The Bahá'í World: Volume 24 (1995-1996) - Universal House of Justice, compiler (Baha'i World, 1997)
Periodic volumes that survey the global activities and major achievements of the Faith.
Images from bahai.media/Category:BW_v24, combined in one PDF and optimized for posting here; uncorrected text from bahai.works/The_Bahá’í_World/Volume_XXIV.
Keywords: Bahá'í World volumes

The Bahá'í Worldview on Unity of Religions: Progressive Revelation: Principles and Insights from the History of Science - Khodadad,Jena Khadem (Lights of Irfan, 2009)
Examination of the Bahá’í belief in the unity of religions and the doctrine of "progressive revelation" through the lens of Thomas Kuhn's concept of scientific revolutions.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #86, Louhelen Bahá'í School, Michigan (October 9-12, 2008). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/86/khodadad_unity.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Progressive revelation; Science; Unity of religion

The Bahá'í Writings and Kant's "Perpetual Peace" - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2012)
Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795) outlined practical steps necessary to end war through the establishment of a "league of peace" and a union of nations. This essay traces similarities between Kant's and Bahá'í proposals.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #102, Bosch Bahá'í School (May 2011). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/102/kluge_kant.
Keywords: Immanuel Kant; Peace; Philosophy; Unity

The Bahá'í Writings and the Buddhist Doctrine of Emptiness: An Initial Survey - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2019)
Agreements and convergence of the Buddhist concept of sunyata with the Bahá'í Writings.
This article was first posted to bahai-library.com in 2013, and then later reformatted for publication in Lights of Irfan in 2019. This article is an expansion of the section on emptiness in a previous paper, “Buddhism and the Bahá’í Writings: An Ontological Rapprochement” (2007), which showed that the Bahá’í Writings and key Buddhist teachings were either in agreement or on a convergent path in regards to key ontological issues. Mirrored with permission from http://irfancolloquia.org/u/kluge_emptiness.
Keywords: Buddhism; Emptiness; Illusion; Interfaith dialogue; Philosophy; Philosophy, Buddhist; World is an illusion or play

The Bahá'í Writings: A Meta-ethical Excursion - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2014)
Philosophical examination of the Writings' ethical teachings, how they relate to the major ethical systems proposed in the past, and how they deal with some of the difficulties inherent in past systems.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #116, Bosch (2013). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/116/kluge_ethics.
Keywords: Ethics; Philosophy

The Bahá'ís - Parrinder,Geoffrey (What World Religions Teach, 1963)
Two-page excerpt from Chapter 12, "Sikhs, Bahais, and Theosophists," and two other passing mentions.

The Bahá'ís - Smart,Ninian (Religious Experience of Mankind, 1969)
Short treatment of Bahá'í history and thought, in a commonly-assigned university textbook.

The Bahá'ís - Blomfield,Lady Sarah Louisa (The Sufi Quarterly, 1928)
A "comprehensive account of the inspiration and ideals upon which Baha’ism is built up" — overview of the history and teachings of the Bahá'í Faith.
See also the following section of this volume, Unpublished Talks by 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Scanned by Payam Afsharian, then proofread and formatted by Adib Masumian.
Keywords: Appreciations; Bernard Temple; E. G. Browne; Horace Holley; Inayat Khan; Interfaith dialogue; Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; London, England; Lord Curzon; Sufism; United Kingdom; Unity of humanity; Varqa, Valiyullah; `Abdu'l-Bahá in London (book); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

The Baha'is and Higher Education in Iran - Batebi,Ahmad (2008)
An outsider's overview of the political and religious barriers to Bahá'í schools, the state of human rights, and contemporary arrests of Bahá'í leaders in Iran.
Includes Persian text.

The Baha'is and the Constitutional Revolution: The Case of Sari, Mazandaran, 1906-1913 - Momen,Moojan (Iranian Studies, 2008)
Accounts of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran have tended to ignore the role of the Baha’is. They educated people about the reforms envisaged and about the modern world, for which they were persecuted.
Posted by author at academia.edu. Also available as the original Word document.
Keywords: Constitutional Movement (Iran); Constitutions (general); Iran (documents); Iran, General history; Iranian constitution; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Politics; Reform; Sari, Iran

The Baha'is as a Mystic Community, by Moojan Momen: Response - McLean,Jack (World Order, 2006)
The meanings of mysticism in the writings of Bahá'u'lláh and Shoghi Effendi.
This response was published with Dr. Momen’s rejoinder (not included). Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Mysticism

The Bahá'ís in Iran: Twenty Years of Repression - Kazemzadeh,Firuz (Social Research, 2000)
Overview of the modern persecution of Bahá'ís in Iran.
Mirrored from highbeam.com (formerly elibrary.com). Also found at www.scribd.com/doc/17569065/F-Kazemzadeh-On-Allegations-of-Origin-and-Relations.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Opposition; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

The Bahá'ís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement by Mike McMullen: Review - Momen,Moojan (2016)
Posted by author at academia.edu.

