The Scholar and the Plan - Aghdasi,Farzin (2006)
Talk at the 30th ABS Annual Conference "Religion and the Evolution of Consciousness," San Francisco, CA, August 10-13 2006. Mirrored with permission from www.bahai-studies.ca/proceedings. Author affiliation: Continental Counsellor

The Science of Religion - Hatcher,William S. (Baha'i Studies, 1980)
Contains three essays: “Science and Religion,” “The Unity of Religion and Science,” and “Science and the Bahá'í Faith.”
Article available in three versions: Microsoft Word format, prepared by M. Thomas (2022); optimized PDF scan of original (M. Thomas); and PDF uploaded to the ABS website, below.
Keywords: Science

The Scriptures of Different Faiths - Singh,Pritam (Baha'i World, 1942)
Overview of Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Islamic scriptures, emphasizing their teachings and significance across diverse religious traditions.
Mirrored from bahai.works.
Keywords: Bhagavad Gita; Bible; Buddhism; Christianity; Detachment; Dualism; Ethics; Evil; Fire; God; Hinduism; India; Interfaith dialogue; Introductory; Islam; Judaism; Lahore, India; Liberation; Meditation; Middle Way; Moderation; Pakistan; Philosophy; Pritam Singh; Progressive revelation; Psalms (Bible); Purity; Quran; Reconciliation; Religion (general); Salvation; Spirituality; Unity; Unity of religion; Virtues; Zoroastrianism

The Sealed Words: A Brief Account of the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh's Kitáb-i-Iqán - Monjazeb,Shahrokh (2005)
Overview of the historical context of the Iqán, its themes, and the original manuscript.
Keywords: Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)

The Search for Values in an Age of Transition: includes Study Guide - Bahá'í International Community (2005)
A statement on the 60th anniversary of the United Nations, new paradigms taking hold, and the place of the UN. Includes study guide to assist readers in their understanding and examination of the concepts presented in the statement.
Mirrored with permission from bic.org/statements/search-values-age-transition and bic.org/statements/search-values-age-transition-study-guide.
Keywords: Age of transition; BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Ethics; Interdependence (interconnectedness); Statements; Study guides; United Nations; Values

The Searching Eye: The Independent Investigation of Truth - Matthews,Gary L. (Baha'i News, 1989)
Concepts informing the personal search for truth: the role of faith, the trap of imitation, the role of justice, the impact on unity, the oneness of truth, and the scientific method.
This essay was written while the author was a Peace Corps volunteer in Grenada as an information specialist for the Grenada Cocoa Association.
Keywords: Imitation; Independent investigation of truth; Justice; Science; Superstition; Traditions; Truth; Unity

The Second Coming: A Biblical Approach to Understanding the Evidence that Christ has Returned - Yamartino,David (2012)
Biblical principles for investigation of truth; the resurrection of Christ, prophecies fulfilled by Bahá’u’lláh; the ancestry of Bahá’u’lláh, descendant of King David.
Archived at reasontogether.com [archive.org].
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Ancestry of; Baptism; Christianity; E-books; Heaven and hell; Interfaith dialogue; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Prophecies; Resurrection; Return

The Secret of Divine Civilization - Moghadam,Fariba (2021)
Overview of the history Abdu'l-Bahá's treatise, and its themes presented through a compilation of quotations. Prepared for the Wilmette Institute.
Mirrored from wilmetteinstitute.org/secret-of-divine-civilization-slide-show; see also direct link to PDF [5MB]. See also Secret of Divine Civilization Study questions (H. Riazati, 2001).
Keywords: Civilization; Consultation; Education; Ethics; Europe; Interfaith dialogue; Iran (documents); Islam; Leadership; Middle East; Peace; Philosophy; Politics; Prosperity; Reform; Scholarship; Secret of Divine Civilization (book); Social and economic development; Virtues

The Semantics of World Government - Dale,John T. (dialogue magazine, 1986)
The concept of "world federation" is tied in to a variety of semantic presumptions. The term "self-government" is less authoritarian and individualistic than the term "world government." Includes response by Leonard Godwin.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Language; World order

The Seven Cities of Bahá'u'lláh - Bolhuis,Arjen, compiler (2002)
This is a compilation of only those passages from Bahá'u'lláh’s Gems of Divine Mysteries that relate to the journey through "Seven Cities," which has similarities to Bahá'u'lláh’s Seven Valleys.
See also Dutch translation De Zeven Steden, from sites.google.com/site/studiedocumenten (archived). See also Gems of Divine Mysteries and Seven Valleys.
Keywords: Cities; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Interfaith dialogue; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Mysticism; Seven Cities; Sufism

The Seven Proofs - Báb, The (2008)
English translation by Peter Terry of Nicolas' French translation of The Báb's "Seven Proofs."
Keywords: A.L.M. Nicolas; Báb, Writings of; Dalail-i-Sabih (Seven Proofs)

The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys - Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1991)
Bahá’u’lláh's most well-known mystical works, written in Baghdad after his return from Kurdistan in 1856.
Translated "in consultation with `Alí-Kuli Khan," first published in 1945. See also the authorized 2019 translation in comparative, parallel format and the official version at bahai.org. Add or read links or comments pertaining to The Seven Valleys or The Four Valleys.
Keywords: Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys); Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Marzieh Gail

The Seven Valleys and the Scientific Method - Sarracino,Robert Sinclair (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
The Seven Valleys is both Bahá'u'llah's "greatest mystical composition" and a practical and inspirational guide and sourcebook for those engaged in a process of both self discovery or scientific research.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #36, London (July 13-15, 2001). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/36/sarracino_scientific.
Keywords: Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Irfan Colloquia; Research; Scholarship; Science; Teaching

The Seven Valleys: Notes from a Deepening Class - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (1966)
Lengthy notes from a deepening led by Hand of the Cause Faizi in Haifa, Israel.
Also available in Microsoft Word version, prepared by M. Thomas (2021).
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; God, Fear of; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Obligatory prayer; Patience; Prayer; Self; Spirituality; Study guides; Words and phrases

The Sheltering Branch - Gail,Marzieh (George Ronald, 1959)
The life and teachings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
First made available online in Ocean. Also available as a Word document.
Keywords: Biography; Marzieh Gail; Pilgrims notes; `Abdu'l-Bahá

The Shi'ite Religion: A History of Islam in Persia and Irak - Donaldson,Dwight M. (Luzac and Company, 1933)
An early history of Shí'ís, including a section on Shaykhism and the Bábís.
The section on Shaykhis and the Bábí Faith runs pages 359-369. See those pages in this excerpt, Shayhki/Bábí section of Shi'ite Religion.

The Shuster Mission and the Persian Constitutional Revolution - McDaniel,Robert A. (Bibliotheca Islamica, 1974)
Passing mention of the 1903 persecutions; some discussion of E. G. Browne's Persian Revolution of 1905-1909; bibliography of resources from the British Parliamentary Papers.
Pages 215-252 consist of an extensive bibliography of published material for the study of Persia in the 19th and early 20th centuries from the British Parliamentary Papers.

The Significance of the Four Year Plan - Alexander,Andrew (Solas, 2004)
A look at the central documents of the 4 Year Plan (1996-2000) and their relevance to the new century. Understanding these International Plans helps the Bahá'í community evolve and expand. Includes overview of the role of these Plans in Bahá'í history.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 4. Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: Four Year Plan (1996-2000); Plans

The Signs of Prophet-Hood: An Exposition on a Tablet by 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Thomas,James B. (Lights of Irfan, 2005)
On the signs of a Manifestation of God as articulated by ‘Abdu'l-Bahá; the type of proof utilized; the sequence of signs shown, some self-evident, others at a deeper level of meaning; historical confirmation.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #53, Bosch Bahá'í School, California (May 27-30, 2004). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/53/thomas_prophethood.
Keywords: Bisharat (Glad Tidings); Dalail-i-Sabih (Seven Proofs); Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Islam; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Miracles; Proofs; Prophecies; Quotations from the Quran; Quran; Signs; Tablets to kings and rulers

The Silences of God: A Meditation - Nakhjavani,Bahiyyih (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2014)
While the Word of God dominated the history of religion, contemporaries question the orthodoxy of language. God's Silence is also essential in shaping our individual choices and collective histories, and understanding Bahá'u'lláh's words.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/163.
Keywords: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Future Manifestations of God; God, Word of; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Meditation; Poetry; Prophecies; Silence

The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America - Le Beau,Bryan F. (Sociology of Religion, 1993)
Processes of interaction between Marginal Religious Movements and their social environments; adaptive outcomes of different movements and across time. Passing references to the Bahá'í Faith.
Mirrored from highbeam.com [archive.org].
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; New religious movements (NRM); Sociology; United States (documents)

The Social Organization of Mentorship in Bahá'í Studies - Hoonaard, van den,Will C. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1998)
Mentorship in contemporary Bahá’í Studies is influenced by gender inequality, generational differences, and a perceived hierarchical order of disciplines. How can these limitations be overcome?
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/106.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Gender; Scholarship; Statistics

The Social Protest of the Babis - Hodgson,Marshall G. S. (The Venture of Islam, vol. 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times, 1974)
Two pages on the Babis, from a classic textbook on Islamic history.

The Song Celestial - Ives,Howard Colby (1938)
Book-length poem about the search for God, in which a seeker asks God various questions, and God responds.
Keywords: God; Poetry

The Soul in Chinese and Bahá'í Belief - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1998)
On Chinese religions and the Bahá'í Faith; their beliefs in the presence of a soul and an afterlife; the nature of the soul and the human being; the human quest for happiness and meaning in life; free will and its relation to justice.
See the table of contents, editor's note, and biographical data in the complete issue, vol. 3.
Keywords: China; Chinese religion; Free will; Happiness; Justice; Life after death (afterlife); Soul

The Sources for Early Bábí Doctrine and History: A Survey - MacEoin,Denis (E. J. Brill, 1992)
Thorough, annotated list of writings and sources relevant to Bahá'í historical research. Includes index of first lines and titles of writings of The Báb (see scan #1).
See also a partial preview at books.google.ca/books?id=xqV9-zmMxsUC.
Keywords: Bibliography; Báb, Writings of; Bábísm; Manuscripts

The Sovereign Remedy: A Study of Bahá'í Sources - Terry,Peter (2000)
Quotations showing that Bahá'u'lláh and his authoritative interpreters state what fundamentalists of many faiths have been saying for centuries: that God's guidance revealed to humanity provides the best remedy for all human ills.
Keywords: Divine Physician; Manifestations of God

The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the Trauma - Chaqueri,Cosroe (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995)
Passing mentions of the Bábí revolt 1848-51, and Ehsan Allah Khan of the Constitutional Revolution.
Read about the Ehsan mentioned on page 193 in Encyclopedia Iranica.

