Martyrdom in Jihad - Winters,Jonah (1997)
Unlike Judeo-Christianity, Islam does not contain a core of martyrdom. Rather, it occurs in three disparate areas: war/jihad, asceticism, and Shi'ism. I examine the relationship between jihad and martyrdom and their classical and contemporary meanings.
This paper is part of my MA thesis (Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, 1997).
Keywords: Islam; Jihad (Holy war); Martyrdom; Sufism; Terrorism; War

Martyrdom of Hájí Muhammad-Ridá: 19 Historical Accounts - Rabbani,Ahang (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2007)
Accounts of the 1889 martyrdom of Haji Muhammad Rida Isfahani in Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) in Russian Turkestan.
Keywords: Ashgabat; Biography; Hájí Muhammad-Rida; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Turkmenistan; Turkmenistan

Martyrdom of the Bab - Merrick,David (2008)
Martyrdom of the Bab, told in plain English and suitable for reading aloud. Based on many early accounts.
Latest Printable Version with pictures: http://www.paintdrawer.co.uk/david/folders/Spirituality/005=Collections/holydays.htm
Keywords: Báb, Martyrdom of; Iran (documents); Tabríz, Iran

Martyrdom of the Bab: An Outline for Researchers - Merrick,David (2019)
The events of the Martyrdom of the Bab, including the weeks before and days after, presented through complementary and contrasting accounts with commentary, suitable for anyone investigating the events in detail.
Mirrored from paintdrawer.co.uk/david/folders/Research/Bahai/Bab/bab-martyrdom-outline.htm.
Keywords: Báb, Burial of; Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, Remains of; Báb, The; Chronology and timelines; Eyewitnesses; Iran (documents); Outlines and summaries; Tabríz, Iran

Martyrs of Manshad - Manshadi,Siyyid Muhammad TabiÃÅb (World Order, 1996)
Detailed eyewitness account of martyrdoms in Iran in 1903.
This is an updated version of the piece that was first published in World Order, Fall 1996; revised and expanded for online publication, 2005, as volume 6 of Witnesses to Bábí and Bahá'í History. See also image scans of the original World Order article, rabbani_astani_martyrs_manshad.pdf, and image scans of the original Persian text, manshadi_martyrs_manshad_persian.pdf. See also Treatise on Persecution of Bahá'ís in 1903 and The Events and Tragedies of Manshád.
Keywords: Eyewitnesses; Iran (documents); Manshad upheaval; Manshad, Iran; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran; Upheavals; Yazd upheaval; Yazd, Iran

Martyrs of the Second Revolt at Nayriz - Rabbani,Ahang, compiler (1999)
A list, compiled from three histories, of those who died in the 1852 revolt at Nayriz.
See also Memories of Hájí Muhammad Nayrízi, An eyewitness account of the Bábís of Nayriz, and Narrative of Mulla Muhammad Shafi` Nayrizi.

Martyrs, Bábí - Smith,Peter; Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2005)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/martyrs-babi-babi.

Marxism Yesterday and Today - Leys,Colin (The Baha'i Faith and Marxism, 1987)
Marxist movements today and the prospects for change. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Communism; Marxism; Philosophy

Marxism, Human Nature, and Society - Adkin,Laurie E. (The Baha'i Faith and Marxism, 1987)
On Marxism, human nature, alienatation and emancipation, and feminism. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Communism; Human nature; Marxism; Sociology

Mary Bird in Persia - Rice,Clara C. (Church Missionary Society, 1916)
An impressionistic picture of the Bahá'í Faith published by the Church Missionary Society in 1916; includes a statistical estimate.
See also one-paragraph excerpt on the Babis in Bird's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan. Mirrored from anglicanhistory.org/me/ir/bird1916/03.html. See this book online in various formats at archive.org.

Mary Magdalene: Lioness of God in the Bahá'í Faith - Osborn,Lil (2013)
On the symbolic role of Mary Magdalene in the Baha’i tradition as a female archetype in the context of the doctrine of "return," and thus linked to the poet Tahirih, heroine of the Babi-Baha’i dispensation.
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Equality; Interfaith dialogue; Juliet Thompson; Mary Magdalene; Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Women

Mashrak-el-Azkar: Descriptive of the Bahá'í temple - Remey,Charles Mason (Bahá'í Publishing Society, 1917)
Preliminary designs for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár to be built in America, showing nine varying treatments in different styles of architecture; includes discussions of the Ashkhabad temple and Bahá'í history, and a 1908 letter to Star of West.
This document is online in a variety of formats at archive.org. Also available in Open Office format. See also Remey's Illustrated description of a design in the Persian-Indian style of architecture for the first Mashrak-el-Azkar to be erected in America (1920). While Remey later broke the covenant (see uhj_mason_remey_followers), at the time he wrote this book he was an influential figure in the Bahá'í community and was later appointed Hand of the Cause. This document is thus not "covenant-breaker" material.
Keywords: Architecture; Ashgabat; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Turkmenistan; United States (documents); Wilmette, IL

Mashriqu'l-Adhkár - Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2010)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mashreq-adkar.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Mashriqu'l-Adhkár - Badiee,Julie (The Baha'i Encyclopedia, 2009)
On the "Dawning Place of the Praise of God," a term used to refer to a Bahá’í House of Worship and its surrounding dependencies.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-encyclopedia-project.org.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Mashriqu'l-Adhkar - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1998)
Compilation on the Bahá'í temple, the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, "Dawning Place of Remembrance."
See also compilation_readings_mashriq_adhkar and compilation_functions_importance_hazirat-quds.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, Extracts on the Institution of - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (1985)
Readings on the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, in both English (unpublished) and German (published as Das Bahá'í-Haus der Andacht Bedeutung und Bestimmung).
This document is available in a published German translation (Bahá'í-Verlag, June 1985, posted with permission), a scan of the unpublished English original, and both a Word document and PDF of the English original (prepared by B. Lyons).
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Mashriqu'l-Adhkar: Sacred Architecture and the Bahá'í faith - Sewell,Kenneth B. (1992)
The nature of Bahá'í architecture, the spiritual intentions of the unique design of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, sacred geometry, and the author's original building design. Link to thesis (offsite).
Honors thesis for Ball State University. A copy of this has been archived; email me if this link goes offline.
Keywords: Architecture; Mandalas; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Mason Remey and Joel Bray Marangella - Jones,Chad (2001)
Short research note about Remey's claim to the Guardianship, which may have been inspired by Joel Marangella.
Mirrored from the old Ocean website [archive.org]. See also Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him.
Keywords: Charles Mason Remey; Covenant-breaking; Joel Marangella

Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him - Universal House of Justice (1997)
Letter from the US NSA on the importance of commitment to the covenant, a letter from the UHJ on covenant-breaking, and the history "Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him."
Also available as a PDF, updated 2008: uhj_mason_remey_followers.pdf. See also the 2008 revised version at covenantstudy.org, and Mason Remey and Joel Bray Marangella.
Keywords: Biography; Charles Mason Remey; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Donald Harvey; Giuseppe Pepe; Guardianship; Joel Marangella; John Carre; Leland Jensen; Rex King (Reginald King)

Massacres de Babis en Perse - Nicolas,A.L.M. (Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1936)
On events in 1903 in Rasht, Isfahan, Yazd, and Tehran, written by a French consul in Iran.
Another version of this book has been scanned by afnanlibrary.org.
Keywords: A.L.M. Nicolas; Iran (documents); Isfahan, Iran; Persecution; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution, Iran; Rasht, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Yazd, Iran

Material and Spiritual Worlds - Khan,Peter J. (2010)
Four talks on the Five-Year Plan given at the North Island Bahá'í Summer School, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2010.
These talks are also online in video format at YouTube.com.
Keywords: Cosmology; Creation; God, Worlds of; Peter Khan; Spiritualization

Materialism Wearing Away at Our Kids - Slavin,Ted (St. Catharines Standard, 2012)
The materialism of modern society and media is distracting many of our children. Adults must be aware that they are key role models for their kids.
For the letter that is quoted below, see here.
Keywords: Abuse; Children; Institute process; Materialism; Media (communication); Power; Spirituality; Violence

Materialism: Moral and Social Consequences, by Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian: Review - Carlson,Erik (2019)
Originally posted at bahai-studies.ca/materialism-moral-and-social-consequences [archive.org].

Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion - Browne,E. G., compiler and translator (Cambridge University Press, 1918)
An early collection of historical documents related to Bahá'í and Bábí studies. (Not fully complete.)
Hand-typed by Doug Couper, 1999. Other than a number of missing pages, this online version of the book is exact replica of original, except: underscore used to indicate under-dot; Ayn and hamza both indicated by straight apostrophe ('). Arabic and Persian text in original not included here. Anomalies from original (occasional missing periods, unaccented words) retained. This book is also available in image format: Duane Troxel scan and [26 MB] Microsoft scan [30 MB].The 2013 paperback edition is also available for preview on Google Books, which lists the publication history as "First published 1918, reprinted 1961, first paperback edition 2013."
Keywords: Alan Coupe; Bahá'í history; Biography; Bábísm; E. G. Browne

Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Gender in the Writings, and Matters of Translation - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2002)
A collection of letters about gender pronouns in Writings, a compilation concerning the translations of Shoghi Effendi, the literary style of translation, and guidance on translating the Writings into indigenous languages.
The following was posted in 2002 as a single page of minimally-formatted HTML at worldlanguageprocess.org/essays/uhj_on_gender.htm. This text was converted to a series of separate Word documents and formatted (2021) and then saved-as PDF; see other items from the original post: Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Universal Auxiliary Languages.
Keywords: Diversity; Equality; Gender; Gender pronouns; God, Gender of; Indigenous people; Pronouns; Research Department, Questions and answers; Style (Writings); Translation

Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Universal Auxiliary Language - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2002)
A collection of resources on the International Auxiliary Language: compilation from the Bahá'í Writings, letter and memorandum from the Research Department, and two bibliographies listing citations from the Writings and from scholarship.
The following was posted in 2002 as a single page of minimally-formatted HTML at worldlanguageprocess.org/essays/uhj_on_gender.htm. This text was converted to a series of separate Word documents and formatted (2021) and then saved-as PDF; see other items from the original post: Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Gender in the Writings and Matters of Translation.
Keywords: International auxiliary language; Language; Lesser Peace; Research Department, Questions and answers; Speculation

Mathnaví of the Blessed One - Bahá'u'lláh (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2024)
Provisional translation of the Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak, with introduction and notes.
Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Poetry of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak

Mathnaví-yi Mubárak - Bahá'u'lláh (2024)
Provisional translation of a mathnavi (poem) written in Constantinople in 1863 following His initial declaration in Baghdad. Translated in rhyming couplets with extensive annotations, summary, preface, and introduction.
See also a provisional translation by Frank Lewis (1999).
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Declaration of; Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Metaphors and allegories; Poetry; Recitation; Rumi (Mevlana); Spring; Sufism; Translation; Turkey

Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak - Bahá'u'lláh (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
Provisional translation
See also the translator's introduction to this text. See also a rhymed translation, by Kay Lynn Morton (2024).
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Poetry of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Interfaith dialogue; Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Kurdistan; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Mysticism; Poetry; Sufism; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq; Turkey

Maturation and Learning in the Bahá'í Community - Levick,David (Australian Baha'i Studies, 1999)
The paradigm for Bahá'í decision-making and consultation; relativist vs. subjectivist ontology; hermeneutic-dialectic methodology; the unconscious process of decision-making vs. learning a mature and conscious process of decision-making.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Learning; Maturity of humanity

May Ellis Maxwell - Universal House of Justice, compiler (Baha'i World, 1925)
Detailed biography, published in A Compendium of Volumes of the Bahá'í World I-XII, 1925-1954; includes photo.
The French portions were spell-checked.
Keywords: Biography; May Maxwell (Bolles)

May Knowledge Grow in our Hearts: Applying Spiritual Principles to Development Practice - Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity (2010)
On how an organization can employ the methods of science and the principles of religion together while working for a more humane and just world, via the case of India's Seva Mandir (Temple of Service). [Link to PDF, offsite.]
The document linked below is housed at globalprosperity.org/resources.
Keywords: India; Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity (ISGP); Rajasthan, India; Religion (general); Science; Seva Mandir; Social and economic development

May Maxwell and the Maxwells of Montreal - McLean,Jack (2019)
Presentation of Violette Nakhjavani's book The Maxwells of Montreal.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com/slides.
Keywords: Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Biography; Canada; Lua Getsinger; May Maxwell (Bolles); Montreal, QC; Phoebe Hearst; Shoghi Effendi; Sutherland Maxwell

Mayflowers in the Ville Lumière: The Dawning of Bahá'í History in the European Continent - Savi,Julio (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
In intellectual and artistic Paris of the fin de siècle, a young American becomes the catalyst for the spiritual awakening of a group of early believers. The paper examines the mysterious ways through which they came to recognize the dawn of the new era.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/97/savi_mayflowers.
Keywords: Agnes Alexander; Edith MacKay; Edith Sanderson; France; Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney; Laura Clifford Barney; Paris, France; Thomas Breakwell

