Letters to Bahá'í princesses: Tablets revealed in honour of the women of Ibn-i Asdaq's household - Parvis Brookshaw,Dominic (Lights of Irfan, 2004)
A study and translation of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's tablets to the daughters of Hand of the Cause of God, Ibn-i Asdaq: Laqá'iyya, Huviyya, Rúhá and Talí`a. Includes various biographies and other tablets.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #48, Center for Bahá'í Studies, Acuto, Italy (July 10-13, 2003). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/48/brookshaw_daughters.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í royalty; Biography; Hands of the Cause; Ibn-i-Asdaq (Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad); Irfan Colloquia; Qajar dynasty; Royalty; Women; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Letters to Grace Holley and Visalia LSA - Shoghi Effendi; Esslemont,John E. (1925)
Small collection of correspondence between Shoghi Effendi and the LSA of Visalia, California.
Typed from photocopies from the Bahá'í World Center and the U.S. National Bahá'í Archives. Notes in [brackets] by Larry Gates.

Letters to Louise R. Waite - Abdul-Bahá (1902)
Letters to Louise Spencer Waite (aka "Shahnáz," the royal falcon) from Abdu’l-Baha. Translated by Ameen Fareed, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Zia Bagdadi, et al.
Mirrored with permission from markfoster.net/shahnaz.html, then proofread and formatted; may still contain transcription or typo errors. Some of these letters appeared in Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. See a brief bio, and mention of these tablets, in Louise R. Waite: Her Grave to Finally Receive a Headstone.
Keywords: Louise Waite; Names and titles; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Letters to Various Individuals - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (Conqueror of Hearts, 1965)
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; Questions and answers

Letters Written on Behalf of the Guardian - Universal House of Justice (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Three questions: Letters Written on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi; Status of Research Department Memoranda; Bahá'í Writings Based in Fact? Includes clarification on the authenticity of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's published talks.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/justice_guardian.
Keywords: Ambiguity; Authenticity; Authority; Bible; Chronology and timelines; Contradictions; Criticism and apologetics; David (Bible); Empedocles; Fourth heaven; Heaven and hell; Infallibility; Interpretation; Irfan Colloquia; Jesus Christ; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Paris Talks (book); Philosophers; Philosophy; Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); Pythagoras; Shoghi Effendi, Letters written on behalf of; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Solomon (Solayman); Speculation; Star of the West; Torah; Unity; Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Research Department; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Station of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Lettres à un bon catholique - Utrillas,Jose Luis Marques (Maison d'Editions Bahá'íes d'Espagne, 1987)
Translation of "Letters to a Good Catholic," in which Spanish Bahá'í Utrillas narrates his personal adventure, his inner crises and mental readjustments, his experience as a post-conciliar priest, and his secularization
Read about the Spanish original. Description taken from amazon.es.
Keywords: Biography; Catholic Church; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Jose Luis Marques Utrillas; Spain

Lev Tolstoi and the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: A Bibliography - Collins,William P.; Jasion,Jan T. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1991)
The great spiritual crisis of Tolstoi’s life led him to a search for a pure faith. Late in life, this search led to his examination of the Bábí–Bahá’í religions. A bibliography of material on Tolstoi’s association with the Bahá'í Faith.
This article is posted online at the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Leo Tolstoy (author); Russia

Lexus and the Olive Tree, The, by Thomas Friedman: Review - Pokorny,Brad (One Country, 1999)
Mirrored with permission from www.onecountry.org/e111/e11116as.htm.

Liberal Democracy and the Bahá'í Administrative Order: An Analysis - Abizadeh,Arash (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1990)
Comparison of the Bahá'í political system with two dominant types of liberal democracy, namely Responsible Government and Separation of Powers, as potential models for global government. (Link to PDF, offsite.)
PDF online at journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/422.

Liberation Theology and its Potential for Guidance Towards Peace on Earth: A Bahá'í Perspective - Fallon,Fleur (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
Bahá'u'lláh prescribed both a moral code for individuals based on knowing God and a design for a system of world government. These offer the most holistic answer for liberation theologians today.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Christianity; Christianity; Empowerment; Interfaith dialogue; Liberation theology; Mahatma Gandhi; Martin Luther; Non-violence; Peace; Social action; St. Francis of Assisi; Theology; Violence; Wealth and poverty

Library and Archival Resources at the Bahá'í World Centre - Collins,William P. (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1985)
Overview of the nature of the Bahá'í World Centre; historical resources at the BWC; Centre for the Study of the Holy Texts; access to BWC resources; classification schemes.
Paper presented at the Second Annual Los Angeles Bahá'í History Conference, 30 August - 2 September 1984. Link to document at hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/journals/bsb.
Keywords: A.L.M. Nicolas; Access to primary sources; Annotations (notes); Archives; Authenticity; Bahá'í Faith, Evolutionary nature of; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Bahá'í Writings; Bahá'í studies; Bibliography; Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts (Haifa); Classification (library); Computers; Confidentiality; Dating of Writings; Digital archiving; Digitization; Growth; Haifa, Israel; Indexes and catalogues; International Bahá'í Archives; International Bahá'í Library; Libraries; Manuscripts; Maps; Microfilms; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Newspaper articles; Periodicals; Preservation and conservation (archives); Privacy; Relics; Research; Research Department, Questions and answers; Scholarship; Scribes; Shoghi Effendi; Translation; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Universal House of Justice, Research Department; Visuals; Wisdom; `Abdu'l-Hamid Ishraq-Khavari

Libro de Certeza - Bahá'u'lláh (Editorial Baháʼí de Espanã, 1995)
Spanish translation of Kitab-i-Iqán, The Book of Certitude.
El texto ha sido escaneado, y no es oficial. Includes glossary, at end.
Keywords: Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)

Lidia Zamenhof - Dale,John T. (1996)
Brief biography of the daughter of Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.
Posted to the Bahá'í listserver Talisman 1. Lightly edited and reposted here with permission.
Keywords: Biography; Constructed languages; Esperanto; International auxiliary language; Language; Lidia Zamenhof; Poland; United States (documents); Unity; World War II

Life After Death from a Bahá'í Perspective - Kerr,Diane Robinson (2014)
Quotations from the Writings with some explanations, to trace the journey of the soul, the purpose of life, description of the afterlife, and the nature of belief itself.
Mirrored with permission from the author's website, where she has many other articles, and two ebooks for sale: The Coming of Age of Humanity and Mending the Circle: A Practical Guide to Facilitating Groups.
Keywords: Life after death (afterlife); Soul