The Specter of Ideological Genocide: The Bahá'ís of Iran - Affolter,Friedrich W. (War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes against Humanity, 2005)
History of the persecution and suppression of the Bahá'ís in Iran, through the lens of genocide studies. (Link to document, off-site.)
Document online at migs.concordia.ca/documents/AffolterIdeologicalGenocideandtheBahaisofIran.pdf; also mirrored at core.kmi.open.ac.uk/display/361632.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Persecution, Human rights; Persecution, Iran

The Spirit of Agriculture, ed. Paul Hanley: Review - Dahl,Arthur Lyon (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2005)
See also a PDF version, from journal.bahaistudies.ca.

The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution - Taheri,Amir (Hutchinson & Co., 1985)
Anti-Bahá'í sentiment in the 1930s; Mahmoud Halabi's and Falsafi's anti-Bahá'í campaigns 1955-1957; Mohammad Reza Shah's ties to Bahá'ís; Khomeini's anti-Bahá'í activities. Includes diagram of social structure of political power in Iran (at end).

The Spiritual Assembly as Arbitrator - Cornell,John B. (1997)
The function of Spiritual Assemblies in arbitrating disputes among Bahá'ís, and some historical insight into the development of Bahá'í practice.
Originally presented at the first seminar on Consultation and Conflict Resolution at the ABS conference at Princeton, 1987, again to a regional ABS conference at Bosch Bahá'í School in 1997.

The Spiritual Dimensions of Microfinance: Towards a Just Civilization and Sustainable Economy - Rodey,Barbara J. (European Bahá'í Business Forum, 2001)
Prepared for the Microcredit Summit to emphasize the importance of universal spiritual principles to achieve the real benefits of microfinance services.
Originally online as a free download from ebbf.org, preserved at archive.org.
Keywords: Business; Economics; Ethics; Family; Microfinance; Non-governmental organizations (NGO); Rural development; Social and economic development; Sustainable development; Wealth and poverty; Women; Work ethics

The Spiritual Foundation of Human Rights: A Bahá'í Perspective - Bushrui,Suheil Badi (1997)
Author note: Suheil Badi Bushrui, Bahá'í Chair for World Peace, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Keywords: Human rights; Suheil Bushrui

The Spiritual Foundations of Science - Khursheed,Anjam (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1996)
In contrast to modern western accounts of science, which reduce it to methods of logic and experiment, the Bahá'í reference point is the spiritual nature of man. The experience of some outstanding scientists of the past supports the Bahá'í view.
See the table of contents and editor's note in the complete issue, vol. 1. Also published in Revisioning the Sacred: New Perspectives on a Bahá'í Theology, 1997.
Keywords: Philosophy; Revisioning the Sacred (book); Science

The Spiritual Inheritors - Nakhjavani,Bahiyyih (dialogue magazine, 1987)
Reflections on growing up Bahá'í, and a report on a conference about capturing the power of the Six Year Plan to focus attention on the role of women in establishing global peace, the destiny of the women of North America, and equality of sexes.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Equality; Gender; Peace; Women

The Spiritual Nature of a Human Being - Huitt,William G. (Educational Psychology Interactive, 2000)
When individuals combine understandings derived from science, philosophy, and religion with their personal experiences and intuitions they will have a more complete knowledge of the reality of the universe than from any one knowledge system by itself.
Mirrored with permission from http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/spiritual/spirit.html
Keywords: Human nature; Psychology; Spirituality

The Spiritual Nature of Reality: Has the Future Already Been Written? - Hatcher,John S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2000)
Meditations on "Who is Writing the Future": why is spiritual development a social as well as personal matter; what is epistemological methodology for this development; how is it distinct from materialism; and how does it relate to the Covenants?
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca.
Keywords: Calamities and catastrophes; Covenant; Future; Individualism; John Hatcher; Lesser Peace; Materialism; Maturity of humanity; Reality; Spirituality; Spiritualization; Who is Writing the Future (statement); World Commonwealth

The Spiritual Role of Art - Tuman,Ludwig (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1991)
The Bahá’í writings indicate that art can render services of a mystical, moral, and social nature. This is the spiritual role of art, whose highest purpose is to ennoble the individual soul and the collective life of humanity.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Beauty; Spirituality

The Spiritual Self in Bahá'í Studies - McLean,Jack (2003)
Being philosophically informed is particularly important for Bahá'ís who are in dialogue with persons concerned with ethical, epistemological, theological and metaphysical issues. This paper introduces the topic for discussion among Bahá'í academics.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Knowledge; Philosophy; Scholarship

The Splendour of God: Being Extracts from the Sacred Writings of the Bahais - Hammond,Eric, compiler (J. Murray, 1909)
An early overview of Bábí and Bahá'í history, along with early translations of Seven Valleys, Hidden Words, and selected texts from other tablets.
This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org/search.php?query=splendour+of+god. The PDF copy below has been stripped of blank pages. The text copy below has been corrected, but lacks formatting. This book is also online, proofread and formatted, at sacred-texts.com/bhi/sog. See also another scan.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); India; Introductory; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); London, England; Splendor of God (book); United Kingdom

The Splendour of Israel - Payne,Robert (Robert Hale Ltd., 1963)
Description of Theodor Herzl's dream in 1902 of Haifa as a city towering up the length of Mount Carmel and spreading all the way to Acre, and discussion of the area of Haifa. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.

The St. Petersburg 19th Century Orientalist Collection of Materials on the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths: Primary and Other Sources - Ioannesyan,Youli A. (Lights of Irfan, 2006)
The important work of Russian scholars up to 1917 in collecting Bábí and Bahá’í materials; a detailed listing of available materials.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #54, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London (July 2-4, 2004). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/54/ioannesyan_petersburg.
Keywords: Alexander Tumansky; Archives; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í studies; Baron Rosen; Báb, Writings of; Bábísm; Indexes and catalogues; Irfan Colloquia; Manuscripts; Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

The Star Tablet of the Bab - Momen,Moojan (Asian and African Studies Blog, 2019)
Guest post celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of the Bab with an account of one of the Bahá'í Faith's most important manuscripts, the Star Tablet, written in his own hand.
Mirrored from blogs.bl.uk; see also that site's short entry The Bab's Star Tablet [archive.org]. See also Momen's Marking the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Bāb. See also Haykal or "Star Tablet" Written in the Báb's Own Hand: Form, Content, and Provisional Translation (Aqiqi and Lawson, 2021).
Keywords: British Museum and British Library; Báb, Writings of; Haykal and daira; London, England; Tawqi'a haykal (Star Tablet of the Báb); United Kingdom

The State When Asleep: Dreams, Their Interpretation and Wisdom - Mazandarani,Asadu'llah Fadil, compiler; Brown,Keven, translator (2011)
Annotated translation by Keven Brown (2011) of a compilation by Mazandarani published in Amr va Khalq (1954-1955).
See two other compilations on dreams, one by Susan Gammage and one at bahaimosaic.blogspot.com. For citation purposes, the author agrees [private email, 2020/10/12] that the title should be punctuated "The State When Asleep: Dreams, Their Interpretation and Wisdom."
Keywords: Amr va Khalq (compilation); Dreams and visions; God, Worlds of; Mírzá Asadullah Fadil-i-Mazandarani

The State, Bureaucracy, and Revolution in Modern Iran: Agrarian Reforms and Regime Politics - Farazmand,Ali (Praeger, 1989)
Brief discussion of Bahá'ís being excluded from the constitutions of 1906 and 1979, (alleged) Jewish support of the Bahá'í Faith, and claims that British imperialism promoted the Faith to undermine the Islamic theocracy.

The Station and Titles of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Shoghi Effendi (Baha'i World, 1973)
Two excerpts from Shoghi Effendi's writings, one from "The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh" and the other from God Passes By.
Mirrored from
Keywords: Center of the Covenant (concept); Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh (letter); God Passes By (book); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Station of

The Station of Bahá'u'lláh and the Significance of His Revelation - Universal House of Justice (1992)
As the soul is a mystery that the human mind cannot unravel, even more ineffable is the nature of the Manifestations of God, the relationships between them, and their relationship to God.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats. Also included in
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Burning Bush; Criticism and apologetics; Holy Spirit; Interfaith dialogue; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Maid of Heaven; Manifestations of God; Moses; Theology; Unity of religion; Voices of revelation

The Station of the Kitab-i-Iqan - Fananapazir,Khazeh; Fazel,Seena (Baha'i Studies Review, 1993)
Review of the rank and station of the Iqan according to the primary Bahá'í literature, followed by an outline and a thematic guide.
Keywords: Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Outlines and summaries; Ranks, stations and functions

The Story of Anis Zunuzi - Falahi-Skuce,Houri (Transformation Pictures, 2020)
Links to 53-minute video presentation with original music and narration. Includes transcript.
See other videos by these producers at vimeo.com/user21255948. Transcript by H.B., 2021.
Keywords: Anís Zunízí (Mírzá Muhammad-`Alíy-i-Zunízí); Biography; Báb, Martyrdom of

The Story of J. E. Esslemont and His Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era: Bibliography - Jasion,Jan T. (Book Collector, 2020)
List of all of Esslemont's known writings, including his Bahá’í pamphlets and his medical writings, plus a bibliography of all translations of New Era.
This bibliography was deemed too long to be included with the print version of this article (Book Collector, forthcoming), so it is instead published here, and linked to from the article. The article will list the English editions and only have a summary of the translations. Also available in Word format.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era (book); Bibliography; Biography; Esslemont

The Story of Joseph in the Babi and Baha'i Faiths - Stokes,Jim (World Order, 1997)
The story of Joseph describes the eternal process by which the most profound kind of new knowledge comes into the world, simultaneously describing, in story form, its interrelated human, physical, and metaphysical dimensions.
See also Story of Joseph in Five Religious Traditions.
Keywords: Fragrance; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Interfaith dialogue; Joseph (Prophet); Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Metaphors and allegories; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Symbolism

The Story of Mona: 1965-1983 - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada (Bahá'í Canada Publications, 1985)
Biography of Mona Mahmudnizhad, an Iranian teenager who, in 1983, together with nine other women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz on the grounds of being a member of the Bahá'í Faith.
Mirrored from dramacircle.org.
Keywords: Biography; Iran (documents); Martyrdom; Martyrs, Shiraz 1983; Mona Mahmudnizhad; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran; Youth