Mazhar [Manifestation] - MacEoin,Denis (Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed., 1960)
Definition of a type of theophany in which the divinity or its attributes are made visible in human form.
See the online entry for this at referenceworks.brillonline.com. See other articles from Encyclopaedia of Islam and Glossary.
Keywords: Encyclopaedia of Islam; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Manifestations of God

Mazhar-i Ilahi (Manifestation of God) - Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2016)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at iranicaonline.org/articles/mazhar-e-elahi.
Keywords: Manifestations of God

Meaning and Significance of Certitude - Skrenes,Ruhiyyih (1998)
Nature of Certitude and the process of its attainment as described in the Kitab-i-Iqan.
Presented as a homework assignment for the Wilmette Institute's "Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh" Course, year one.
Keywords: Certitude; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)

Meaning of the Bahá'í Ring Symbol - Sears,William
Date not given; contact me if you know. Originally posted at bahaistudy.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Greatest Name; Ringstone symbol; Symbolism; Talks

Meanings of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar - McGlinn,Sen (1997)
Summary of the full meanings of Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, "The Dawning Place of the Remembrance of God."
This was posted to an internet listserver and is written informally and as part of a larger conversation. Edited with permission for inclusion here. See also McGlinn's article Exploring the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, which includes "Entry by troops and the institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar," "The House of Worship and the House of Justice," "The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar as a Meeting," and "The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar as a Building."
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship)

Measuring Success: An Exploratory Study of United States Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assemblies and the Five Year Plan - Jezari,Armin J. (2010)
Applied research project on what degree a typical Local Spiritual Assembly in the United States is adopting elements of effective public administration based on the Five Year Plan (2006-2011).
Research project for Masters of Public Administration, Texas State University. Mirrored from academia.edu.
Keywords: Administration; Five Year Plan (2006-2011); Institute process; Local Spiritual Assemblies; Plans; Spiritual Assemblies; Statistics

Medhat Pasha - Alkan,Necati (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2012)
Bio of the 19th century Ottoman statesman, who served both as governor and grand vizier. Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/medhat-pasha. See also Midhat Pasha and ‘Abdu’l-Baha in ‘Akka.
Keywords: Midhat Páshá; Turkey

Mediation, Transformation and Consultation: A Comparative Analysis of Conflict Resolution Models - Sinclair,Guy (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
The Bahá'í principle of consultation as a framework for mediation, transformation, and the process of conflict resolution. The need for dialogue between all those concerned with such goals.
Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Conflict; Conflict resolution; Consultation; Peace; War

Medieval Ignorance: The silence of Iranian polity towards Bahá'í persecution - Latif,Iqbal (The Iranian, 2002)
An outsider's view of Iran's treatment of its Bahá'í community.
Mirrored from iranian.com.

Medieval Islam: The Influence of Islam on Judaism and Christianity - Khursheed,Anjam (Singapore Baha'i Studies Review, 1997)
Prior to the Renaissance, Islam inspired revivals in the cultural traditions of Christianity and Judaism, indicating a harmony between the three religions. The reforms inspired by Islam were a prelude to the modern scientific revolution.
See the table of contents and editor's note in the complete issue, vol. 2.
Keywords: Christianity; Civilization; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Renaissance; Science

Meditation - Khan,Peter J. (Australian Baha'i Bulletin, 1979)
A short summary of the Bahá’í approach to meditation and its relevance to peace and intuition.
Keywords: Intuition; Meditation; Peace; Peter Khan

Meditation and Health - Friedman,Paul (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2001)
Prayer and meditation as synergistic forces of transformation; transcendental meditation; forms of Bahá'í meditation: pondering and reflecting, silent wordless reflection, seeking divine wisdom, or using repetition of words or phrases.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Health and healing; Meditation

Meditation, Prayer, and Spiritualization - Universal House of Justice (1983)
Practicing personal spirituality and methods for achieving spiritual growth.
Later published in Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86 (letter 375). See also this letter on bahai.org/library.
Keywords: Ethics; Living the life; Materialism; Meditation; Norway; Obligatory prayer; Prayer; Reading the Writings; Repetition; Requisites for spiritual growth; Service; Spirituality; Spiritualization; Summer schools; Teaching; Work

Meeting a Prophet - Bell,Archie (The Spell of the Holy Land, 1915)
Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Sea of Galilee.
For a more accurate description about the station of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, see The Station and Titles of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by Shoghi Effendi.
Keywords: Ahmad Sohrab; Akka, Israel; Buddhism; Christianity; Confucius; Conversion; Decline and renewal of religion; Equality; Health and healing; Humility; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Israel; Judaism; Miracles; Philosophers; Philosophy; Priesthood; Religion (general); Sea of Galilee, Israel; Service; Statistics; Teaching; Unity; Unity of religion; Zoroaster (Zarathustra); `Abdu'l-Bahá

Meetings for women only - International Teaching Centre (1997)
It is acceptable and perhaps even sometimes necessary for Bahá'ís to hold gender-segregated meetings.
Transmitted by email.
Keywords: Equality; Gender; Meetings; Women

Meetings, Bahá'í - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Meetings

Mehrangiz Afnan (1937-2018) - Anonymous (Lights of Irfan, 2019)
Afnan was an Iranian Bahá'í and medical doctor who settled in Canada where she and her husband, Muhammad Afnan, established an Institute for Bahá’í Studies in Persian; the couple worked in the Bahá'í Research Department in Haifa for a number of years.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/lights20_mehrangiz-afnan.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Biography; Canada; Dundas, ON; Mehrangiz Afnan; Mississauga, ON

Members of the Universal House of Justice 1963-2023 and Hands of the Cause: Timeline - Bolhuis,Arjen, compiler; Rezai,Sana, compiler (2003)
List of names and dates of all who served on the House of Justice or as Hands.
Elections for the House of Justice are held in April of each term. The years shown here are thus "rounded off." See also Wikipedia: Members of the UHJ and House Member Composition.
Keywords: Appointed arm; Biography; Chronology and timelines; Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Hands of the Cause, Institution; Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Election of; Universal House of Justice, Members of

Membership in the National Organization for Women - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (1998)
A statement on behalf of the NSA about which criteria Bahá'ís should consider when deciding what organizations to participate in, and whether they are politically active.
The recipient of this letter, John B. Cornell, introduces this letter as follows: "On the forum called Bahá'í Men, someone asked whether Bahá'ís should join the National Organization for Women. I asked our NSA and received this reply." Contributed by and posted with permission of Cornell.