Life after Death: A Study of the Afterlife in Religions, by Farnaz Ma'sumian: Review - McLean,Jack (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1998)
Also online at journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/344. See also original scan.
Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Life after death (afterlife); Near-Death Experiences (NDE); Reincarnation; Zoroastrianism

Life after Death: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (2002)
Keywords: Death; Life after death (afterlife); Soul

Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi - Phelps,Myron Henry; Khanum,Bahiyyih (The Knickerbocker Press, 1903)
Abdu'l-Bahá's life, as told by his sister Bahiyyih Khanum in 1903, with additional experiences by Myron Phelps.
See Supplementary Notes for further information about this work. See also Review of Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi.
Keywords: Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahá'u'lláh; Myron Phelps; Pilgrims notes; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi, by Myron Henry Phelps: Review - Hall,G. Stanley, editor (American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education, 1905)
See also Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Introductory; Myron Phelps

Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi, The by M. H. Phelps: Review - Hall,G. Stanley, editor (American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education, 1904)
Sympathetic review of one of the earliest English-language books on the Faith.
Author not given; Stanley Hall, editor? This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.

Life as Metaphor - Hatcher,John S. (Baha'i World, 1986)
What is the moral rationale for physical reality? What is the proper relationship of human beings to physical reality? There are metaphorical reminders of our true nature and essential reality (e.g. the ageing process).
Go to Bahá'í World vol 18 table of contents.
Keywords: John Hatcher; Life (general); Metaphors and allegories; Philosophy

Life Crises among the Religiously Committed: Do Sectarian Differences Matter? - Ebaugh,Helen Rose Fuchs; Richman,Kathe; Chafetz,Janet Saltzman (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1984)
Study of Catholic Charismatics, Christian Scientists, and Bahá'ís, in terms of their perceptions of the number, types and reactions to crises they had experienced. Sectarian differences exert a consistent effect.
Mirrored from nhbahais.com.
Keywords: Sociology; Stress; Tests and difficulties

Life Histories of Bahá'í Women in Canada, by Lynn Echevarria: Review - Srivastava,Prem Kumari (Religion and Gender, 2014)
See an excerpt of this book. Mirrored with Creative Commons and author's permission, from religionandgender.org/index.php/rg/article/view/9841.

Life Histories of Bahá'í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century - Echevarria-Howe,Lynn (Peter Lang, 2011)
Introductory chapter of a study of the essential features of living a Bahá'í life, examining experiences of a diverse group of Canadian Bahá'ís through a sociological framework and a women-centred perspective. Includes newspaper article about Echevarria.
See a flyer about this book, a review of it, or order it from peterlang.com. Also see excerpts at amazon.com. Posted with permission of both author and publisher.

Life Histories of Bahá'í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century by Lynn Echevarria: Review - Hoonaard, van den,Deborah K. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2014)
Mirrored with permission from

Life of Agnes Alexander - Troxel,Duane (1998)
Essay prepared for the Bahá'í Esperanto League's 25th anniversary booklet (see wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'í_Esperanto-League).
See also a longer version of this article, "70 Years of Service," and the Autobiographical Materials of Agnes Alexander, ed. Thomas Linard, and Family Tree (below). (Footnotes are missing from this piece.)
Keywords: Agnes Alexander; Biography

Life of Hugh McKinley, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh - McKinley,Olive (Solas, 2004)
History of Hugh McKinley, correspondent of Shoghi Effendi, and his father, David McKinley — lives of interest not only to Bahá'ís but to the Irish in general.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 4. See also In Memoriam: Hugh McKinley (Ismael Velasco, 2007). Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: David McKinley; Hugh McKinley; Ireland; Knights of Bahá'u'lláh

Life of Tahirih: The Wonderful Life of Kurratu'l-Ayn - Mazandarani,Asadu'llah Fadil (Star of the West, 1923)
The Life of the great Heroine of the Bábí Faith
Keywords: Biography; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj)

Life, Death and Immortality: The Taoist Religion in Singapore and the Bahá'í Faith - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1997)
Main features of Taoist practices in Singapore compared with Bahá'í which, at first glance, could not be more disparate; whether unity may be found behind the apparent dichotomy; spanning the gulf between these two distinct religions from different times.
See the table of contents and editor's note in the complete issue, vol. 2.
Keywords: China; Chinese religion; Philosophy; Philosophy, Chinese; Singapore; Soul; Taoism

Lifeblood of the Cause - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1970)
Selections from the writings of the Guardian on the proper appreciation of the importance and meaning of contributing to Bahá'í Funds.
Also available in HTML and ePub formats at miscellanie.com/allthetexts/compilations.html.
Keywords: Funds

Light after Death: The Baha'i Faith and the Near-Death Experience - Bryson,Alan (Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1993)
The parallels between the NDE and the Bahá'í writings concerning life after death.
Keywords: Death; Life after death (afterlife); Near-Death Experiences (NDE); Science; Soul

Light and Mercy: Mental Health and Tests and Difficulties - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2021)
The physical and mental impact of the continuing pandemic is evident around us, and the members of the Baha’i community are not immune. This publication will be of assistance and support to the friends both individually and collectively.
Mirrored from bahaibooks.com.au. Also available in epub format.
Keywords: Blessings; Deeds; Disability; Happiness; Health and healing; Human nature; Mental health; Mind; Patience; Prayer; Psychology; Purpose of life; Self-knowledge; Service; Soul; Spirituality; Suffering; Teaching; Tests and difficulties; Work