The Story of the Bahai Movement - Sprague,Sydney (The Priory Press, 1907)
A short history and introduction to the Baha’i Faith by an early American Baha’i.
Scanned by Google Books; also available in a different scan at the Afnan Library. This document is undated, but William P. Collins dates it as "1907 or 1908" in his Bibliography of English-language Works on the Bábí and Baháʼí Faiths, 1844-1985.
Keywords: Introductory; Sydney Sprague

The Story of the Last One Hundred Years of the Baha'i Faith in Seattle - van Ness,Zabine (2007)
Compiled for the 2007 centenary of the Seattle and Spokane Bahá’í assemblies, detailing the 100 year history of the Bahá'í Faith in Seattle.
Mirrored with permission from seattlebahais.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Seattle, WA; Spokane, WA; United States (documents)

The Storytelling and Once Upon a Time: Youtube Playlists - Sahba,Fariborz (2020)
Zoom videos of some historical events witnessed by the manager for the Arc Project during 10 years of the development of the Bahá'í Temple in India and 15 years of the development of the Mount Carmel Bahá'í Project in Haifa, and other stories.
See also his website sahbaarchitect.com.
Keywords: Arc project; Architects; Architecture; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Biography; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; India; Lotus temple, New Delhi; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Delhi; Mount Carmel; New Delhi, India; Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb (Haifa)

The Strangling of Persia - Shuster,W. Morgan (The Century Co., 1912)
Anecdote from a diplomat in Persian about rumours of American travellers proselytizing the Bahá'í faith in Tehran.
Keywords: Tehran, Iran

The Structure of Existence in the Bab's Tafsir and the Perfect Man Motif - Lawson,Todd (Studia Iranica: Cahiers 11: Recurrent Patterns in Iranian Religions from Mazdaism to Sufism, 1992)
The Perfect Man is the mediator between God and the World. He is the mirror in which creation sees God, the eye by which God sees creation. The Bab phrased his cosmology and his Quranic exegesis in light of wahdat al-wujud, the Unity of Being.
Keywords: Barzakh; Cosmology; God; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Manifestations of God; Mirrors; Perfect Man (Sufism); Quran; Sufism; Tafsir surat al-baqara (Commentary on the Surah of the Cow); Unity of existence (vaḥdatu’l-vujúd)

The Study of Religion: Some Comments on Methodology of Studying Religion - Momen,Moojan (Baha'i Studies Review, 1991)
Reasons for the broad variety of different theoretical frameworks from which to view religious phenomena and the lack of a unified model.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Religion (general); Scholarship

The Suffering of Bahá'u'lláh - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá (Deepening Portfolio Number 3, 1974)
Not yet proofread, may contain errors.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Suffering

The Sufferings of Bahá'u'lláh and Their Significance - Townshend,George (Baha'i World, 1956)
Short essay on martyrdom and the Fire Tablet.
See the scanned pages at bahai.works/index.php?title=File:BW_Volume12.pdf&page=895. Also available in Word format, prepared by Mike Thomas (2024).
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; George Townshend; Lawh-i-Qad-Ihtaraqal-Mukhlisun (Fire Tablet); Martyrdom; Suffering

The Syrian Prophet(s) - Tanyi,Enoch (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1991)
The Qur'án says there were previous Messengers of God whose names have not been mentioned. Where do they fit into the chronology and timeline of the known Prophets? What could their nationalities have been?
Keywords: Hud (Prophet); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Manifestations of God; Salih (Prophet); Saudi Arabia; Syria

The Tabernacle of Unity: Bahá'u'lláh's Responses To Mánikchi Sáhib - Bahá'u'lláh (2006)
See also this document in the later Pen of Glory (Microsoft Word format, 2008). Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Hinduism; India; Interfaith dialogue; Iran (documents); Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdani (Tablet to the Zoroastrians); Lawh-i-Haft Pursish (Tablet of Seven Questions); Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); Lesser Prophets; Mahabad (prophet); Manikchi Limji Hataria; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Parsis (Parsees); Pen of Glory (book); Prophets; Tabernacle of Unity (book); Zoroastrianism

The Tablet of All Food and the Nature of Reality - Weaver,Karl (2016)
Review of the Tablet's historical background, antecedents for specific phrases, English literary commentaries, its color system as related to Bábí and Islamic traditions, the meaning of 'food,' and a different way of looking at the five levels of reality.
Keywords: Abhá Kingdom; Baghdad, Iraq; Colors; Cosmology; God, Worlds of; Interfaith dialogue; Iraq; Islam; Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food); Paradise; Reality; Sufism; Water (metaphor)

The Tablet of All Food: The Hierarchy of the Spiritual Worlds and the Metaphoric Nature of Physical Reality - Lepain,Jean-Marc (Baha'i Studies Review, 2010)
Terminology employed by Bahá'u'lláh to describe the hierarchy of the spiritual worlds: Háhút, Láhút, Jabarút and Malakút.
This article is provided as a free sample from the publishers of BSR. See www.ingentaconnect.com.
Keywords: Abhá Kingdom; Cosmology; God, Worlds of; Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food); Life after death (afterlife); Neoplatonism; Philosophy; Reality; Sufism

The Tablet of Emancipation - Bahá'u'lláh (2014)
Authorized translation of a prayer in which Bahá'u'lláh frees a slave.
Mirrored from bahai.org (Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh), where it is available in various formats; also online here. This prayer was discovered in 2012. The original text is unnamed. The work title "Tablet of Emancipation" has been added by Christopher Buck (link to 2017 article below). Background information about this Tablet: Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Emancipation (Christopher Buck, Jul 27, 2017); The Baha’i Prayer that Freed the Slaves (Christopher Buck, Mar 25, 2014); Baha'u'llah Frees the Enslaved (Christopher Buck, Jan 13, 2014); Baha'u'llah's Law Abolishing Slavery (Nader Saiedi, Aug 31, 2020).
Keywords: Prayer texts; Slavery; Tablet of Emancipation

"The Tablet of the True Seeker" from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude) - Bahá'u'lláh (1931)
Guidance to the true seeker, a passage from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude).
Note: This passage is from paragraps 213 and 214 of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (line breaks added). In his commentary on this text, Ted Brownstein mentions: "The "Tablet" first appeared in Gleanings of the Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh (CXXV), from which fact readers got the impression that it was a separate tablet."
Keywords: Ethics; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Living the life; Prerequisites of the true seeker; Requisites for spiritual growth; Search; Spirituality; Tablet of the True Seeker; Teachings

The Tablet to Hardegg (Lawh-i-Hirtik) - Norozi,place, compiler (2024)
Summary of German Templers and their leader, David Hardegg, who came to Haifa in 1868; their interactions with the Bahá'ís and Bahá'u'lláh; brief study of the tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to Hardegg. Includes authorized translation.
Also available in original PowerPoint format.
Keywords: Georg David Hardegg; Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to Hardegg)

The Ten Commandments: A Baha'i Perspective - Oliveira,Marco (2019)
Overview of the history and theology of the Ten Commandments. Like Christianity and Islam, the Bahá’í Faith inherited and expanded the moral values exposed in the Ten Commandments.
Keywords: Christianity; Ethics; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Jews; Judaism; Lawh (tablet); Laws; Moses; Mount Sinai, Egypt; Ten Commandments (Decalogue)

The Ten Plagues of the Exodus in Light of the Bahá'í Writings - Borovicka,JoAnn M. (Lights of Irfan, 2015)
The historical accuracy of Exodus is not essential to an appreciation of it; scholarship regarding the historicity of the Exodus story in general and the ten plagues specifically; contemporary significance of the metaphor of the plagues.
Hear a discussion between the author and Robert Stockman about this topic, on Youtube. Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #128, Louhelen Bahá'í School, Michigan (2014). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/128/borovicka_exodus.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Egypt; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Judaism; Moses; Pharaoh (Bible); Plagues (Bible); Symbolism

The Ten Year Crusade - Nakhjavani,Ali (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2004)
How Shoghi Effendi prepared Bahá’ís for the 10-Year Crusade; 27 objectives he formulated; impediments to the implementation of some of those objectives; and the place of the Crusade in history as well as future developments destined to flow from it.
Also available as a corrected Microsoft Word document prepared by Mike Thomas. Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/125.
Keywords: Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lectures; Plans; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); `Alí Nakhjavání

The Ten-Year Crusade: Seven Thousand Years In Retrospect - Ward,Allan L. (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1960)
A brief, dramatic sketch of the spiritual development of man, beginning with Adam, to help Bahá'ís grasp the meaning of the present World Crusade as the most urgent stage in Abdu'l-Bahá's Divine Plan unveiled 40 years earlier.
Keywords: History (general); Interfaith dialogue; Religion (general); Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)

The Terms Remembrance (dhikr) and Gate (bab) in the Bab's Commentary on the Sura of Joseph - Lawson,Todd (Studies in Honor of the Late Husayn M. Balyuzi: Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 1989)
Who is the "voice" of the Qayyum al-Asma: the person Ali-Muhammad Shirazi, the hidden Imam through The Báb, the Báb as the Imam himself, or God? The Bab seems to be the Imam speaking the voice of God. He is Dhikru'lláh, "Remembrance of God."
Keywords: Báb (Gate); Dhikr (Remembrance); Qayyumul-Asma (book); Remembrance; Words and phrases

The Theology of Osama bin Laden: History and 9/11 - Maneck,Susan (2001)
Overview of the Muslim thinkers who influenced bin Laden and their motivations, and some historical context.
The first essay was written in an informal style for posting to a Bahá'í listserver, September 2001. The second was a talk given in 2002.
Keywords: Islam; Jihad (Holy war); Martyrdom; Terrorism; Violence

The Theology of the Sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church - Brogan,Kevin (Solas, 2001)
Helping Bahá'ís understand the Catholic church's historical perspectives and spiritual significance placed on sacraments, which are: Baptism, Penance, Confirmation, Eucharist (or Mass), Marriage, Holy Orders, and Sacrament of the Sick (“Extreme Unction").
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 1. Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: Baptism; Catholic Church; Christianity; Eucharist; Interfaith dialogue; Sacraments; Symbolism; Theology

The Three Ages of Man: Are They Integrated? - Rodwell,Viva (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
Childhood, adulthood, old age, and family integration in contemporary culture.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Administration; Aging; Children; Consultation; Culture, Western; Elections; Ethics; Family; Family consultation; Homes for the aged; Individualism; Isolation and loneliness; Love; Materialism; Maturity of humanity; Philosophy; Psychology; Religion (general); Respect; Sociology; Volunteering; Wealth and poverty; Youth

