Audio and video clips - Locke,Alain (1933)
See other items about Locke linked from bahai-library.com/locke_index.
Keywords: Alain Locke; United States (documents)

Audio Versions of Letters from the Universal House of Justice - Universal House of Justice (1963)
A compilation of publicly available messages by the Universal House of Justice in audio form.
Prepared as part of Bahá'í Audio Project
Keywords: Audiobooks and letters; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Audio-Video Presentations: Mirza Mihdi; historia de la familia Khamsi; Varqá and Rúhu'lláh - Handal,Boris (2020)
Links to five Youtube videos in English and Spanish, including "Mírzá Mihdí: The Purest Branch," "Mírzá Mihdí: La Rama Más Pura," "Historia de la Familia Khamsi, un Legado de Servicio," and "Life and Martyrdom of Varqá and Rúhu’lláh."
See also Mirza Mihdi: The Purest Branch.
Keywords: Masud Khamsi; Mírzá Mihdi (Purest Branch); Visuals

Augur, George Jacob - Troxel,Duane (The Baha'i Encyclopedia, 2009)
On the American doctor who became one of the early Bahá’ís of Hawaii and was the first resident Bahá’í in Japan, designated by Shoghi Effendi a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-encyclopedia-project.org.
Keywords: Biography; Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; George Jacob Augus; Hawaii, USA; Japan

August Forel Defends the Persecuted Persian Bahá'ís: 1925-1927 - Vader,John Paul (Baha'i World, 1986)
History of Forel's involvement with the Faith. Includes correspondence from Shoghi Effendi.
See index to Bahá'í World vol. 18.
Keywords: Auguste Forel; Biography; Human rights; Iran (documents); League of Nations; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

August Rudd: The First Bahá'í Pioneer to Sweden - Author unknown (Baha'i World, 1986)
History of the Bahá'í Faith in Sweden, 1920-1947.
See index to Bahá'í World vol. 18.
Keywords: Biography

Auguste Forel: His Life and Enlightment - Ghadirian,Abdu'l-Missagh (Baha'i Studies, 1976)
Overview of Forel's life and his connections with the Bahá'í Faith.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-studies.ca/monographs.
Keywords: Auguste Forel; Biography; Philosophy; Science

Australia: History of the Bahá'í Faith - Hassall,Graham (1998)
Short history of the Bahá'í community of Australia.
See also Hassall's Bahá'í Communities by Country: Research Notes. Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia Project, an ongoing project of the United States National Spiritual Assembly. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project.
Keywords: Australia; Bahá'í history by country

Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 1:2 - Various (Australian Baha'i Studies, 1999)
The complete issue of volume 1 number 2.
Also available as one single PDF: australian_bahai_studies_1-2.pdf. See also Vol 2, Vol 3, and Vol 4.
Keywords: Bahá'í history; Bahá'í studies

Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 2 - Various (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2000)
The complete issue of volume 2. Some papers were delivered at the 18th annual ABS conference "The Creative Inspiration: Arts and Culture in the Bahá’í Faith" (Melbourne, September 1999).
Also available as one single PDF: australian_bahai_studies_2.pdf. On the history of this journal, see the Yerrinbool reports on scholarship for 1997, 1998, and 1999. See also Vol 1:2, Vol 3, and Vol 4.
Keywords: Aboriginal people; Arts and crafts; Australia; Bahá'í history; Bahá'í studies; Indigenous people

Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 3 - Various (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2001)
The complete issue of volume 3.
Also available as one single PDF: australian_bahai_studies_3.pdf. See also Vol 1:2, Vol 2, and Vol 4.
Keywords: Bahá'í history; Bahá'í studies

Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 4 - Various (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2002)
The complete issue of volume 4.
Also available as one single PDF: australian_bahai_studies_4.pdf. See also Vol 1:2, Vol 2, and Vol 3.
Keywords: Bahá'í history; Bahá'í studies

Australian Women and Religious Change: Margaret Dixson and the First Melbourne Baha'is - Hassall,Graham (Proceedings of the Association for Bahá'í Studies, 1988)
Women played an important role in the initial spread and development of the Bahá’í Faith in Australia. In doing so, they struggled to break the bounds that traditionally defined women's place in the life and organization of a religious community.
Keywords: Australia; Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Melbourne, Australia; Women

Authenticity of prayer "O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit" - Universal House of Justice (2006)
Some details on the history of a popular prayer. Includes comments on the authenticity of published compilations of Abdu'l-Bahá's talks Some Answered Questions, Paris Talks, and The Promulgation of Universal Peace.
First posted at Planet Bahá'í [delphiforums.com] on 2010-09-18; original recipient, and source, unknown. Based on some errors in punctuation (which have been corrected), the following text appears to have been hand-typed from another source. See also Texts, Authenticity of and Historical Context for the Prayer 'O God! Refresh and Gladden My Spirit...'. Partial Inventory ID: ABU1863.
Keywords: Authenticity; Prayer; Refresh and gladden my spirit (prayer); Research Department, Questions and answers

Authenticity of Prayers and Tablets - Universal House of Justice (American Baha'i, 1992)
List of some prayers and tablets which are not or might not be authentic; includes 2020 update on the prayer "Help me to refrain from every irregular inclination..."
See also "Authenticity of Texts" and "On Marie Watson's Pilgrim's Notes Titled 'Fourth Dimensional Consciousness'." An unrelated letter from February 2000 has been appended below, on the prayer which begins: "O my Glorious Lord! Help me to refrain from every irregular inclination..."
Keywords: Authenticity; Prayer; Research Department, Questions and answers

Authenticity of Statement on Shaving the Beard - Universal House of Justice (2022)
Letter indicating that a quote about shaving of the beard is a mere pilgrim's note.
The statement in question is "For instance, we do not know what is the use of this nail. It grows and it is cut again. We see that we have the nail; but we do not know that there are a thousand wisdoms within the creation of this nail. For instance, men ask: Why should we have the beard; why should we have the moustache? They shave. But in reality there is a great wisdom in this. It is healthful. The skin receives the oxygen through the beard." See bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_11.
Keywords: Authenticity; Shaving of the beard

Authenticity of Texts - Universal House of Justice (1996)
Status of texts of Abdu'l-Bahá's talks, of the books Bahá'í World Faith and Foundations of World Unity, of letters from the Universal House of Justice versus its Secretariat, and of letters from the Guardian.
Transmitted by email. See also Authenticity of Prayers and Tablets.
Keywords: Authenticity; Bahá'í World Faith (book); Foundations of World Unity (book); Paris Talks (book); Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); Research Department, Questions and answers; Some Answered Questions (book); Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Research Department; Universal House of Justice, Secretariat of; `Abdu'l-Bahá in London (book); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Authenticity of The Báb's Farewell Address to the Letters of the Living - Universal House of Justice (2020)
Memorandum of the Research Department of the Bahá'í World Center about the authenticity of the speech of the Báb to the Letters of the Living.
Keywords: Authenticity; Báb, Speech to the Letters of the Living; Báb, The; Dawn-Breakers (book); Letters of the Living; Research Department, Questions and answers

Author's Response to Commentaries on "The Purpose of Poetry" - Sabri,Shirin (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1989)
See also original article (JBS 1:1) and commentaries by David Erickson and Jack McLean (JBS 2:1).
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Literature; Literature, English; Poetry

Authority and Centrality of the Universal House of Justice - Universal House of Justice (Lights of Irfan, 2012)
Issues inspired by Udo Schaefer's writings about limitations on infallibility and the House's spheres of jurisdiction.
First published in Lights of Irfan vol. 11 pp. 301-304 (2010), updated and republished in Lights of Irfan vol. 13; later published as an appendix in Fifty Years of the Universal House of Justice. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/justice_authority-centrality.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Infallibility; Interpretation; Irfan Colloquia; Unity; Universal House of Justice

Authority of the Hands of the Cause to direct the Faith and expel Covenant-breakers - Universal House of Justice (1997)
Authority of the Hands of the Cause assume control of the Faith and eject Covenant-breakers following Shoghi Effendi's passing.
Submitted by and posted with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Appointed arm; Charles Mason Remey; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Custodians; Guardianship; Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Institution

Authority of the International Teaching Centre in Expelling Covenant-Breakers - Universal House of Justice (1998)
On the role of the Counsellors and the ITC in protecting the Faith, and the process of expelling a person whose behavior is in conflict with the Covenant.
Original transmitted by email. Posted with permission of recipient. Title added for this online posting, not in original.
Keywords: Covenant-breaking; International Teaching Centre