The Bahá'ís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement, by Mike McMullen: Review - Buck,Christopher (2017)
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu and readingreligion.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Growth; United States (documents)

The Bahá'ís of Baltimore, 1898-1990 - Clark,Deborah (Community Histories: Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 1992)
The story of the Bahá'ís in the Baltimore area, who also hosted Abdul-Baha during his travels in America.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Baltimore, MD; Maryland, USA; United States (documents)

The Bahá'ís of Iran: Socio-historical Studies, by Dominic Brookshaw and Seena Fazel: Reviews - Lambden,Stephen; Quinn,Sholeh A.; Scharbrodt,Oliver; Shahvar,Soli (2008)
Four reviews from various publications.

The Bahá'ís of the Caucasus - Balci,Bayram; Jafarov,Azer (Caucaz Europe News, 2007)
Three short articles: "Who are the Baha’is of the Caucasus?," "From Russian Tolerance to Soviet Repression," and "An Independent Azerbaijan."
Assembled from www.caucaz.com [defunct] archived at archive.org. Author notes: Bayram Balci: Director of the French Institute for Central Asian Studies IFEAC, Tashkent; Azer Jafarov: Baku.
Keywords: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bahá'í history by country; Caucasus; Georgia; Persecution; Persecution, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union

The Bahá'ís of the United States - Stockman,Robert (Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America, 2006)
Overview of the history and teachings of the Bahá'í Faith, with reflections on it as a "New Religious Movement." Two versions of an article, one draft (undated) and one published.
See other excerpts from this book at bahai-library.com/gallagher_ashcraft_new_religions. See also the author's older United States of America: History of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Introductory; New religious movements (NRM); United States (documents)

The Bahá'ís: Contributing to an Emerging Global Civilization - Bahá'í International Community (2017)
A popular magazine-format introduction to the Faith produced by the Office of Public Information of the Bahá’í International Community.
First published in 1992 [amazon.com] and revised in 2017; see this press release. Also downloadable for free from bahaibookstore.com.
Keywords: Bahais (magazine); Basics; Introductory; Magazines; Publications; Visuals

The Bahai Movement: A paper read by Shoghi Effendi at Oxford - Shoghi Effendi (The Dawn, 1923)
Text of an address given to the Oxford University Asiatic Society, February 1921, before the passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and before Shoghi Effendi was appointed the "Guardian."
This entire issue is online at afnanlibrary.org. The text was also published in Prelude To The Guardianship (R. Khadem, 2014); text below updated to fix minor errors and spellings (A. Bolhuis, 2021). Also online, with introductory notes, at senmcglinn.wordpress.com. The complete citation is: "The Bahai Movement: A paper read by Shoghi Effendi at Oxford," in The Dawn, A monthly Bahai Journal of Burma, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 1923); No. 2 (October 1923); Nos. 3 and 4 (November & December 1923); No. 5 (January 1924); No. 6 (February 1924); No. 7 (March 1924); and No. 8 (April 1924).
Keywords: Balliol College, Oxford University; Chicago, IL; Dawn, The (newsletter); Funds; Introductory; Iran (documents); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Dependencies of; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Oxford University; Oxford University Asiatic Society; Persecution, Iran; Prayer; Prophecies; Shoghi Effendi; Shoghi Effendi at Oxford; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Social action; Síyáh-Chál (Black Pit, Tehran); Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); United Kingdom; United States (documents); Wilmette, IL

The Bahai Revelation - Author unknown; Wilhelm,Roy
An 18-page pamphlet summarizing Baha'i teachings. Date and editor not known, but it is thought to have been compiled and published by Roy Wilhelm. Lacking a title, the pamphlet is referred to by its opening line.

The Banning of Bahá'í Religious Institutions in Iran: An Open Letter - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Iran (1983)
An open letter from the NSA of Iran, translated from the Persian and sent to the American Bahá'ís by the US NSA, in response to the 1983 banning of the Bahá'í Faith in the country.

