leadership and succession in Chinese religious organisations and society, home temples, village temples, and monasteries.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/chew_chinese.
Keywords: Buddhism; Chinese religion; Temples

The Emergence of the Bahá'í Faith in Singapore (1950-1972) - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1996)
The first two decades of the Faith in Singapore, from the arrival of pioneers in 1950 to the formation of the NSA in 1972; the activities of the LSA of Singapore; strategies used to proclaim the existence of the Faith; features of the early community.
See the table of contents and editor's note in the complete issue, vol. 1.
Keywords: 1950; 1960s; 1972; Bahá'í history by country; Singapore

The Emergence of World Civilization: An Exposition on Excerpts from the Writings of Shoghi Effendi - Thomas,James B. (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
A study of the Guardian's "The Unfoldment of World Civilization" (1936); humanity's coming of age; the process of integration; pangs of death and birth during an age of transition; collapse of Islam; breakdown of political and economic structures.
First presented at the Irfan Colloquia session #67 (Bosch Bahá'í School, May 2006). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/67/thomas_civilization.
Keywords: Collective security; Integration and disintegration; Irfán Colloquia; Maturity of humanity; Peace; Unity; World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (book); World order

The Encounter - Herrmann,Duane L. (Ré Nua New Day, 2016)
A slightly fictionalized account of a visit to the Shrine of the Bab in the Holy Land.
See also the complete issue.
Keywords: Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel

The End of the World: Whatever Happened?: Or Leftover Time to Kill - Woodman,Ross (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1991)
If we contrast the eschatology of Bahá’u’lláh with that of Hegel and Nietzsche, we can locate and explore the spiritual origins of the planetary consciousness (the Divine Springtime) upon which the survival of humankind and the globe itself now depends.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Eschatology; Friedrich Nietzsche; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Philosophy; Resurrection; Return; Ross Woodman; Spring

The English Amongst the Persians During the Qajar Period 1787-1921 - Wright,Denis (Heinemann, 1977)
Passing mentions of Bahá'ís seeking support or asylum from British consulates or missionaries in the 1800s; overview of E. G. Browne's time in Iran.
Keywords: 19th century; Asylum (migration); E. G. Browne; Iran (documents); Qajar dynasty; United Kingdom

The Epistolary Style of Shoghi Effendi - Boyles,Ann (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2022)
The purposes of this paper are to investigate the new style of the epistle and the roots of its development, and demonstrate that elements of the form have been modified to accommodate the vision of Shoghi Effendi, architect of Bahá'u'lláh's World Order.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue "Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence" [PDF]. First published in The Vision of Shoghi Effendi (1993).
Keywords: Administrative Order; Bible; Christianity; Edward Gibbon; English language; History (general); Paul (Apostle); Shoghi Effendi; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Style (Writings); Telegrams (cables); Thomas Carlyle; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

The Equality of Women: The Bahá'í Principle of Complementarity - Hatcher,John S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1990)
The Bahá’í teachings simultaneously assert the equality of men and women whilst advocating in some cases distinct duties according to gender. This seems paradoxical, but there can be gender distinction without inequality in status or function.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Equality; Gender; John Hatcher; Women

The Eschatology of Globalization: The Multiple Messiahship of Bahá'u'lláh Revisited - Buck,Christopher (Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Babi-Baha'i Faiths, 2004)
This paper argues that Bahá'u'lláh's signal contribution to globalization was to ethicize and sacralize it.
First presented as a conference paper at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in December 2000.
Keywords: Eschatology; Ethics; Globalization; Prophecies

The Essence of Man: Towards a Bahá'í Understanding of Human Nature and Psychology - Klebel,Wolfgang A. (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
Commentary on a section from Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Mírzá Hádí, about "the essence of man." This paper attempts to provide an understanding of what is expressed in these Words and understand "Who is Man."
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/95/klebel_essence.
Keywords: Human nature; Lawh-i-Hadi (Tablet to Mírzá Hadi); Philosophy; Psychology

The Essential Mysticism - Cobb,Stanwood (The Four Seas Company, 1918)
Clarification of some of the spiritual problems of humanity; the real value of Oriental mysticism; the mystery of the soul of man in terms not of psychology but of daily life; the value of spirituality in daily life.
Also online in other formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Mysticism; Soul; Stanwood Cobb

The Essential Role of Religion in Fostering a Sustainable World - Adriance,Peter (2009)
Presented at the 33rd Annual Conference "Environments," Washington, DC, August 13-16 2009. Mirrored with permission from www.bahai-studies.ca/proceedings. Author affiliation: NGO liaison for the NSA of the United States
Keywords: Sustainable development

The Establishment of Regional Bahá'í Councils in Certain Countries, Their Characteristics and Functions - Universal House of Justice (1997)
Outline of various policies governing the formation and functioning of Regional Bahá'í Councils.
Transmitted by email. Some formatting added to improve readability. See also: Results of the First Regional Bahá'í Council Election, Establishment of Regional Councils: Introduction, Establishment of Regional Bahá'í Councils in the United States, and Messages between the House and Regional Bahá'í Councils.
Keywords: Administration; Regional Bahá'í Councils

'The Eternal enemy of Islam': Abdullah Cevdet and the Bahá'í religion - Alkan,Necati (Bulletin of SOAS, 2005)
Cevdet, a member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, in 1922 published an article on the Bahá'ís, for which he was politically attacked. (Offsite.)
This article is a modified form of part of the author's 2004 PhD dissertation, which itself was later modified into the book Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire. Linked to article online at academia.edu.
Keywords: Turkey; Young Turks; `Abdu'lláh Cevdet

The Ethics of Profit - Giscard d'Estaing,Oliver (European Bahá'í Business Forum, 2001)
Clarifies the economic, social, and spiritual functions of profit and the distinction between ethical and non-ethical profit. Does not mention the Bahá'í Faith.
Originally online as a free download from ebbf.org, preserved at archive.org.
Keywords: Economics; Ethics; Interest

The Ethiopian King - Saiedi,Nader (Baha'i Studies Review, 2011)
This article brings to light a number of hitherto unknown passages from the writings of the Báb about Haji Mubarak, the Báb’s Ethiopian servant.
Mirrored from clearwaterbahais.org.
Keywords: Abased and the exalted, The; Báb, Declaration of; Ethiopia; Hájí Mubarak; Iran (documents); Kitab-i-Si Du'a (Book of 30 prayers); Names and titles; Servants; Slavery

The Events and Tragedies of Manshád - Malmiri,Muhammad-Tahir (2007)
Events and martyrs from the uprisings in Manshad and Yazd, in 1903. A translation of Haji Málmírí's Tarikh Shuhaday Yazd, pp. 432-503.
See also Martyrs of Manshad and Treatise on Persecution of Bahá'ís in 1903.
Keywords: 1903; Biography; Iran (documents); Manshad upheaval; Manshad, Iran; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran; Upheavals; Yazd, Iran

The Evolution of Epistemology: Generation of Knowledge in the Bahá'í Faith - Taefi,Vargha (2016)
The sun of postmodernism has set. The Baha’i ‘framework for understanding’ shifts the hermeneutic paradigm and marks the dawn of a ‘new era’. It has given birth to the next generation of rationality: a framework for learning in action.