Membership of Religious Groups in the U.S., 1996 - World Almanac and Book of Facts (1996 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, 1996)
Numbers of adherents, holy days, and headquarters of religious groups in the U.S. and Canada in 1998; statistics on Cardinals, Popes and world faiths including Atheists, Ethnics, Mandaeans, Parsis (Zoroastrians), Shintoists, and Spiritists.
This document is only partly formatted. Text originally posted at elibrary.com, which later became highbeam.com, which no longer has this document. See also Membership of Religious Groups in the U.S., 2002.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Statistics

Membership, Joining and Leaving Religious Movements and Organizations - Smith,Peter (2020)
Reflections from the perspective of sociology of religion on belonging, joining, and leaving a faith group: membership, conversion, 'deconversion,' and sociological factors impacting conversion and deconversion; includes videos.
Mirrored with permission from Dr. Smith's website: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Essay written 2019, videos prepared 2020; see author's website.
Keywords: Conversion; Membership; Sociology; Withdrawal

Memoirs of a Bahá'í in Rasht 1889-1903: Autobiography of Mírzá Yahyá `Amídu'l-Atibbá Hamadání - Rabbani,Ahang, editor and translator (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2007)
Personal account of some activities of the Bahá'í community in Iran and persecutions they endured.
Keywords: Biography

Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov: A Summary - Sharon,Moshe (2011)
Summary of pages 25-91 of the Arabic text of the "Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov," a fraudulent work.
Read more in the encyclopedia article Dolgorukov Memoirs (M. Momen, 1996). See also the author's The "Memoirs of Dolgorukov" and "The Protocols of the Elders Of Zion".
Keywords: Biography; Conspiracy theories; Criticism and apologetics; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Prince Dolgorukov; Russia

"Memoirs of Dolgorukov" and "The Protocols of the Elders Of Zion" - Sharon,Moshe (2007)
Comparison of two fraudulent anti-religion works: "Elders of Zion" is one of the most notorious anti-Semitic books, long used by opponents of Judaism; "Memoirs" are the supposed anti-Bábí political confessions of the Russian Amb. Dimitri Dolgorukov.
This paper was first posted at honestlyconcerned.info [archive.org]. Read more in the encyclopedia article Dolgorukov Memoirs (M. Momen, 1996). See also the author's Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov: A Summary.
Keywords: Conspiracy theories; Criticism and apologetics; Iran (documents); Prince Dolgorukov; Russia

Memoirs of Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein - Jones Edelstein,Frances Bradford (1999)
Memoirs of the first pioneer to Famagusta (as requested by Shoghi Effendi to pioneer from the City of the Covenant to the City of the Arch-Breaker of the Covenant), and pilgrim to Haifa in December 1953. First written June 1985, completed April 1999.
See also Personal Recollections of Famagusta.
Keywords: Alabama, USA; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahá'u'lláh, Photographs of; Bahá'í Radio; Biography; Birmingham, AL; California, USA; Conventions, Regional; Cyprus; Famagusta, Cyprus; Frances Bradford Edelstein (Frances B. Jones); Great Jubilee (1952-1953); Haifa, Israel; Juliet Thompson; Kentucky, USA; Laura Clifford Barney; London, England; Louis G. Gregory; Louisville, KY; Lucerne, QC; Marjory Morten; Mark Tobey; Montclair, NJ; Myra Bryant; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); New Jersey, USA; New York, USA; Palo Alto, CA; Pilgrim House, Western (Haifa); Pilgrimage; Pilgrims notes; Pilgrims notes (general); Pioneers; Plans; Race; Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1937-1944); Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1946-1953); Shoghi Effendi; Sioux Falls, SD; South Dakota, USA; Switzerland; Tablets of the Divine Plan; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); United Kingdom; United States (documents)

Memoirs of Nora Crossley (1893-1977) - Crossley,Nora (1921)
Autobiography of an early British Bahá'í, known for cutting her famous hair to help fundraise for the Chicago temple. Includes two Tablets of Abdu'l-Bahá, one to Crossley and one mentioning her and praising her "self-sacrifice."
See summary, excerpts, and biography at bahaiblog.net (R. Weinberg, 2021). Also available in RTF format.
Keywords: Biography; Funds; Manchester, England; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Nora Crossley; United Kingdom

Memorials of the Faithful - Abdul-Bahá (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971)
'Abdu'l-Bahá's volume of short biographies of Bábí and Bahá'í figures and heroes, translated from the original Persian text and annotated by Marzieh Gail.
See also an updated, annotated version in Word format (prepared by M. Thomas, 2024). See also the official version at bahai.org.
Keywords: Biography; Marzieh Gail; Memorials of the Faithful (book); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Memorials of the Faithful, by Abdu'l-Bahá: Review - Price,Ron (Australian Baha'i Studies, 1999)
On the themes, biographies, and importance of this book.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Memorials of the Faithful (book)

Memorials of the Faithful: Revisited - Price,Ron (Associate, 2001)
Literary themes in Abdu'l-Bahá's book of biographies.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-faith.manvell.org.uk. See also the full PDF for issue 35.
Keywords: Memorials of the Faithful (book)

Memorials of the Faithful: The Democratization of Sainthood - Momen,Moojan (Lights of Irfan, 2016)
Hagiography in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the precedent of Faridu'd-Din's "Memorials of the Saints"; Abdu'l-Bahá innovations in this traditional literary format.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/momen_sainthood.
Keywords: Attar (poet); Hagiography; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Memorials of the Faithful (book)

Memorials of the Faithful: Virtues of Inner and Outer Transformation - Koswan,Marlene (Lights of Irfan, 2016)
A study of the virtues identified for the faithful individuals mentioned in "Memorials of the Faithful" and how they exemplified character, manners and conduct, using the "Seven Valleys" as a guide for human conduct.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #135 (Louhelen, 2015). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/135/koswan_memorials.
Keywords: Character; Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Memorials of the Faithful (book); Virtues

Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Cobb,Stanwood (Avalon Press, 1962)
Recollections by eminent American Bahá'í author Cobb (1881–1982).
This book is also online in the compilation In His Presence: Visits to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by Roy Wilhelm, Stanwood Cobb, and Genevieve L. Coy. Also available as a corrected, proofread Word document: cobb_memories_abdul-baha.docx.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Pilgrims notes; Stanwood Cobb; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Yazdi,Ali M. (Baha'i World, 1986)
Recollections by a prominent Iranian-American Bahá'í.
Go to Bahá'í World vol 18 table of contents. This article has also been published on
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Alexandria, Egypt; Biography; Egypt; Haifa, Israel; Iran (documents); Pilgrims notes; Ramleh, Egypt; Sea of Galilee, Israel; Yazd, Iran; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Commission of inquiry; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Death threats to; `Abdu'l-Bahá, House of (Haifa); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Knighthood (KBE); `Alí M. Yazdí (Azíz Yazdí)

Memories of Ashchi: Background - Rabbani,Ahang; McGlinn,Sen (1999)
Background information on and a start at translation of the narratives of Aqa Husayn Ashchi.
Written in an informal style because these notes were posted to an internet discussion group. Edited and posted with permission of authors.
Keywords: Aqa Husayn Ashchi; Bahá'u'lláh; Biography

Memories of Hájí Muhammad Nayrízi - Nayrizi,Haji Muhammad (1999)
A short account of events in the 1853 Nayriz uprising.
See also Martyrs of the Second Revolt at Nayriz, An eyewitness account of the Bábís of Nayriz, and Narrative of Mulla Muhammad Shafi` Nayrizi.