The Basis of the Bahá'í Community: A Statement Concerning the New History Society - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (1941)
A statement on Ahmad Sohrab's activities and its trademark infringement case.
Received by Robert Stauffer from BWC, 1985-01-17. See also the trademark infringement case referred to in this letter.
Keywords: Ahmad Sohrab; Basis of the Bahá'í Community, The (statement Concerning the New History Society); Copyright and trademarks; Court cases; Covenant-breaking; New History Society; United States (documents)

The Bayan (Bayán-i-Farsí and Bayán-i-'Arabí): Letters and Letters of the Living - Universal House of Justice; Ayman,Iraj; Afnan,Muhammad; Stockman,Robert (1994)
Prepared as part of Wilmette Institute notes and commentary on the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan); Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Báb, Station of the; Báb, Writings of; Huruf (letters); Knowledge is twenty-seven letters; Letters of the Living; Names and titles; Prophecies; Research Department, Questions and answers; Words and phrases

The Bayan (Bayán-i-Farsí and Bayán-i-'Arabí): Wilmette Institute faculty notes - Poirier,Brent; Buck,Christopher; Momen,Moojan; Winters,Jonah (1997)
Prepared as part of Wilmette Institute notes and commentary on the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh. See also Excerpts from the Persian Bayán Discuss the Persian Bayán or the Arabic Bayán.
Keywords: Bayan; Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan); Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan)

The Beautiful Flight toward the Light: Reflections on an Artist's Life - Chandler,Robin M. (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2000)
Subjective reflections about the nature of creativity from the author's own point of view, training and experiences as a social scientist and as an artist.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Arts and crafts

The Beauty of the Human Psyche: The Patterns of the Virtues - Diessner,Rhett (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2016)
Insights from science and the Bahá'í Writings combine to show how the human soul is a shining of divine attributes reflected into our mind, where they manifest as virtuous thoughts and spiritual emotions.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/214. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Brain; Ethics; Psychology; Science; Soul; Virtues

The Beauty of the Organic Oneness of Nature and Humanity: Environmental Psychology and the Bahá'í Writings - Diessner,Rhett (Nashriyeh Andisheh Naw (New Thought Publication), 2012)
The interdependence of humanity and nature through the lens of environmental psychology: human cognition, emotions, and values are influenced and shaped by the natural environment; the beauty and health of nature are in turn influenced by humans.
See also an earlier version, in Word format, at the author's page at academia.edu. The journal in which this was originally published, Nashriyeh Andisheh Naw, was produced by the Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education. It is not the journal of the same name mentioned in the book Khalil Maleki (see google.com/books).
Keywords: Beauty; Environment; Nature; Psychology

The Bedrock of Bahá'í Belief: The Doctrine of Progressive Revelation - Lundberg,Zaid (Lights of Irfan, 2000)
The importance of doctrine and systematic theology in understanding the Baha' Faith, and the process of "doctrinalization" in Bahá'í history.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #22, London, England (August 27-29, 1999). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/22/lundberg_progressive.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Progressive revelation

The Beginning of the Bahá'í Cause in Manchester - Hall,Edward T. (Manchester Bahá'í Assembly, 1925)
A brief early history, starting from Sarah Ann Ridgeway, the first Bahá'í in the North of England circa 1906, and the author himself who converted in 1910.
See mention of the author in History of the Bahá'í Faith in the U.K..
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Manchester, England; United Kingdom

The Beginning That Hath No Beginning: Bahá'í Cosmogony - Brown,Vahid (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
The dimensions of myth in the Bahá'í Faith focussing on the religion's narratives of creation, religious history, and Administrative Order.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #38, Louhelen Bahá'í School (October, 2001). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/38/brown_cosmos.
Keywords: Active force and its recipient; Administrative Order; Be and it is (phrase); Cosmology; Creation; Elements; God; God, Will of; God, Word of; Hidden Treasure (Hadith); Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Islam; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Manifestations of God; Mythology; Pen; Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Quran; Relativism; Shaykhism; Words and phrases

The Beginnings of the Bahá'í Faith in Latin America: Some Remembrances - Lamb,Artemus (VanOrman Enterprises, 1995)
Overview of Bahá'í history in South America, with autobiographical reflections of time in Chile in the 1940s.
Keywords: Artemus Lamb; Bahá'í history by country; Chile; Latin America

The Benevolence of Chaos and Uncertainty - Todd,Billy D. (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2002)
Chaos and complexity are essential for self-organization and resilience in advanced systems. Human society, like natural systems, cannot avoid disorder but benefits from it; complexity allows for adaptability and error tolerance, necessary for evolution.
See also the rest of this issue.