The Three Stages of Divine Revelation - Sinclair,Guy (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2002)
Shoghi Effendi states that the Kitáb-i-Iqán "adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation"; some Sufi doctrines help understand the significance of Bahá'u'lláh’s three stages.
See also journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/451. See also original scan.
Keywords: Archetypes; Cosmology; Creation; Hidden Treasure (Hadith); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Philosophy; Revelation; Revelation, Three stages of; Sufism

The Throne of the Inner Temple - Zohoori,Elias, compiler (National Spiritual Assembly of The Bahá'ís of Jamaica, 1985)
Selections from the Bahá'í Writings about the human body, health and nutrition, purity and holiness, science and medicine, physical sickness, and spiritual healing.
Publisher's blurb: "Popular, well-received compilation of Bahá'í writings on human body, its health and related subjects. Addresses organ transplant, abortion, vaccination, birth control, circumcision, tubal ligation, illness, nutrition, suicide, science of medicine, spiritual and material healing. If you have questions about how to live a fulfilling Bahá'í life, this book is sure to answer it."
Keywords: Food; Health and healing

The Training Institute and the Main Sequence of Courses - Arbab,Farzam (2004)
Talk given by Dr. Arbab, member of the Universal House of Justice, at the Portals to Growth Conference, Australia, 2004. Mirrored with permission from ruhiresources.org.
Keywords: Farzam Arbab; Institute process; Ruhi Institute; Study circles; Training Institutes

The Transliteration System Used in Bahá'í Literature - Bahá'í World Centre (2023)
Overview of the transliteration / transcription system used by Shoghi Effendi, including a list of common Bahá'í names and terms.
This document is available in multiple formats, including HTML and Word, at bahai.org/library/transliteration. See also Glossary of Arabic and Persian Transcription.
Keywords: Arabic language; Glossaries; Names and titles; Persian language; Terminology; Transcription; Transliteration and diacritics

The Transmission of Cultural Values in Persian Bahá'í Families - Licata,Stephen (1997)
On how immigrant Persian Bahá’í families have carried their cultural values to the U.S., how the move affected the development of their children, and the cultural adaptation process. Includes survey on cultural values among Persian Bahá'ís in Los Angeles.
Keywords: Children; Cultural differences; Culture, Persian; Diaspora, Persian; Family; Iran (documents); Migration; Parents; United States (documents); Values

The Travels of `Abdu'l-Bahá and their Impact on the Press - Egea,Amin E. (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
The presence of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Western countries aroused great interest in the general public and the media. The surveys the news reports of the events related to His visit and the impressions gained by His audiences.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/97/egea_survey.
Keywords: Media (communication); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

The Tree of Life: A Program for the Spiritualization of the Bahá'í Community - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Hawaiian Islands (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1993)
Compilations for a spiritualization and teaching campaign on prayer and meditation, how to be like the "shining examples" of the Bab and Bahá'u'lláh, and the 1992 Ridvan message.
See also Spiritualization of the Bahá'í Community: A Plan for Teaching.
Keywords: Meditation; Prayer; Questions and answers; Spirituality; Spiritualization; Study guides; Teaching; Tests and difficulties; Tree (metaphor)

The Trial of Mullá 'Alí Bastámí: A Combined Sunní-Shí'í Fatwá against The Báb - Momen,Moojan (Iran: Journal of the British Institute for Persian Studies, 1982)
The trial of Mullá `Alí Bastámí was one of the most important episodes of 1844-45, being both the first occasion on which the new Bábí movement encountered the opposition of the ulama, and a crucial turning point in the development of the movement.
Also presented at the Bahá'í Studies Seminar at the University of Lancaster, April 1980. Mirrored with permission from www.momen.org/contents.htm.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Báb, The; Fatwa; Iraq; Mulla Ali Bastami; Persecution, Iraq; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Trials

The Trial of the Yaran under Iranian Criminal Procedure: "The Justice of God" or Procedural Injustice?: Iranian Islam, not the Yaran, on trial in the court of international opinion - Buck,Christopher (Iran Press Watch, 2010)
Two essays about legal issues associated with the 2009-2010 trial of the Yaran, the former informal group of leaders of the Bahá'í community of Iran.
Buck, PhD and JD, is both a Bahá'í and a legal scholar. See also The Trial of the Yaran and Criminalizing the Bahá'í Religion Mirrored with permission from iranpresswatch.org/post/5402 and iranpresswatch.org/post/5459 and christopherbuck.com.

The Triumph of the Cause - Balyuzi,Hasan M.
Audio posted online at http://bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng.htm
Keywords: Hasan Balyuzi

The True Foundation of All Economics - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1993)
Book-length compilation ordered by chapters covering 26 themes on the economy, welfare, development, women's employment, work ethics, morality, agriculture, extremes of wealth and poverty, profit-sharing, health and alcohol, consultation.
Purchase a copy at amazon.com. The True Foundation of All Economics is the older edition which was approved by the NSA of Canada, first published in 1993. The new and revised edition is Principles of Spiritual Economics, first published in 2019 in Great Britain. [-H.B.]
Keywords: Agriculture; Alcohol; Consultation; Development; Economics; Equality; Ethics; Health and healing; Morality; Profit-sharing; Prosperity; Social and economic development; Wealth and poverty; Women; Work; Work ethics

The Turban for the Crown - Arjomand,Said Amir (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Passing mentions of Babis and Bahá'ís on six pages.
From books.google.com.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran

The Twelve Steps: Bahá'í Writings and recovery from substance abuse - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá (1988)
See also Reviews of two books on Alcoholics Anonymous.
Keywords: Addiction; Alcohol; Drugs

The Two Parts of the Law of God: The Essential and the Secondary Teachings of the True Religion of God, and Counterfeit Doctrines - Terry,Peter, compiler (2022)
Four compilations on themes related to the progressive revelation of the religion of God; essential vs. secondary teachings; counterfeit doctrines of the false religion of man.
Keywords: Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Decline and renewal of religion; Disunity; Ethics; Imitation; Laws; Man-made doctrines and dogmas; Moral education; Morality; Principles; Progressive revelation; Superstition; Teachings; Traditions; Unity; Unity of religion; Virtues

The United Nations and the Bahá'ís: An Interview with Kofi Annan - Annan,Kofi (Yale International Forum, 1999)
Annan's vision for the institution of the U.N., and mentions of the Bahá'ís in Iran.
Submitted by and posted with permission of interviewer.
Keywords: Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE); Kofi Annan; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; United Nations

The Unity of Civilization - Whitson,Robley Edward (The Coming Convergence of World Religions, 1971)
Excerpt of a chapter on unity of humankind and civilizations. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith, but the content is of direct interest to Bahá'í studies.
See this book online at Google Books or buy a copy at Amazon.com.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Unity

The Unity of Humanity: An Interview with Professor Todd Lawson - Hornsby,David; Clark,Jane (Beshara Magazine, 2016)
Biography of Lawson and his personal interests in the Qur'an and the Bahá'í Faith, discussion of contemporary Western approaches to Islam, and commentary on current world affairs and hope for the future. (Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.)
See the full interview online at beshara.org/magazine/the-unity-of-humanity-an-interview-with-todd-lawson (archived).
Keywords: Biography; Interfaith dialogue; Interviews; Islam; Quran; Todd Lawson

The Unity of Nations - Cobb,Stanwood (Baha'i World, 1938)
A look six decades into the future (from 1938) to envision the Lesser Peace.
See also Orrol L. Harper, "A Bird's-Eye View of the World in the Year 2000"
Keywords: Future; Lesser Peace; Stanwood Cobb; Unity of Nations

The Unity of Nations - Vail,Albert Ross; Vail,Emily McLellan (Transforming Light: The Living Heritage of World Religions, 1970)
A meditation on Bahá'í-inspired themes of peace and the betterment of society. Does not mention the Faith.
Vail was a prominent Baha’i, and both he and his wife were members, circa 1918 to 1932. Though Vail left the scene of visibility for the Faith there are direct personal connections they had with the Faith especially in later years. This work was published posthumously. [-S.K.]

The Unity of Religions in This Century, Jews and the Crucifixion, and the Sacrifice of Ishmael - Universal House of Justice (1990)
The individual recipient of this letter submitted the same (or a similar) question to his Local Spiritual Assembly (which submitted the question to the National Spiritual Assembly) ten years earlier. It is available online here.
Keywords: Abraham; Authenticity; Bible; Christianity; Criticism and apologetics; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Interfaith dialogue; Isaac (Bible); Ishmael (Bible); Islam; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ, Crucifixion of; Jews; Judaism; Lesser Peace; Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); Quran; Sacrifice; Translation; Unity of religion

The Unity Principle: Ideas of Social Concord and Discord in the Bahá'í Faith - Stockman,Robert (Research in Human Social Conflict, 2001)
The concept of unity pervades Bahá’í thought, expressed both in the functioning of Bahá’í administration and the Bahá’í community and in the avoidance of political partisanship in the relationship of Bahá’ís to the wider world.
Mirrored with permission from rsmd.net/research/unity-principle.
Keywords: Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Unity

The Universal Cycles - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2013)
Lengthy compilation on the cycles of time and eras in the world of existence, and stages of Bahá'í development.
Mirrored with permission from iscandertinto.com. See also the Vision of the Future compilation. Note: many paragraph breaks, and possibly other formatting from the original documents, are missing in the excerpts below; refer to originals.
Keywords: Adamic Cycle; Bahá'í Cycle; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Plans

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Bahá'í Scriptures - Cole,Juan (Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, 1999)
The conception of human rights arose as part of the project of modernity, and has been problematic for many religious traditions, but Bahá'u'lláh  and the religion's subsequent holy figures all had a strong commitment to human rights.
Mirrored with permission from h-net.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í Writings; Human rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and the Persecution of the Bahá'ís in Iran - Farhoumand-Sims,Cheshmak (Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights, 2001)
Are the Human Rights of the Universal Declaration universal: a comparison of Western and Islamic notions of human rights; the religious justifications provided by the Islamic regime for the persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran.
This book is also available for download as a single PDF [2MB]. Mirrored with permission from juxta.com. See publisher's Books for the World license.
Keywords: Human rights; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Human rights; Persecution, Iran; Relativism; United Nations; Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal House of Justice - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice (2021)
Compilation about the "Universal House of Justice" from the writings of Bahá’u’lláh, 'Abdu’l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi, and from the constitution and letters of the Universal House of Justice.
This document is online in HTML and other formats at bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/compilations/universal-house-of-justice-compilation.
Keywords: Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í history; Constitutions (Bahá'í); Contradictions; Covenant; Criticism and apologetics; Guardianship; Infallibility; Interpretation; Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Universal House of Justice, Constitution of; Universal House of Justice, Election of; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages; Universal House of Justice, Membership on