The Evolution of Institutional Capacity for Social and Economic Development - Office of Social and Economic Development (1994)
Bahá'í principles of development and guidelines for individual initiative.
Prepared by the Office of Social and Economic Development of the Bahá'í World Centre. See also the SED booklet For the Betterment of the World.
Keywords: Growth; Social action; Social and economic development

The Evolution of Reality - Land,George (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1990)
Entropy maintains that all structures eventually decay. Humanity's challenge is to understand that nature's creative process changes systems, including organizations and civilization; this can lead to new connections, ideas, resources, and opportunities.
See also Commentary (Tony Michel, JBS 3:4).
Keywords: Civilization; Reality; Science; Unity

The Evolving Role of Bahá'í Scholarship - Rafati,Vahid (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2015)
Lecture on the evolution of Bahá’í scholarship; ulamás and the Faith; role of the ulamás in Islam; changes instituted by Bahá'u'lláh; abolition of clerical authority; historical legacy of some scholars; present challenges and future scholarship.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/171. See also original scan.
Keywords: Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl Gulpáygání; Mírzá Asadullah Fadil-i-Mazandarani; Priesthood; Scholarship; ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari

The Exalted Letters (Hurúfát-i-'Álín): Overview - Walbridge,John (Sacred Acts, Sacred Space, Sacred Time: Baha'i Studies volume 1, 1996)
Prepared as part of Wilmette Institute notes and commentary on the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh. See also a provisional translation of this Tablet.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Burial (funeral); Death; Havvá; Huruf (letters); Iraq; Maryam (cousin of Bahá'u'lláh); Muhammad Vazír; Musíbat-i-Hurúf-i-‘Állín (Suffering of the Exalted Letters)

The Excellency of Mt. Carmel - Whittingham,George Napier (The Home of Fadeless Splendour: The Diary of a Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1921)
Chapter 10, "The Excellency of Mt. Carmel," describes the author's visit to Haifa and gives an overview of the Bahá'í Faith.
This entire book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org. Also available as a Microsoft Word document. Another version of this book seems to have a slightly-expanded version of this section, and the pagination change 233-238. The original book included a full-page photograph of Abdu'l-Bahá receiving the insignia of knighthood, which can be seen at archive.org. Though the Table of Contents includes "Visit to Abdul Baha Abbas," p. 224 notes that "the opportunity did not arise." This book has a foreword by, and is dedicated to, Wellesley Tudor Pole (1917).
Keywords: 1910s; Haifa, Israel; Introductory; Mount Carmel; Mount Carmel; Travelogues; Wellesley Tudor Pole

The Execution of the Jews of Banu Quraida and the Conquest of Persia: The Dilemma of Early Islam - Ekbal,Kamran (Iran Nameh, 2014)
Abdu'l-Bahá's views on the mass execution of the Banu Qurayza Jews in Medina in 627 A.D. [article in Persian].
Article submitted to Iran Nameh in 2014 March; I don't know if it was published. Title translation provided by Bahai Nafeza.
Keywords: Banu Qurayza; Iran (documents); Islam; Jews; Judaism; Medina, Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

The Existence of Extraterrestrial Lifeforms in the Bahá'í Writings - Norozi,Mohammad, compiler and editor (2024)
An overview of Bahá'í perspectives on the existence of lifeforms on other planets, from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi.
Also available in original PowerPoint format.
Keywords: Extraterrestrial life

The Extraordinary Life and Work of Robert Felkin, Bahá'í Mage - Osborn,Lil (2012)
Felkin was a physician, missionary, a Bahá'í — and a Golden Dawn "magician" searching for esoteric truths.
Paper given at the ABS Seminar in Newcastle, July 14 2012. Mirrored with permission from academia.edu.
Keywords: Biography; Esotericism; Occultism; Paganism; Robert Felkin; United Kingdom

The Extraordinary Life and Work of Wellesley Tudor Pole: Bahá'í Seer - Osborn,Lil (2013)
On the role of Bahá'í beliefs in the life and spiritual quest of Tudor Pole.
Delivered at the ABS Seminar, Newcastle England, 27-28 July 2013. See documents by Pole.
Keywords: 1884; 1968; Biography; Esotericism; Glastonbury, England; Istanbul, Turkey; Turkey; Wellesley Tudor Pole; Weston-super-Mare, England

The Eyes of the Children - Banani,Sheila (dialogue magazine, 1986)
One poem inspired by female infanticide in China.
See also nine poems from dialogue. See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Children; China; Human rights; Poetry; Sheila Banani

The Failure of the Tommy Kabu Movement: A Reassessment of the Evidence - Hassall,Graham (Pacific Studies, 1991)
The rise and fall of Koivi-Aua, better known as Tom Kabu (1922?-1969), an influential local innovator and "proto-nationalist" leader in colonial Papua New Guinea and the first Papuan Bahá'í.
Keywords: 1969; 20th century; Biography; Papua New Guinea

The Faith Community as Extended Family: The Influence of Shared Spiritual Values as Experienced by Bahá'í Families in the Cowichan Valley - Cooper,Kenneth Paul (1997)
Nature of the Bahá'í family and standards of behavior, and how they are influenced by the broader Bahá'í community and its value-based social network.
Thesis for Master of Arts in the Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria. Document online with permission at collectionscanada.gc.ca.