The Bible: Extracts on the Old and New Testaments - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg.
Keywords: Authenticity; Bible; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Judaism; Metaphors and allegories; Prophecies; Symbolism; Torah

The Bible: King James version in Multilinear Format with Bahá'í References by Verse - Zamir,Brett, compiler
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work at http://www.bahai9.com/wiki/Bible. Any cross-references from the Bahá'í Writings found to be missing from the multilinear Bible pages linked below can be added at this collaborative website (and may be incorporated into the multilinear Bible in the future).The multilinear version of the Bible referenced below can also be found within this experimental (currently Chromium-based browser only) offlineable web app.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Quotations from the Bible; Translation, Parallel

The Birth of a Monotheistic Religion in Modernity: On Jihad and Martyrdom in the Baha'i Faith - Dehghani,Sasha (Martyrdom in the Modern Middle East, 2014)
The Bahá'í Faith responds to major questions of modernity such as the claims of science, world peace, and women's rights. Elements of continuity between early Christianity and mystical Islam can be found in the abolishment of military jihad.
Mirrored from nomos-elibrary.de. Download complete issue, dehghani_martyrdom_middle_east.pdf.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Jihad (Holy war); Martyrdom

The Birth of Radio Bahá'í of Lake Titicaca in Peru - Handal,Boris (Baha'i News, 1981)
On a momentous international Bahá'í teaching project linking the sister communities of Peril and Bolivia.
Keywords: Bahá'í Radio; Bolivia; Peru

The Birth of the Human Being: Beyond Religious Traditionalism and Materialist Modernity - Saiedi,Nader (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2011)
We have arrived at a turning point in human evolution: the moment of the birth of the human being. This paper examines the development of this idea in the Writings of the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and its opposite concept, dehumanization.
See an audio presentation of this paper, Birth of Human Beings in the Writings of the Bab. Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/151.
Keywords: Animals; Báb, Declaration of; Báb, Martyrdom of; Consultation; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Ethics; Evolution; Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lectures; Heaven and hell; Human nature; Lawh-i-Hague (Tablet to The Hague); Maturity of humanity; Modernity; Monarchy (kingship); Philosophy; Science; Soul; Sphinx; Spiritualization; Symbolism; Unity

The Book of Certitude: An Interview with Hooper Dunbar - Dunbar,Hooper (1998)
Significance and themes of the Kitáb-i-Íqán; its Islamic context; meaning of "certitude"; the importance of deepening and knowledge of the Writings.
Mirrored from bahai-education.org (re-published 2024).
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Deepening; Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh (letter); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Hooper Dunbar; Institute process; Interfaith dialogue; Interviews; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Memorization; Purity; Spirituality; Teaching

The Book of Ighan: (The Kitáb-i-Íqán) - Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í Publishing Society, 1915)
An early edition of the Book of Certitude, prepared with supervision of Abdu'l-Bahá (editions: 1904, 1907 and 1915).
See the authorized translation of this book online here. See also the 1907 version on Archive.org and Interlinear presentation with Shoghi Effendi's translation and the Persian original.
Keywords: Cross-reference; Howard MacNutt; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); `Alí Kulí Khán

"The Book of Names" Mentioned in the Tablet of Carmel - Bahá'u'lláh; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2003)
Letter from the House and a compilation explaining "People of Bahá" and the line in the Lawh-i-Karmil "Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and will manifest the people of Bahá who have been mentioned in the Book of Names."
Keywords: Ark; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Book of Names; Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel); Monument Gardens (Haifa); People of Bahá; Research Department, Questions and answers; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general)

The Book of Revelation Revealed in Glory: A Summary of Glorious Revelation - Ridgers,William (Lights of Irfan, 2000)
Bahá'í interpretation of St. John's Book of Revelation.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #24, Louhelen Bahá'í School, Michigan (October 8-12, 1999). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/24/ridgers_revelation.
Keywords: Armageddon; Bible; Book of Revelation (Bible); Christianity; Day-year principle; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Irfan Colloquia; Islam; Judaism; Millennialism; Prophecies; Symbolism; Translation

The Book of Revelation: Explanations from the Letters of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Mirza Abul Fazl - Author unknown (1933)
Discussion of the content and symbolism of the biblical Book of Revelation.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. Pages 8 and 13 are missing. Note that the correct spelling of this book of the Bible is "The Book of Revelation," with no 's.' This talk was likely given by a very knowledgeable early Baha’i scholar due to this statement in the text, “It is beyond the limits of this short essay“, and his/her extensive knowledge of Eastern history. The use of A.B.A. indicates that the person doing the hand correcting, was also an early Baha’i because that was the name commonly used for 'Abdu'l-Bahá, particularly by the Persians. [-E.J., 2021]
Keywords: Bible; Book of Revelation (Bible); Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Prophecies

The Books of God Are Open - Campbell,E. S. (Bahá'í Publishing Committee, 1950)
Two editions of a compilation prepared by a former Baptist minister, presenting the Faith to those from a background of the Old and New Testaments, covering the themes "The Great Day Of God," "The Best Beloved is Come," and "The Most Great Peace."
The first PDF below is online at bahai.works/The_Books_of_God_are_Open; the second was scanned by Anita Graves, 2019.
Keywords: Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Prophecies

The Brain Drain from Iran to the United States - Torbat,Akbar E. (Middle East Journal, 2002)
Excerpt from article mentioning the exodus of Bahá'í intelligentsia from Iran in 1979, and the Bahá'ís' attempt at underground education.
Email me if you need the rest of this article.
Keywords: Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE); Education; Human rights; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

