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1. Baha'i World, The: 1938-1940. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981 ed., Vol. 8. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1942. Includes an interview with the French orientalist, A.L.M. Nicolas.

2. Baha'i World, The: 1940-1944. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981 ed., Vol. 9. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1945.

3. Baha'i World, The: 1944-1946. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981 ed., Vol. 10. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1949. Details of problems experienced by the German and Austrian Baha'i communities.

4. Baha'i World, The: 1946-1950. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981 ed., Vol. 11. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1952.

5. Baha'i World, The: 1950-1954. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981 ed., Vol. 12. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1956. Includes details on the inception of the Ten Year Plan (1953-1963) and the completion of the shrine of the Bab in Haifa. This was the last volume supervised by Shoghi Effendi.

6. Baha'i Youth Year Book, 130 B.E. 121, 39. n.p. [Karachi, Pakistan]: National Baha'i Youth Committee [of Pakistan], 1974. Collins 7.483.

7. Census of Religious Bodies. Baha'is: Statistics, History, Doctrine and Organization. Reprinted 1939 ed., Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929. Also include under general surveys.

8. Hands of the Cause Residing in the Holy Land, The (comp.). The Baha'i Faith 1844-1963 Information Statistical & Comparative, Including the Achievements of the Ten Year International Baha'i Teaching and Consolidation Plan 1953-1963. n.p. [Israel]: n.d. [1963?].A volume modelled on earlier surveys by Shoghi Effendi (items x, xx, xxx), with the usual data brought up to date. An insert map provides information on the Ten-Year missionary crusade in graphic form. Universal House of Justice.

9. Justice, Universal House of. The Nine Year Plan, I964-1973: Statistical Report, Ridvan 1973. Haifa: Universal House of Justice, 1973. 56 p. 1973.

10. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the US and Canada, (ed.). The Baha'i Year Book: April 1925 - April 1926. 1st. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980 ed., Vol. 1. New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1926. This volume effectively became vol.1 of the continuing series which took the title of The Baha'i World from vol.2 on. Each volume provides detailed information on Baha'i activities during the period covered, together with stand-ard features such as a directory, bibliography, In Memoriam, and selected essays. Later volumes are increasingly bland, carefully edited, and in real terms exceptionally uninformative. All volumes are lavishly illustrated.

11. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the US and Canada, (ed.). The Baha'i World: 1926-1928. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980 ed., Vol. 2. New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1928. The second volume in a series which began life as The Baha'i Year Book (see item x for details). This volume contains a tribute to Baha'ism by Queen Marie of Romania.

12. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the US and Canada, (ed.). The Baha'i World: 1928-1930. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980 ed., Vol. 3. New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1930.

13. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the US and Canada, (ed.). The Baha'i World: 1930-1932. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980 ed., Vol. 4. New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1933. This volume contains brief details of the International Baha'i Bureau at Geneva.

14. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the US and Canada, (ed.). The Baha'i World: 1932-1934. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980 ed., Vol. 5. New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1936. Contains a genealogical chart of Baha' Allah and material on the life and death of his daughter, Baha'iyya Khanum.

15. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the US and Canada, (ed.). The Baha'i World: 1934-1936. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980 ed., Vol. 6. New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1937. Contains texts of interviews between the Baha'i missionary Martha Root and various world leaders.

16. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the US and Canada, (ed.). The Baha'i World:1936-38. Reprinted, Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980 ed., New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1939. Contains details of the first Baha'i 'Seven Year Plan'.

17. Roger White, (comp.). Baha'i World Volumes, I-XII, A Compendium. Oxford: George Ronald, 1981. A selection of articles from the first twelve volumes of the Baha'i Year Book, being those supervised by Shoghi Effendi and covering the years 1925-1954.

18. Shoghi Effendi, (comp.). A World Survey of the Baha'i Faith, 1844-1944. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1944.

19. Shoghi Effendi, (comp.). The Baha'i Faith: 1844-1950 Information Statistical and Comparative. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1950.

20. Shoghi Effendi, (comp.). The Baha'i Faith 1844-1952 Information Statistical & Comparative, including Supplement Ten-Year International Baha'i Teaching and Consolidation Plan 1953-1963. Wilmette, Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1953 ed., London: Baha'i Publishing Trust, n.d. [1953?]. Detailed statistical and general information, including dates of historical signifance, countries opened to Baha'ism, languages in which Baha'i literature has been translated, lists of local and national assemblies, data on Baha'i properties in Iran and the USA, lists of Baha'i centres, material on the Baha'i calendar, etc. This volume includes an elaborate map drawn by Shoghi Effendi, showing the international expansion of the movement.

21. Universal House of Justice. Seven YearPlan. n.p. [New Delhi: National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of India], 1979- 14 p. 1979. 6.49.

22. Universal House of Justice. Analysis of the Seven Year Plan, 1979-1986: Second Phase Goals, 1981 . Haifa: Universal House of Justice Statistics Department, 1981. iii,128 P. 1981.6.3.