Light of Divine Guidance: Volume 1 - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1982)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here
Keywords: Europe; Germany; Light of Divine Guidance (book); Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Light of Divine Guidance: Volume 2 - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1985)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here
Keywords: Europe; Germany; Light of Divine Guidance (book); Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Abdul-Bahá (Bahá'í World Centre, 2021)
Tablets of ‘Abdul-Bahá describing aspects of the life of Bahá’u’lláh including the tribulations He suffered, events in His homeland, the purpose and greatness of His Cause, and the nature and significance of His Covenant.
Mirrored from bahai.org (HTML export of Word doc), where it is also available in PDF format. See also an updated, numbered Microsoft Word version (M. Thomas, 2022/2024). See also a press release about this publication (BWNS 2021-05-01), and scan of the book's index. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Abraham; Administration; Akka, Israel; Alexandria, Egypt; Angels; Aqa Mírzá Asadullah; Arc of ascent and descent; Attainment unto the Divine presence; Badasht, Iran; Baghdad, Iraq; Bahji, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Bahá'u'lláh, Banishment of; Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Bayan; Bible; Birds; Báb, Remains of; Báb, Sarcophagus for; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Christianity; Complaining; Conference of Badasht (1848); Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Cypress trees; Day of the Covenant; Divine Assistance; Drama; Egypt; Esther (Bible); Exile (banishment); Fars, Iran; Fasting; Forgery and interpolation; Free will; Freedom and liberty; Gabriel (angel); Gardens; Genealogy; Gradual implementation of laws; Haifa, Israel; Holy Spirit; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); House of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahji); Human nature; Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Inventions; Iran (documents); Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Jesus Christ; Joseph (Prophet); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lakes; Laura Clifford Barney; Laws; Life after death (afterlife); Light of the World (book); Manifestations of God; Mazandaran, Iran; Moses; Mount Carmel; Muhammad (Prophet); Murgh-Mahallih (Abode of the Birds, Iran); Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Mírzá Hadiy-i-Dawlat-Abadi; Mírzá Husayn Khan; Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Obligatory prayer; Opposition; Persecution; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Peter (Apostle); Philosophy; Phoenix; Pilgrimage; Plays; Prayer; Prayer texts; Prisons; Prophecies; Quddus; Ridván; Sarcophagus; Service; Shimiran, Iran; Shíráz, Iran; Spiritual Assemblies; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Teaching; Tehran, Iran; Tents

Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Study Guide - Bayat,Ehsan, compiler (2024)
Detailed study guide of Tablets of 'Abdul-Bahá describing aspects of the life of Bahá'u'lláh, including the tribulations he suffered, events in his homeland, the purpose and greatness of his Cause, and the nature and significance of his Covenant.
Also available in Microsoft Word format. See also original book.
Keywords: Light of the World (book); Outlines and summaries

Lighthouses of kindness are scattered among us - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2010)
The beauty of those who care for others and do special things in their communities.
Mirrored with permission of author from stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2886419.

Lighting the Western Sky: The Hearst Pilgrimage and the Establishment of the Bahá'í Faith in the West by Kathryn Jewett Hogenson: Review - Ruhe-Schoen,Janet (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2014)
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/358. See also PDF scan.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Amalie Bachrodt; Anne Apperson; Anton Haddad; Bahji, Israel; Covenant-breaking; Edward Getsinger; First pilgrims; Haifa, Israel; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Julia Pearson; Lua Getsinger; Margaret Peeke; Marion Miller Kheiralla; Mary Virginia Thornburgh-Cropper; Maryam Thornburgh-Cropper; May Maxwell (Bolles); Phoebe Hearst; Pilgrimage; Pilgrims; Robert Turner; Thornburg, Mrs

Lights of 'Irfán Book 10: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2009)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 6 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 11: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2010)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are mirrored with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 12: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 13: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2012)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 14: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2013)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 4 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 15: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2014)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are linked to, and housed at, the The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 16: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2015)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from The Irfan Colloquia. See also complete volume [PDF, 6 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 17: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2016)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights17. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 18: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2017)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights18. See also complete volume [PDF, 3 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 19: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2018)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights19. See also complete volume [PDF, 6 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 1: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2000)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items mirrored with permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 2 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 20: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2019)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/lights20. See also complete volume [PDF, 5 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 2: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2001)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 1 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 3: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2002)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 1 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 4: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2003)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 3 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 5: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2004)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 9 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 6: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2005)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 5 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 7: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2006)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 4 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 8: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 4 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of 'Irfán Book 9: Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars - Ayman,Iraj, editor (Lights of Irfan, 2008)
Papers delivered at Irfan Colloquia.
All items are copied with kind permission from The Irfan Colloquia website. See also complete volume [PDF, 5 MB].
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia

Lights of Guidance (second part): A Bahá'í Reference File - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1988)
Part 2 of the classic Bahá'í reference book. This is its first online edition.
There is no division of the print copy; it has been divided here due to technical limitations.
Keywords: All subjects; Lights of Guidance (book)

Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1988)
The classic Bahá'í reference book. This is its first online edition.
A special thanks to Charles Hornby and the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ecuador for their generous permission allowing us to publicly post this invaluable Bahá'í resource as well as to those volunteers who originally typed up and proofread the digital document on which this formatted version was based. For those who are interested to republish this work, we were informed of the following by the Publishing Trust: "Permission for publication of “Lights of Guidance” on the Internet is allowed, and if there is any cost involved in obtaining it, the usual 10% royalty applies, to the name of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ecuador, as per the author’s request." Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Abjad system; Abortion; Adam and Eve; Administration; Alchemy; Alcohol; All subjects; Archives; Arts and crafts; Astrology; Auxiliary board members; Backbiting and gossip; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Ancestry of; Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Bayan; Begging; Bible; Birth control; Burial (funeral); Burning Bush; Báb, Laws of; Báb, Portrait of; Báb, The; Calamities and catastrophes; Chastity; Children; Christianity; Committees; Compilations; Congregational prayer; Consultation; Contradictions; Conversion; Copyright and trademarks; Counsellors; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Cremation; Crime; Criticism and apologetics; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Day-year principle; Dayspring; Death; Divorce; Drama; Drugs; Economics; Education; Elections; Emanuel Swedenborg; Endowments; Equality; Evil; Extraterrestrial life; Family; Fasting; Fear; Firesides; Food; Funds; Future Manifestations of God; Gambling; Gender; God; God, Fear of; God, Names of; Greatest Name; Guardianship; Hands of the Cause, Institution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Health and healing; Helen Hornby; Holy days; Huqúqu'lláh; Infallibility; Institutions; Interfaith dialogue; International Teaching Centre; Islam; Israel; Jesus Christ; Jews; Judaism; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Laws; Letters of the Living; Life after death (afterlife); Lights of Guidance (book); Living the life; Lord (name of God); Love; Man-made doctrines and dogmas; Manifestations of God; Marriage; Marriage, Civil; Mary (Mother of Jesus Christ); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Lily Áhy Ayman (1929-2018) - Anonymous (Lights of Irfan, 2019)
Ayman was a prominent Iranian educationalist who later became a Bahá'í, moving with her family after the Revolution and finally settling in the USA and becoming actively involved in various Bahá'í educational projects.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/lights20_lily-ayman.
Keywords: Biography

Links to Bahá'í blogs, resources, organizations
Keywords: Cross-reference; Internet; Websites