The Brilliant Proof - Gulpáygání,Mirza Abu'l-Fadl (Kalimat Press; Baha'i News Service, 1998)
Two editions of a work of apologetics by an eminent Bahá'í scholar, first published in 1912 and reprinted 1998.
Kalimat edition contributed by and posted with permission of publisher. Please support this online re-printing by ordering a copy. Both PDF versions below optimized by M. Thomas (2022), who also prepared a Microsoft Word version.
Keywords: Bahá'í Faith, Unique teachings; Brilliant Proof (book); Criticism and apologetics; Pantheism; Principles; Proofs; Prophecies

The Brutal Slashing to Death of Dr Berjis - Mohajer,Nasser (Baha'i Studies Review, 2011)
English translation of an article in Persian about persecutions during the Pahlavi regime, and the death of a Bahá'í doctor in 1950.
Posted with permission of translator/editor, who explains that Mohajer is a researcher, writer, and human rights activist with no affiliation to the Bahá'í community.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran

The Call of Mt. Carmel - Holbach,Maude M. (Bible Ways in Bible Lands: An Impression of Palestine, 1912)
Includes passing references to Abdu'l-Bahá and Akka, a description of life in Haifa at the time, and some history of Laurence Oliphant.
This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Haifa, Israel; History (general); Laurence Oliphant; Palestine

The Calligraphy of Mishkin-Qalam - Badiee,Julie; Badiee,Heshmatollah (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1991)
The life and work of a one-time court artist for Nasiri'd-Din Shah, who was present for the nascent years of the Baha’i revelation and moved to Edirne to be near to Baha'u'lláh; examples of Islamic calligraphic traditions and his own compositions.
See also journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/issue/archive.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Calligraphy; Mishkin-Qalam

The Calling: Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries - Ahdieh,Hussein; Chapman,Hillary (Ibex Publishers, 2017)
Simultaneous, powerful spiritual movements swept across both Iran and the U.S in the mid-1800s. On the life and martyrdom of Tahirih; the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the conference of Badasht; spiritualism and suffrage.
Keywords: African Americans; Badasht, Iran; Bahá'í inspired schools; Biography; Conference of Badasht (1848); Education; Equality; Gender; Great Disappointment; Human rights; Iran (documents); Millennialism; New York, USA; Persecution; Poetry; Seneca Falls, NY; Suffrage; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Translation; United States (documents); Veils; William Miller; Women; Womens rights

The Canadian Bahá'ís 1938-2000: Construction of Oneness in Personal and Collective Identity - Echevarria-Howe,Lynn (Baha'i and Globalisation, 2005)
On how globalization includes greater consciousness of the whole world, and a sociological perspective on how this consciousness has been nurtured within the Canadian Bahá'í community.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Canada; Canada; Globalization; Unity; Unity of humanity

The Cases of Dhabihu'llah Mahrami and Musa Talibi - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States; Amnesty International; United States Department of State; Dershowitz,Alan (1998)
In June 1994 and January 1996, two Bahá'ís in Iran were arrested and later sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy from Islam. These 9 documents and articles are about their case.
The following documents are arranged chronologically and compiled as one document. As of April, 1998, I collected no further news regarding the case; a keyword search of the internet should turn up more news. [-J.W.]
Keywords: Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Arrests; Persecution, Court cases; Persecution, Human rights; Persecution, Iran

The Causality Principle in the World of Being - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Philosophy

The Cause of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations - Moffett,Ruth (1954)
A chart correlating the growth of maturity of humanity and the evolution of religions with major events in history.
Moffett personally gave a copy of this chart to Roger Coe in 1972. Coe had it scanned by a printshop in 2012. This scan was done at fairly high resolution but was scanned and saved in bitmap (not grayscale) format, and was then embedded in a PDF, so the resulting image is pixelated. The image data was later extracted from the PDF and saved in PNG format. This was then rotated, reduced, and saved in PNG and GIF formats. All versions are below.
Keywords: Chronology and timelines; Civilization; History (general); Interfaith dialogue; Religion (general); Ruth Moffett; Visuals

The Cause of Universal Peace: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Enduring Impact - Hogenson,Kathryn Jewett (Baha'i World, 2021)
On Abdu'l-Bahá's interest in the Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration in New York, 1912, and the Quaker founders Albert and Alfred Smiley; Leroy Ioas and the World Unity Conferences; World Unity magazine (later World Order).
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org. See more about the Mohonk conferences at wikipedia, and also Who Will Bell the Cat? 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Lake Mohonk by Janet Ruhe-Schoen (academia.edu).
Keywords: Albert Smiley; Alfred Smiley; Bahá'í International Community; Biography; Ella Goodall Cooper; Florence Reed Morton; Horace Holley; International peace conferences; Kathryn Frankland; Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration; Lake Mohonk, NY; Leroy Ioas; Mary Rumsey Movius; New York, USA; Peace; Quakers; Rabbi Rudolph Coffee; San Francisco, CA; United Nations; United States (documents); World Order magazine; World Unity (magazine); World War I; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