Memories of Hands of the Cause of God - Boyd,Jack (2014)
Personal memories of meeting Zikrullah Khadem, John Robarts, and Tarazullah Samandari.
Keywords: Biography; Hands of the Cause; John Robarts; Zikrullah Khadem; Ṭaráẓu’lláh Samandarí

Memories of My Life: Translation of Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán's Khátirát-i-Hayát - Rabbani,Ahang (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
Bio of the life of Habíbu'lláh Afnán-i-A`lá'í, born 1875, especially his years with the family of the wife of the Báb, Khadijih Bagum, and her sister, Zahrá Bagum.
Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org. See another version of this translation, with Preface and Appendices, at rabbani_habibullah_afnan_memories.
Keywords: Afnan; Biography; Khadijih Bagum (wife of the Báb)

Memories of Nine Years in Akka - Afroukhteh,Youness Khan (George Ronald, 1952)
Translation of Khatirát-i-Nuh-Saliy-i-‘Akká, the memoirs of Dr. Yúnis Afrukhtih, who served ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as secretary and interpreter from 1900-1909. Includes discussion of the history of Covenant-breaking.
This memoir was published in various translations and editions in 1952, 1967, 1983, and 2003. This version mirrored from scribd.com. See also a Portrait of Abdu'l-Bahá extracted from this book.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Memoirs and chronicles; Memories of Nine Years in Akka (book); Youness Afroukhteh (Yunis Afrukhtih); `Abdu'l-Bahá

Memories of Talks with the Guardian - Takano,Hiroyasu (2016)
Memories of a pilgrimage in 1954. Takano was the only Japanese Bahá'í other than Saichiro Fujita to meet the Guardian.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes

Memories of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Memoirs of Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán - Rabbani,Ahang, editor and translator (Witnesses to Babi and Baha'i History, 2005)
Autobiography of a close confidant of the holy family. Includes appendices on Bahá'í historical places in Shiraz, the Afnán family genealogy, and excerpts from Houshmand Fatheazam’s diary
See also a published, slightly abridged version of this document at rabbani_khatirat_hayat. See also Habibullah Afnan's The Genesis of the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths in Shíráz and Fárs. This document is also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Afnan; Akka, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Báb, The; Egypt; Haifa, Israel; Iran (documents); Pilgrims notes; Restoration and renovation; Shíráz, Iran; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Memories of the Sojourn of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris - Blomfield,Lady Sarah Louisa (Baha'i World, 1937)
Memoir of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s four-month stay in Paris in 1911. Notes taken by the author's daughters were later published as the book Paris Talks.
Mirrored from bahai.org/abdul-baha/articles-resources. Original version online at bahai.works.
Keywords: Biography; France; Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; Paris, France; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Memories: Bill Sears interviews Mrs. True - Sears,William; True,Corinne (1951)
Stories starting from 1907 in Haifa.
Title "Memories" given by the name of the file when I received it, which was "Corrine True - Memories - Interviewed by Bill Sears in 1951.mp3."
Keywords: Corinne True; Haifa, Israel; Interviews; William Sears

Memorization - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (2006)
Also available as PDF. Mirrored from www.ruhiresources.org/news/2006/01/21/compilations/memorization/.
Keywords: Institute process; Memorization; Study circles

Men and the Bahá'í Faith: The Role of Indigenous Men in the Early Bahá'í Community in the British Isles - Osborn,Lil (2016)
Includes slide-show included when presenting the paper at the Bahá'í Studies Seminar, Kellogg College, Oxford (July 2016).
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Biographies (general); Brotherhood; Equality; Freemasonry; Gender; Men; Secret Societies; Suffrage; United Kingdom; Women

Men on the Horizon - Murchie,Guy (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932)
Lengthy travel diary, the first book of a renowned journalist, war correspondent, and author/artist who would adopt the Bahá'í Faith in 7 years and published more extensively on Bahá'í-inspired themes explicitly after 1955.
Online at raskb.com [archive.org].
Keywords: Biography

Mental Tests - Universal House of Justice (1995)
Meaning of the phrase "mental tests" in the writings of Abdu'l-Bahá and of Shoghi Effendi. Includes short compilation of relevant passages.
See also three talks by House member Peter Khan also from 1995: Mental Tests, Nature of Tests, and an audio recording on tests called Victories and Crises.
Keywords: Covenant; Crisis; Mental tests; Research Department, Questions and answers; Suffering; Tests and difficulties; Victory

Mental Tests - Khan,Peter J. (1995)
An address by Dr. Khan, of the Universal House of Justice, in Australia. Needs proofreading.
Manually transcribed. Words not understood are indicated by ellipses. May contain typist errors, still needs more proofreading, and may be a transcription of "Victories and Crises"; email me if you can help compare. See also two talks by Khan on the same topic also from 1995, Nature of Tests and an audio recording called Victories and Crises, and a 1995 letter from the Universal House of Justice on Mental Tests.
Keywords: Mental tests; Peter Khan; Spirituality; Tests and difficulties

Mention of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths in the New York Times 1852 - 1922 - Various (New York Times, 1852)
45 articles and brief mentions, spanning 70 years.
Mirrored from nhbahais.com. See also Historical mentions of the Bábí/Bahá'í Faiths, Newspaper Collections and the Bahá'í Faith, and Bábí Attempt on the Life of the Shah, 1852: Coverage in the New York Times.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'í Faith, Early Western Accounts of; Bahá'í World Centre; Bábísm, Early Western Accounts of; Covenant-breaking; India; Iran (documents); Mahatma Gandhi; Mentions; Newspaper articles; Persecution, Iran; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Mentions of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Encyclopedia Iranica: Sixty Excerpts - Algar,Hamid; Momen,Moojan; MacEoin,Denis; et al. (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1985)
Excerpts of 60 articles in the Encyclopedia, with links to the offsite originals, which contain a reference to the Faith. These items are not long enough to warrant a separate entry in this Library, yet are included here for ease of discovery.
The following selections, along with the articles posted as separate entries at bahai-library.com/series/Encyclopaedia Iranica, comprise all content about or related to Bahá'í Studies in that encyclopedia as of April 2013; if you find anything we missed, or see a new article posted there, please email us. As short excerpts, these are "fair use." For the purpose of keyword searches, the Iranica's transliteration has been changed to the Bahá'í standard, and underdots omitted.
Keywords: Bábísm; Encyclopedia Iranica; Encyclopedias; Iran (documents); Mentions; Reference works