List and Map of 114 Youth Conferences in 2013 - Bahá'í World News Service (2013)
List of pages at bahai.org (offsite) with reports, descriptions, and videos of youth events across the globe. The accompanying map gives an impression of the spread of the worldwide Bahá'í community.
Mirrored from news.bahai.org/community-news/youth-conferences — visit that site to see the interactive map and the sortable list of conference reports. The bare-bones text below, lacking this functionality, is posted here only for cross-reference and linking purposes.
Keywords: Bahai.org; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, International; Conferences, Youth; Maps; Statistics; Visuals; Worldwide; Youth

List of 350 Kindle Books in the "Baha'i" Category - Mancey,Andrew, compiler (2021)
List of all the English-language titles in the Bahá'í category in Amazon's Kindle e-book library.
Find these titles at amazon.com/Kindle-Store.
Keywords: E-books

List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org - Buck,Christopher (2014)
List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
This is a compilation of articles posted at bahaiteachings.org/author/christopher-buck.
Keywords: Aboriginal people; Atonement; Attar (poet); Australia; Australia; Badi calendar; Bahaiteachings.org; Bahá'u'lláh; Buddhism; Báb, The; Canada; Christianity; Contentment; Cultural diversity; Death; Devil (Satan); Ethics; Evil; Excel files; Gender; God; God, Gender of; Hinduism; Holy days; India; Indigenous people; Iran (documents); Islam; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Life after death (afterlife); Media (communication); Metaphors and allegories; Music; Mysticism; Names; Native American messengers; Native Americans; Parents; Phoenix; Poetry; Prayer; Progressive revelation; Prophecies; Race; Racism; Science; Simurgh (Simorg); Sin; Some Answered Questions (book); Symbolism; Tablet to Amir Khan; Theodore Roosevelt; United States (documents); Unity; Women; World Religion Day; Zoroastrianism

List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org - Hatcher,John S. (2021)
List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher.
This is a compilation of articles posted at bahaiteachings.org/author/john-hatcher.
Keywords: Abortion; Adam and Eve; Bahaiteachings.org; Bible; Bread; Children; Christianity; Covenant; Death; Decline and renewal of religion; Depression; Devil (Satan); Ethics; Eucharist; Evil; Free will; God; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Heaven and hell; Houris (huris); Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Islam; John Hatcher; John Milton (author); Justice; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Laws; Life after death (afterlife); Literature; Literature, English; Love; Maid of Heaven; Manifestations of God; Metaphors and allegories; Muhammad (Prophet); Mírzá Mihdi (Purest Branch); Philosophers; Philosophy; Plato; Purpose of life; Sacrifice; Science; Seal of the Prophets; Sin; Socrates; Some Answered Questions (book); Soul; Spirituality; Suffering; Suicide; Tests and difficulties; Trinity; Wine (metaphor)

List of Bahá'í Studies and Translations - Lambden,Stephen (2018)
A list of content available at Lambden's personal website, Hurqalya Publications, with select links to manuscripts, texts, introductions. Includes Shaykhi and Bábí studies, bibliographies, genealogies, provisional translations.
This academic UC Merced Website, maintained by Dr. Stephen Lambden, remains IN PROGRESS. Pages will be regularly be added, revised and uploaded.
Keywords: Adam and Eve; Afnan; Akka, Israel; Alchemy; Angels; Antichrist; Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem; Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Titles of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í Studies Bulletin; Bahá'í studies; Basmala (Bismillah); Bayan; Bayan-i-Arabi (Arabic Bayan); Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Bible; Biographies (general); Báb, Writings of; Bábísm; Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys); Christian missionaries; Christianity; Colors; Cosmology; Dajjal; Dalail-i-Sabih (Seven Proofs); Disconnected letters of the Quran; Dua Al Sahar (Dawn supplication); Edirne, Turkey; Eschatology; Gnosticism; Greatest Name; Hadith; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Haifa, Israel; Hands of the Cause; Haykal and daira; He who knoweth his self knoweth his Lord (Hadith); Hurqalya (imaginal realm); Hájí Mulla Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani; Imams; Interfaith dialogue; International auxiliary language; Iran (documents); Iraq; Islam; Isra and Miraj; Israel; Istanbul, Turkey; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Jerusalem, Israel; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Kitáb-i-Badi (Wondrous Book); Kitáb-i-Panj Shan (Book of Five Modes); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)); Lawh-i-Ayat-i-Nur or Tafsir-i-Hurufat-i-Muqatta'ih (Tablet of the Verse of Light or Commentary on the Disconnected Letters); Lawh-i-Basítatu'l-Haqíqah (Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality); Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Lawh-i-Hirtik (Tablet to Hardegg); Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'ám (Tablet of All Food); Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds (Tablet of the Holy Mariner, Arabic); Lawh-i-Manikchi Sahib (Tablets to Manikchi Sahib); Lawh-i-Qina (Tablet of the Veil); Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to a Physician); Lawh-i-Vasaya; Light verse (Quran); Manifestations of God; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Moses; Mount Sinai, Egypt; Names and titles; New Jerusalem; Periodicals; Prophecies; Provisional translations; Provisional translations; Qaim; Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove); Qayyum (Self-subsisting); Qayyumul-Asma (book); Qayyumul-Asma (book), chapters; Quran; Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing); Reversal, Mystery of (Shaykhism, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Lawh-i-Qina); Ridván; Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Lote Tree); Scholarship; Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i; Shaykh Bahá'í; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism); Siyyid Kazim-i-Rashti; Stephen Lambden; Sufism

List of Descendants of Mirza Buzurg of Nur, the Father of Baha'u'llah - Browne,E. G., translator (Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion, 1918)
Brief genealogy of Bahá'u'lláh and His family.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Biography; Genealogy; Mírzá Buzurg

List of useful published resources for Bahá'í Studies - Winters,Jonah (1998)
A (now-outdated) bibliography of academic books helpful to Bahá'í studies.
Note: this document has not been updated since 1998.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Bibliography

List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Arabia and the Arabs, Arabic Philosophy, Science and Literature - Author unknown (Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1911)
A single entry "Daghistani" and a section "Muhammadanism / Sects / Babis."
See also List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Persia.
Keywords: Indexes and catalogues; Libraries; New York, USA; United States (documents)

List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Persia: Babism and Behaism - Author unknown (Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1915)
Section "Religion / Parsees / Babism and Behaism."
See also List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Arabia and the Arabs, Arabic Philosophy, Science and Literature.
Keywords: Indexes and catalogues; Libraries; New York, USA; United States (documents)