The Challenge and Promise of Bahá'í Scholarship - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice (Baha'i World, 1981)
Issues that face students of religion, and especially scholars coming from a Bahá'í perspective.
In Bahá'í World vol. 17 this letter was attributed to "Universal House of Justice," but in a
Keywords: Scholarship; Science

The Challenge of Baha'u'llah: Proofs of the Bahá'í Revelation - Matthews,Gary L. (George Ronald, 1993)
Link to book (offsite).
Keywords: Proofs; Prophecies; Science

The Challenge of Change for the Chinese in Southeast Asia - Shuen,Yin Hong (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 2000)
Chinese Bahá'ís in some Asian countries are a microcosm of Chinese people in this region. An email survey asked what attracts Southeast Asians to the Faith, difficulties they face, and how adopting a world religion helps guide their future challenges.
See the table of contents, editor's note, and biographical data in the complete issue, vol. 5.
Keywords: China; Diaspora, Chinese; Interfaith dialogue; Migration; Sociology; Southeast Asia

The Chaos of Cults: A Study in Present-Day Isms - Baalen,Jan Karel van (Pickering and Inglis, 1956)
Fourteen-page chapter on the Faith from a critical yet somewhat sympathetic Christian perspective ("Bahá'ísm has some very fine points...").
Keywords: Christianity; Criticism and apologetics; Interfaith dialogue

The Child of the Covenant - Taherzadeh,Adib (George Ronald, 2000)
Link to book (offsite).
See a page about this book at bahaipedia.org. See also the companion volume The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Covenant; Covenant-breakers (individuals); Custodians; Guardianship; Hands of the Cause; Huqúqu'lláh; Interregnum (1957-1963); Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Shoghi Effendi, Family of; Steadfastness; Supreme Tribunal; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh; Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá

The Choice of the West for Abdu'l-Bahá's Epoch-Making Trip - Ma'ani,Baharieh Rouhani (Lights of Irfan, 2012)
Reasons for Abdu'l-Bahá choosing Western nations for the climax of his ministry, and results he achieved in Europe and the United States.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #107, Louhelen Bahá'í Center (October 2011). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/107/ma'ani_west.
Keywords: Canada; China; Europe; India; Japan; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

The Choice Wine - Harris,Bob
Audio posted online at http://bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng.htm A transcript is available at bahai.works.
Keywords: Humor; Motivation; Teaching; Youth

The Chosen Highway - Blomfield,Lady Sarah Louisa (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1940)
Oral Bahá'í histories collected by an eminent early English Bahá'í, first published in 1940.
This book has been minimally formatted and proofread, but could still use more work. [-J.W., 2010.] Posted here with the kind permission of the Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 27, Rutland Gate, London. See obituary "Sara, Lady Blomfield, "Sitarih Khanum", 1859-1939," in Bahá'í World Volume, VIII, p. 651. A partial bio of Blomfield can also be found in Lady Blomfield and the Save the Children Fund.
Keywords: Abu-Sinan, Israel; Adasiyyih, Palestine; Akka, Israel; Asfiya, Palestine; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Banishment of; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Biography; Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, The; Covenant-breaking; Daliya, Palestine; Eyewitnesses; Haifa, Israel; Holy Family; Iran (documents); Iraq; Israel; Israel, Bahá'í relations; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; Mirrors; Munirih Khanum; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Navvab (Asiyih Khanum); Nughayb, Palestine; Palestine; Pilgrims notes; Samirih, Palestine; Stories; Tuba Khanum; Turkey; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Death threats to; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Knighthood (KBE)

The Chosen Path: Tahirih of Persia and Her Search for God - Ahdieh,Hussein; Chapman,Hillary (CreateSpace, 2020)
Overview of the life of Tahirih of Qazvin and this period of Bábí history, written for a Bahá'í youth audience. PDF of the book, and an audio podcast about it.
Order online at amazon.com, read about this book on the author's website, and see a flyer.
Keywords: Biography; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Youth

The Christ of Primitive Christian Faith in the Light of Religio-Historical Criticism - Pfleiderer,Otto (The Monist, 1904)
Section "Babism — A Recent Parallel" finding commonalities in the stories of Jesus and the Báb.