The Universal House of Justice Letter Dated 28 November 2023: A Study Guide - Bayat,Ehsan, compiler (2024)
Study guide of the document "Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age." Includes the letter, an outline and study questions and answers by paragraph.
See the letter Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age.
Keywords: Formative Age; Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; Nine Year Plan (2022-2031); Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age (letter); Study guides; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

The Universal House of Justice Letter Dated 28 November 2023: A Study Guide - Michot,Eric, compiler (2023)
In-depth exploration of the document "Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age." Includes the letter and study questions by paragraph.
See the letter Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age. The PDF below contains the letter from the House along with the study guide; see also the study guide only, without letter.
Keywords: Formative Age; Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; Nine Year Plan (2022-2031); Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age (letter); Study guides; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

The Universal House of Justice's Power of Elucidation - Universal House of Justice (Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986, 1996)
Clarification about the qualitative difference between the Guardian's prerogative of interpretation and the power of elucidation of the Universal House of Justice.
Keywords: Elucidation; Guardianship; Interpretation; Universal House of Justice

The Universal House of Justice: Significance, Origin, Authority, and Election - Vafai,Shahin (The Essence of the Covenant: Features, History, and Implications, 2005)
See also excerpts from Chapter 5 and Chapter 8 of the same book.
Keywords: Elections; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general)

The Universality of the Church of the East: How Persian was Persian Christianity? - Buck,Christopher (Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society, 1996)
Prepublication chapter from Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha’i Faith (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.
SUNY Press flyer: click here. Paradise and Paradigm is the first formal (academic) comparative study of the Bahá'í Faith and Christianity (even though there is an abundance of popular, apologetic literature on the topic). The choice of "Persian Christianity" is important for historical and cultural reasons, as this is a comparison of two commensurables (two Persian religions) rather than "apples and oranges." See also http://www.jaas.org/toc/v10011996.htm and http://www.jaas.org/edocs/v10n1/intro.pdf.
Keywords: Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Symbolism

The Universality of the Laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas - Samali,Bijan (The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: Studies from the First National Conference on the Holy Book, vol. 1, 1996)
The laws of the Aqdas focus on the individual; are applicable to everyone; facilitate the realisation of the oneness of human race; ensure the equality of the sexes; are adaptable to cultural diversities; and call for the elimination of all prejudices.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Arts and crafts; Children; Circumpolar regions; Cleanliness; Cultural diversity; Economics; Education; Equality; Exemption; Fasting; Gradual implementation of laws; Hair, fur and bones; Inequality; Inheritance; Interest; Interfaith dialogue; International auxiliary language; Interpretation; Islam; Justice; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Language; Lawh-i-Ishraqat (Tablet of Splendors); Laws; Marriage; Maturity of humanity; Moderation; Monogamy; Music; Obligatory prayer; Pilgrimage; Polygamy; Prayer; Prejudice; Principles; Refinement; Religious leaders (clergy); Servants; Singing; Superstition; Translation; Uncleanness; Unity; Unity of humanity; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Usury; Wisdom; Women; Worldwide

The Unknown Hour - Friedman,David (1998)
Christians believe the Bible does not specify the time of Christ's return, but the Bahá'í teachings are that an exact year, 1844, is indicated in the Bible for the time of the Second Coming.
Keywords: 1260; 1844; Bible; Christianity; Criticism and apologetics; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Prophecies; Return

The Use of the Masculine Gender in the Bahá'í Writings: Extracts from Letters Written By and on Behalf of the Universal House of Justice - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, compiler (2002)
Extracts from letters from the House of Justice from 1981-1999 on general principles in relation to this subject and the Bahá'í perspective on it.
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: Criticism and apologetics; Equality; Gender; Gender pronouns; God; God, Gender of; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Prayer; Pronouns; Transliteration and diacritics

The Use of Trees as Symbols in the World Religions - Liya,Sally (Solas, 2004)
The tree is a universal symbol found in the myths of all peoples. This Jungian archetype figures in dreams; symbolizes growth, unfolding, shelter, and nurture; is regarded as the gatekeeper to the next world; and is a metaphor in Bahá'í scripture.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 4. Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: Archetypes; Bible; Buddhism; Carl Gustav Jung; Christianity; Dreams and visions; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Metaphors and allegories; Quran; Symbolism; Tree (metaphor); Trees; Zoroastrianism

The Value of Prayer - Robarts,John (Baha'i News, 1974)
Talk at the House of Worship in Wilmette by a Hand of the Cause.
Talk delivered an March 20 1974, published in Bahá'í News in June 1974. See also a version with photographs at bahaitalks.blogspot.com.au.
Keywords: John Robarts; Obligatory prayer; Obligatory prayer, Long; Prayer; Spirituality

The Verge of the New: A Series of Talks - Phelps,Steven (2017)
Introducing a way of looking at the past and future of religion in the context of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment. Includes compilation of Writings on spiritual dislocation, science, language, spiritual evolution, nature, and revelation.
An eight-part series of talks given by Dr. Phelps at the Norwegian Baha’i Summer School (July 2-8, 2017). Mirrored with permission from bahaiblog.net/audio/talks/verge-new-series-talks-steven-phelps and soundcloud.com/khelabaskett/sets/verge-of-the-new.
Keywords: Abjad system; Advancement of civilization; Arabic language; Arc of ascent and descent; Arts and crafts; Axial Age; Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys); Changeless Faith of God; Civilization; Contradictions; Correspondance (concept); Divine Physician; Dualism; Enlightenment (movement); Evolution; God; God, Word of; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Hidden Treasure (Hadith); Immanuel Kant; Independent investigation of truth; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Islam; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Language; Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); Manifestations of God; Manikchi Limji Hataria; Meditation; Metaphysics; Monism; Monotheism; Neoplatonism; One Common Faith (commentary); Philosophy; Physics; Polytheism; Prayer; Progressive revelation; Public discourse (discourses of society); Qayyumul-Asma (book); Quran; Reason; Relativism; Relativity of religious truth; Religion (general); Renaissance; Revelation; Science; Self-annihilation (fana); Spiritual correspondence; Spiritualization; Sufism; Tabernacle of Unity (book); Theology; Theory of relativity; Transformation; Unity; Unity in diversity; Unity of religion; Words and phrases

The Verse of Light, the Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Divine Lote Tree), and the Unfoldment of God's Plan - Macias,Shirley (1991)
Relationship of a key mystical Quranic verse, Súrih 24:35, to Bahá'í theology; includes a brief compilation of Bahá'í Writings about the Lote Tree.
Keywords: Al-Ghazali; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Light; Light verse (Quran); Plans; Quotations from the Quran; Quran; Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Lote Tree); Spirit (general); Symbolism; Tree (metaphor); Trees; Words and phrases

The Virtues Project: Educator's Guide - Popov,Linda Kavelin (1998)
Activities and workshops designed to present, in simple ways, methods to create a culture of character.
Online in various formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Character; Virtues; Virtues Project

The Waves of One Sea: A Compilation on Unity in the Bahá'í Writings - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá (2004)
A compilation on the nature, significance, and promotion of Unity.
Keywords: Unity

The Way to World Peace: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (2015)
Keywords: Introductory; Peace

The Wellbeing of Nations: A Country-by-Country Index of Quality of Life and the Environment, by Robert Prescott-Allen: Review - Naqvi,Kim (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2003)

The White Silk Dress - Gail,Marzieh (Baha'i World, 1945)
An "intimate portrait" of Ṭáhirih first published Friday April 21, 1944.
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org.
Keywords: Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Badasht, Iran; Beauty; Biography; Báb, Birth of; Conference of Badasht (1848); Culture, Persian; Equality; Food; Gender; Interfaith dialogue; Iran (documents); Islam; Leyli and Majnun; Mahmud Khan; Martyrdom; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Quddus; Shaykh Salih; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Vahid (Siyyid Yahyay-i-Darabi); Veils; Women

The Wild Asses: A Journey through Persia - Emanuel,W. V. (Jonathon Cape, 1939)
Passing mentions of Babis in Tabriz and Zanjan.
Keywords: Bábísm; Iran (documents); Tabríz, Iran; Travelogues; Zanjan, Iran

The Wine of Astonishment - Sears,William (George Ronald, 1963)
Discussion of Christian doctrines such as the ritual of baptism, the bread and the wine, confession and penance, the meaning of 'Son of God', the secret of the trinity, heaven and hell, and the meaning of the resurrection.
Also available at archive.org, and in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Baptism; Bread; Christianity; Confession; Heaven and hell; Interfaith dialogue; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ, Resurrection of; Resurrection; Some Answered Questions (book); Son of God; Wine (metaphor)

The Wisdom and Wit of Roger White: Two Reviews - Gail,Marzieh; Phillips,Hilda (dialogue magazine, 1987)
Reviews of White's books One Bird One Cage One Flight and A Sudden Music.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Fiction; France; Historical fiction; Literature; Paris, France; Poetry; Roger White

The Wise Men of the West: A Search for the Promised One in the Latter Days - Tyson,Jay (2019)
Sample chapters from a 2-volume novel of historical fiction on Miller and the Adventists through the quest of a Quaker and a researcher as they search beyond the Holy Land, following clues from Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist prophecies.
The front matter, Introduction, and first two chapters of this two-volume book have been shared by the author and publisher; please purchase a copy, paperback or Kindle, at Amazon.com: Volume One and Volume Two.
Keywords: Bible; Fiction; Prophecies; William Miller

The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel, by Bahíyyih Nakhjavani: Review - Sobhani,Mary A. (Association for Bahá'í Studies North America, 2018)
Originally posted at bahai-studies.ca/the-woman-who-read-too-much-a-novel [archive.org]. See also another review by the same author (2015).
Keywords: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Education; Gender; Historical fiction; Iran (documents); Literature; Reading; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Women

The Wonder Lamp - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1972)
A children's story, and performance / storytelling piece, published as a 45-page booklet and also in audio recording.
Audio originally posted at bahaistudy.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; Children; Fiction; Stories

The Word Bahá': Quintessence of the Greatest Name of God - Lambden,Stephen (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1998)
The Arabic word bahá' — meaning beauty, excellence, goodliness, majesty, glory, splendor, brilliancy, and many others — was a term of considerable import in Islamic and Bábi literature, and was occasionally seen in prophetic or messianic contexts.
Earlier version published in Bahá'í Studies Review 3:1 (1993). See also scan of original. See also journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/274.
Keywords: Bahá (word); Buddhism; Christianity; Glory (general); Greatest Name; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Tetragrammaton; Zoroastrianism