Lists of Articles - Poirier,Brent (2009)
Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites.
Keywords: Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Ark; Ayyám-i-Há; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Beauty; Bible; Biography; Báb, Laws of; Cause (word); Christianity; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Creation; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Deeds; Elijah (Prophet); Future Manifestations of God; God, Day of; God, Fear of; God, Pleasure of; God, Will of; God, Word of; Guardianship; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Hair (general); Hidden Treasure (Hadith); Home visits; Houris (huris); House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá (Akká); Interfaith dialogue; Interpretation; Islam; Jonah (Bible); Joseph (Prophet); Judaism; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf); Laws; Metaphors and allegories; Moses; Names and titles; New creation (phrase); Noah (Bible); Obligatory prayer, Long; Progressive revelation; Prophecies; Quran; Return; Samson (Bible); Self; Shoghi Effendi; Stories; Study guides; Teaching; Tests and difficulties; Thousand (number); Unity in diversity; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Water (metaphor); Will and testament (general); Words and phrases; Youth; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Ascension of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Knighthood (KBE)

Literary Criticism, Theology and Deconstructionism - McLean,Jack (2001)
A dynamic tension exists between literary criticism and theology as distinct but mutually beneficial forms of discourse, which can enrich Bahá'í Studies by deepening exegesis and by correlating Bahá'í teachings with progressive movements.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Literature; Literature, English; Theology

Literary History of Persia, Volume 4: Modern Times (1500-1924) - Browne,E. G. (Cambridge University Press, 1928)
Volume 4 contains the first extensive catalogue of Bábí and Bahá'í literature published in English. To this day, the four-volume set is an essential text for students of Iranian literature.
See volumes 1-3 at bahai-library.com/browne_literary_history. H. M. Balyuzi notes that this book has "copious references to the Bábí and the Bahá'í Faith"; see E.G. Browne and the Bahá'í Faith at scribd.com.
Keywords: Literature; Literature, Persian

Literary History of Persia: Volumes 1-4 - Browne,E. G. (T. F. Unwin, 1902)
The essential text for students of Iranian literature through the ages.
This series was first published in 1902-06 by Unwin and later reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 1956-1959. Some of these PDFs were scanned by archive.org in 2011, where they can be downloaded in other formats (see archive); others were scanned by Duane Troxel in the 1990s. The text versions below are not edited or proofread; they are simply text extracted from the PDFs. For the Babi/Bahá'í period, see Volume 4.
Keywords: E. G. Browne; Literature; Literature, Persian

Literary Imitation in Three Poems Attributed to Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn - Shayani,Sahba (Hawwa, 2023)
The poetry of Tahirih has largely been ignored by historians, partly from politico-religious intolerance, but also because of a lack of detailed information and primary sources; comparison of three of her most famous istiqbál poems.
Mirrored with CC permission from brill.com/view/journals/haww. Full volume: Hawwa, Volume 21 (2023): Issue 4 (Dec 2023): Special Issue: “From the Seed of Love We Sow”: Further Research on Tahirih Qurrat al-'Ayn, edited by Omid Ghaemmaghami and Sasha Dehghani.
Keywords: Adam and Eve; Arabic language; Creation; Equality; Fatimah (daughter of Muhammad); Gender; Hafez (poet); Heart; Heaven and hell; Iran (documents); Literature, Persian; Love; Lover and the Beloved; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Pen; Persian language; Poetry; Return; Rumi (Mevlana); Self-annihilation (fana); Sufism; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Trinity; Wine (metaphor); Women

Literary Style — Translation - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, compiler
Compilation including a statement from Abdu’l-Bahá about translation, extracts from letters written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice, and a description of the writings of Shoghi Effendi excerpted from Priceless Pearl.
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 is not given, but the cover letter written in 2002 says it was "prepared some time ago."
Keywords: Style (Writings); Translation

Literatura Bahá'í en Español - Velasco,Ismael, compiler (2004)
A partial and unformatted list (from 2004) of books in Spanish.
Many documents in Spanish are online at bibliotecabahai.com/ and bahaipr.org/libros.htm.

Little 'aliens' who spontaneously break into song - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2009)
On raising our children ("little aliens") and what they're learning from the contemporary world they see.
Mirrored with permission of author from www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1662615.

Little Badasht: Aids for the Study of Nabil's Narrative - Author unknown, compiler (1980)
Study guide of The Dawn-Breakers designed for a youth audience. Includes chronology of the time period, and maps of Persia.
Mirrored from the old Ocean website [archive.org]. PDF dated 1980-10-20, included in Ocean in 2001.
Keywords: Chronology and timelines; Dawn-Breakers (book); Iran (documents); Maps

Little Book of Comfort / Librito Reconfortante - Shams,Lesley (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of India, 2015)
The reason for suffering and tools to transform it; words of comfort and prayers. La razón del suframiento y herramientas para transformarlo; palabras de consuelo y oraciones.
Keywords: Comfort; Interfaith dialogue; Prayer texts; Spirituality; Stories; Suffering; Tests and difficulties; Transformation

Little Gems - Bayat,Ehsan (2024)
This is a story for young adults (10+) of a Baha’i family and his family’s impact on a neighborhood through active participation in the Institute process.

Living Purposefully in a Time of Violence - Hanson,Holly (2001)
Contemplation of Bahá'í responses to the global issues raised by 9/11.
Keywords: Purpose of life; Terrorism; Violence; War

Living Religions of the World - Spiegelberg,Frederic (Thames and Hudson, 1957)
2-page overview of Bábí history and Bahá'í principles, including brief discussion of Bahá'í mystical literature and an excerpt from a 1911 translation of the Seven Valleys.