Authorization of Translations and the Authority of Publications from the Research Department - Universal House of Justice (1994)
On the process by which new translations are authorized; the authority of translations by the Guardian; and the authority of publications of the Research Department.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats.
Keywords: Canon of Bahá'í doctrine; Elucidation; Infallibility; Interpretation; Legislation; Provisional translations; Publishing; Publishing, Review; Research Department, Questions and answers; Shoghi Effendi, Translations by; Translation; Translation, Authorization; Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Universal House of Justice, Research Department

Autobibliography in the Writings of the Báb: Translation of the Khutba Dhikriyya - Brown,Vahid (Lights of Irfan, 2005)
A discussion of four of the Báb's autobibliographical works (the Kitáb al-Fihrist, al-Kitáb al-`Ulamá, al-Khutba al-Dhikriyya, and al-Khutba fí'l-Jidda) as related both to antecedents in Islamic literature and to the Báb's messianic self-conception.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #58, Louhelen Bahá'í School, Michigan (October 8-11, 2004). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org.
Keywords: Báb, The; Báb, Writings of; Irfan Colloquia

Autobiographical Poetry 1995: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 12-17 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
After writing poetry very occasionally for thirty years,1962-1992,I began to write it seriously in that Holy Year, May 1992-May 1993. By the end of 1995 I had written some 2000 prose-poems. The prose-poems in this collection come from the year 1995.
By 1995 I had sent 11 booklets of poetry to the Bahai World Centre Library. In 1995 the fourth phase of my poetry writing began. The first three phases had been entitled: The Tombs Chambers(1980-1987), The Arcade(1987-1992)and The Golden Dome(1992-1995). The phase that opened on June 1st 1995, phase four, I entitled The Terraces(1995-2000). This was followed by phase five, The Mountain of God(2000 to 2010). All of this poetry I see as one small part of that befitting crescendo to the achievements of a century,part of a vast backdrop to the Arc Project on Mt. Carmel.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 1996: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 17-23 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
This poetry comes from the fourth year of my writing poetry extensively. By extensively I mean some 500 poems per year, for the most part autobiographical.
After 30 years of writing occasional pieces of poetry(1962-1992), I have now written poetry 13 years much more extensively and intensively(1993-2005). The poetry here comes from just one year. It does not represent all the poetry I wrote that year. I hope, in the months and years ahead, to place all the poetry I wrote each year in the respective location at BARL.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 1997: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 23-28 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
The poetry on this document was written in 1997 when I was age 52-3 and living in Perth Western Australia. I had been a member of the Bahá'í Faith for 38 years.
The first poem I wrote and kept was in 1980. It was about my mother who had died two years before. My pioneering years 1962-1980 saw some poetry but none of it was kept. By the 1990s I was writing masses, hundreds, thousands, of poems. The Arc Project was undoubtedly an inspiration for this writing.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 1998: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 28-33 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
This is the fourth year, beginning in 1995, that I have put poetry on this site. The previous 15 years(1980-1994)of my poetic writings are not on the web only in my personal files in my study in Tasmania.
By 1998 I had been writing poetry seriously for 6 years, beginning as I did in the Holy Year, May 1992 to May 1993, writing over two hundred poems that year. Quantity is easy to measure. By the end of 1998 I had written some 3000 poems. Quality, well, I leave that to readers to judge. But, however one measures or judges this poetry, it was clearly written within the generative matrix of the Arc Project on Mt. Carmel.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 1999: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: 1999: Booklets 33-40 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2003)
These poems were written in 1999 and are part of an annual series of prose-poetry I began sending to Bahá'í Library Online in September 2003. The first year in this series contains poetry I wrote in 1995.
This poetry is also part of an autobiogrpahical work entitled Pioneering Over Four Epochs. The poems in this series were written in 1999 and I had been, by that time, writing poetry copies of which I kept for nearly twenty years--and extensively for seven. I am a Canadian Bahai who pioneered to Australia in 1971 and in 1999 I was 55 years old. In that year I retired from my full time work as a teacher, a job which I had done, for most of my working life back to 1967. I moved to Tasmania from Western Australia in 1999.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 2000: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Poetry Booklets 40-43 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
This poetry was written during the year 2000, the twentieth year of my writing poetry. I wrote four booklets of poetry that year, numbers 40 to 43. They are all part of Section VIII of a larger work also entitled: Pioneering Over Four Epochs.
Readers will find many poems here, poems with prose introductions. And so, if readers are not attracted to poetry, as is often the case, they can read the prose and get what I hope will be useful and pleasureable material to read. This poetry was part of a series of poems written during the final stage of the building of the Arc and the completion of the garden terraces on Mt. Carmel.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 2001: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Poetry Booklets 44 to 47 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
The poetry in this collection I wrote during 2001. It is part of a larger collection begun in 1980 and part of, section VIII of an autobiography entitled: Pioneering Over Four Epochs.
I have now written some 6500 poems during the years 1980 to 2007, during the epochs 3, 4 and 5 of the Formative Age of Bahai History. With the poetry in this section comes the end of the Arc Project, a Project which has formed the background for so much of my poetry since the late 1980s.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 2002: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 48-51 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
After 30 years of writing occasional pieces of poetry(1962-1992), I have now written poetry 15 years much more extensively and intensively(1993-2005). The poetry here comes from just one year, 2002. It does not represent all the poetry I wrote that year.
The poetry in this section was written in 2002 and is part of Section VIII of a larger autobiographical work: Pioneering Over Four Epochs. The poetry in this section also contains much prose and tries to integrate the Baha\'i Faith, the events of secular history and my own life into a comprehensive whole. The completed Arc Project was clearly a major inspiration in this whole exercise.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 2003-4: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 51-53 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2004)
The poetry in this section was written during the two years 2003-4 and is part of Section VIII of a larger autobiographical work: Pioneering Over Four Epochs. The type of poetry I write is known as prose-poetry, arguably the most common type of poetry.
The poetry in this section also contains much prose and tries to integrate the Baha\'i Faith, the events of secular history and my own life into some kind of meaningful whole. It is the most recent poetry from a collection originally inspired by the Arc Project, among other inspirations. These are post-Arc poems and are written in the light of the inspiring, beautiful, terraces embellishing the Shrine of the Bab.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry 2005: Booklets 54-57: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII:Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2005)
The first poem that I wrote was at the start of my pioneering life in 1962, but I did not keep any of my poems until 1980. I now have 27 years of poetry in my collection. The poetry here is from the 25th year of this collection of poetry--2005.
With this most recent year of writing poetry, it takes to over 6000 the number of poems and two million words(circa). I began to write poetry with more regularity in 1989 and have been writing poetry at a rate of slightly more than one poem per day for some 17 years. My main style is what I call prose-poetry. I have little published poetic work except on internet sites like this one.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiographical Poetry Volumes 1 to 5: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: A Pot Pourri From 1995-2001 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2004)
This document contains poetry, prose, interviews, essays, pages from my memoirs, indeed, a pot pourri of material from the years 1995 to 2001.
My memoirs are now in the form of a five volume 2500 page document. They have been reviewed by the NSA of the Bahais of the USA and I have been given permission to post them on the internet. A few pages are here to introduce the work. Interviews and essays are here to introduce the prose-poetry. Roert Bly, the famous American poet, says that prose-poetry is the most common of all poetry.
Keywords: Ron Price

Autobiography and Silence: The Early Career of Shaykhu'r-Ra'is Qajar - Cole,Juan (Iran im 19. Jarhundert und die Entstehung der Baha'i-Religion, 1998)
Early biography and thought of Abu al-Hasan Mirza Shaykh al-Ra'is, Qajar prince, dissident, Shi`ite jurist, poet and major figure in the Constitutional Revolution in Iran
Also available as a scan of the original article. Later posted online at iranchamber.com/history/articles/early_career_shaykhur_rais_qajar.php.
Keywords: Biography

Autobiography of Harper John Pettypiece (1921-2002) - Pettypiece,Harper John (1999)
Detailed life of a Canadian who found the Faith in 1952 in Toronto, and had personal experiences with many well-known Bahá'í figures and authors across North America and Europe.
The epub file was freely available online at a website now gone (and URL lost). Text was extracted from this ebook and a Microsoft Word version was then proofread, edited, and formatted by Mike Thomas (2023), and turned into the PDF below. See more at J. Paul Pettypiece Family Tree, including an uncorrected HTML of this text, and see also an online biography of Paul Pettypiece.
Keywords: Biography; Canada; E-books; Harper John Pettypiece; Iceland; United Kingdom