The Faith of Bahá'u'lláh: A World Religion - Shoghi Effendi (1947)
A summary of the origin, teachings and institutions of the Bahá'í Faith, prepared in 1947 for the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine by Shoghi Effendi in his capacity as Head of the Bahá'í Faith.
Adopted from www.bic.org/statements. See also Microsoft Word version, prepared by M. Thomas (2023). See the cover letter to this document, which was not included in the version published as a pamphlet: Letter to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Appreciations; Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Bahá'í World Centre; Introductory; Israel; Palestine; Peace; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; United Nations

The Faith of Science and the Method of Religion - Aull,Brian (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1988)
A fundamental teaching of the Bahá’í Faith is that science and religion are harmonious and complementary: religious faith should be shaped by a process of critical inquiry and the limitations of science acknowledged.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.

The Faith State: Vital To Theist, Agnostic and Atheist - McLean,Jack (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
Paul Tillich's approach to faith, as adapted to a Bahá'í and/or agnostic context.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.

The Faiths Men Live By - Potter,Charles Francis (The World's Work, 1955)
One-page overview of the Bahá'í Faith's relationship to gnosticism, and its status in America.
Keywords: Gnosticism; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Mysticism; Neoplatonism; New History Society; Theosophy; United States (documents)

The Family and Early Life of Tahirih Qurrat al-`Ayn - Momen,Moojan (Baha'i Studies Review, 2003)
Summary of information about the ancestry and background of Tahirih available in Persian and Arabic; tensions in her paternal family, which must have affected her as she grew up.
Posted by author at academia.edu.
Keywords: 19th century; Biography; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

The Family and the Future: Legal Perspectives - Ringwood,P. E. (The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges, 1995)
Legal action and institutions must be developed which are positive, constructive and linked with community education and resources to improve the quality of family life; we must not forget that all life has a spiritual perspective.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org. Author affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Law. B.A. LL.M.Dip Soc Sci
Keywords: Conflict resolution; Education; Family; Laws; Unity

The Family in Bahá'í Faith - Momen,Moojan (1996)
Overview of Bahá'í teachings on marriage, children, and education.
Adapted from chapter 2 of Momen's book A Short Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith. Formatted by iranchamber.com.
Keywords: Children; Education; Family; Marriage

The Family in Bahá'í Society: A Unique Approach to Curriculum Development - Hall,Stephen (The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges, 1995)
Educational ideas from Dr. Dwight Allen and Dr. Farzan Arbab.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org. Author affiliation: Representing the Australian Childrens’ Education Task Force
Keywords: Children; Curriculum; Education; Family

The Family of Mullá Husayn - Handal,Boris (2023)
The life, context, and times of Mullá Husayn-i-Bushrú’í (1813-1849), the Bábu'l-Báb, "Gate of the Gate."
Also available in Microsoft Word format (updated 2025-01).
Keywords: 1840s; 1849; Biography; Iran (documents); Mulla Husayn, Family of; Mullá Ḥusayn Bushrú'í; Varaqatu’l-Firdaws (Leaf of Paradise, Mulla Husayns sister)

The Family of Vahid Darabi - Rabbani,Ahang (2004)
Ancestry and history of many Babis involved in the Nayriz uprising, 1850.
See also Tablet of Visitation for Vahid-i-Darabi. Mirrored with permission from h-net.org.
Keywords: 1850; Biography; Genealogy; Vahid (Siyyid Yahyay-i-Darabi)

The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges - Various (Association for Bahá'í Studies Australia, 1995)
Proceedings from the National Bahá'í Studies Conference, Hobart, Australia, July 1994.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Conferences; Conferences, Bahá'í studies; Family

The Father and the Maiden: The Abrahamic Patriarchate and the Divine Feminine - Foster,Mark A. (1999)
While the outward structure of the Bahá'í Faith may be patriarchal, the spirit of the age is expressed in the divine feminine.
Mirrored with permission from www.markfoster.net/jccc/rs/patfem.html.
Keywords: Gender; God; Maid of Heaven; Theocracy; Universal House of Justice

The Feed-back Mechanisms in the Bahá'í Community and the Need for a Global Knowledge Architecture - Boicu,Filip (2023)
Checks and balances and information-sharing between the Appointed and the Elected Arms; feedback from Bahá’í scholarship, individuals, and grass-roots; outside expertise and partners; The Knowledge Game.
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu.

The Fifth Dimension - Hick,John (Oneworld Publications, 1999)
Two passing mentions of the Faith; included because of the author's relevance to Bahá'í Studies.
An earlier edition of this book had different pagination, with the following content on pages 78-79 and 227.
Keywords: Mentions

The Firm Cord of Servitude - Cope,Theo A. (Lights of Irfan, 2001)
A call for a revisioning of mysticism's claims of "union with God" in light of the Bahá'í Teachings as well as Jungian psychology.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #28, London School of Economics (July 14-6, 2000). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/28/cope_cord.
Keywords: Carl Gustav Jung; God, Knowledge of; He who knoweth his self knoweth his Lord (Hadith); Irfán Colloquia; Mysticism; Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Psychology; Relativism; Self-knowledge; Sufism; Unity of existence (vaḥdatu’l-vujúd)

The First and the Last Prophets of Persia - Rabindranath Tagore,Rabindranath Tagore (Visva-Bharati Quarterly, 1930)
Summary of a speech given by Tagore in New York on December 7, 1930, highlighting divine unity in creation and religion, honoring Zoroaster and Bahá’u’lláh for promoting universal love, truth, and spiritual harmony beyond divisions.
Text from archive.org (scanned volumes).
Keywords: Appreciations; Bahá'u'lláh; God; Iran (documents); Rabindranath Tagore; Unity; Zoroaster (Zarathustra)

The First Four Caliphs of Islam - Omidvaran,Betsy (Solas, 2001)
Many Bahá’ís know little about Islam, and most of what they do know is based on minority Shi’ism. This overview of the first four caliphs, the "Rightly Guided," will help introduce Sunni Islam.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 1. Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: Caliphate; Caliphs; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Sunni Islam (Sunnism)

The First Kull-i-Shay' of the Bahá'í Era - Bolhuis,Arjen (1999)
Chart of the first 361 years (19*19) of the Bahá'í Era, in both HTML and Excel formats.
Download in Excel format.
Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; Badi calendar; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Excel files; Kull-i-Shay (all things); Váhid (Unity)