23. Universal House of Justice. The Seven Year Plan. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1980, 1981. 23 p. The messages from the Universal House of Justice to the Baha'is of the world announcing the objectives of the fourth international teaching plan, published along with the message to the Baha'is of the United States. Appended is a set of 'Guidelines adopted by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States for the execution of the first phase of the Seven Year Plan'. 1981. 6.50.

24. Universal House of Justice, The. Analysis of the Nine Year International Teaching Plan of the Baha'i Faith, 1964-1973. 38. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1964.6.2.

25. Universal House of Justice, The. The Five Year Plan, 1974-1979: Statistical Report, Ridvan 1979. 116. Haifa, Israel: Baha'i World Centre, 1979. The second of two reports summarizing developments during the latest missionary campaign. 6.13.

26. Universal House of Justice, The. The Seven Year Plan, 1979-1986: Statistical Report, Ridvan 1983. 110. Haifa, Israel: Baha'i World Centre, 1983.6.51.

27. Universal House of Justice, The (comp.). The Baha'i Faith (Statistical Information), 1844-1968: Showing Current Status and Outstanding Goals of the Nine Year International Teaching Plan, 1964-1973. 168. Haifa, Israel: The Universal House of Justice, 1968. Not to be confused with item x6.5.

28. Universal House of Justice, The (comp.). The Baha'i Faith, Statistical Information 1844-1968 Including the Current Status of the Goals of the Nine Year International Teaching Plan 1964-1973. 104. Haifa, Israel: The Universal House of Justice, 1968. Not to be confused with item x 6.4.

29. Universal House of Justice, The (comp.). The Five Year Plan, 1974-1979: Statistical Report, Ridvan 1978. 60. Haifa, Israel: Baha'i World Centre, 1978. 6.12.

30. Universal House of Justice, The (supervised). The Baha'i World: 1954-1963. Vol. 13. Haifa, Israel: The Universal House of Justice, 1970. The first volume to be edited and published by the Universal House of Justice, this appeared after a hiatus of fourteen years and was the longest to date, covering a nine-year period. It includes an account of the Ten Year Crusade (1953-63) and a lengthy biography of Shoghi Effendi by his widow, Ruhiyyih Khanum (pp.59-225).

31. Universal House of Justice, The (supervised). The Baha'i World: 1963-1968. Vol. 14. Haifa, Israel: The Universal House of Justice, 1974. Includes details of the election of the first Universal House of Justice in 1963 (pp.425-43). In Memoriam accounts, among others, of: Fadil-i Mazandarani (pp.334-6); Hand of the Cause Leroy Ioas (pp.291-300); Ali-Kuli Khan, Nabil al-Dawla (pp.351-53); Jessie Revell (300-303).

32. Universal House of Justice, The (supervised). The Baha'i World: 1968-73. Vol. 15. Haifa, Israel: Baha'i World Centre, 1975. Sections on four anniversaries: the arrival of Baha' Allah in Palestine; the revelation of the Kitab al-aqdas; the death of 'Abd al-Baha'; and the death of Mirza Mahdi. In Memoriam includes: Agnes Alexander; Richard Backwell; Musa Banani; Hermann Grossmann; Lutfu'llah Hakim; Curtis Kelsey; 'Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khavari; Habib Mu'ayyad; and Taraz Allah Samandari. There is an article on the writings of 'Abd al-Baha' by Amin Banani.

33. Universal House of Justice, The (supervised). The Baha'i World: 1973-1976. Vol. 16. Haifa, Israel: Baha'i World Centre, 1978. Contents include Eunice Braun's narrative (pp.63-100) of the first fifty years of the Baha'i 'Formative Age' (1921-71), also published separately (section x, item xx). In Memoriam includes: Laura Clifford Dreyfus-Barney and John Ferraby. There is a comprehensive listing of languages into which Baha'i literature has been translated.

34. Universal House of Justice, The (supervised). The Baha'i World: 1976-1979. Vol. 17. Haifa, Israel: Baha'i World Centre, 1981. Includes articles on the Canadian Association for Studies on the Baha'i Faith (pp.197-201) and the publication and dissemination of Baha'i literature in English (pp.546-53), as well as the first serious bibliography in one of these volumes. In Memoriam includes Charlotte Linfoot, Ruth Moffett, Adelaide Sharp, and the artist Mark Tobey.

35. Universal House of Justice, The (supervised). The Baha'i World: 1979-1983. Vol. 18. Haifa, Israel: Baha'i World Centre, 1986.

36. White, Roger (comp.). A Compendium of Volumes of the Baha'i World, an International Record, I-XII, 82-110 of the Baha'i Era (1925-1954). Individual materials originally published in separate volumes of The Baha'i World. ed., xxi, 790. Oxford: George Ronald, 1981. Collins 7.724.

37. [Universal House of Justice, The]. Analysis of the Five Year International Teaching Plan of the Baha'i Faith 1974-1979. 103. [Haifa]: The Universal House of Justice, 1974. Mainly tabulated lists of goals (new centres to be opened, properties to be purchased, languages to receive translations, new assemblies to be formed, etc.) for the five-year missionary plan 1974-79. (see also items x and xx).6.1.


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