Autoridades religiosas del mundo, A las - Universal House of Justice (2002)
Spanish translation of "Letter to the World's Religious Leaders, April 2002."
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Letter to the Worlds Religious leaders (2002); Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Avalonian Bahaism: Esotericism, Orientalism, and the Search for Direction in Early Twentieth Century Britain - Rose,Dell J. (Aries – Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 2023)
The thought of British religious teacher Wellesley Tudor Pole and his advocacy of the Bahá'í Faith as compatible with various mystic ideologies at the centre of a worldwide spiritual revival; esotericists around Glastonbury and the Chalice Well Trust.
This document is online under Creative Commons license at brill.com/view/journals/arie/aop/article-10.1163..., where it is also available in HTML format.
Keywords: Alice Buckton; Esotericism; Glastonbury, England; Occultism; Theosophy; United Kingdom; Wellesley Tudor Pole

Avoidance of Politics and Controversial Matters - Universal House of Justice (2003)
A short explanation that the aim of Bahá'ís is to reconcile viewpoints and heal divisions, but not become involved with disputes of the many conflicting elements of society around them. Includes introductory letter from the US NSA, and a compilation.
Transmitted by email. The following material is also posted in HTML format at khan_political_noninvolvement_obedience, but is cross-referenced here.
Keywords: Charity and relief work; Government; Obedience; Politics; Questions and answers; Unity

Awakening: A History of the Bábi and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz - Ahdieh,Hussein; Chapman,Hillary (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2013)
Eight items: The complete book in Spanish, sample chapter in English, reviews, audio interview, and video interviews and presentations, including one on "Bábí Women Of Nayriz" in the persecutions of 1850, 1853 and 1909.
See also the authors' website for this book, www.awakeningnayriz.org, and see 22 Biographies of Bábís and Bahá'ís from Nayriz.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Nayriz, Iran; Persecution, Iran

Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review - Pearson,Anne (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2015)
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/362. See also PDF scan.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Nayriz, Iran; Persecution, Iran

Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review - Naraqi,Naysan (2013)
Brief review of book, and short interview with Ahdieh, conducted by bahaiblog.net.
Mirrored with permission from bahaiblog.net.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Nayriz, Iran; Persecution, Iran

Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review - Harris,Robert (2013)
N.B. Harris is former member of Continental Board of Counselors.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Nayriz, Iran; Persecution, Iran

Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review - Ahdieh,Hussein, translator (Payam-i Baha'i, 2013)
English translation of a short review in Persian.
Mirrored from facebook.com.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Nayriz, Iran; Persecution, Iran

Áyatí, Abdu'l-Husayn - Afshar,Iraj (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
Mirrored from www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ayati-abd-al-hosayn-b.
Keywords: Biography

Ayesha of the Bosphorus: A Romance of Constantinople - Cobb,Stanwood (Murray and Emery Company, 1915)
A novella combining fiction with scenes from the lives of Abdu'l-Bahá and the Bahá'ís in Haifa in the early 1900s. Includes introduction by Bei Dawud.
Also available as an optimized scan of the original [2 MB]. Also online in other formats at archive.org. While this book is full of Bahá'í-related content, the pilgrimage section starts on page 123, "A Visit to Acca."
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Fiction; Haifa, Israel; Istanbul, Turkey; Pilgrimage; Stanwood Cobb; Turkey; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Ayyám-i-Há (February 25) - Buck,Christopher (Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations, 2011)
See also the full collection of Buck's articles in this volume.
Keywords: Ayyám-i-Há; Badi calendar; Holy days

Azalí Babism - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/azali-babism.
Keywords: Azali Bábís; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal)

Báb (Door, Gate) - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
See also The Báb. The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bab-door-gate-entrance.
Keywords: Báb (Gate)

Bab al-Bab (Mulla Husayn Bushrui, the "Bábu'l-Báb") - Author unknown (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1988)
One-line cross-reference entry, with no author's name.
The following is the complete 27-word entry from referenceworks.brillonline.com.
Keywords: Mulla Husayn

Bab and Babism - Evans,Edward Payson (Hours at Home, 1869)
Overview of Bábí history, the dissemination of its teachings, events following the Bab's death, and the Bab's theology as a progressive religion.
From books.google.com. See also a contemporary review of this article.
Keywords: Bábísm; Iran (documents)

Bab and Babism - Bliss,Edwin E. (Missionary Herald, 1869)
Summary and review of an article from earlier that year by Edward Evans, adding the opinion that Babism is not worthy of further attention.
Also available in other formats at archive.org. See reference to author at bahaipedia.org. See also Evans' Hours at Home article.
Keywords: Bábísm

Bab and Babism - Adams,Isaac (Persia by a Persian: Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious and Social Life in Persia, 1900)
Overview of history and teachings; includes Anton Haddad's "A Message from Acca," "A Declaration to the Americans," and "Selected Precepts of El-Hak," pilgrim notes from Lua Getsinger, and letters from Mrs. Getsinger, Mrs. Kheiralla, and Mrs. Hearst.
Adams' overview of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths runs from pages 453-469 (with a final dismissive comment on how it's not the truth of Christ, on p. 490), with excerpts from various pilgrims notes and personal letters on pages 469-488. See the rest of this book here.
Keywords: Báb, The; Isaac Adams; Pilgrims notes

Bab et les Babis, ou Le Soulevement politique et religieux en Perse, de 1845 à 1853 - Kazem-Beg,Aleksandr (Journale Asiatique, 1866)
French translation, serialized in a journal, of a book first published in Russian on the origins of the Bábí Faith; the Mazandaran, Nayriz, and Zanjan events; the life of the Bab; and religious doctrine.
Keywords: Bábísm; Mírzá Kazem-Beg; Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia

Bab og Babismen: en ny religion og dens stifter - Rees,John David (Kringsjaa, 1896)
Norwegian translation of Rees' Bab and Babism, 1896.
See original English-language article. Mirrored with permission from www.uga.edu/bahai/2003/1896.html.

Bab und Babis - Vambery,Arminius (Meine Wanderungen und Erlebnisse in Persien, 1867)
Lengthy discussion of the Babis, by a Hungarian Jew who later met Abdu'l-Bahá.
See an automated translation. This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Arminius Vambery; Bábísm; German language; Hungary; Iran (documents); Travelogues

Báb, Bábís - Browne,E. G. (Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, 1926)
Also available in Microsoft Word format.

Bab, Birth of - Buck,Christopher; Melton,J. Gordon (World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, 2010)
Submitted by author for posting here.
Keywords: Báb, Birth of; Holy days

Bab, Birth of - Buck,Christopher; Melton,J. Gordon (Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, 2010)
Keywords: Báb, Birth of; Holy days

Báb, Festival of the Birth of the (October 20) - Buck,Christopher; Melton,J. Gordon (Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations, 2011)
See also the full collection of Buck's articles in this volume.
Keywords: Báb, Birth of; Holy days

Báb, Martyrdom of the (July 9) - Buck,Christopher (Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations, 2011)
See also the full collection of Buck's articles in this volume.
Keywords: Báb, Martyrdom of; Holy days

Báb, The (ʿAlí Mohammad Shirází) - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
See also Báb: Arabic for Door, Gate. The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bab-ali-mohammad-sirazi.
Keywords: Biography; Báb, The

Báb, The: The Herald of the Day of Days, by H.M. Balyuzi: Review - Elwell-Sutton,L. P. (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1975)

Babi - Minorsky,Vladimir (Chamber's Encyclopaedia, 1950)
Encyclopedia entry, the draft of which was found in Minorsky's archive, along with three pages of typed "errata" possibly written by H. M. Balyuzi on behalf of a Bahá'í institution.
The three pages of errata might have been prepared by Dr. Balyuzi given the fact that Minorsky (Minorski) communicated with him. But the review might also have been prepared by a Bahá'í institution, as indicated by the fact that the reviewer referred to himself/herself as "we" and seemed to speak with a degree of authority.

Bábí and Bahá'í Bibliography from Gallica, A - Jasion,Jan T., compiler (2013)
Entries from a downloadable digital library developed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France with any mention of the Faiths or relevant persons. The articles are mostly from France, from 1849 to 1943.

Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts - Momen,Moojan, editor (George Ronald, 1981)
A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Bábí and Bahá'í religions in contemporaneous accounts and newspapers.
This text was originally distributed in Ocean. See also the original text file from Ocean or the Microsoft Word formatted version from which the PDF below was generated.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Archives; Ashgabat; Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í Faith, Early Western Accounts of; Bahá'í history; Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, The; Bábí history; Bábísm, Early Western Accounts of; Cyprus; Edirne, Turkey; Egypt; Eyewitnesses; France; Haifa, Israel; Iran (documents); Iraq; Isfahan, Iran; Israel; Istanbul, Turkey; Mentions; Nasirid-Din Shah, Attempt on; Nayriz, Iran; Newspapers; Palestine; Persecution, Iran; Russia; Seven martyrs of Hurmuzak; Seven martyrs of Tihran; Seven martyrs of Yazd; Shaykh Tabarsí siege; Shoghi Effendi; Tabríz, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Turkey; Turkmenistan; United Kingdom; United States (documents); Zanjan, Iran; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Babi Attempt on the Life of the Shah, 1852: Coverage in the New York Times - New York Times (New York Times, 1852)
Five brief newspaper reports, among the earliest known references to the Báb in an American publication.
See also Early mention of Bábís in western newspapers, summer 1850, First Public Mentions of the Bahá'í Faith in the West, Mention of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in the New York Times 1852-1922, Queer Things about Persia, and Newspaper Collections and the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Nasirid-Din Shah, Attempt on; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Newspaper articles; Qajar dynasty; Shahs; United States (documents)

Bábí Executions and Uprisings - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/babism-index.
Keywords: Bábí history

Babi Heroism and the Recovery of the Heroic - McLean,Jack (2009)
In defining the three ages of Bábí-Bahá’í history, Shoghi Effendi named the first the Heroic Age, thus aligning the virtue of heroism and the Bahá’í Faith’s metaphor of historical time, with The Bab as the tragic hero.
See also The Heroic in the Historical Writings of Shoghi Effendi and Nabil. Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, The; Dawn-Breakers (book); God Passes By (book); Heroic age; Heroism; Letters of the Living

Bábí Movement - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/babism-index.
Keywords: Bábísm

Babi, or Babists - Author unknown (Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, And Ecclesiastical Literature, 1878)
Online in multiple formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Bábísm

Babies, on the Naming of - Abdul-Bahá; Universal House of Justice (1998)
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg.
Keywords: Children; Names (personal)

Bábíism - Browne,E. G. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910)
Also available in Microsoft Word rtf.

Bábís - MacGregor,C. M. (Central Asia Part IV: Topography, Ethnography, and History of Persia, 1995)
Short overview, as excerpted by MacGregor from Shiel's Glimpses of Life and Manners.
Keywords: Bábísm

Babis, Bahá'ís, Shaykhis - Glasse,Cyril (The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, 1991)
Macrons in original rendered here as acute accents; subdots in original rendered here as underlines.)
Keywords: Introductory; Shaykhism

Babism - Browne,E. G. (Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative Religion, 1890)
An early academic account of Babi-Bahá'í history and belief.
The book was first published in 1889; this version was written for a later edition in 1890 and later re-published in 1901. This document was originally entitled by Browne "Bábíism." For consistency with this Library, I have changed the title to "Bábism." Document contained some scanning/OCR errors, e.g. '11' instead of '"' (OCR interpreting a quotation mark as double-ones). I corrected the ones I found, but it could use another close proofreading. [J.W., 2010]
Keywords: Bábísm; E. G. Browne

Babism - Ross,Denison (Great Religions of the World, 1901)
Chapter-length overview of Bábí and early Bahá'í history.
Both editions of this book are online in a variety of formats at archive.org: 1901 edition and 1912 edition, which has additional material on pages 187-188. Also published in The North American Review, volume 172, pages 606-622; see archive.org.
Keywords: Bábísm

Babism - Gilmore,George W. (Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1908)
Detailed encyclopedia entry on the life and teachings of the Báb.

Babism - Author unknown (Kurdistanica.com, 2008)
Mirrored from http://www.kurdistanica.com/?q=node/100.
Keywords: Bábísm

Babism - de Colange,Leo, editor (Zell's Popular Encyclopedia: A Universal Dictionary of English Language, Science, Literature, and Art, 1869)
Possibly the earliest encyclopedia entry on The Bab.
Online at Google books. See also an image scan of this document [PDF].
Keywords: Bábísm

Babism - Bullfinch,Stephen G. (Studies in the Evidences of Christianity, 1869)
Brief account of the Bábí movement by an American Unitarian clergyman.
This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.

Babism and Behaism - Lammens,Henri (Islám: Beliefs and Institutions, 1929)
From Chapter 8, "Reformists and Modernists."
From a translation of L’Islam: croyances et institutions (Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique, 1926).

Babism and the Bab - Bixby,James T. (The New World: A quarterly review of religion, ethics, and theology, 1897)
Overview of Bábí history, with some discussion of literature and theology.
Keywords: Bábísm

Babism and the Babites - Jessup,Henry H. (Missionary Review, 1902)
Sympathetic overview of Bábí and Bahá'í history, including a meeting and a detailed conversation with Abdu'l-Bahá.
From books.google.com. See also a slightly longer version of this article, The Babites. See also the following essay in this issue, A Visit to the Prophet of Persia.
Keywords: Christian missionaries; Henry Jessup

Bábism in Nayriz - Ahdieh,Hussein (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2015)
Brief excerpt on Nayriz and Sayyed Yahyá Dárábí (Vahíd), with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at iranicaonline.org/articles/babism-03.
Keywords: Bábí history; Iran (documents); Nayriz, Iran; Vahid (Siyyid Yahyay-i-Darabi)

Babism in New York - Pierson,Arthur T., editor (The Missionary Review of the World, 1906)
Short summary of Bahá'í history, a quote from Arthur Dodge, and update on activities in New York.

Babism, Bahá'ís, Baha'u'llah - Netton,Ian Richard (A Popular Dictionary of Islam, 1992)
A few short dictionary-type entries.

Babism, Its Relation to Mohammedanism and Christianity - Nweeya,Samuel Kasha (Persia, The Land of the Magi or The Home of the Wise Men, 1913)
Chapter on the history and doctrines of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.
Publisher's abstract: An historical and descriptive account of Persia from the earliest ages to the present time [1910], with a detailed view of its people, their manners, customs, matrimony and home life, religion, education and literature, textile and contemporary arts and industries, the king, his court, and forms of punishment, including Afghanistan and Beloochistan.

Babism, or Bahaism - Marshall,Edward A. (Christianity and Non-Christian Religions Compared, 1910)
One-page summary of Bábí history and Bahá'í teachings.
The item by Speer mentioned in the last paragraph is online here.

Babism: Its Doctrines and Relations to Mission Work - Shedd,John H. (Missionary Review of the World, 1894)
Early overview of Bábí history and teachings, and its relation to Islam and Christianity.
Extracted from document at babel.hathitrust.org. See also a later essay by Shedd in 1911 issue.
Keywords: Christian missionaries; John H. Shedd; Mentions

Babists, Bahá'í History - Mather,George A.; Nichols,Larry A. (Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions, and the Occult, 1993)
Three entries from an outsider dictionary, followed by a response by Robert Stockman.
See also a response by Dr. Stockman, included here with permission.

Babysme, Babys - Author unknown (Annuaire encyclopédique: politique, économie sociale, statistique, administration, sciences, littérature, 1868)
Online at gallica.bnf.fr.
Keywords: Bábísm

Backbiting - Hatcher,William S. (2003)
Fireside in St. Petersburg.
Posted to Youtube by william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Backbiting and gossip

Badasht - Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/badast-small-village.
Keywords: Badasht, Iran; Bábí history; Conference of Badasht (1848); Equality; Iran (documents); Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Veils; Women

Badí' Calendar - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
Mirrored from www.iranicaonline.org/articles/badi-designation-of-the-calendar-system-of-babism-and-bahaism-q. See also 2014 update to the Badi` calendar.
Keywords: Badi calendar

Badí` Khurasani - Momen,Moojan (1995)
Short biography of Badi, a Bahá'í renowned for his bravery and devotion.
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 momen.org.
Keywords: Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Badi (Mírzá Aqa Buzurg-i-Nishapuri); Biography; Iran (documents); Lawh-i-Sultan (Tablet to Nasirid-Din Shah); Nasirid-Din Sháh; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran

Badi, Áqá Buzurg - Francis,Richard (1993)
Life of "the Pride of the Martyrs."
Mirrored with permission from the Bahá'í Faith Website of Reno, Nevada; no longer online, but available at archive.org.
Keywords: Badi (Mírzá Aqa Buzurg-i-Nishapuri); Biography

Bagdádi Family - Ekbal,Kamran (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2014)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at iranicaonline.org/articles/bagdadi-family. See also Bagdadi's book Treasures of the East.
Keywords: American University of Beirut; Bagdadi family (Baghdadi family); Baghdad, Iraq; Beirut, Lebanon; Báb, Remains of; Chicago, IL; Foundation stones and groundbreaking; Iran (documents); Iraq; Kamran Ekbal; Lebanon; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Muhammad Mustafa Baghdadi; Pilgrimage; Poetry; Qazvin, Iran; Race amity; Star of the West; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); United States (documents); Wilmette, IL; Zeenat Khanum; Zia Bagdadi

Bahá'í - Fieser,James, editor; Powers,John, editor (Scriptures of the World's Religions, 1998)
Chapter 12, consisting of commentary and a compilation.
Pages 425-430 consist of commentary and overview by the authors; these pages have been scanned and are included. below. Pages 431-456 consisted of selections from Bahá'í readings, and were not scanned. The book's table of contents for the complete "Bahá'í" chapter has been reproduced below. Readers wishing to view the selected passages can consult https://bahai-library.com/writings.