The First Obligation: Lady Blomfield and the Save the Children Fund - Weinberg,Robert (1998)
Bio prepared for the UK Bahá'í Centenary (1998-99).
Bio of Blomfield, aka Sara Louisa, "Sitarih Khanum" (1859-1939). A version of this article was later posted at the Centenary of the Bahá'í Faith in the United Kingdom website. See also Blomfield's book, The Chosen Highway.
Keywords: 1911; 1913; 1939; Biography; Charity and relief work; Children; Human rights; Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; Save the Children Fund

The First Recorded Bahá'í Fireside - Buck,Christopher (Baha'i Studies Review, 2019)
An episode from Browne's A Year Amongst the Persians which can be regarded as a first "fireside" — a meeting with Bahá'ís in Shiraz in March 1888.
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu. Though the cover date of this publication shows 2015, it was not actually published until 2019.
Keywords: 1888; E. G. Browne; Firesides; Iran (documents); Shíráz, Iran; Teaching

The Five Pillars of Islam - Kerr,Diane Robinson (2014)
Summary of the essential precepts of Islam — belief, prayer, zakat, fasting, and pilgrimage — with some reflections from a Bahá'í perspective.
Mirrored with permission from the author's website, where she has many other articles, and two ebooks for sale: The Coming of Age of Humanity and Mending the Circle: A Practical Guide to Facilitating Groups.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Islam

The Five Year Plan 2011-2016: Summary of Achievements and Learning - International Teaching Centre (Bahá'í World Centre, 2017)
Advancing the process of entry by troops; programs of growth; the potential of youth; enhancing institutional capacity; houses of worship; social action; participating in the discourses of society; developments at the Bahá'í World Centre.
Mirrored from bahaiebooks.org [archive.org]. 140 pages, includes illustrations and index.
Keywords: 2011; 2016; Five Year Plan (2011-2016); Institute process; Statistics

The Five Year Plan: 2006-2011: Messages of the Universal House of Justice - Universal House of Justice (Palabra Publications, 2006)
Five Ridvan messages, one message to the Counsellors, and three other letters.
First published in 2006. Updated in 2010 to include later documents. Mirrored with permission from palabrapublications.com. See also 5-Year Plan 2011-2016, 5-Year Plan 2021-2022, and 9-Year Plan 2022-2031.
Keywords: 2006; 2011; Five Year Plan (2006-2011); Institute process; Plans; Public discourse (discourses of society); Ridván messages; Social action; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

The Five Year Plan: 2011-2016: Messages of the Universal House of Justice - Universal House of Justice (Palabra Publications, 2011)
Two Ridvan messages, one letter to the Counsellors, and two shorter letters.
First published in 2011. Will need to be updated in 2015 or 2016 to include later documents (as Palabra will themselves issue new editions of this book). Mirrored with permission from palabrapublications.com. See also 5-Year Plan 2006-2011, 1-Year Plan 2021-2022, and 9-Year Plan 2022-2031.
Keywords: 2011; 2016; Five Year Plan (2011-2016); Plans; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

The Flame: Audio - Shabani,Nosheen, compiler (2022)
Audiobook bringing to life the story of Lua Getsinger, one of the earliest and most devoted disciples of the Bahá'í Faith in the West, the "mother-teacher of the American Bahá'í community." Includes two videos.
See original book. Audio read by Helen Perkins, Leonie Oldmeadow, and Susanne Oldmeadow.
Keywords: 1871; 1916; Audiobooks and letters; Biography; Lua Getsinger; William Sears

The Flame: The Story of Lua - Sears,William; Quigley,Robert (George Ronald, 1972)
Biography of Lua Moore Getsinger (1871-1916), "mother-teacher of the American Bahá'í community," one of the earliest pilgrims from the West to meet 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: 1871; 1916; Biography; Lua Getsinger; William Sears

The Followers of Beha in Persia - Stileman,Charles H. (Church Missionary Intelligencer, 1898)
A follow-up to the author's 1893 article "A Week with the Babis," and some discussion of Christian thought.
Keywords: 1890s; Christian missionaries; Christianity; Church Missionary Society; Criticism and apologetics; Iran (documents); Resurrection

The Forces of Our Time - Dunbar,Hooper (dialogue magazine, 1986)
Excerpt from a talk presented at the "Prepare for Peace" conference, Long Beach, California, August 1985.
See also Dunbar's 2011 audio lecture series Forces of Our Time. See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Consultation; Environment; Evil; Forces of light and darkness; Health and healing; Hooper Dunbar; Integration and disintegration; Laws; Love; Mind; Positive thinking; Soul; Spirit (general); Spirituality; Suriy-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha); Tests and difficulties; Unity

The Four Levels of Detachment in Doris Lessing's Shikasta, - Perrakis,Phyllis Sternberg (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2004)
The concept of detachment in Bahá’u’lláh’s Writings and its application to Doris Lessing’s Sufi-inspired novel, Shikasta; the reciprocal relation between detachment and attachment and service to the new prophet.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/124.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Detachment; Doris Lessing; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Literature; Literature, English; Science fiction; Sufism; Utopias and dystopias

The Fourth Candle: The Unity of Religion and Interfaith Dialogue - Buck,Christopher (dialogue magazine, 1986)
What does "Unity in Religion" mean, and how does it apply for Bahá'ís' interactions with other religious communities? An essay inspired by Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet "Seven Candles of Unity," utopia, Hans Kung, and the Lesser Peace.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Hans Kung; Interfaith dialogue; Lesser Peace; Peace; Seven Candles of Unity; Unity; Unity of religion; World Religion Day

The Fragility of Goodness: Hexis and Praxis in the Historical Figure of 'Abdu'l-Baha - Fatheazam,Shahbaz (Lights of Irfan, 2012)
How personal character and activity can survive negative pressures from the external world, and what can be learned from the example of Abdu'l-Bahá's social action.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #102, Bosch Bahá'í School (May 2011). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/102/fatheazam_goodness.
Keywords: Behavior; Character; Ethics; Psychology; Values; Virtues; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Exemplar

The Framework for Action and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement - Smith,Derik (2025)
Explores parallels between the Bahá’í framework for action and the civil rights movement, emphasizing systematic organization, collective action, and sustainable social transformation over individual heroism.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: 1950s; 1960s; Bayard Rustin; Capacity building; Civil rights movement (1954-1968); Events versus processes; Human rights; Institute process; Learning; Martin Luther King Jr; Planning; Prejudice; Race; Racism; Social action; Social change; Transformation

The Fringe of the East: A journey through past and present provinces of Turkey - Lukach,Harry Charles (Macmillan and Company, 1913)
Overview of the Bahá'ís and Azalis, and mentions of their history in Akka. Includes two excerpts of interest because they refer to "Báb" which in this context refers to a place, not the Prophet.
Author's name is here written as "Harry Charles Lukach," but in other publications the surname is given as "Luke." This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org, where the image scans below are available in larger zoom. See also a PDF of the entire book with high-resolution images, prepared by Mike Thomas (2022).
Keywords: Azali Bábís; Bahá'í history; Turkey

The Fringe of the East: A Journey through the Past and Present Provinces of Turkey - Lukach,Harry Charles (Macmillan and Company, 1913)
Passing mentions of the Twelfth Imam and the Mahdi and Bahá'u'lláh, summary of Bábí and Bahá'í history and teachings, and comments on the expansion of the faith.