The Christian Faith and the Formation of the Principles of Ideas and its Church Organizations - Ekbal,Kamran (2011)
On the Christian religion and the process of formulating principles, concepts, and organizational structure in relation to the history of religious thought. [article in Persian]
Title and abstract translated by google. Please contact me if you know Persian and can improve this translation.
Keywords: Christianity; Interfaith dialogue

The City of Dancing Dervishes: And other sketches and studies from the Near East - Lukach,Harry Charles (Macmillan and Company, 1914)
One-half page summary of the Mahdi and Bahá'í history.
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.
Keywords: Báb, The; Mahdi (Mihdi)

The City of Love: Ishqábád and the Institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár - Whitmore,Bruce (Baha'i News, 1975)
History of the building of the temple in Turkmenistan, north of the Iranian province of Khurasan.
Reprinted in
Keywords: Ashgabat; Iran (documents); Khurásán, Iran; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Ishqabad; Turkmenistan

The Clouds of the Realms Above: The Tablet Rashh-i-'Amá with Persian and English Side-by-side - Bahá'u'lláh (2019)
Original text of Rashḥ-i-ʻAmáʼ (as transcribed by Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín, a typescript of which was provided to Masumian by the World Centre) and the authorized English translation (published in Call of the Divine Beloved).
See also Call of the Divine Beloved (2019).
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing)

The Coming Age of Humanity and its Implications for Psychotherapy - Kerr,Diane Robinson (2013)
Humanity is undergoing inevitable and revolutionary change. The transition from turbulent adolescence to global maturity especially affects our understanding of human psychology. This thesis examines the impact on psychotherapy in particular.
Thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in Transformational Psychology at The University of Philosophical Research. Also available as an e-book from the author's website, dianerobinsonkerr.com. The transition from turbulent adolescence to global maturity especially affects our understanding of human psychology.
Keywords: Maturity of humanity; Mental health; Psychology

The Coming of "The Glory" - Pinchon,Florence (Simpkin Marshall, 1928)
An introduction to the Bahá’í Faith by an early British Bahá’í.
Public-domain document scanned by afnanlibrary.org. Also available in an updated, annotated version by Mike Thomas [2021] in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Introductory

The Coming of the Glory: How the Hebrew Scriptures Reveal the Plan of God - Maddocks,Eileen (Something or Other Publishing Co., 2020)
Prophecies dating back to the book of Genesis about the future time of glory, when their descendents would inherit the promises associated with the Covenant: an age of global peace and the unity of humankind.
A portion of these books have been shared by the author, with permission of the publisher, for promoting them. They can be purchased from Amazon here: Vol. 1 paperback, Vol. 1 Kindle, Vol. 2 paperback, and Vol. 2 Kindle. They are also carried by the Bahá'í Publishing Trust at bahaibookstore.com. See also the author's 1844: Convergence in Prophecy for Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Genesis (Bible); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Noah (Bible); Prophecies

The Coming Synthesis: Bahá'í Scholarship in an Age of Conflict and Controversy - Harmsen,Rick (1999)
Whilst science and reason have come to dominate Western society, the Bahá'í writings propose that unadulterated divine revelation and authentic scientific enterprise are complementary processes that will eventually be harmonized and integrated.

The Common Goal of Universal Peace in Buddhism and the Baha'i Faith: A Paper delivered to the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace - Bahá'í International Community (1990)
Statement on the launching of "The Promise of World Peace" initiative, shared principles of Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith, and some of the barriers to world peace and the role that religions must play.
Mirrored from bic.org/statements
Keywords: Absolute existence; Buddha; Buddhism; Interfaith dialogue; Man-made doctrines and dogmas; Metaphysics; Peace; Promise of World Peace (statement)

The Community as Family: Opportunities of Growth - Gabriel,Ros (The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges, 1995)
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Acceptance; Aging; Bahá'í community as example; Belonging (community); Change; Children; Community (general); Consultation; Education; Family; Friendliness and friendship; Globalization; Growth; Individualism; Living the life; Love; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Dependencies of; Migration; Nineteen Day Feast; Parents; Participation; Prayer; Spiritual Assemblies; Support; Transformation; Unity; Virtues

The Community of Religions - Randall,John Herman (The Meaning of Religion for Man, 1946)
Chapter on religious tolerance, inclusivism, and the need for a World Faith, with a passing discussion of Bahá'í principles, written by a Baptist minister who addressed Bahá'í audiences and received a letter from the Guardian.