Message from Acca - Haddad,Anton (1900)
A lengthy report of Abdu'l-Bahá's teachings to the Bahá'ís in America. Can be seen as a precursor to Tablets of the Divine Plan.
See entries for this book at worldcat and Google Books. It was also published in Isaac Adams, Persia by a Persian. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes. However, as this book was "corrected" by Abdu'l-Bahá himself, it may be more reliable.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Anton Haddad; Pilgrims notes; Tablets of the Divine Plan

Message of the Universal House of Justice to the World's Religious Leaders: Panel Discussion Comments - McLean,Jack (2002)
Overview of some prominent global theologians and historians of religion, and issues facing interfaith dialogue.
Panel Discussion, Association for Bahá’í Studies Annual Conference, Mississauga (August 30-September 2, 2002). Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Letter to the Worlds Religious leaders (2002)

Message of the World Spiritual Crusade received from the Guardian - Furutan,Ali-Akbar (1953)
Notes taken by Furútan in the early years of the 10-year plan (1953-63) and distributed at the request of Shoghi Effendi.
This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Divine Assistance; Heroism; Love; Pilgrims notes; Reason; Sacrifice; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); `Alí-Akbar Furútan

Message on clusters, institutes, and growth - International Teaching Centre (2007)
Message from the Counsellors on growth and enrollments.
This document is online at messagesbahaiworldcentre.blogspot.ca and elsewhere.
Keywords: Clusters; Growth; Growth, Intensive Program of; Homefront pioneering; Institute process; Institutes; Pioneering

Message on the occasion of the opening of the 2014 World Cup - Universal House of Justice (2014)
Letter in response to the Brazilian president's invitation for a statement on global peace and harmony, reflecting the Brazilian government's aim to leverage the World Cup to further the cause of peace and combat racial discrimination.
See also Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS) article. Also available in PDF.
Keywords: Brazil; Collaboration and cooperation; Peace; Race; Sports; Unity; Virtues; Youth

Message on World Peace - Universal House of Justice (2019)
Letter about important steps the world made towards world peace, and the current situation, in relation to the activities the Bahá'ís are involved with.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats.
Keywords: Basics; Calamities and catastrophes; Institute process; Integration and disintegration; Lawh-i-Hague (Tablet to The Hague); League of Nations; Paris Peace Conference (1919); Peace; Promise of World Peace (statement); United Nations; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages; War; World peace

Message to First Canadian National Convention - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1948)
Message to the delegates and friends attending the First Canadian National Bahá'í Convention, Montreal, 1948; also published in Baha’i News Sept/Oct 1948. It is not clear if this hand-typed document preceded, or followed, the published version.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. The Word document and its PDF below were compared with, and supplement with information from, the copy online at bahaitalks.blogspot.com.

Message to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors on the Nine Year Plan - Universal House of Justice (2021)
Features of the new 9-Year Plan, "the first major undertaking in a sacred twenty-five-year venture, generational in its scope and significance," to be implemented Ridvan 2022.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in .docx, and .html formats. Also available in French and Spanish. Also available in outline format in PDF or Word (J. Seow), and as a formatted/paginated version with added paragraph numbers and references in PDF or Word (M. Thomas). See also a study guide (R. McClelland). See also three follow-up messages from the Universal House of Justice: To all National Spiritual Assemblies, To the Auxiliary Board members, and To the Bahá'ís of the World (bahai.org). This and related letters from Nov. 2021 - Jan. 2022 are also published in the booklet The Nine Year Plan: 2022-2031 (Palabra, 2022). See also 5-Year Plan 2006-2011, 5-Year Plan 2011-2016, and 1-Year Plan 2021-2022.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Clusters; Community building; Counsellors; Education; Encouragement; Institute process; Local Spiritual Assemblies; Nine Year Plan (2022-2031); Pioneering; Plans; Public discourse (discourses of society); Social action; Society building; Statistics; Training Institutes; Transformation

Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada, 1969)
Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Bahá'í Writings that their future is very great, and that they themselves best help to fulfill these promises by taking the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh to their own people.
Keywords: Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Bahá'u'lláh; Canada; Central America; Cities; Civilization; Cultural diversity; Deepening; Education; Equality; Ethics; First Nations, Canada; God; God, Word of; Human nature; Indigenous people; Introductory; Inuit people; Language; Latin America; Light; Literacy; Morality; Native Americans; Nature; North America; Prayer; Race; Reconciliation; Service; Teaching; Translation; United States (documents); Unity; Unity of humanity; Virtues

Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1996)
The HTML of this book, below has not been fully proofread. See a better proofed and formatted version of the book at bahai.works. Also available in proofread Microsoft Word version, prepared by M. Thomas (2022). Below is the Table of Contents without the book. See the complete book at Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86.
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; Adelbert Muhlschlegel; Age of maturity (children); Agnes Alexander; Amoz Gibson; Architects; Ashgabat; Auxiliary board members; Baghdad, Iraq; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Bahji, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of; Bahá'u'lláh, Houses of; Bahá'u'lláh, Love for; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'í Faith, Purposes of; Bahá'í Institutes; Bahá'í International Community (general); Bahá'í Radio; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í Writings; Bahá'í meetings; Bahá'í schools; Behavior; Births and deaths; Bolivia; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Calamities and catastrophes; Change; Charity and relief work; Charles Mason Remey; Chastity; Chicago, IL; Children; Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; Conferences, Youth; Confidentiality; Consolidation; Constitutions (Bahá'í); Constitutions (general); Consultation; Conventions; Conventions, International; Conventions, National; Conversion; Counsellors; Covenant; Criticism and apologetics; Cry from the Heart, A (book); Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Decision making; Deepening; Divorce; Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); Education; Elections; Elucidation; Enoch Olinga; Equality; Ether (concept); Ethics; Excellence; Exemption; Five Year Plan (1974-1979); Forbearance; Formative Age; Foundation stones and groundbreaking; Frankfurt, Germany; Funds; Gardens; Gender; Germany; Glenford Mitchell; God, Love for; Gradual implementation of laws; Growth; Guardianship; Haifa, Israel; Hands of the Cause; Hasan Balyuzi; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Healing prayer, Long; Holy days; Holy places; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazraih); House of Bahá'u'lláh (Takur); House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá (Akká); Human rights; Huqúqu'lláh; In Memoriam; India; Infallibility; Inspiring the Heart (compilation); International Teaching Centre; Interpretation; Iran (documents); Iraq; Jessie Revell; John Ferraby

Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86 - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1996)
The HTML of this book, below has not been fully proofread. See a better proofed and formatted version of the book at bahai.works. Also available in proofread Microsoft Word version, prepared by M. Thomas (2022). Below is the complete book without the Table of Contents. See the Table of Contents at Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-86.
Keywords: Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1968-1973 - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1976)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Ridván messages; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Messages from the Universal House of Justice: 1986-2001 - Universal House of Justice (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2009)
Messages from the fourth epoch of the Formative Age.
Also available as an updated Microsoft Word document, proofread and updated by Mike Thomas (2023).
Keywords: Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Messages of Shoghi Effendi to the Indian Subcontinent: 1923-1957 - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust of India, 1995)
Revised and expanded version of Dawn of a New Day.
First posted in 2005 as uncorrected HTML; formatted in 2011 and re-posted as PDF. See also an updated, proofread Word document (M. Thomas, 2019). Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Dawn of a New Day (book); India; Shoghi Effendi, letters of

Messages to America - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1947)
Selected messages to the American Bahá'ís from Shoghi Effendi from 1932 to 1946.
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; United States (documents)

Messages to Canada - Shoghi Effendi (Canada Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1965)
See the newer 1999 version here. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Canada; Canada; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Messages to Canada: 1999 edition - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Canada Publications; Canada Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1999)
Updated and expanded version of the 1965 book.
This file was received directly from the NSA of Canada, digitally, by request, with permission for posting to the Bahá'í Library. It is presumably fully proofread. See the older 1965 version here. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Canada; Canada; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Messages to the Antipodes (Australasia) - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publications Australia, 1997)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here. See also the 2021 second edition in PDF [8MB] and Word formats, prepared by Mike Thomas (2023).
Keywords: Australasia; Australia; Messages to the Antipodes (book); New Zealand; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Messages to the Bahá'í World - Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971)
General messages of Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'ís, written between 1950 and 1957.
Keywords: Messages to the Bahá’í World, 1950-1957 (book); Shoghi Effendi, letters of

Messengers of God in North America, Revisited: An Exegesis of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Amír Khán - Buck,Christopher; Addison,Donald (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
The indigenous peoples of the Americas have their own claim to wisdom tradition, which derive from Messengers of God to First Nations. This principle is anchored in the Tablet to Amír Khán Áhan.
See also Native Messengers of God in Canada? A Test Case for Bahá'í Universalism. Mirrored with permission from oj.bahaistudies.net/. Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Canada; Exegesis; Indigenous people; Interfaith dialogue; Native American messengers; Native Americans; Tablet to Amir Khan; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure - Momen,Moojan (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
The argument about exactly when Bahá'u'lláh became aware of his mission. Relevant issues and rival perspectives.
Mirrored with permission from www.momen.org/relstud/. PDF posted at oj.bahaistudies.net. Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Amr (word); Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of Revelation of; Bahá'u'lláh, Declaration of; Báb, The; Concealment; Criticism and apologetics; Dalail-i-Sabih (Seven Proofs); Hadith of Kumayl; Iraq; Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Manifestations of God, Gradual disclosure of; Mirrors; Shahifiy-i-Shattiyyih (Book of the River); Words and phrases

Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure - Cole,Juan (2002)
Lengthy collection of notes on Baha'u'llah's relationship to Subh-i-Azal, with quotations from Fadil Mazandarani's Zuhur al-Haqq histories, compiled and edited from posts sent to an academic email list.
See also M. Momen's Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure (2007), and the complete Tarikh-i Zuhur Al-Haqq.

Messianic Expectations in Nineteenth Century Christian and Islamic Communities - Rabbani,Ahang (2006)
The phenomenon of messianism and its manifestations in early-modern American Christianity and in Iranian Islam.
Presentation delivered in Austin, Texas, February 11, 2006.
Keywords: Christianity; Expectations; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Messianism; Prophecies; Return

Metaphor and the Language of Revelation - Woodman,Ross (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1997)
To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the Word as the originating power of creation.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb; Bible; Birds; Breath; Bride (metaphor); Báb, Grammar of; Báb, Trial of; Báb, Trial of; Christianity; Creation; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Disconnected letters of the Quran; Flowers; God; God, Throne of; God, Word of; God, Worlds of; Henry Corbin; Houris (huris); Hurqalya (imaginal realm); Islam; Jerusalem, Israel; John Milton (author); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Life after death (afterlife); Literature; Literature, English; Lover and the Beloved; Maid of Heaven; Manifestations of God; Metaphors and allegories; Mind, spirit, soul; Mirrors; Mount Carmel; New Jerusalem; Nightingales; Northrop Frye; Poetry; Prayer; Progressive revelation; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Quddus; Questions and answers; Quran; Resurrection; Return; Revelation; Ross Woodman; Self-knowledge; Shaykhism; Soul; Symbolism; Síyáh-Chál (Black Pit, Tehran); Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn, Zarrín-Táj); Typology; Unity of religion; William Blake

Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality: Ahmad Ahsá'í, Figuration, and the World of Images - Lawson,Todd (Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory, 2024)
Overview of the life of Shaykh Ahmad; his thoughts about the technical rhetorical terms mithál, mathal, and mithl (images), which functioned more as metaphor than simile or parable in the Qur'an and the words of the Imams.
Keywords: Akhbari (Shiite school); Alam-i-Mithal (World of images); Hadith; Imams; Metaphors and allegories; Mujtahid; Northrop Frye; Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'i; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism); Usuli (Shiite school)

Metaphors in Education - Handal,Boris (2008)
Knowledge is associated with the development of spiritual capabilities such as justice, confidence, patience, service, etc. Educational research and its methodologies are a vehicle to find knowledge and a tool to help us achieve our highest selves.
Also available in Word format.
Keywords: Education; Metaphors and allegories

Method in Religious Studies: Theistic and Agnostic - McLean,Jack (2000)
Response to an assertion by Christopher Buck that the term religious studies is misleading, in that, while the object of the study is religious, the method is not; thoughts on how a scientific methodology would work.
Mirrored with permission from jack-mclean.com.

Methodologies and Development Strategies - Arbab,Farzam (1985)
Mirrored from bahaiexplorer.com, which notes: "While the date is unknown it appears to have been from the mid 1980s, sometime after 1983. It should not viewed as a record of current development methodologies."