Bahá'í - Karlberg,Michael (Encyclopedia of Sustainability, 2009)
Bahá’ís recognize nature as an expression of God’s will, view science and religion as complementary approaches to truth, and pursue processes of individual and community development that promote unity, social justice, and ecological sustainability.
See publisher's webpage for this book. Mirrored with permission from author's website, myweb.wwu.edu [archive.org]
Keywords: Nature; Sustainable development

Baha'i a religion of unity and peace - Monteiro,Liz (The Record, 2011)
Profile of Dharlene and Sheldon Valeda, and the Bahá'ís of Kitchener, Ontario.
See also Dharlene Valeda's Organizing Digital Collections: The Case of the Bahá'í Academics Resource Library and a photo of her delivering the presentation. Mirrored from www.therecord.com/living/faith/article/609577--baha-i-a-religion-of-unity-and-peace.
Keywords: Biography

Bahá'í Activities in University - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (The Bahá'í Student Handbook, 1997)
Excerpted from the Bahá'í Student Handbook.
Keywords: Studying; Universities

Bahá'í Administration - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1974)
Excerpts from 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Will and Testament, and letters from Shoghi Effendi 1922-1932.
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Bahá'í Administration (book); Shoghi Effendi, letters of

Bahá'í Administration: 1953-2003: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Stidy in Autobiography, 2006)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
'Abdu'l-Bahá wrote that "a most wonderful and thrilling motion" would appear with the completion of the temple in Chicago and the Kingdom of God on Earth would begin. That year was 1953 and the start of the 3rd teaching Plan, the Ten Year Crusade. In 1953 Bahá'í Administration throughout the world was occupied with its third major teaching Plan. This Administration, the nucleus and pattern of a new world Order, has been part of my experience in a myriad ways for over 50 years, 1953 to 2007. The poetry in this BARL document is about my experience and my reflections on this newly formed system, arguably still in its first century, 1917-2017 and the social context for this Administration. This Administration was established by the Will and Testament of Abdul-Baha and can be regarded as the offspring of that mystic intercourse between Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá.
Keywords: Ron Price

Bahá'í and Bábí Schisms - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bahaism-iii.

Bahá'í and Globalisation - Warburg,Margit, editor (Aarhus University Press, 2005)
Articles from a conference held at the University of Copenhagen in 2001.
Keywords: Globalization

Bahá'í and Subud Dissent: Developments in the 2000s - Dawai,Bei (2011)
Overview by a non-Bahá'í on dissident movements, ex-Bahá'ís, and contemporary ideological debates.
Paper presented at a conference for the Center for the Study of New Religions, Aletheia University, Taiwan, June 21-23 2011. This document was posted online at www.cesnur.org/2011/dan-cyberpro.html in Word format. See also Momen's Marginality and Apostasy in the Bahá'í Community and Debates between MacEoin et al.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; H-Bahá'í (email list); Internet; Other organizations; Subud (organization); Talisman (email list)

Bahá'í and the Space Connection - Herrick,James A. (Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs, 2008)
Brief discussion of Bahá'í interest in extraterrestrial life.
The following excerpt is from Chapter 8, "The Myth of Space Religion." It is based on content from Duane Troxel's unpublished compilation "Intelligent Life in the Universe and Exotheology in Christianity and the Bahá'í Writings." See parts of this book online at Google Books.
Keywords: Extraterrestrial life

Bahá'í Answers - Báb, The; Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (Lambert Moon Printers and Publishers, 1947)
Answers to 95 questions on the Bahá'í Faith, collected from the writings of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi.
Keywords: Introductory; Questions and answers

Bahá'í Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation - Lundberg,Zaid (1996)
Progressive revelation is part of a coherent system of apocalypticism. Paper includes discussion of theology, cosmology, and prophetology.
Paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the filosofie licentiat (M.A.) degree, Department of History of Religion at the Faculty of Theology (Lund University, Sweden).
Keywords: Apocalypse; Cosmology; Decline and renewal of religion; God; God, Anthropomorphic descriptions of; God, Gender of; Interfaith dialogue; Manifestations of God; Progressive revelation; Prophecies; Religion (general)

Bahá'í Apologetics? - Schaefer,Udo (Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
Apologetics is a branch of systematic theology rather than religious studies. It can help explore the teachings of the Faith in the context of prevailing philosophies and standards in a secular society, and answer critical inquiries.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Making the Crooked Straight (book); Udo Schaefer

Bahá'í Approach to Non-Involvement in Partisan Political Activity - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice; National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (2022)
Resource for individual and group study, in light of the current civil and political unrest in the U.S., Iran, and the world; reasons for the Bahá’í stance against partisan activity and its approach to social change; Bahá'í use of social media.
Shared by the NSA as an email with a list of links to download the documents from a public server, 2022-10-11. Also available in Persian. See also Political Non-Involvement and Obedience to Government and Non-Involvement in Partisan Politics.
Keywords: Activism; Change; Consultation; Demonstrations; Disunity; Government; Human rights; Injustice; Institute process; Institutions; Integration and disintegration; Justice; Obedience; Other organizations; Persecution; Petitions; Politics; Protest; Public discourse (discourses of society); Race unity; Reconciliation; Social action; Social change; Social media; United Nations; Unity; Unity of humanity

Bahá'í Approaches to Christianity and Islam: Further Thoughts on Developing an Inter-Religious Dialogue - Fazel,Seena (Baha'i Studies Review, 2007)
The Bahá'í contribution to inter-religious dialogue is based on developing intellectual bridges between religions. The concept of continuity of revelation is a framework by which religions can dialogue about their differences and similarities.
In March 2006 the NSA of the United Kingdom suspended the "Association for Bahá'í Studies (English-speaking Europe)" and replaced it with the "Association for Bahá'í Studies (United Kingdom)". At that time the Bahá'í Studies Review was given a new editorial board and a new publisher, Intellect, and housed at atypon-link.com where this article was provided as a free download. BSR has moved to yet a third website, ingentaconnect.com, which no longer offers this PDF online.
Keywords: Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Islam

Bahá'í Approaches to World Problems - Tinto,Iscander Micael (2013)
Historical, religious, scientific, and economical analysis of the state of the world and how the various problems of humanity should be faced, based on the Bahá’í Writings and some contemporary philosophical and scientific theories.
Mirrored with permission from iscandertinto.com.
Keywords: Education; Environment; Maturity of humanity; Morality; Population; Racism; Technology; Transformation; Wealth and poverty

Bahá'í Architect (82) Receives Honorary Degree: Transcript and video - Various (2024)
Graduation ceremony at the University of British Columbia honoring Dr. Hossein Amanat, architect of the Seat of the Universal House of Justice, who shares his insightful perspective.
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=M1PcQmfcf3g.
Keywords: Alan Coupe; Canada; Hossein Amanat (Husayn Amanat)

Bahá'í Art: Fact or Fiction? - Manocha,Inder (Baha'i Studies Review, 1993)
A re-examination of the nature of Bahá'í art. Includes response by Sonja van Kerkhoff.
See dialogue between Kerkhoff and Manocha, at end (published in BSR 4.1)
Keywords: Arts and crafts

Baha'i Association for the Arts - van Kerkhoff,Sonja (1999)
Biographies of, essays about, and artwork by contemporary Bahá'í artists.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Biography

Bahá'í Attitude towards Celebration of Christmas - Universal House of Justice (2002)
A clarification on whether Baha’is are permitted to celebrate Christmas: believers should not be deterred from participating in festivities in which the religious meaning has, over time, given way to purely culturally-oriented practices.
Mirrored from thebabhistory.blogspot.com.
Keywords: Christianity; Christmas; Holy days; Holy days of other religions

Bahá'í Bhajans: An example of the Bahá'í Use of Hindu Symbols - Garlington,William (Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, 1998)
The appearance of Bahá'í bhajans is indicative of both the approaches taken by the Indian Bahá'í community towards Hindu villagers during the mass teaching period, and perhaps of a broader pattern of cross cultural exchange and adaptation.
See also the author's The Bahá'í Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach and Biographical Letter from a Hindu Villager. Mirrored with permission from h-net.org.
Keywords: Hinduism; India; Interfaith dialogue