The Function of Interpretation - Universal House of Justice (1982)
Two letters: difference between the authoritative interpretation of Abdu'l-Bahá and the Guardian vs. the divinely inspired legislation of the House of Justice, and the qualitative difference between interpretation and elucidations of the House of Justice.
Keywords: Guardianship; Interpretation; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general)

The Function of Revelation in Artistic Expression - Rogers,Otto Donald (Baha'i Studies, 1976)
Overview of some Bahá'í themes and how they are reflected in the making of art: man as an instrument; desire for order and beauty; use of materials; element of light; principle of unity; polarities and relationships; part and whole; energy and power.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-studies.ca/monographs. See also a later version of this article, "The Effect of Revelation on Artistic Expression."
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Beauty; Light; Unity

The Function of Sports in Life - Shoghi Effendi (The Students' Union Gazette, 1914)
Published under the name "Shawki Rabbani," for his school journal, when he was 17 or 18 years old.
Images (see below) have been cropped and sharpened. Click on any image to see the original image, as copied from http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/jafet/gazette/1914-15. Shoghi Effendi's birthdate is March 1, 1897; if this article was printed before 1915/03/01 he would have been 17 years old, but if after, then 18. This issue may have been prepared before Christmas, because in the 1914 cover (click here) it says "Xmas."
Keywords: Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Sports

The Future of Bahá'í Studies - Collins,William P. (Associate, 2001)
On the need for planning for the future, diversification, scholarly study by non-Bahá'ís, scholarship and art, unity paradigm, popular culture, writing in a non-boring style, and coordination of activities.
Paper presented at the ABS-ESE conference 'Foundational Issues in Bahá’í Studies,' Oxford, April 2000. Mirrored with permission from bahai-faith.manvell.org.uk. See also the full PDF for issue 33-34.
Keywords: Bahá'í Studies, Associations for; Bahá'í studies; Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts (Haifa); Future

The Future of Confucianism - Hock,Yeo Yew (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 2000)
The history of Confucianism, its teachings, a critique of its place in the modern world, its future, and its survival into the 21st century.
See the table of contents, editor's note, and biographical data in the complete issue, vol. 5.
Keywords: China; Chinese religion; Confucianism; Interfaith dialogue; Philosophy; Philosophy, Chinese

The Future of Mankind and the Most Holy Book - Naghdy,Fazel (The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: Studies from the First National Conference on the Holy Book, vol. 1, 1996)
At present the world models depicted by the past religions and leaders of the materialistic ideologies have failed to solve the contemporary problems facing humanity. Bahá'u'lláh has revealed a new world model and provided the means of achieving it.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); World order

The Gaia Concept - Universal House of Justice (1992)
Overview of the Gaia hypothesis, a concept which regards the entire planet as a living organism.
See enclosed Compilation on Nature.
Keywords: Gaia; Nature; Research Department, Questions and answers

The Garden of the Heart - Abdul-Bahá; Bahá'u'lláh (Roycrofters, 1930)
Early thematic compilation from the Bahá'í Writings.
Includes several pictures of Bahá'í gardens in Israel. Referring to page 14 of this book, see also The story of the “Gate of the Garden” quote from 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by Brent Poirier (Bahá'í Storytelling Blog, 2010). Mirrored from archive.org where it is available in various formats. Many translations have been updated since the publication of this book, for example the Hidden Words, Seven Valleys etc. Authorized translations can be found at bahai.org/library.
Keywords: Birds; Dawn; Flowers; Fountains; Fragrance; Fruit; Garden of the Heart (book); Gardeners; Gardens; Gates; Heart; Inez Greeven; Nature; Paths; Pilgrimage; Plants; Rain; Reed; Seeds; Spring; Stars; Sun; Tree (metaphor)

The Genealogy of Bab - Shoghi Effendi (The Dawn-Breakers, 1932)
Genealogy of the family of the Bab and the family of Bahá'u'lláh in relation to the Bab.
Referring to this document, Ruhiyyih Khanum wrote in Priceless Pearl that "...it has a detailed genealogy of the Bab prepared by the guardian in his own hand and reproduced in facsimile..."
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Biography; Báb, Family of; Báb, The; Genealogy

The Genesis of the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths in Shíráz and Fárs - Afnan,Mirza Habibu'llah (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2008)
Detailed account of the early years of the Bab, events of the 1880s and 1890s, the Constitutional Revolution years, and appendices for the study of the Bahá'í community in Shíráz.
Published by Brill as part of the "Numen Book Series Studies in the History of Religions: Texts and Sources in the History of Religions," volume 122. Order a copy from brill.com. Preview it at google.com. Also available as a Word document. See also Habibullah Afnan's Memories of the Bab, Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá: Autobiography of Mírzá Habíbu’lláh Afnán, and a shorter version of this history, The Báb in Shiraz: An Account by Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán.
Keywords: 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 19th century; Afnan; Báb, Family of; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Báb, The; Bábí history; Iran (documents); Khadijih Bagum (wife of the Báb); Pilgrims notes; Restoration and renovation; Shíráz, Iran

The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Middle Eastern Modernity - Cole,Juan (ISIM Newsletter, 1999)
Middle Eastern religion is seldom mentioned in the same breath with modernism. The Bahá'í faith, which originated in Iran, poses key conundrums to our understanding of the relationship between modernity and religion in the global South.
Also available as a formatted PDF.
Keywords: Bahá'í history; Bahá'í studies; Global South; Middle East; Modernity