Living the Life - Shoghi Effendi (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Revision of the older Excerpts from the Writings of the Guardian On The Bahá'í Life. Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. See also a PDF scan of the earlier version. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Life (general); Living the life; Virtues

Llamado a las Naciones - Shoghi Effendi (1977)
Spanish translation of Call to the Nations, selected writings of Shoghi Effendi.
This document, and many more in Spanish, are online at Bahá'ís de Puerto Rico.
Keywords: Call to the Nations (book); World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (book); World order

Lo sviluppo socio-economico della comunità bahá'í - Forconi,Luca (2022)
Panoramica sull’azione sociale baha’i con gran parte dei contenuti estratti e tradotti dal documento "For the Betterment of the World" (OSED / BIC, 2018), integrati da alcuni cenni alla letteratura in ambito economico.
Also available as Powerpoint document: forconi_sviluppo_socio-economico_comunita.pptx. See also For the Betterment of the World.
Keywords: For the Betterment of the World (document); Social action; Social and economic development

Local Spiritual Assemblies - Universal House of Justice (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg.
Keywords: Local Spiritual Assemblies; Spiritual Assemblies

Localities where Bahá'ís live (United States, 1935) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1937)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1932) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1934)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also these locations on a Google map, prepared by Tyler McLaughlin. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1938) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1942)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1940) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1945)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1944) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1949)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1946) - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1952)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1956): detailed map - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1956)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; United States (documents)

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1956): simplified map - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, compiler (Baha'i World, 1956)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; Statistics; Worldwide

Localities where Bahá'ís live (world, 1963): The Bahá'í World Community - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1970)
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; Statistics; Worldwide

Locke, Alain - Buck,Christopher (Encyclopedia of African American History, Volume 1, 2010)
See other items about Locke linked from bahai-library.com/locke_index. Mirrored with permission from christopherbuck.com.
Keywords: Alain Locke; Biography

Locke, Alain Leroy - Harris,Leonard (American National Biography Online, 2014)
The life and work of Locke (1885-1954), the African-American philosopher and literary critic who helped initiate the Harlem Renaissance during the interwar period; there is a brief mention of his sympathy for the Bahá'í Faith.
Excerpted from anb.org. Also available in PDF.
Keywords: Alain Locke; Biography

Locke, Shock, and Abbott: Baha'i Theology and the Acceleration of the African American Civil Rights Movement - Mount,Guy Emerson (2010)
African American responses to Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 visit to America, Abdu'l Baha's teachings among prominent African American leaders, and the nature of the 'Black Church' during the wider 'Progressive Era' of Jim Crow segregation.
Paper presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association meeting, 2010. See also Index to Alain Locke materials.
Keywords: African Americans; Alain Locke; Race; Race amity; Race unity; Robert S. Abbott; United States (documents); W.E.B. Du Bois; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Locked In: A Medical Mystery - Dighton,Stephen D. (Xlibris Corporation, 1996)
A presentation of the principles of the Bahá'í Faith as lived by an ordinary person in an extraordinary situation.
Mirrored with permission from schoolmarmwood.org, and available for purchase at amazon.com.
Keywords: E-books; Fiction

Logic and Mysticism - Hatcher,William S. (2003)
Two presentations in Russia on the same topic.
Posted to Youtube by william.hatcher.org.

Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Nader Saiedi: Review - Buck,Christopher (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2024)
Review of Nader Saiedi's book that focuses on the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Childhood of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'í Faith, Unique teachings; Covenant; Heart; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Kitáb-i-Badi (Wondrous Book); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Lawh-i-Bábu’l-ʻAtá (or Lawh-i-Banú-Qurayzih); Logos and Civilization (book); Mysticism; Peace; Philosophy; Progressive revelation; Revelation; Stages of the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Nader Saiedi: Review - Fazel,Seena; Parvis Brookshaw,Dominic (Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Logos and Civilization (book); Nader Saiedi

Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Nader Saiedi: Review - Buck,Christopher (H-Baha'i, H-Net Reviews, 2004)
Mirrored with permission from christopherbuck.com.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Logos and Civilization (book); Nader Saiedi

Logos, Mythos and Kerygma: The Logic of Reconciliation and the Occultation of the Promised Qá'im in Bábí-Bahá'í Scripture - Velasco,Ismael (2004)
Theological background of the Twelfth Imam in Shi'i Islam, comprehensive interpretation of Bahá'u'lláh's and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's position on the occultation and the Qá'ím, and the historicity of the 12th Imám in the Bahá'í writings.
This is an unfinished draft of a paper, and is still missing some references.
Keywords: Hidden Imam; Imams; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Jabulqa and Jabulsa; Javáhiru'l-Asrár (Gems of Divine Mysteries); Logos; Mythology; Qaim; Reconciliation; Shia Islam (Shiism); Twelfth Imam; Unity of religion

Long Healing Prayer: an early provisional translation - Bahá'u'lláh (1945)
Scanned by Howard Pearlman from a photocopy given to him by Marzieh Gail herself. See also the later authorized translation in Bahá'í Prayers.
Keywords: Healing prayer, Long; Health and healing; Marzieh Gail; Prayer texts; `Alí Kulí Khán

Long Obligatory Prayer: Postures - Bahá'u'lláh (2003)
Text of the Long Obligatory Prayer (by Bahá'u'lláh), with small stick-figure pictures showing the postures described (prepared by Anonymous, 2003).
See all three obligatory prayers online at bahai.org.
Keywords: Genuflections; Obligatory prayer, Long; Visuals

Long Obligatory Prayer: Printable, Foldable Version - Anonymous, compiler (2021)
Layout of the Long Obligatory Prayer designed to be printed, trimmed to pocket size, and foldable. Available in more than 50 languages.
The Word versions can be adapted to each user's own needs -- including inserting the Prayer in a different language, e.g. from bahaiprayers.net (use paste option 'Merge formatting'). The below items were created by Arjen Bolhuis. Tip: After printing double sided on the short edge, first fold in different ways a couple of times, and only then cut the sides to make it a small handable booklet.
Keywords: Language; Memorization; Obligatory prayer; Obligatory prayer, Long; Prayer; Prayer texts; Spirituality; Texts in multiple languages; Translation; Translation, Parallel

Lontananza: Poesie, saggi e lettere (1955-2025) ("Remoteness: Poems, Essays, and Letters") - Savi,Julio (2024)
Collection of poetry; English, Italian and French versions (offsite).
Links to the three versions of this book at juliosavipoesie.com.