Bahá'í Buildings in England: Project Number 7078 - Tomalin,Emma (2018)
Research to provide Historic England with information about buildings Bahá’ís use, so that H.E. can work with communities to enhance and protect those buildings: where are Bahá'í buildings, and how many? What kinds of buildings? Their community value?
Keywords: Buildings, National and local; United Kingdom

Bahá'í Calendar and Festivals - Banani,Amin (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
Mirrored from www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bahaism-ii.
Keywords: Amin Banani; Badi calendar

Bahá'í Calendar, Festivals, and Dates of Historic Significance - Author unknown, compiler (Baha'i World, 1986)
Feasts, anniversaries, days of fasting, holy days, Nabil's narrative on the Badi' Calendar, and brief chronology of important dates in Bahá'í history.
See Bahá'í World volume 18 table of contents. See many other resources, including an app and online converter, at badi-calendar.com.
Keywords: Badi calendar; Calendars (general); Holy days

Bahá'í Centenary, The: 100 years of the Bahá'í Faith in Britain, A Brief History: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1998)
Short history of the Bahá'ís of the United Kingdom.
The information in this leaflet is based on an article written by Dr Moojan Momen on behalf of the Bahá’í Information Office.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; United Kingdom

Bahá'í Centres in Iran (1936) - 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: Iran (documents); Maps; Statistics

Bahá'í Classes Songsheets - Author unknown, compiler (2008)
Compilation of 99 songs, with lyrics and chords to songs by Gloria Faizi, Red and Kathy Grammer, Kathy Liebman, Cat Winterfox, Jackie Elliot, Tom Price, Steve Seskin, Allen Shamblin, Mildred McClellan, Wiley Rinaldi, Bob Simms, Lloyd Haynes, et al.
Posted at scribd.com. Compiler not named. See also Bahá'í Song Book, Bahá'í Songs with Guitar Chords, and Bahá'í Songs with Sheet Music. This document also available in Microsoft Word format. For the correct translation and transliteration of the song "Allahumma" (spelled below as Ala homa), see kashkul.org/2010/12/28/allahuma.
Keywords: Allahumma; Music; Songs

Bahá'í Classification Schemes - Collins,William P. (2001)
Explanation of the expanded filing scheme for Bahá'í topics used at the Bahá'í World Centre Library, and outlines of two other classification schemes which could be adopted by private Bahá'í archives.
Mirrored from bcca.org/librarians/Classification. See also RIS citations.
Keywords: Archives; Classification (library); Libraries

Bahá'í Communities - Smith,Peter (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bahaism-iv.

Bahá'í Communities by Country: Research Notes - Hassall,Graham (2000)
Brief notes on the history of Bahá'í activities and the dates of NSA formation in Africa, China, Australia, and elsewhere.
See also National Spiritual Assemblies: Lists and years of formation.
Keywords: Afghanistan; Africa; Algeria; Angola; Ashanti Protectorate, Ghana; Asia-Pacific; Australia; Austria; Bahá'í history by country; Botswana; Brunei; Burundi; Cameroon; Cameroon; Canary Islands, Spain; Cape Verde; Chad; China; Congo, Democratic Republic of; Egypt; Ethiopia; Europe; Ghana; Hong Kong; Lesotho, South Africa; Russia; Somalia; South Africa; Tanzania; Tasmania, Australia; Togo; Zambia; Zanzibar, Tanzania

Bahá'í Communities in the Asia-Pacific: Performing Common Theology and Cultural Diversity on a 'Spiritual Axis' - Hassall,Graham; Barnes,William (1998)
The idea of a ‘spiritual axis' between the Bahá'ís of the northern and southern regions of the Asia-Pacific both served to establish closer relations between them, and raise consciousness of the barriers impeding their close relations.
See also Hassall's Bahá'í Communities by Country: Research Notes. Presented at the Association for Bahá'í Studies Australia and New Zealand Conference, Auckland, 11-12 July 1998.
Keywords: Asia-Pacific; Bahá'í history by country; Cultural diversity; Diversity

Bahá'í Communities in the West, 1897-1992 - Hollinger,Richard (Community Histories: Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 1992)
Sociological survey of major trends in the American Bahá'í community from the nineteenth century to the present — a broad framework in which the history of local communities can be understood.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; United States (documents)

Bahá'í Community of Randwick: A Survey of 75 Years - Hassall,Graham (Australian Baha'i Studies, 1999)
History of the Bahá'í community of Randwick, Australia.
Keywords: Australia; Bahá'í history by country; Randwick, Australia; Shamsi Sedaghat

Bahá'í community of the United States (1950) - 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.

Bahá'í community of the United States (1954) - 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.

Baha'i Conceptual Framework for Interfaith Discourse and Action - Velasco,Ismael (2010)
Overview of challenges to interfaith work, a Bahá'í appraisal of current activities, and the culture of systematic growth.
Keywords: Growth; Interfaith dialogue

Bahá'í Consultation and Freireian Dialogue in Development: A Comparative Perspective - Salmanzadeh,Adel (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
The potential Bahá'í contribution to the development process; case study of Bahá’í consultation in development practice with the 'Radio for Development' (Ecuador); conflict between privileging the global market vs. human communities; sustainability.
Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í Radio; Consultation; Ecuador; Paulo Freire; Social and economic development

Bahá'í Consultation and the Transformation of Society - Momen,Moojan (Lights of Irfan, 2014)
Overview of consultation in the Bahá'í Faith, from its introduction in the Aqdas and first implementation in Iran in the 1870s, and ways in which successive Bahá'í leaders promoted it in the community and for transformation of society.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/118/momen_consultation.
Keywords: Consultation

Bahá'í Contributions to Interfaith Relations - Buck,Christopher (Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2019)
A close look at the House's "Letter to the World’s Religious Leaders" as a contribution to interfaith discourse.
Mirrored from academia.edu.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Letter to the Worlds Religious leaders (2002); Religious leaders (clergy)

Bahá'í Conventions - Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
Mirrored from www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bahaism-xi.
Keywords: Administration; Conventions; Conventions, District; Conventions, International; Conventions, National; Elections; National Spiritual Assemblies; Universal House of Justice, Election of

Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique - Sours,Michael W. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1995)
Constituents of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist arguments; eschatological character of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; Bahá'í eschatology provides answers to many feminist and ecological objections.
See also journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/issue/archive. See also original scan.
Keywords: Adam and Eve; Angels; Animals; Animism; Arabic language; Ark; Attainment unto the Divine presence; Bible; Book of Revelation (Bible); Buddhism; Christianity; Climate change; Cosmology; Covenant; Creation; Culture, Western; Day-year principle; Devil (Satan); Dualism; Environment; Equality; Evil; Feminism; Food; Free will; Gender; Genesis (Bible); God; God, Day of; God, Gender of; Gods and Goddesses; Hebrew language; Hinduism; Holy Spirit; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Krishna; Maid of Heaven; Manifestations of God; Metaphors and allegories; Moses; Mythology; Nature; Paradise; Peace; Persian language; Philosophy; Prophecies; Quran; Religion (general); Return; Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Lote Tree); Salvation; Science; Self; Soul; Symbolism; Trees; Unity of religion; Vegetarianism; Wisdom; Women

Bahá'í country notes: Africa - Hassall,Graham (1999)
This document is part of Bahá'í Communities by country: Research Notes. Posted separate from the other country notes because it is long enough to be a stand-alone essay.
Keywords: Africa; Bahá'í history by country

Baha'i country notes: Australia - Hassall,Graham (1997)
This document is part of Bahá'í Communities by country: Research Notes. Posted separate from the other country notes because it is long enough to be a stand-alone essay.
Keywords: Australia; Bahá'í history by country

Bahá'í country notes: China - Hassall,Graham (1997)
History of the Bahá'í community in China.
This document is part of Bahá'í Communities by country: Research Notes. Posted separate from the other country notes because it is long enough to be a stand-alone essay.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; China

Bahá'í country notes: Egypt - Hassall,Graham (1997)
History of Bahá'ís in Egypt from 1860s to 1961 referencing early merchant settlements, Abdu'l-Bahá's visits, the Alexandria, Cairo, Port Said and national communities plus persecutions, court decisions, and the Presidential anti-Bahá'í decree 263 of 1960.
This document is part of Bahá'í Communities by country: Research Notes. Posted separate from the other country notes because it is long enough to be a stand-alone essay.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Egypt

Bahá'í Development Projects in Action - Allen,Carole
Development theory, both within and without the Bahá'í Faith.
No information is given about the date or context of this talk; email me if you know. Originally posted at bahaistudy.org, archived at archive.org.