The German Baha'i Community under National Socialism: A Historical Perspective With Notes, Postscript, and Photographs - Liedtke,Harry (Okanagan Publishers, 1999)
Examination of why Bahá’ís, as an international Community or as individuals, did not play an active role in preventing the rise of the Nazis; in truth, they acted heroically and did exactly what was asked of them by the Guardian.
The 1999 PDF does not give any bibliographic data; the publisher's name and city were found cited in Selena Crosson's thesis. 2000 updated provided by author. See also a series of articles Bahá'ís and the Nazis (bahaiteachings.org).
Keywords: Germany; History (general); Nazism; Shoghi Effendi; War; World War II

The Glad Tidings of Bahá'u'lláh: Being Extracts from the Sacred Writings of the Bahá'ís - Bahá'u'lláh (George Ronald, 1949)
A compilation with some notes, on the topics of building the world, God’s command and exhortation, proclamation of the day of God, and the journey of the soul.
The Word document (and the PDF generated from it) have been updated with newer quotations from our resources using the same edition, newer editions or translations — this removes typing errors, incorrect paragraphing and spanning across missing paragraphs in the original text. References and notes are far more extensive than in the original text. (Mike Thomas, 2023)
Keywords: George Townshend; Introductory; Journey (spiritual); Soul

The Glitter of Bahá'ísm - Author unknown (Literary Digest, 1921)
Half-page overview of Bahá'í history and teachings, written shortly after the passing of Abdu'l-Bahá. No author given.
This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Introductory; Mentions

The Global Interfaith Movement - Fuqua,Stephen A. (2003)
Summary of examples of interfaith dialogue from 1993-2003.
Mirrored from safnet.com/articles/movement.html.
Keywords: 1990s; 1993; 2003; Interfaith dialogue

The Globality of Suffering: Tokutomi Kenjirō Meets 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Palestine, 1919 - Ghadimi,Amin (Language and Culture Joint Research Project, 2024)
Exploring Japanese author Tokutomi Kenjirō's 1919 encounter with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, analyzing themes of suffering, globality, religion, and personal transformation within the context of modernity.
Mirrored with Open Access from ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp.
Keywords: 1919; Japan; Kenjirō Tokutomi (Roka Tokutomi); Leo Tolstoy; Philosophy; Suffering; Tests and difficulties; `Abdu'l-Bahá

The Globalization of the Bahá'í Community: 1892-1921 - Momen,Moojan (Baha'i and Globalisation, 2005)
On the connection between Abdu’l-Baha’s thinking and his practical directives in the global expansion of the Baha’i religion, considered in light of Jan Aart Scholte's globalization categories: normative, psychological, economic, and institutional.
Early draft of the article later expanded for publication, online at scribd.com.
Keywords: 1890s; 1892; 1921; 19th century; 20th century; Bahá'í history; Globalization; Growth; `Abdu'l-Bahá

The Gloriously Tragic Life of Mathew Kaszab: Letters from a Pioneer 1939-1942 - Sadeghpour,Anne King, compiler and editor (2019)
The unusual drama of a pioneering life in Central America, revealed through personal letters. This account offers glimpses of a maturing Bahá’í administration in the U.S. and of what was learned through teaching efforts in Latin America.
See also a picture, more source links, and more biographical info at www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kaszab-1. See other references at bahai-library.com/tags/Mathew+Kaszab.
Keywords: 1939; 1942; Biography; Latin America; Martyrs; Mathew Kaszab; Nicaragua; Panama; Pioneers

The God of Bahá'u'lláh - Momen,Moojan (Bahá'í Faith and the World's Religions, 2005)
A close look at the view of God presented in the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and analysis of the consequences of a number of His statements.
Mirrored from bahai.org. There is also a French translation of this article, published as a separate monograph: Au-delà du monothéisme: La Religion bahá'íe (tr. Pierre Spieckel), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Buddhism; Christianity; Contradictions; Cosmology; Dualism; God; God, Anthropomorphic descriptions of; God, Knowledge of; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Manifestations of God; Monism; Philosophy; Religion (general); Theology

The God Who Walks with Men - Holley,Horace (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1954)
Emphasizing humanity's connection to God through His Messengers, advocating love, unity, and spiritual renewal as essential for overcoming societal divisions and achieving global peace.
Scan of 1967 edition.
Keywords: Manifestations of God; Peace; Unity

The Golden Age of Jewish/Christian Relations Revisited: The Contribution of H.J. Schoeps to Interfaith Dialogue - Buck,Christopher (1984)
On Bavarian historian Hans Joachim Schoeps, considered a foremost authority on early Jewish Christianity. Includes appendix of previously unpublished correspondence between Schoeps and Bahá'í scholar Udo Schaefer, in both German and English translation.
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu.
Keywords: Christianity; Hans Joachim Schoeps; Interfaith dialogue; Judaism; Udo Schaefer; University of British Columbia

The Good - Hatcher,William S. (2003)
Fireside talk in St. Petersburg.
Posted to Youtube by william.hatcher.org.

The Good Message - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (Bahá’ı́ Publishing Trust, 1960)
A simplified rendering of themes in Shoghi Effendi's translation of Gleanings, used in Africa as a practical tool for achieving the central goal of Ruhiyyih Khanum's life: sharing the Baha'i teachings with others (Hutchison, 2000).
Shared with permission from the Bahá'í World Centre via the Bahá'ís of Uganda. See also scan of original. [2 MB] This book is mentioned in The Path of Beauty by S. Hutchison, page 14; also online at bahai.works.
Keywords: Africa; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Introductory; Manifestations of God; Prophecies; Teaching; Tree (metaphor)

The Good of the World and the Happiness of the Nations: A Study of Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature - Afnan,Elham (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1989)
The Bahá'í Writings, with their new understanding of human destiny, can bridge the gap between utopian visions of progress from 19th-century literature and dystopian visions of 20th-century fiction, disillusioned by war and social and economic disasters.
See also commentary by Ross Woodman.
Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; Administrative Order; Age of transition; Arts and crafts; Betterment of the world; Forces of light and darkness; Freedom and liberty; Future; Happiness; History (general); Hope; Human nature; Idealism; Integration and disintegration; Justice; Literature; Literature, English; Maturity of humanity; Peace; Progressive revelation; Promise of World Peace (statement); Transformation; Unity; Unity in diversity; Utopias and dystopias; War; World order

The Good Tree: Distinguishing the Bahá'í Faith From Destructive Cults - Vaccaro,Stephen (1996)
Examination of some fundamental characteristics of a cult, to determine whether or not the Bahá'í Faith can be so defined.
Also presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #9, Wilmette, March 29, 1996.
Keywords: Bahá'í Faith, Sect, NRM or World Religion; Criticism and apologetics

The Great Bridge–Maker - Fuqua,Stephen A. (2005)
The papacy and Pope John Paul II.
Originally written for Spiritual Degrees, a short-lived attempt at "a Bahá’í magazine for the 5th Epoch," with substantial, beneficial contributions from Mark Derewicz. Mirrored from safnet.com/articles/pope.html.