The Word Bahá: Quintessence of the Greatest Name - Lambden,Stephen (Baha'i Studies Review, 1993)
History of the concept of the Greatest Name and its place in Bahá'í theology.
Later revised for the Journal of Bahá'í Studies 8:2 (1998). See also the author's encyclopedia article on the Greatest Name.
Keywords: Bahá (word); Buddhism; Christianity; Glory (general); Greatest Name; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Tetragrammaton; Zoroastrianism

The Word is the Master Key for the Whole World: The Bahá'í Revelation and the "Teaching and Spirit of the Cause" in Dialogical and Personal Thinking - Klebel,Wolfgang A. (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
The Word of God is the master key that opens all doors; it assures the opening to the meaning of the whole world and its relationship to heaven; it is the key to the hearts of men and the human spirit, which opens this world towards the doors of heaven.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #67, Bosch Bahá'í School, California (May 25-29, 2006). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/67/klebel_masterkey
Keywords: Bible; Book of Revelation (Bible); Christianity; Consultation; God, Word of; Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Logos; Ontology; Philosophy; Physics; Progressive revelation; Psychology; Science; Unity

The Work of A.L.M. Nicolas (1864-1937) - Momen,Moojan (The Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: Some Contemporary Western Accounts, 1981)
Short bio, including list of the works of Nicolas.
See some of the works of Nicolas, in translation, at bahai-library.com/author/nicolas. Originally posted at bic.org, preserved at archive.org.
Keywords: A.L.M. Nicolas; Bahá'í studies; Biography; Bábísm

The Works of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsá'í: A Bibliography - Momen,Moojan, compiler (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1991)
An annotated encyclopedia of core Shaykhi writings. Based on Shaykh Abu'l-Qasim Kirmani's Fihirist Kutub Masháyikh 'Izám.
Vahid Rafati's The Development of Shaykhi Thought in Shi'i Islam also includes a bibliography, which has been excerpted here: rafati_shaykh_ahmad_bibliography.pdf.
Keywords: Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i; Shaykhism

The World as Text: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i - Cole,Juan (Studia Islamica, 1994)
Shaykh Ahmad's creative use of mythic symbols can be seen as an escape from the limitations of the conceptual and literary structures erected by his forebears; his millenarianism and rebellion against staid literalism as a means of reinvigorating Shi'ism.
Mirrored from
Keywords: Cosmology; Huruf (letters); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Kabbalah; Metaphors and allegories; Nuqta (Point); Pen; Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i; Shaykhism; Sufism; Symbolism

The World Into One Nation: World Peace and the Bahá'í Faith - Buck,Nahzy Abadi (1981)
How a whole human society, united and cooperative, can be like a single family. Includes overview of opinions of world leaders on the Bahá'í Faith, essential elements of the Faith, cooperation of the Bahá'í International Community with the United Nations.
Thesis written for Master of Arts in Political Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul Korea, written under the name Behnaz Abadi.
Keywords: Appreciations; Bahá'í International Community; Peace; United Nations; Unity

The World of the Bahá'í Faith, ed. Robert H. Stockman: Review - Sabet,Michael (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2023)
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Introductory; Reference works

The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh: Study Guide - Bayat,Ehsan, compiler (2024)
Detailed study guide of seven letters written by Shoghi Effendi and addressed to the Bahá'ís of the United States and the West, which offer a vision of the relation between the Bahá’í community and the process of social evolution.
Also available in Microsoft Word format. See also original book.
Keywords: Outlines and summaries; World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (book)

The World Vision of a Savant - Forel,Auguste Henri (Star of the West, 1928)
Ruminations on the nature of the human brain, causes of racism, how to stop wars, the meaning of "God," and Bahá'í principles.
Keywords: Auguste Forel; Philosophy; Psychology; Race unity; Science; Unity

The World We Want: Overcoming Barriers to Systematic Action - Hanson,Holly (2001)
Explores the process through which humanity can create a peaceful and just world society, as presented in The Secret of Divine Civilization, "The Promise of World Peace," and letters of the Universal House of Justice.
Presented at Orlando Bahá'í Development Conference, December 15, 2001, Orlando Florida.

The World Wide Web: An Owner's Manual for Bahá'í Youth - Christensen,Phil (2005)
Guide to the Internet for Bahá'í Youth. Sites to visit, sites to avoid, and other information. [Old, not updated]
In 2003 I began work on a brief guide to the Internet for Bahá'í Youth at the request of the Counsellors for Africa. The Counsellors gave me permission to share this with other friends. (-P.C., 2005)
Keywords: Internet; Youth

The World's Current State of Disorder and Confusion - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2020)
Compilation of passages relevant to contemporary issues of 2020, and the appropriate disposition of the Bahá'ís.
See also French translation and Persian translation, and A World in Travail: Understanding and Responding to the Events of Our Times (K. Sedig, 2020).
Keywords: Calamities and catastrophes; Community (general); Community building; Crisis; Disorder and confusion; Hope; Integration and disintegration; Materialism; Social action; Suffering; Tests and difficulties

The World's Equilibrium - Khan,Peter J. (1998)
Short, partial notes of a talk delivered at Baruch College, New York, August 22, 1998.
These are the notes I took from Peter Khan's (member of the Universal House of Justice) talk in NYC last Sat night. They are just notes, not to be taken as his literal statements. He always prefaces his talks with the statement that it is his own opinion and thought, not the House of Justice. And so this is my understanding of what he said. Sometimes it might not be so clear because he speaks very fast, and to keep up was not easy. [-C.R.]

The Worlds of God - Tinto,Iscander Micael (2013)
Creation is an act of divine manifestation across five realms: Háhút, the unknowable Essence of God; Láhút, the first actualization of potentiality; Jabarút, God's action and will in creation; Malakút, the angelic plane; and Násút, the physical world.
The following is a set of research notes, not an actual article. Mirrored with permission from iscandertinto.com.
Keywords: Abhá Kingdom; Archetypes; Cosmology; Creation; God, Worlds of; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Philosophy; Sufism

The Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha - Banani,Amin (World Order, 1971)
The style and genres of Abdu'l-Bahá's writings, a chronology of their thematic and linguistic change, and a categorization of the various types of his writings and talks.
Also available as PDF, mirrored from aminbanani.com (website archived). This article has also been published on
Keywords: Amin Banani; Style (Writings); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

The Writings of Baha'u'llah - Ishráq-Khávarí,Abdu'l-Hamid (Baha'i World, 1974)
Part of a commentary by the renowned scholar `Abdu'l-Hamid-i-Ishraq Khavari, adapted by Habib Taherzadeh, summarizing many of the early and often untranslated Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh.
See also Ishraq-Khavari's Adhkáru'l-Muqarrabín.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; `Abdu'l-Hamid Ishraq-Khavari

The Writings of Bahá'u'lláh - Holley,Horace (Star of the West, 1922)
On the creative nature of literature; the writings of Shakespeare; Bahá'u'lláh as author; the influence of the Divine shines through the writings of Bahá'u'lláh.
Mirrored from bahai.works/Star_of_the_West, where it is also available in scanned images. For this version, the transliteration "Bahá 'Ullah" has been changed to the currently used transliteration "Bahá'u'lláh". This article is discussed in J. A. McLean's book Dimensions in Spirituality (1994), pp. 138-141.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Christianity; God, Word of; Interfaith dialogue; Jesus Christ; Literature; Literature, English; Philosophy; Revelation; William Shakespeare (author)

The Writings of the Bab: A Survey Based on English Language Sources - Stockman,Robert (2010)
PowerPoint presentation on the scope, style, and history of the Writings of The Báb.
Mirrored with permission from rsmd.net/research.
Keywords: Báb, Writings of

The Wronged One: Shí'í Narrative Structure in Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of Visitation for Mullá Husayn - McCants,William F. (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
On the martyrdom of Mulla Husayn, the structure of sacrificial and devotional narratives, and Shi'i antecedents.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #38, Louhelen Bahá'í School (October, 2001). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/38/mccants_wronged.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Islam; Mulla Husayn; Shia Islam (Shiism); Surat az-Ziyarah (Surih of Visitation for Mulla Husayn); Tablets of Visitation; Tablets of Visitation for Mulla Husayn; Varaqatu’l-Firdaws (Leaf of Paradise, Mulla Husayns sister); Wronged One

The Yahi-Bahi Society of Mrs. Resselyer-Brown - Leacock,Steven (Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, 1914)
Canadian humorist's 1914 parody of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writing, contained in volumes such as Literary Lapses (1910) and Nonsense Novels (1911).
Keywords: Fiction

The Young Turks and the Bahá'ís in Palestine - Alkan,Necati (Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule, 2011)
Reform movements in turn-of-the-century Palestine and the influence of Abdu'l-Bahá on his political milieu.
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu.
Keywords: Israel; Palestine; Politics; Reform; Sultán `Abdu'l-Hamid II; Turkey; Young Turks

The Younger Generation Has Always Had the Power to Reshape Our World - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2010)
Young people have a great potential to shape society. Youth trained to lead junior youth groups are called "animators"; they can help guide activist potential to achieving positive effect.
Mirrored with permission of author from stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2237784.
Keywords: Institute process; Youth; Youth empowerment program

'Thee' and 'thee' in the translation of the Súrih of the Temple (Súriy-i-Haykal) - Fananapazir,Khazeh (Lights of Irfan, 2003)
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/fananapazir_thee.
Keywords: Capitalization; Irfan Colloquia; Pronouns; Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple); Thou and Thee; Translation; Words and phrases

Thelma Perks - Hassall,Graham (Baha'i World, 1998)
Perks (1901-1988) was a prominent Australian Bahá'í who served at various times on the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia, and as an inaugural Auxiliary Board member and later Continental Counselor.
Keywords: Australia; Biography; Thelma Perks

Themes in the Study of Bahá'u'lláh's Kitáb-i-Aqdas: Emerging Approaches to Scholarship on Bahá'í Law - Danesh,Roshan (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2017)
Review of what emergent scholarship has thus far accomplished relating to the study of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and Bahá'í law; suggested core themes and approaches; directions which future study of this topic might encompass.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/225. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Laws

Themes of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of The Divine Plan Illustrated by Scriptural References to the Bible and the Qur'án - Fananapazir,Lameh (Lights of Irfan, 2017)
The Tablets of the Divine Plan, as well as Abdu'l-Bahá's Will and Testament and the Tablet of Carmel, are three “Charters” for promotion of the Cause of God, which can also heal the problems facing humanity in its crisis of faith.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/fananapazir_themes.
Keywords: Bible; Charters of the Bahá'í Faith; Christianity; Civilization; Deepening; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Islam; Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel); Quotations from the Bible; Quotations from the Quran; Quran; Renaissance; Tablets of the Divine Plan; Teaching; Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá

Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism - Winters,Jonah (Sutra Journal, 2017)
Mystical writing is replete with symbolism of love and eros, and it can also be found in the mystical poetry of Bahá'u'lláh. This paper provides background for that topic by surveying the use of themes of the erotic in writings by seven Sufi mystics.
This paper does not mention the Bahá'í Faith. My original intent was to do so, but the paper got too long before I'd finished covering Sufism.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Lover and the Beloved; Sufism

Theocracy and Separation of Church and State - Universal House of Justice (1995)
On theocracy in relation to the Bahá'í model of government, and issues relating to the development of the Bahá’í Administrative Order.
This letter was later posted at bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats. Sen McGlinn's Church and State in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh also addresses these issues.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Bahá'í Faith, Evolutionary nature of; Church and state; Criticism and apologetics; Government; Politics; Questions and answers; Theocracy; World order

Theocratic Assumptions in Bahá'í Literature," by Sen McGlinn: Review - Maneck,Susan (2007)
Mirrored with permission from theocracy.susanmaneck.com. This review was originally posted to the listserver talisman9@yahoogroups.com. I do not know the date Maneck's review was posted there, but McGlinn's responses are dated March 2007. McGlinn has posted two essays to his blog responding to Maneck's review: senmcglinn.wordpress.com/email-archive/response-manecks-cs-review and senmcglinn.wordpress.com/email-archive/response-maneck-cs-2.

Theocratic Ideas and Assumptions in Bahá'í Literature: An Inquiry - McGlinn,Sen (Reason and Revelation: Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, 2002)
A selection and interpretation of scriptures which suggest that an institutional differentiation of the religious and political orders — i.e., the separation of church and state — is a central Bahá’í doctrine.
Updated in 2007. Also online at academia.edu.
Keywords: Church and state; Theocracy; World order

Theodore Russell Livingston - Herrmann,Duane L. (1997)
Bahá'í teacher and Mayor of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.
Keywords: Biography

Theological Ethics in a Bahá'í Perspective - McLean,Jack (1996)
The Bahá'í writings are a rich source of moral precepts, with a large corpus of ethical statements in the form of laws, directives, exhortations, injunctions, and axioms of moral theology. What would Bahá'í divine ethics look like?
Paper presented to the ABS Annual Conference, Edmonton, September 19, 1996. Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Ethics; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Philosophy

Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East - Scharbrodt,Oliver (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
With their theologies, Bahá'u'lláh and Muhammad 'Abduh both responded to the challenge of modernity and sought change, but while 'Abduh remained on the grounds of the Islamic tradition, Bahá'u'lláh founded a new religion.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #36, London (July 13-15, 2001). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/36/scharbrodt_abduh.
Keywords: 19th century; Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Islam; Middle East; Modernity; Muhammad Abduh; Philosophy; Rationality; Reform; Theology; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Republic in Iran - Dabashi,Hamid (New York University Press, 1993)
Two passing mentions of the Bahá'í Faith in the context of Iranian nationalism.

Theology of Revolution: Messianic Traditions and the Revolutions They Inspired - McLellan,Jaime Lenninger (2012)
Includes extensive discussion of Bahá'í history, doctrines, and the ideology behind the Bábí revolts. Link to thesis (offsite).
Thesis for Master of Arts in Global and International Studies, University of Kansas.

There are rifts, but we have so much in common - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2011)
Unity of religions, and a review of Harold Rosen's book Founders of Faith: The Parallel Lives of God's Messengers.
Mirrored with permission of author from www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2942067.

"These Four States Conferred Upon Thee": Tetrarchic Thinking in Philosophy, Theology, Psychology - Klebel,Wolfgang A. (Lights of Irfan, 2013)
We follow Bahá’u’lláh’s new principles and forget old patterns of thought in order to find peace, not only in the world, but also in our hearts. One new paradigm includes four-fold relationships, like Firstness/Lastness vs. Inwardness/Outwardness.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #109, Bosch Bahá'í School (May 2012). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/109/klebel_reality.
Keywords: Philosophy; Psychology; Theology

These Perspicuous Verses: A passage from the Writings of Baha'u'llah - McLaughlin,Robert W. (George Ronald, 1982)
Detailed study of a section from Ishraqat and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Balance (Day of Judgment); Bible; Christianity; Clouds; Conference of Badasht (1848); Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Fear; God, Partner with; Heaven and hell; Hour (prophecy); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf); Lawh-i-Ishraqat (Tablet of Splendors); Light; Memorization; Mountains; Pairs of words; Paradise; Patience; Plain, The (prophecy); Proofs; Prophecies; Questions and answers; Quran; Resurrection; Signs; Stars; Testimonies; These Perspicuous Verses; Trumpet blasts (prophecy); Truth; Words and phrases

Theses and dissertations on the Bahá'í Faith: 1954-1994/2003 - Winters,Jonah, compiler (1995)
List of dissertations, as taken from the ProQuest database. Needs to be updated.
If you have access to ProQuest or a similar database and can help, please email me. See also this list of theses to 2003.
Keywords: Indexes and catalogues

Theses on Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith - Sergeev,Mikhail (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2015)
On how new religious movements respond to modernity; cycles of religion; project of modernity; culture vs. civilization; the Bahá'í extension of modernity; Bahá'í departure from modernity; separation of religion and state.
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Church and state; Civilization; Criticism and apologetics; Culture; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Decline and renewal of religion; Enlightenment (movement); Equality; Ethics; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Modernity; Philosophy; Politics; Power; Principles; Reform; Reformation (Christianity); Renaissance; Secularism; Unity

Thief in the Night or The Strange Case of the Missing Millennium, by William Sears: Review - Anonymous (1998)
Anonymous by request; name on file.
Keywords: Thief in the Night (book)

Thief in the Night: Index - Cates,Merle, compiler
Older, alternate index to the one provided in the newer digital versions of this book. This copy is one Sears himself would sometimes share with people.
See the complete Thief in the Night online, which has a slightly different index.
Keywords: Indexes and catalogues; Thief in the Night (book)

Thief in the Night: The Case of the Missing Millennium - Sears,William (George Ronald, 1961)
In the early 19th-century there was world-wide and fervent expectation that during the 1840s the return of Christ would take place. Did this happen, or was it all a dream?
See also another, older Index to Thief in the Night. Text distributed online in Ocean. This version adds formatting and proofreading by many people. Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: 1260; 1844; 2300 days; Astronomy; Bible; Christianity; Comets; Day-year principle; Expectations; Falling stars; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Jesus Christ, Return of; Millennialism; Prophecies; Return; Signs; Solar eclipses; Thief in the Night (book); William Sears

Thinking in Buddhism: Nagarjuna's Middle Way - Winters,Jonah (1994)
Thesis and unpublished book on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, the central text of a school of thought that later evolved and migrated to become Zen Buddhism.
Also available in a nicely-formatted PDF (2002). See more about this topic at wikipedia. Bachelor's Thesis, Reed College (Portland OR); advisor Kees Bolle.
Keywords: Buddhism; Interfaith dialogue; Madhyamaka (Buddhism); Middle Way; Nagarjuna; Zen Buddhism

Thinking Through Images: Kastom and the Coming of the Baha'is to Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea - Were,Graeme (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2005)
Anthropological study on the Bahá'í Faith in the Nalik area of New Ireland, New Guinea, especially the Nalik people's belief in harnessing ancestral power using transformative imagery.
Mirrored from nhbahais.com.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Conversion; Cultural diversity; Indigenous people; Papua New Guinea; Sociology; Teaching

Third Bahá'í Intercontinental Conference, Chicago: Notes - Jones,Emma Maxie; Author unknown (1958)
Notes, with comments by Borah Kavelin, Rúhíyyih Khánum, Leroy Ioas, Horace Holley, John Robarts, Ugo Giachery, et al., on topics such as raising funds for Temples, pioneering, Native Americans, reflections on Shoghi Effendi, and Mt. Carmel.
See photograph of exterior of this convention at media.bahai.org. From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection.
Keywords: Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Borah Kavelin; Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Intercontinental; Conferences, Teaching; Emma Maxie Jones; Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Horace Holley; Illinois, USA; John Robarts; Leroy Ioas; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); Ugo Giachery; United States (documents); Wilmette, IL

This Decisive Hour: Messages from Shoghi Effendi to the North American Bahá'ís 1932-1946 - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1992)
Expanded version of Messages to America. Includes glossary of Bahá'í terms.
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here. The Bahá'í Distribution Service website offers this description of the book: Originally published under the title Messages to America, This Decisive Hour is an expanded collection of major cables and letters from Shoghi Effendi to the North American Bahá'í community from 1932 to 1946, one of the most tumultuous periods in world history. These communications represent far more than chapters in a historical record to be closed and laid away. They remain an enduring source of guidance, inspiration, and training and bear witness to the Bahá'í Faith's power to build a new spiritual order on the wreckage of the past.
Keywords: Shoghi Effendi, letters of; This Decisive Hour: Messages from Shoghi Effendi to the North American Bahá'ís 1932-1946 (book); United States (documents)

This Gem-Studded Crown: A Dramatic Sketch - Munro,Sarah; Geschier,Sofie (2017)
Fictional dialogue of the first of eight actual meetings between Martha Root and Queen Marie of Romania, in January 1926.
Read more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Root#Meeting_with_Queen_Marie_of_Romania.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Bucharest, Romania; Drama; Martha Root; Plays; Queen Marie of Romania; Romania

"This Glorious Harvest of Victory": The 1963 World Congress - Thorne,Adam (2012)
Brief history about the first international Bahá'í congress, including recollections of some participants.
Keywords: Bahá'í World Congress, First (1963); London, England

'This Is a Progression, Not Conversion': Narratives of First-Generation Bahá'ís - Makhani-Belkin,Tova (Religions, 2023)
Unlike personal transformation experiences in Christianity, religious conversion to the Bahá'í Faith is more often described as a gradual personal and spiritual growth analogous to progressive revelation. Link to article (offsite).
Published in the Religions special issue "The Bahá'í Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations," online at mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/3/300, where it is also available in HTML, XML, and epub formats.
Keywords: Conversion; Interfaith dialogue; Progressive revelation

This is Faith - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1954)
One poem.
Extracted from Violette Nakhjavani's "
Keywords: Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Faith (general); Poetry; This is Faith (poem)