Baha'i Doctrine Attracts Non-whites - Tinney,James S. (The National Leader, 1983)
On the Bahá'í Faith's progress toward racial unity; brief bios of Glenford Mitchell, Amoz Gibson, Wilma Brady, Barbara Eaton Bond, and Alberta Deas; reflections on Black experiences of the Bahá'í community.
Keywords: Alberta Deas; Amoz Gibson; Barbara Eaton Bond; Biography; Glenford Mitchell; Race; Race unity; United States (documents); Wilma Brady

Bahá'í Education for Children: A Teacher's Guide - Furutan,Ali-Akbar (Juxta Publishing, 1999)
A series of six books on teaching children, organized by age.
These electronic editions are based on the first editions published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of South Africa and the Bahá'í Publishing Trust of India. Mirrored with permission from juxta.com/ebooks/bahai-education-for-children. See publisher's electronic distribution license.
Keywords: Children; Childrens classes; Education; `Alí-Akbar Furútan

Bahá'í Education: Sources of Guidance - Terry,Peter, compiler (2007)
A lengthy compilation covering many subjects of interest to parents, teachers, and students, such as education principles, curricula, pedagogy, psychology, gender, infants, and institutions.
Keywords: Children; Curriculum; Education; Gender; Psychology

Bahá'í Era / Gregorian Calendar correlated to Ages, Epochs, and Plans - Graves,Anita, compiler (2014)
A chart showing the Bahá'í Era (years 1-179) and their A.D. equivalent (1844-2023), and their division into epochs and plans.
Keywords: Badi calendar; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Plans; Time

Bahá'í Essays in the Times Colonist - Shams,Badi (Times Colonist, 2017)
52 essays: spiritual cost of higher a standard of living; religious prejudice; spiritual principles and financial planning; loving vs. fearing God; gap between rich and poor; philosophy of Karma and science and religion; role of spirituality in economics.
See articles online at www.timescolonist.com and badishams.com/resources.
Keywords: Economics; Materialism

Bahá'í Ethics in Light of Scripture, by Udo Schaefer: Review - Kluge,Ian (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2015)
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/360. See also PDF scan.
Keywords: Ethics; Philosophy

Bahá'í Ethics: Answers to 55 Questions Submitted by Arthur Dobrin - Bradford,Dianne; Missaghian,Fiona; Schaefer,Udo; Stockman,Robert (Religious Ethics: A Sourcebook, 2004)
Answers to questions submitted in preparation for a source book in religious ethics for a college course at Hofstra University, New York, fall 2001.
Compiled and edited by Jonah Winters from answers and quotations provided by Dianne Bradford and Fiona Missaghian, with input from Bill Garlington, Jason Sandlin, Robert Stauffer, Robert Stockman. Prefaced with introduction by Udo Schaefer
Keywords: Abortion; Abuse; Alcohol; Animals; Autopsy; Behavior; Biology; Capital punishment; Children; Church and state; Cosmetic surgery; Cosmetics; Creation; Culture, Western; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Decline and renewal of religion; Diet; Divorce; Drugs; Education; Environment; Equality; Ethics; Euthanasia; Evil; Evolution; Family; Food; Gambling; Gender; Genetic engineering; Hair (general); Health and healing; Interfaith dialogue; LGBTQ; Laws; Living the life; Masturbation; Moderation; Monogamy; Morality; Nature; Philosophy; Polygamy; Punishment; Questions and answers; Religion (general); Science; Sexuality; Smoking (tobacco); Sociology; Suicide; Tattoos; Tests and difficulties; Unresolved matters; Violence; War; Women

Bahá'í Faith - Author unknown (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, 1994)
Entry from an early CD-ROM encyclopedia.
Keywords: Introductory

Bahá'í Faith - Cole,Juan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1989)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bahaism-i.
Keywords: Introductory; Principles

Baha'i Faith - Martin,Douglas (The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia, 1997)
Includes overview of the Bahá'í Faith in Canada.
Originally posted at www.highbeam.com/library/doc3.asp?DOCID=1P1:28743627 (defunct).
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Canada; Douglas Martin

Bahá'í Faith and Academic Journals - Fazel,Seena (Baha'i Studies Review, 1993)
The nature of the major indexes which classify periodical and journal articles by author and subject which are appropriate to Bahá'í studies and what they reveal about the state of the academic study of the Faith.
See also Fazel's Bahá'í Scholarship: An examination using citation analysis and Contemporary developments in Bahá'í studies: An examination using citation analysis.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies

Bahá'í Faith and Buddhism Dialogue - Burrill,Bruce; Cole,Juan; Momen,Moojan; May,Dann J. (1995)
Eleven email postings from Bruce Burrill, Juan Cole, Moojan Momen, and Dann May, from the listserver Talisman 1.
The following discussion is from an email dialogue, not a carefully-written and edited essay. It is therefore informal and conversational in tone. All emails and names have been posted with authors' permission.
Keywords: Buddhism; Interfaith dialogue

Baha'i Faith and Christianity - Fazel,Seena; Braybrooke,Marcus (Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, 2010)
Two short entries on the theological relationship between these two Faiths.
Asterisks in the text indicate entries elsewhere in the dictionary (i.e., "q.v.").
Keywords: Christianity; Interfaith dialogue

Bahá'í Faith and Economics, The by Bryan Graham: Commentary - Gandhi Kingdon,Geeta (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
See also Bryan Graham’s “The Bahá’í Faith and Economics”.
Keywords: Economics

Baha'i Faith and economics: a review and synthesis - Graham,Bryan (Reason and Revelation: Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, 2002)
Review of the secondary literature on the subject and some issues of methodology.
Originally published in Bahá'í Studies Review Volume 7, 1997. See also a Commentary on this article by Geeta Gandhi Kingdon.
Keywords: Economics

Bahá'í Faith and Islam - Anonymous (2013)
Overview of connections and contrasts between the Bahá'í Faith and its parent religion.
This was originally written as a Wikipedia article; posted anonymously by request of author.
Keywords: Disconnected letters of the Quran; Finality; Greatest Name; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Progressive revelation; Quran; Seal of the Prophets

Baha'i Faith and Marxism: Foreword, Introduction, Bios - Author unknown (The Baha'i Faith and Marxism, 1987)
In 1986, with the encouragement of the Universal House of Justice, the Association for Bahá'í Studies initiated a dialogue between a number of Bahá'ís and Marxists focussing on three themes.
Keywords: FUNDAEC

Bahá'í Faith and Marxism: Proceedings of a Conference held January 1986 - Various (Bahá'í Studies Publications, 1987)
Topics include Marxism and human nature, society and social change, just government, and Marxism yesterday and today.
Posted with permission of publisher.
Keywords: Communism; Marxism; Philosophy

Bahá'í Faith and Religious Diversity - Smith,Phillip (Baha'i Studies Review, 1991)
The Bahá'í principal of unity in diversity as applied to religious pluralism.
Keywords: Diversity; Interfaith dialogue; Religious diversity; Unity

Bahá'í Faith and Sexuality - Armstrong-Ingram,R. Jackson (1996)
A selection of internet postings from January-February 1996 on the teachings, history, and laws of the Bahá'í Faith regarding sexuality, concluding with a discussion of some biological meanings of "gender."
The first section, a lengthy informal "essay" by Armstrong-Ingram, describes some attitudes and practices of sexuality in a variety of cultures, ending with some observations on the issue in Bahá'í thought and history. This is followed by a series of comments by other individuals interspersed with Armstrong-Ingram's responses to them. Commentary is offered by Linda Walbridge, Bev Peden, Loni Bramson-Lerche, and Juan Cole. Edited and posted with permission. See also the author's Provisions for Sexuality in the Kitab-i-Aqdas.
Keywords: Sexuality

Baha'i Faith and Social Action - Buck,Christopher (Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, 2007)
Mirrored with permission from christopherbuck.com.
Keywords: Social action; Social and economic development

Bahá'í Faith and the Construction of Social Reality: How do Bahá'ís Translate the Word of God into Practice? - Mehrgani,Shahla (2017)
This project takes a constructionist approach, using a case study of the Bahá'ís of Sheffield U.K. and Peter Berger’s conceptual framework of interpreting Baha’i scriptures, to understand how Bahá'ís construct their social reality.
Doctoral thesis in Philosophy, University of Sheffield. Mirrored with permission of author from etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21674.
Keywords: Community building; Constructionism; Peter Berger; Reality; Sheffield, England; Sociology; United Kingdom

Bahá'í Faith and the World's Religions - Momen,Moojan, editor (George Ronald, 2005)
Papers presented at 'Irfán Colloquia.
Thus far, five of this book's eleven articles are available online. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/religions/.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue

Bahá'í Faith in America as Panopticon 1963-1997, by Juan Cole: Review - Kluge,Ian (1999)
See Cole's original article online at www-personal.umich.edu.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; United States (documents)

Bahá'í Faith in America as Panopticon 1963-1997, by Juan Cole: The Myth of the Objective Observer - Terry,Peter (1999)
See Cole's original article at www-personal.umich.edu.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; United States (documents)

Baha'i Faith in America, by William Garlington: Review - Terry,Peter (2017)
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Criticism and apologetics; United States (documents)

Bahá'í Faith in America, The: 1900-1912, by Robert Stockman: Review - Cockshut,Derek (Associate, 1995)
Mirrored with permission from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/associate/a17 [defunct].