Looking for Mother's Helper, at Least 15 Years Old, Able to Swim - Kay,Barbara (National Post, 2012)
Short essay saying some complimentary things about Bahá'ís, notable partly because published in a mainstream newspaper by a well-known columnist.
Online at nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-looking-for-mothers-helper-at-least-15-years-old-able-to-swim.
Keywords: Newspaper articles

Loom of Reality: A Partial Inventory of the Works of the Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith - Phelps,Steven, compiler (2020)
A website with thematic compilations of quotations from the Bahá’í Writings and beyond, and a catalog of almost 25,000 works attributed to the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh, or Abdu’l-Bahá.
Search inventory holdings at this Library at bahai-library.com/inventory. For a similar project, see oceanoflights.org.
Keywords: All subjects; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Basics; Báb, Writings of; Compilations; Cross-reference; Indexes and catalogues; Interfaith dialogue; Partial inventory; Philosophy; Reality; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Los Angeles Bahá'í Study Class Newsletter - Various (1976)
Informal study group notes and scholarly discussions, which were a precursor to dialogue magazine.
Mirrored with permission from h-net.org.
Keywords: Amin Banani; Anthony Lee; Bahá'í studies; Dialogue Magazine; Periodicals

Los Angeles, Living in - Universal House of Justice (1996)
Bahá'ís have not been advised to avoid living in Los Angeles, but should still recall the importance of pioneering and not congregating in insular communities.
Keywords: Cities; Los Angeles, CA; Pioneering; United States (documents)

Los Apóstoles de Bahá'u'lláh: Un cuadro básico de los 19 Apóstoles de Bahá'u'lláh - Villar,Husayn (2010)
A poster showing photos and names of the 19 "apostles" of Bahá'u'lláh. In Spanish, but useful for non-Spanish speakers as well.
Keywords: Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh

Lost in Translation - Whitaker,Brian (Guardian (UK), 2002)
Transcribing Arabic into the Roman alphabet is fraught with difficulty. And in an age of electronic text, search engines and databases, the problem is only going to get worse.
This article contains no Bahá'í content, but is included for interest only. Mirrored from guardian.co.uk. See also a discussion of diacritics and transliteration and Marzieh Gail's Guide to Transliteration.
Keywords: Arabic alphabet; Arabic language; Software; Translation; Transliteration and diacritics

Lot and His Daughters - Universal House of Justice (2015)
Discussion of two Bahá'í references on the Biblical story of Lot; an interpretation of a Bible verse is not inevitably dependent on the Biblical source being authentic or reliable.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Judaism; Lot (Bible); Research Department, Questions and answers

Lotus in Concrete - Naharoy,S.; Sahba,Fariborz; Monteiro,John B.; et al. (ECC Concord, 2011)
A special-edition journal with photos of the temple in India, with essays "Bahá'í House of Worship," "Taj Mahal of the 20th Century," "Design and Construction," "Lotus and Other Design Highlights," "Shaping a Dream in Concrete."
Mirrored from lntecc.com.
Keywords: Architecture; Fariborz Sahba; India; Lotus temple, New Delhi; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Delhi

Lotus Temple, New Delhi: The Gates of God - Religion World Talks (2022)
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=btsZgVATAHQ.
Keywords: Alan Coupe

Louis Gregory (1874-1951) - Hatcher,John S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2019)
Overview of the life of a famous Bahá'í lawyer, anti-racism educator and travel-teacher, and Hand of the Cause.
Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/254. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Biography; John Hatcher; Louis G. Gregory; United States (documents)

Louise Dixon Boyle and Maria Montessori - Khan,Janet A. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2006)
American Louise Dixon Boyle (1875–1953) was an active Bahá'í who engaged with wider social issues. Here the focus is on her involvement in the field of education, particularly the work of the Italian physician and educator Dr. Maria Montessori.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca.
Keywords: Biography; Louise Dixon Boyle; Montessori (system)

Love and Estrangement in the Bahá'í Community, by Arnold Nerenberg: Review - Morrison,Sidney Edward (dialogue magazine, 1987)
On personal feelings of alienation in the Bahá'í community, self image, and backbiting.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Alienation; Backbiting and gossip; Community (general); Depression; Disunity; Estrangement; Love; Tests and difficulties; Unity

Love for God and Bahá'u'lláh - Universal House of Justice (Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986, 1978)
Response to a Bahá'í individual's concern about not feeling sufficient love for God and Bahá'u'lláh compared to others.
Extracted from Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986 (#211).
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Love for; Deepening; God, Love for; God, Word of; Love; Meditation; Prayer; Service; Spirituality; Spiritualization

Love of God - Dunbar,Hooper (2006)
From "Serving the Divine Plan Programme"; see mentions of this program in uhj_turning_point_1996-2006 pages iii, viii, and 223, and haifalife.blogspot.ca. Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru.
Keywords: God; Hooper Dunbar; Love

Love Relationship between God and Humanity: Reflections on Baha'u'llah's Hidden Words - Savi,Julio (Scripture and Revelation: Papers presented at the First Irfan Colloquium, 1997)
An overview of God and man's relationship as expressed in Bahá'u'lláh's Hidden Words.
This is an early draft of an article which later appeared in Scripture and Revelation. First presented at the Irfan Colloquia session #2, March 1994.
Keywords: Covenant; God; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Love; Spirituality

Love's Odyssey: The Life of Thornton Chase - Stockman,Robert (1999)
Detailed overview of the first American Bahá'í. Provided in draft form as "Love's Odyssey" as well as a link to the PDF published as Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá'í.
See also Notes on the Thornton Chase Papers. This manuscript was later published as Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá'í (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2001), which is available for download, with the author's permission, at stockman_chase_first_american_bahai_scan.pdf [39 MB].
Keywords: Biography; Thornton Chase; United States (documents)

Love, Power and Justice - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Original website says this file was from "ABS Balyuzi Lecture." I don't know the place or date; contact us if you know. See also "Love, Power and Justice" article and L’amour, le pouvoir et la justice. Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Love, Power, and Justice - Hatcher,William S. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1999)
The pursuit and abuse of power are moral choices for which there is no moral justification.
See also "Love, Power and Justice" audio lecture and L’amour, le pouvoir et la justice. Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/113.
Keywords: Authenticity; Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lectures; Ideology; Injustice; Justice; Literature; Love; Philosophy; Power; Relationships

Love, Power, and Justice: The Dynamics of Authentic Morality, by William Hatcher: Review - Pokorny,Brad (One Country, 1998)
Mirrored with permission from www.onecountry.org/e102/e10216as.htm.