The Concept of 'Faithfulness' in the Bahá'í Texts in English Translation - Momen,Wendi (Lights of Irfan, 2016)
On faithfulness (being faithful as an individual; God being faithful to His people; believers being faithful to the Covenant; Bahá’u’lláh calling for fidelity to the new Manifestation) and behavior expected of the followers.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #132 (Italy, 2015). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/132/momen_faithfulness.
Keywords: Covenant; Ethics; Faithfulness

The Concept of 'Light' in Iranian Religion - Momen,Moojan (2003)
Lecture in the University of Haifa "Lectures in Bahá'í Studies" series, March 25 2003. Mirrored from bahai.haifa.ac.il/past_lectures.htm.
Keywords: Fire; Glory (general); Interfaith dialogue; Iran (documents); Light; Zoroastrianism

The Concept of Divine Law - Meshgin,Mehrdad K. (The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: Studies from the First National Conference on the Holy Book, vol. 1, 1996)
The changing impact of divine law on society; legal principles current in Europe are derived largely from the works on jurisprudence and the legal decision of Muslim theologians; Bahá'u'lláh's social teachings offer flexibility to address new concerns.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Laws

The Concept of Freedom of Belief and Its Boundaries in Egypt: The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Bahá'í Faith between Established Religions and an Authoritarian State - Pink,Johanna (Culture and Religion, 2005)
On how the Egyptian courts have dealt with the two most important non-Islamic faiths in Egypt, both of which have been officially dissolved and face strong opposition.

The Concept of Manifestation in the Bahá'í Writings - Cole,Juan (Baha'i Studies, 1982)
Lengthy overview of Bahá'í theology and prophetology and their Islamic roots.
Article also posted at the ABS monograph series page. (Permission to cross-post given by ABS editor in 1997 when I built the first bahai-studies.ca website. -J.W.)
Keywords: Cosmology; Emanation; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Manifestations of God; Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Psychology; Soul; Sufism; Theology; Unity of existence (vaḥdatu’l-vujúd)

The Concept of Nature in Baha'i Philosophy - Lepain,Jean-Marc (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2014)
Philosophies of nature and of science; holistic approach to reality; subjectivity; the theory of intelligibility; metaphysics; nature as the will of God; continuity and discontinuity in nature; origin of the universe; emanation and manifestation.
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Nature; Philosophy

The Concept of Process in the Bahá'í Writings - Taefi,Vargha (2005)
Thesis is in Persian only, no English translation is available.
BA thesis, Institute for Advanced Bahá'í Studies (Iran), 2005. Also presented at the Irfan Colloquia, Session #62 (Italy, 2005).
Keywords: Bahá'í Writings; Process (general)

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: Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Manifestations of God; 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; Mishkin-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; Interfaith dialogue; 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.

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: Interfaith dialogue; 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: 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: Bahá'u'lláh; Biography; Báb, Family of; Báb, The; Báb, Uncles of; Conversion; Dating of Writings; Hidden Imam; Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad; Imams; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Prophecies; Qaim; Questions and answers; 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: Covenant; `Alí Nakhjavání

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. 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: Administrative Order; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); 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; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Mahdi (Mihdi); Occultation; Prophecies; Qaim; 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; Interfaith dialogue; 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: 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; Mishkin-Qalam; Mírzá Aliy-i-Sayyah-i-Maraghihi (Mulla Adi-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: Interfaith dialogue; 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)

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.

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 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; Interfaith dialogue; 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: Arminius Vambery; Bábísm; Hungary; Iran (documents); Lord Curzon; 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: Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; 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; Irfan 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 (poet); 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: Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism)

The Development of the Babi/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: 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: Hinduism; India; Interfaith dialogue; 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; Interfaith dialogue; 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: 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: 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 (author); 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: 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: Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Biography; Báb, Laws of; Báb, Teachings of; Báb, The; E-books; Iran (documents)

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. Permission to cross-post them given by ABS editor in 1997 when I scanned and formatted these. [-J.W.]
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 Zarha Schoeny is one of the narrators so this would have been dated before 1943.
Keywords: Arizona, USA; Phoenix, AZ; Plays; United States (documents); Zarha 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: 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)
Passing mention of a one-time Iranian conspiracy theory that the Bahá'ís and Freemasons were running the country.

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.

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: 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; Interfaith dialogue; 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: 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; Irfan 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].
Keywords: Administrative Order; Bible; Christianity; Edward Gibbon; English language; History (general); Interfaith dialogue; 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 (Numen Book Series: 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; Interfaith dialogue; 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 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: 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-Fadl Gulpaygani; Mírzá Asadullah Fadil-i-Mazandarani; Priesthood; Scholarship; `Abdu'l-Hamid Ishraq-Khavari

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: Haifa, Israel; Introductory; Mount Carmel

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: Interfaith dialogue; 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,place, 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: Baha'i 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: Biography; Istanbul, Turkey; Turkey; Wellesley Tudor Pole

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: Biography

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.

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: Biography; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj)

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: Biography; Iran (documents); Mulla Husayn; Mulla Husayn, Family of; 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: Biography; Genealogy; Vahid (Siyyid Yahyay-i-Darabi)