Baha'i Faith in America, The: Origins 1892-1900, by Robert Stockman: Review - Author unknown (The Christian Century, 1985)
This brief mini-review was included in the section titled "Recent Arrivals."

Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1947-1963 - Hassall,Graham (75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australasia, 1996)
Major episodes in the evolution of the Australian Bahá'í community during the years 1947-1963, noting the way in which religious communities can transform over time; the temple in Sydney; the 10-year world crusade; aboriginal Bahá'ís.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org. Later modified and re-published in Bahá'í History, a dedicated issue of Journal of Religious History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 563-576.
Keywords: Australia; Bahá'í history by country

Bahá'í Faith in Australia: 75 Years Remembered - Hassall,Graham (Herald of the South, 1995)
An overview of the development of the Bahá'í Faith in Australia from its origins up to the mid-1990s; House of Worship in Sydney; the journal Herald of the South; Clara and Hyde Dunn and other early believers.
Keywords: Australia; Bahá'í history by country

Bahá'í Faith in England and Germany, 1900-1913 - Stockman,Robert (World Order, 1996)
Historical overview of the early years of the Faith in the British Isles and Germany.
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: 1900s; 1910s; Bahá'í history by country; Germany; United Kingdom

Bahá'í Faith in Hong Kong - Hassall,Graham (1998)
Extensive and detailed overview of the history of the Bahá'í community in Hong Kong.
See also Hassall's Bahá'í Communities by Country: Research Notes.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Hong Kong

Bahá'í Faith in Tasmania 1923-1963 - Hassall,Graham (The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges, 1995)
Early history of the Bahá'í community of Tasmania.
This version of the document shared by the author. It was also posted online at abs.bahai.org.au, which is no longer online; see archive.org. See also Hassall's Bahá'í Communities by Country: Research Notes.
Keywords: Australia; Bahá'í history by country; Tasmania, Australia

Bahá'í Faith in the Asia Pacific: Issues and Prospects - Hassall,Graham (Baha'i Studies Review, 1996)
The development of the diverse Bahá'í Communities in the Pacific Islands since the launching of the World Crusade (1953-63); patterns of expansion; the changing role of the pioneer.
See also Hassall's Pacific Bahá'í Communities 1950-1964 and Bahá'í Communities by Country: Research Notes.
Keywords: Asia-Pacific; Bahá'í history by country

Baha'i Faith Will Advertise: Editorial - Author unknown (The Christian Century, 1946)
One-paragraph report of a 1946 outreach effort.
Keywords: Mentions; Teaching; United States (documents)

Baha'i Faith, roots of - Stockman,Robert (World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, 2011)

Bahá'í Faith, Scholarship on - Momen,Moojan (1995)
This article is a survey of attempts to analyse and study the Bábí and Bahá'í Faith from a scholarly viewpoint.
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 momen.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Scholarship

Bahá'í Faith, Sect or Religion? by Udo Schaefer: Review - Lapointe,Roger (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1989)
See also The Bahá'í Faith: Sect or Religion?
Keywords: Bahá'í Faith, Sect, NRM or World Religion

Bahá'í Faith, The, by John Boykin: Underlying Principles and Approach for a Bahá'í Response - Razavi,Shahriar; Fananapazir,Khazeh (Baha'i Studies Review, 1992)
A case study in opposition literature and anti-Bahá'í polemicism.

Bahá'í Faith, The: 1844-1950: Information Statistical and Comparative - Shoghi Effendi, compiler (Bahá'í Publishing Committee, 1950)
See also 1844-1952: Information Statistical and Comparative and 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative.
Keywords: Statistics

Bahá'í Faith, The: 1844-1952: Information Statistical and Comparative - Shoghi Effendi, compiler (Bahá'í Publishing Committee, 1953)
See also 1844-1950: Information Statistical and Comparative and 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative.
Keywords: Statistics

Bahá'í Faith, The: 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative, Including the Achievements of the Ten Year International Bahá'í Teaching & Consolidation Plan 1953-1963 - Hands of the Cause, compiler (1963)
Statistical information compiled by the Hands of the Cause of God residing in the Holy Land regarding the Bahá'í Faith and its growth. Shoghi Effendi used to gather and publish such statistical data. One can see exactly where the Faith stood at that time.
This book is also available as a PDF document of image scans [8MB]. Although it is apparently an error, the dates listed in the left-hand column on page 123 appeared in the printed copy. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Best known Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í World list); Statistics

Bahá'í Faith, The: How It Began: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1990)
A very short introduction to Bahá'í history.
Keywords: Introductory

Bahá'í Faith, What Is It?: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1990)
Basic Bahá'í teachings, beliefs and principles.
Keywords: Basics; Introductory

Baha'i Faith: A Portrait - Stockman,Robert (A SourceBook for Earth's Community of Religions, 1995)
General introduction to Bahá'í history and teachings.
First published as A Sourcebook for the Community of Religions, ed. Joel Beversluis (Chicago: The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, 1993).
Keywords: Introductory

Bahá'í Faith: Its History and Teachings, The by William Miller: "Missionary as Historian: William Miller and the Bahá'í Faith" - Martin,Douglas (Baha'i Studies, 1978)
Lengthy review of Miller's book, and a broad discussion of anti-Bahá'í polemic and historiography.
To clarify: This 1978 review is titled "Missionary as Historian: William Miller and the Bahá'í Faith." It is a review of the book titled The Bahá'í Faith: Its History and Teachings (1974).
Keywords: Christian missionaries; Christianity; Criticism and apologetics; Douglas Martin; Interfaith dialogue; William McElwee Miller

Bahá'í Faith: Its History and Teachings, The, by William Miller: Review - Elwell-Sutton,L. P. (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1976)

Bahá'í Faith: Origin, Missionary Work, and the Entrance into Vietnam - Hai,Mai Thanh (Religious Studies Review, 2008)
An outsider's short history of the Faith in Vietnam since 1954 and current activities in the country.
This article contains some incorrect information, but is included here in the interest of completeness and historical interest. Please consult some Introductory materials for accurate information. Mirrored from www.vjol.info.vn.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Vietnam

Baha'i Faith: Overview - Stockman,Robert (World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, 2011)
See also two earlier draft versions of this article, prepared for a 2002 edition of this encyclopedia, which have slightly different content.
Keywords: Introductory

Bahá'í Faith: Prophecy and Conversion - Mistler,Brian J. (2001)
Results of a field study of Bahá'ís in the United States and Australia which demonstrate that family connections and social teachings are greater incentives to conversion than prophecy is.
Keywords: Australia; Conversion; Family; Interfaith dialogue; Prophecies; Social teachings; United States (documents)

Bahá'í Faith: The Basics - Buck,Christopher (Routledge, 2021)
Introduction "What is the Bahá'í Faith?", front-matter, and back-matter.
Mirrored from academia.edu. See also author's book launch presentation, which includes more excerpts.
Keywords: Introductory

Baha'i Faith: The Basics by Christopher Buck: Review - McLean,Jack (2020)
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com/reviews/review-of-bahai-faith-basics.
Keywords: Community building; Institute process; Introductory; Modes of revelation; Social action; Style (Writings)

Bahá'í Faith: The Basics, by Christopher Buck: Review - Momen,Moojan (Nova Religio, 2022)
Keywords: Introductory

Bahá'í Faith: The Basics, by Christopher Buck: Review - Maneck,Susan (Journal of Religious History, 2022)
Mirrored from academia.edu.
Keywords: Introductory

Bahá'í Faith: The Basics, by Christopher Buck: Review - Faber,Roland (Reading Religion, 2021)
Mirrored from readingreligion.org.
Keywords: Introductory