Loving 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Understanding His Station - Handal,Boris (The Australian Baha'i, 2021)
Early Bahá’ís in the West struggled to understand the station of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Mystery of God.
See the entire issue online here. [PDF, 15MB]
Keywords: `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Station of

Loyalty to the Covenant and Critical Thought - Schaefer,Udo (2001)
A commentary for Bahá’ís examining the balance of critical thought with loyalty to Bahá’í institutions.
Talk given at a seminar on the Kitáb-i-Aqdas in Wiesbaden, January 2000.
Keywords: Covenant; Freedom and liberty; Institutions; Loyalty; Udo Schaefer

Lua Getsinger: Herald of the Covenant - de Mille,Amine (Baha'i News, 1971)
Biography of Getsinger, with recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá.
This document is online as a scan of the original, with images, at bahai-news.info. Also available as a RTF document.
Keywords: Biography; Lua Getsinger; Pilgrims notes

Lucha Contra el Hambre, La - Bahá'í International Community (1985)
Declaración a la 11a Sesión de Ministros del Consejo Mundial de la Alimentación de las Naciones Unidas, París, Francia, 1985.
10 al 13 de junio de 1985.
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Equality; Ethics; Food; Hunger; Statements; Wealth and poverty

Macau Bahá'í Community in the Early Years - Sims,Barbara R. (1991)
Brief overview of the history of Macau, and a detailed account of Bahá'í involvement 1953-1975, and stories of early believers.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Macau

Mackenzie and Franklin Islands in the Tablets of the Divine Plan - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada (2006)
Question to, and response from, the Archives of the NSA of Canada about why 'Abdu'l-Bahá addressed these then-sparsely-populated regions of Canada.
This letter was inspired by research into the maps consulted by 'Abdu'l-Bahá.. The following correspondence was scanned by the recipient (though sent by email, the emails themselves were lost and the recipient only has a paper copy) and later retyped. Both the original scans and the typed text are below.

Macnutt, Howard - Stockman,Robert (1995)
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project. Mirrored with permission from rsmd.net/research/macnutt-howard.
Keywords: Biography; Howard MacNutt

Macrocriticism: A Comparison of Nicolai Berdyaev and Shoghi Effendi - Lundberg,Zaid (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2012)
Comparison of "the most widely read of the Russian religious philosophers" with the background and style of Shoghi Effendi's religious, ethical, and social writings.
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Nicolai Berdyaev; Philosophy; Russia; Shoghi Effendi

Mafia, Mob and Shiism in Iraq: The Rebellion of Ottoman Karbala 1824-1843 - Cole,Juan; Momen,Moojan (Past and Present, 1986)
On the role of gangs in urban social history of the 19-century Ottoman empire; with a decline in government control, gangs ran protection rackets and acted as a parallel government, making alliances and becoming popular leaders against an alien threat.
Posted by author at academia.edu. Purchase original at jstor.org.
Keywords: History (general); Iraq; Karbala, Iraq; Ottoman Empire; Shia Islam (Shiism)

Maharishi Ayurveda: A Bahá'í Exploration - Rawlings,Felicity (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2001)
Some of the therapeutic strategies of Maharishi Ayurveda and comparative assessment to the Bahá’í writings, and as seen in light of our the understanding of homeostasis, pathogeny, and the mind-body relationship.
See also the rest of this issue. See also an earlier version published in Journal Bahá'í Studies 4:3 (1992).
Keywords: Ayurveda; Health and healing; India; Maharishi Ayurveda; Meditation

Maharishi Ayurveda: A Bahá'í Exploration - Rawlings,Felicity (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1992)
Some of the therapeutic strategies of Maharishi Ayurveda and how they correspond to the Bahá’í writings on healing.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive. See also a later version published in Australian Bahá'í Studies 3 (2001).
Keywords: Ayurveda; Health and healing; India; Maharishi Ayurveda; Meditation

Mahatma Gandhi and the Bahá'ís: Striving towards a Nonviolent Civilization - Gandhimohan,M. V. (Bahá'í Publishing Trust of India, 2000)
Review of Ghandi's comments about the Faith as well as relationships between his ideas and those of the religion.
Mirrored with permission from gandhimohan.hpg.com.br [archive.org]. Re-formatted to HTML and proofread by J. Winters in 2010; out-of-order footnote numbering not corrected.
Keywords: Biography; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Mahatma Gandhi; Non-violence

Mahdist Movements - Wilson,Samuel Graham (Modern Movements among Moslems, 1916)
An unsympathetic Christian missionary's early history of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths. Excerpt from longer book.
This entire book is available online and in PDF format here. See also Word document (of this chapter only).
Keywords: Bábísm; Criticism and apologetics

Mahmúd's Diary: The Diary of Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Zarqání Chronicling 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey to America - Abdul-Bahá; Mirza Mahmud-i-Zarqani (George Ronald, 1998)
Extensive account of the 1912 travels of Abdu'l-Bahá in the West.
Also available as an updated, proofread Microsoft Word file. The Universal House of Justice states of this work that it "...attaches great importance to this work which, as you may know, is regarded as a reliable account of `Abdu'l-Bahá's travels in the West and an authentic record of His utterances, whether in the form of formal talks, table talks or random oral statements. Mírzá Mahmúd was a careful and faithful chronicler and engaged in assembling and publishing his work with the permission of the beloved Master, as he states in the Introduction. Indeed, Shoghi Effendi drew upon it for details about the Master's visit to the West in writing God Passes By..." In response to a question whether the translation as a whole (including the observations of Mahmúd) were approved, the publisher states "The translation as a whole has not been 'approved' but, as mentioned in the Note from the Publisher at the beginning of the book: 'The translations of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's words recorded in the present volume were read and revised at the Bahá'í World Centre." As the digital copy of this text was taken from a version prior to final editing, there may be some discrepancies between this and the printed work. We have divided the book into "chapters" according to the month of the diary entry to allow for manageable online viewing (though the book can also be viewed as a whole if desired), but the book itself does not separate itself into chapters. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here. This work has been approved to be reproduced here by George Ronald, Publisher. You can purchase a copy of this book here.
Keywords: Mahmuds Diary; Mírzá Mahmud-i-Zarqani; Pilgrims notes; Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Mahoma, Profeta de Dios - Handal,Boris (Asamblea Espiritual Nacional de los Bahá'ís del Perú, 2005)
Overview of the life of Muhammad and the teachings of the Qur'an, and world Islamic culture.
Mirrored with permission from bibliotecabahai.com. Images in the book courtesy Wellcome Collection © CC 4.0.
Keywords: Biography; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Muhammad (Prophet); Quran

Maintaining Minority Beliefs in an Indifferent Workplace - Vance,Deborah Clark (2003)
A study of how Bahá’ís of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds, living in the mid-Atlantic region, attempt to integrate the teachings of their minority religion into US American workplace cultures.
Panel presentation “Problems or progress?: A critical look at the professional lives of women through identity, religion and culture.” Presented at the 89th annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Miami (2003).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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