The Great Safari of Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih Khánum - Nakhjavani,Violette (Baha'i News, 1970)
A diary of Ruhiyyih Khanum's travels through Africa. Serialized in Bahá'í News in 26 issues, from 1970 through 1973.
This document was also published as a book. See a review of it from the Bahá'í Journal of the UK (2002-06), and see some discussion of this book in Three Talks in Africa.
Keywords: 1967; 1969; 1970s; Africa; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum, Journeys of; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Biography; Great African Safari

The Great Tao - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1991)
On a philosophy of the ancient Chinese people, a Tao whose eternal spirit has seeped into the very heart of Chinese tradition, culture, and way of life for centuries; similarities with other religions and the Bahá'í Faith.
Also posted by author at academia.edu. See also journal.bahaistudies.ca.
Keywords: China; Chinese religion; Interfaith dialogue; Philosophy; Philosophy, Chinese; Taoism

The Great Unity: A New Approach to Religious Education - Barr,Margaret (The Lindsey Press, 1937)
Introduction, about a Universalist religious-education curriculum experiment in Calcutta in 1933-1936, and a short overview of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: 1930s; Curriculum; Introductory; Kolkata, India; Spiritual education

The Greatest Holy Leaf - Nakhjavani,Bahiyyih
Audio posted online at http://bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng.htm
Keywords: Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of

The Greatest Holy Leaf's Unparalleled Role in Religious History and the Significance of the Arc, the Site of Her Resting Place - Ma'ani,Baharieh Rouhani (Lights of Irfan, 2014)
Biography of Abdu'l-Bahá's sister, who acted as his "deputy, His representative and vicegerent, with none to equal her." Her burial place on Mount Carmel determined the location of the Arc and the later buildings of the World Centre.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/121/ma'ani_leaf.
Keywords: 1846; 1982; Arc (World Centre); Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Biography; Mount Carmel

The Greatest Name and the 99 Names of God: Compilation - Curtis,Larry D., compiler (1998)
Includes (1) Allah'u'Abhá in Arabic, (2) compilation on the Bahá'í and Islamic use of "Greatest Name," and (3) a list of the ninety-nine names of God from Islamic theology.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-faith.manvell.org.uk. See also the author's Art of the Greatest Name and a list of names of God from the Bahá'í Writings.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Titles of; God; God, Names of; Greatest Name; Names and titles

The Greenland Promise - Liedtke,Harry (2012)
Commentary on the misunderstood prediction of Abdu'l-Bahá that Greenland would one day become green again.
Keywords: Canada; Climate change; Denmark; Environment; Geology; Greenland; Metaphors and allegories; Prophecies; Science; Speculation; Tablets of the Divine Plan

The Greenleafs: An Eternal Reunion - Sala,Emeric (Baha'i News, 1973)
Brief bio of Elizabeth and Charles Greenleaf, who were members of the group of Midwest Bahá'ís which began with Thornton Chase in the 1890s in Chicago.
Keywords: 1890s; Biography; Charles Greenleaf; Chicago, IL; Elizabeth Greenleaf; Thornton Chase; United States (documents)

The Greeting Alláh-u-Abhá - House,David William, compiler (2023)
Short but thorough compilation on the use of the greeting Alláh-u-Abhá, "God is the Most Glorious."
Also available in Microsoft Word format. See also a short Wikipedia article.
Keywords: Alláh-u-Abhá; Greatest Name

The Growth and Spread of the Baha'i Faith - Hampson,Arthur (1980)
A detailed attempt to describe and account for the spread of the Bahá'í Faith, including the roles played by its centralized leadership, its belief system, and its policies, as well as attitudes and conditions outside the control of the Bahá'í movement.
Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Geography), University of Hawaii at Manoa. See full document info at scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/9787. This document was generated from microfilm, which in turn was scanned from type-written pages.
Keywords: 20th century; Bahá'í history; Growth; Population

The Growth of the Cause in the British Isles - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the British Isles (The Centenary of a World Faith: The History of the Bahá'í Faith and Its Development in the British Isles, 1944)
Historical overview, starting with E. G. Browne and Comte de Gobineau, to pilgrims in the time of Abdu'l-Bahá, up to the late 1930s.
Keywords: 1930s; 19th century; Bahá'í history by country; United Kingdom

The Guardian and the East - Furutan,Ali-Akbar (The Vision of Shoghi Effendi, 1993)
Summary of the conditions of the friends in Iran and its neighboring countries, and a short overview of the life and accomplishments of Shoghi Effendi.
Keywords: 20th century; Biography; East (Orient); Iran (documents); Shoghi Effendi

The Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1988)
An abridged and updated version of the author's biography Priceless Pearl.
See also Priceless Pearl. This text is distributed in Ocean and is also online at holy-writings.com and bahairesearch.com. The text included in Ocean was scanned and proofed independently of this version; to verify any possible errors in the copy below, consult Ocean's copy, khanum_guardian_bahai_faith_ocean.txt.
Keywords: 20th century; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Biography; Priceless Pearl (book); Shoghi Effendi

The Guardian of the Faith - Mitchell,Glenford (2007)
Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru. Title given by author. No information is given about the context of the lecture; if you know, please contact us.
Keywords: Shoghi Effendi

The Guardian's Translation of Quranic Verse 55:5 as found in The Kitáb-i-Íqán - Universal House of Justice (1995)
Addresses a discrepancy between the traditional translation of Quranic verse 55:5 and Shoghi Effendi’s translation in the Kitáb-i-Íqán.
Keywords: Interpretation; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Quotations from the Quran; Quran; Quran translations; Research Department, Questions and answers; Sun; Translation