'This Place Has a Major Historical Value Since Prophet Elijah. How Can They Do This?' - Gilad,Moshe (Haaretz, 2023)
An Israeli army base is set to be vacated in Haifa's Stella Maris area, which houses a Carmelite monastery and a Bahá'í holy site. Residents are horrified at the idea of turning such a rich historical site into housing.
Article freely online (no paywall other than email registration) at haaretz.com.
Keywords: Carmelite monastery, Israel; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Stella Maris monastery, Haifa

Thomas Kelly Cheyne - Toy,Crawford Howell (Harvard Theological Review, 1916)
Overview of the works and diverse intellectual interests of Cheyne, who championed the Faith as an independent Biblical scholar before joining it in 1914.
This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org. See also Stephen Lambden's biography of Cheyne and his bibliography.
Keywords: Biography; Thomas Kelly Cheyne (T. K. Cheyne)

Thoughts on the City of Certitude - Rose,Rouha (1998)
Reflections on the 'City of Certitude' referred to in the Bahá'í writings.
Presented as a homework assignment for the Wilmette Institute's "Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh" Course, year one
Keywords: Certitude; City of Certitude; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)

Thousand Years Must Elapse: Examining a Tablet by 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Liedtke,Harry (2022)
Commentary on a tablet by 'Abdu'l-Baha that addresses the present debasement of Persia and its future glory, and the Western world.
Keywords: Future Manifestations of God; Independent investigation of truth; Iran (documents); London, England; Prophecies; Speculation; United Kingdom

Three Bahá'í Voices - Bradley-DeTally,Esther (dialogue magazine, 1988)
Personal stories about addiction, alcoholism, and spiritual growth through a then-new group called "Bahá'ís in Recovery." Includes letter from Dann Irish introducing the Bahá'ís in Recovery Program.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Addiction; Alcohol

Three Books of Poetry - Holley,Horace (1913)
Collections Creation: Post-Impressionist Poems, The Inner Garden: A Book of Verse, and The Stricken King and Other Poems.
Many titles online, and in various formats, at archive.org/search?query=creator:"Holley,+Horace,+1887-1960".
Keywords: Horace Holley; Poetry

Three Books on Self-Help and Healing: Review - Radpour,Mary K. (Association for Bahá'í Studies North America, 2017)
Originally posted at bahai-studies.ca/three-books-healing [archive.org].
Keywords: Abuse; Domestic violence; Health and healing; Mental health; Psychology

Three Meditations on the Eve of November Fourth - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (Bahá'í Publishing Trust of the United Kingdom, 1970)
Essays and poems written by Hand of the Cause A.Q. Faizi on the evening of Shoghi Effendi's death, November 4 1957.
Also available in Persian translation, and see also a scan of the book. See also Conqueror of Hearts.
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; Shoghi Effendi; Shoghi Effendi, Passing of

Three Momentous Years of the Heroic Age - Taherzadeh,Adib (Baha'i World, 1973)
A look at the extraordinary period of Revelation immediately after Bahá’u’lláh’s imprisonment in Akká.
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org.
Keywords: Adib Taherzadeh; Akka, Israel; Badi (Mírzá Aqa Buzurg-i-Nishapuri); Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Centenaries; Christianity; Fuad Páshá; Lawh-i-Fuad (Tablet to Fuad Pasha); Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus (Tablet to Alexander II); Lawh-i-Malikih (Tablet to Queen Victoria); Lawh-i-Napulyun (Tablets to Napoleon III); Lawh-i-Pap (Tablet to Pope Pius IX); Lawh-i-Rais (Tablet to Sultan Ali Pasha); Lawh-i-Sultan (Tablet to Nasirid-Din Shah); Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Napoleon III; Pope Pius IX; Popes; President Grant; Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Prophecies; Queen Victoria; Summons of the Lord of Hosts (book); Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple); Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple); Tablets to kings and rulers; Tsar Alexander II; Visuals; `Alí Páshá

Three Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh to Áqá Yahúdá, an Early Jewish Convert to the Bahá'í Faith from Hamadán - Fananapazir,Khazeh, translator; Masumian,Adib, editor (2023)
English side-by-side with Persian or Arabic of three short Tablets to the father of 'Abdu'l-Missagh Missaghieh, founder of the Missaghieh hospital in Tehran.
Keywords: Hamadán, Iran; Iran (documents); Jews; Judaism; Moses; Ten Commandments (Decalogue); Áqá Yahúdá

Three Talks in Africa - Nakhjavani,Ali; Nakhjavani,Violette (2001)
Three talks given in East London, South Africa circa August-September 2001, on personal reminiscences of Ruhiyyih Khanum and Enoch Olinga, some history of the Faith in Africa, and stages of spiritual growth and teaching.
Keywords: Africa; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum, Journeys of; Bahá'í history by country; Enoch Olinga; Great African Safari; Race; South Africa; Teaching; `Alí Nakhjavání

Three Teaching Methods Used During North America's First Seven-Year Plan - Dahl,Roger M. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1993)
Teaching methods used by American Bahá’ís to spread the Faith; firesides and teaching campaigns evolved during the 1930s; pioneer settlements were not used systematically until the Seven-Year Plan; difficulties caused by the race question in the South.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Firesides; Pioneering; Race; Race unity; Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1937-1944); Teaching; United States (documents)

Throndhjems borgerlige Realskoles - Author unknown (Adresseavisa, 1852)
1852 report in Norwegian on assassination attempt of the Sháh.
The translation was included at the site from which this item is mirrored, uga.edu/bahai/2003/Oct301852.html. English corrected by J. Winters, and translation from Norwegian verified by Nicholas Sanders [2010].

Through Persia by Caravan - Arnold,Arthur E. (Tinsley Brothers, 1877)
Early three-page overview of Bábí and Bahá'í history. Bahá'u'lláh is here referred to as "Behar."
Keywords: Bábísm; Iran (documents)

Through the Eyes of Margaret Cousins: Irish and Indian Suffragette - Munro,Keith (2018)
Biography of the co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League, a theosophist, who met both Martha Root and Shoghi Effendi.
Keywords: Biography; Haifa, Israel; India; Ireland; Krishnamurti; Margaret Cousins; Martha Root; Other teachers; Shirin Fozdar; Shoghi Effendi; Theosophical Society; Theosophy; Women

Through Warring Countries to the Mountain of God - Remey,Charles Mason (1915)
Experiences of two American Bahá'ís in France, England, and Germany on their way to visit Abdul-Baha in the Israel in 1914. Includes excerpt of address by Abdu'l-Bahá on proofs of the coming Prophet, and letter written by Abdul Sana to a friend in London.
This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org. See also "Observations of a Bahá'í Traveller, 1908." While Remey later broke the covenant (see uhj_mason_remey_followers), at the time he wrote this journal he was an influential figure in the Bahá'í community and was later appointed Hand of the Cause. This document is thus not "covenant-breaker" material.
Keywords: Biography

Time and the Containment of Evil in Zoroastrianism - Maneck,Susan (1997)
Basic beliefs of Zoroastrianism, the concept of time in Zoroastrianism, and Zoroastrianism in a Bahá'í context.
Delivered as a talk to a Friends of Persian Culture conference.
Keywords: Devil (Satan); Evil; Interfaith dialogue; Prophecies; Time; Zoroastrianism

Time of Peril, Prospects for Peace - Mitchell,Glenford (2001)
Talk at the Bahá'í Unity Center in Atlanta.
Transcript prepared by Raymond Jeffords; topic headers added by Jeffords and Watson, as well as page references and extended quotes to which Mr. Mitchell referred.  Additionally, there are supplemental quotes, at the end, with respect to the role of the Universal House of Justice and the Bahá'í Community in the establishment of the Lesser Peace. Talk recorded and posted with permission of Mitchell.
Keywords: Calamities and catastrophes; Integration and disintegration; Lesser Peace; Teaching; Terrorism; United States (documents); War

Timeline of major letters of the Guardian - Author unknown, compiler
Date, location published, summary, and memorable quotations of some significant letters of Shoghi Effendi.
Text from Ocean; edited and formatted for posting here. If you would like to help expand this chart, please download the document timeline_major_letters_guardian.rtf, update it, and then contact us. See also detailed discussion of some of the Guardian's writings, and how they got their titles, in Nakhjavani's Shoghi Effendi: The Range and Power of His Pen.
Keywords: Chronology and timelines; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Timeline to the Baghdad Period: Themes of Early Tablets and Historical Personages Related to them - Brown,Kathryn; Davis,Sharon; Johnson,Karen (2000)
History and themes of and personages related to Bahá'u'lláh's Tablets of the Baghdad period (1853-63), including a graphical chronology.
Prepared as a project for the Wilmette Institute.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Biographies (general); Chronology and timelines; Iraq; Kurdistan; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq

To Build Anew: Creating Bahá'í-inspired Enterprises - Brown,Don (Paragon-Quest Publications, 2002)
A study in social and economic development, applying Bahá'í principles in a business how-to manual. Sample chapter: "The Enterprise and the Spiritual Principle Paradigm."
Only Chapter 3 has been provided by the author.
Keywords: Business; Social and economic development

To Build in the World of Things a Safe Home for the Children of Men - Boyles,Ann (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: Professor at University of Prince Edward Island; Member, Continental Board of Counsellors for the Americas
Keywords: Michael Karlberg

"To dance like Solomon": Imitation and Martyrdom in a Qajar Ghazal - Parvis Brookshaw,Dominic (Middle Eastern Literatures, 2004)
Maryam Bushru'i (1815-1902), a sister of Mulla Husayn Bushru'i, produced a bold, emotionally charged response to a celebrated poem by Rumi, lending a broader definition to the community of Qajar poets that transcends social, doctrinal, and gendered lines.
Mirrored from tandfonline.com, where it is available in HTML, PDF, and ePub formats. The PDF below is OCRed from the image PDF as saved, with open-copyright permission, from the publisher's website.
Keywords: E. G. Browne; Gazal; Martyrdom; Poetry; Qajar dynasty; Rumi (Mevlana); Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj)

To Russia with Love: Journal of a Member of the Quddus Team - McLean,Jack (1990)
Journal of a visit through Moscow, Kiev, and Levov in August 1990 by the four travel teachers Shamsi Sedagat, Ann Clavin, Leo Misagi, and Jack McLean.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com. See also the last chapter of Confessions of a Child of the Half-Light, "Travel Teaching in the Former Soviet Union and Ukraine."
Keywords: Biography; Kyiv, Ukraine; Lviv, Ukraine; Moscow, Russia; Quddus; Russia; Travel Teaching; Ukraine