The Guardian's Wartime Travels - Liedtke,Harry (2016)
Brief chronology of world events 1938-1940 juxtaposed with Shoghi Effendi's travels in 1940, when he left Haifa for England nine months after the beginning of the war.
Keywords: 1938; 1940; 1940s; Africa; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum, Journeys of; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Chronology and timelines; France; Haifa, Israel; History (general); Italy; Shoghi Effendi; Shoghi Effendi, Travels of; South Africa; United Kingdom; William Sutherland Maxwell; World War II

The Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice - Semple,Ian C. (Lights of Irfan, 2008)
Reflections on the Guardianship and Universal House of Justice by a former House member. Includes an interesting Q&A on topics including women on the House, Shoghi Effendi's personality, infallibility, Bahá'í scholarship, fundamentalism, etc.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/semple_guardianship2.
Keywords: Covenant; Guardianship; Irfán Colloquia; Universal House of Justice

The Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice - Universal House of Justice (1966)
Passages from a letter on the relationship between the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice, the timing of the election of the House, the lack of a will by or a successor to the Guardian, and the House's ability to function on its own.
Keywords: Covenant; Guardianship; Infallibility; Interpretation; Universal House of Justice

The Handbook of Palestine - Lukach,Harry Charles (Macmillan and Company, 1922)
Passing mentions of the Bab, Bahá'ís, and Subh-i-Azal, along with the history and geography of Akka. Includes estimate of number of Bahá'ís in Palestine in 1922.
This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.
Keywords: 1922; Akka, Israel; Bahá'í history; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Palestine; Population

The Harmony of Science and Religion: A Baha'i Perspective - Sabet,Cameron (2018)
TED talk by a Maryland high school student on the Baha'i concept of unity, knowledge, cultural historical perspectives, modern secular society, and the education of children.
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=JOU0zMEVKeg.
Keywords: Religion (general); Science; TED Talk

The Heart - Jones,Emma Maxie (1950)
Thoughts on the heart of man, physical and spiritual; prepared by Jones for one of her talks in the 1950s while living in Escondido, CA.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. See also scan of original.
Keywords: Heart; Mind, spirit, soul

The Heart is a Little Bird that Longs to Soar: Impressions of Pilgrimage in Haifa, Bahji and Akká in the Days of the Universal House of Justice - McLean,Jack (2007)
Short notes from a contemporary pilgrimage, and comparison with pilgrims' visits in the past.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: 1996; Pilgrimage; Pilgrims notes

The Heart of Iran - Forbes,Duncan (Robert Hale Ltd., 1963)
Travel diary with an account of meeting a Bahá'í in Shiraz, and an overview of Bahá'í history.
Keywords: Bahá'í history; Iran; Travelogues

The Heroic in the Historical Writings of Shoghi Effendi and Nabil - McLean,Jack (2006)
Unlike academic historians, Shoghi Effendi and Nabil interpret the events and characters they portray in moralistic terms. This paper explores the heroic motif through a literary framework in the model of Thomas Carlyle's concept of the prophet as hero.
Paper presented at Irfan Colloquia Session #72 (November 2006). See also Bábí Heroism and the Recovery of the Heroic. Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, The; Dawn-Breakers (book); God Passes By (book); Heroic age; Heroism; Iran (documents); Letters of the Living; Mullá Ḥusayn Bushrú'í; Promised Day is Come (letter); Quddús; Shaykh Tabarsí siege; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh - Banani,Amin (Religious Texts in Iranian Languages, 2007)
The Persian verses of The Hidden Words contain, in compressed form, the seeds of Bahá'u'lláh's principles for regeneration of the individual and society, and the mystical vision of the human soul attaining its ultimate goal of transcendence.
From the proceedings of a symposium held at Copenhagen University, May 2002. Posted by publisher; full book is online at royalacademy.dk/Publications. Also online at aminbanani.com [archive.org].
Keywords: Amin Banani; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)

The Hidden Words: Transcript of a talk by Hand of the Cause of God A. Q. Faizí - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (Conqueror of Hearts, 1967)
Talk delivered in Wilmette, Illinois.
In 1967, Hand of the Cause A. Q. Faizí gave a talk on the Hidden Words to the friends in the United States, which was later published on cassette tape by the U.S. Bahá'í Publishing Trust. This was later transcribed by Shirley Macias from the cassette, and permission was given to Macias by the Publishing Trust for use of the talk and for posting it here.
Keywords: Abu'l-Qásim Faizí; Illinois, USA; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); United States (documents); Wilmette, IL

The High-Performance Organization: An Assessment of Virtues and Values - Miller,Lawrence M. (European Bahá'í Business Forum, 2001)
How a people-centered organization can enhance competitiveness and job satisfaction.
Originally online as a free download from ebbf.org, preserved at archive.org.
Keywords: Business; Group dynamics; Values; Virtues; Work

The Hijaz-Palestine Railway and the Development of Haifa - Mansour,Johnny (Jerusalem Quarterly, 2006)
A history of Haifa and Akka during the period of Bahá'í immigration. Contains no mention of the Faith.
Online in HTML and PDF formats at jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=78.

The Hindu Concept of God: Unity in Diversity - Khursheed,Anjam (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1997)
The fundamental unity behind Hindu concepts of God and those found in the Semitic traditions, and the principle of unity in diversity, allow Hindu and Bahá'í beliefs to come together and further their common goal of uniting the world's religions.
See the table of contents and editor's note in the complete issue, vol. 2.
Keywords: Atman; Avatars; Bhagavad Gita; Demons; Diversity; Dualism; Epics; God; God, Anthropomorphic descriptions of; God, Gender of; Gods and Goddesses; Heart; Hinduism; Holy Spirit; Idol worship; Illusion; India; Interfaith dialogue; Krishna; Mahabharata; Manifestations of God; Mirrors; Monism; Monotheism; Moses; Mythology; Pharaoh (Bible); Philosophy; Philosophy, Hindu; Polytheism; Progressive revelation; Ramakrishna; Ramayana; Silence; Symbolism; Unity; Upanishads; Vedanta; Vedas; Vivekananda; Worship

The Historical Development of Genoa Square in Acre Israel from the Seventh Century to the Present Day - Hollander,Amy Suzanne (1995)
A study of the structure, development, space, and historic preservation of a portion of Akka, including discussion of its place in Bahá'í history.
Thesis for the University of Pennsylvania Master of Science degree. This document is available in a variety of formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh, Houses of; Bahá'í history; Druze; History (general); House of Abbud (Akká); House of Udi Khammar (Akká); Israel