Methodology and Bahá'í Studies: The Bridge between Realities - Hatcher,John S. (Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
The role of Bahá'í academics to bring to light aspects of the dual physical and spiritual aspects of reality.
Keywords: John Hatcher; Scholarship

Methodology in Bahá'í studies - Momen,Moojan (Baha'i Studies Review, 2001)
How Bahá'í scholars can interact with secular academia. Bahá’í scholarship can develop in two ways: interior (scholarship that develops within the Bahá’í community, based on faith) and exterior (academic scholarship based on rationalistic methodology).
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Scholarship

Methods and qualities of the seekers of Reality in Some Answered Questions in the light of Bahá'í Scriptures - Savi,Julio (Lights of Irfan, 2009)
The criteria and qualities of the seekers of Reality. The senses, reason, and reliance on scriptural texts are inadequate means but can be usefully combined. It is only the bounty of the Holy Spirit which bestows enlightenment and certitude, however.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #83, Center for Bahá'í Studies: Acuto, Italy (July 3-6, 2008). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/83/savi_seekers.
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia; Philosophy; Reality; Search; Some Answered Questions (book)

Microsoft Word Autocorrect Tool for Bahá'í Words - House,David William (2018)
A set of about 180 proper nouns encountered in the Bahá'í Faith, which can be added to the custom dictionary in Microsoft Word to help automate their orthography and transliteration.
This is a backup of the webpage and software at completebiogas.com/bahai/autocorrect-tool.html.
Keywords: Software; Terminology; Transliteration and diacritics

Mid-East History during the Islamic Period: Chronology and Commentary - Miller,Brian A. (2000)
Brief overview of Islamic history.
Keywords: Chronology and timelines; History (general); Interfaith dialogue; Islam

Midhat Pasha and 'Abdu'l-Baha in 'Akka: The Historical Background of the Tablet of the Land of Bá - Alkan,Necati (Baha'i Studies Review, 2005)
Background of the tablet Lawh-i-Ard-i-Bá, revealed by Bahá'u'lláh on occasion of Abdu'l-Bahá travelling to Beirut to meet the governor of Syria. Includes an account by Mirza Haydar Ali of the Pasha's visit.
Mirrored with permission of author from academia.edu. PDF below from a Microsoft Word version prepared by Mike Thomas (2022); see also original PDF. See also encyclopedia article Medhat Pasha.
Keywords: Beirut, Lebanon; Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí (Angel of Carmel); Lawh-i-Ard-i-Ba (Tablet of the Land of Ba); Lebanon; Midhat Páshá; `Abdu'l-Bahá

Migrants and Refugees in Europe - Universal House of Justice (2015)
Principles to guide the response of the Bahá’í community to the dramatic social changes concerning the 2015 influx into Europe of people fleeing conflict in the Middle East, especially Syria.
Keywords: Charity and relief work; Europe; Middle East; Migration; Refugees; Syria; War

Mihdí, Mírzá - Razavi,Shahriar (The Baha'i Encyclopedia, 2009)
On the son of Bahá’u’lláh, who entitled him "the Purest Branch," younger brother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Bahíyyih Khánum.
Mirrored with permission from bahai-encyclopedia-project.org.
Keywords: Biography; Mírzá Mihdi (Purest Branch)

Mikhail Sergeev, Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith: Review - Olshin,Benjamin (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2015)
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Church and state; Covenant; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Decline and renewal of religion; Enlightenment (movement); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Modernity; Philosophy; Progressive revelation; Reform; Reformation (Christianity); Renaissance; Sociology; Traditions; Unity of religion

Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852 - Momen,Moojan (Nova Religio, 2008)
Events leading up to the assassination attempt, and political and social factors leading to the violence.
Updated version of a presentation from 2004. See also Millennialist Narrative and Apocalyptic Violence.
Keywords: 1850s; Millennialism; Nasirid-Din Shah, Attempt on; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Violence

Millennialism in Modern Iranian History - Cole,Juan (Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America, 2002)
Religions in Iran have been volatile and evolving, from a tool of the establishment to representing the voice of the oppressed, from passive to revolutionary. Bahá'u'lláh adapted these motifs to create a vehicle for socially-liberal and democratic ideals.
Adapted from personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2003/millen2.htm.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Millennialism; Sociology

Millennialist Narrative and Apocalyptic Violence: The Case of the Babis of Iran - Momen,Moojan (Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 2018)
How apocalyptic narratives played out in events of 1848-50, stages in the escalation of the conflict, factors that increased the likelihood of violence, and developments after 1852 that moved the focus of the religion from pre- to post-millennialism.
Mirrored with permission from jbasr.com. See also Millennialism and Violence.

Millennium Forum - Universal House of Justice (2000)
Keywords: Bahá'í International Community; Collaboration and cooperation; Conferences; Disarmament; Diversity; Environment; Equality; Globalization; Human rights; Interfaith dialogue; Justice; Millennium; Nature; Peace; Prosperity; Security; Social and economic development; Solidarity; Sustainable development; Tolerance; United Nations; United Nations Millennium Forum and Summit; United Nations Summits; United Nations conferences; Wealth and poverty; World peace

Milly: A Tribute to The Hand of the Cause of God Amelia E. Collins - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim (George Ronald, 1977)
A moving personal biographical history of Amelia Collins.
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; Amelia Collins; Biography

Mind and Spirit: Convergence of Neuroscience and Revealed Knowledge - Vargha-Khadem,Faraneh (2005)
Delivered at the 29th ABS Annual Conference "Science, Religion and Social Transformation," Cambridge MA, August 11-14 2005. Mirrored with permission from www.bahai-studies.ca/proceedings [archived]. Author affiliation: professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience and department head at the Institute of Child Health, University College, London
Keywords: Animals; Evolution; Mind; Psychology; Science; Soul

Mind: "The Power of the Human Spirit" - Filson,Gerald (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2023)
Correlating Bahá’í concepts of the mind with insights from philosophy; conceptual ways of knowing; implications of language for philosophy of mind; science and religion both shed light on the capacities and nature of the mind, including the spiritual.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca. See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Animal cognition; Animals; Mind; Mind, spirit, soul; Philosophy; Rationality; Reason; Religion (general); Science; Soul; Spirit (general)

Minimalism - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
See also Minimalism: A Bridge between Classical Philosophy and the Bahá’í Revelation. Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih (Tablet of the Universe); Minimalism; Philosophy

Minimalism from a Bahá'í Perspective - Rahnamaie,Mahyad Zaerpoor (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
Minimalism accepts the objective reality outside human perception but may go beyond the reductionism of scientific objectivity. This is relevant to the Bahá’ís, as they favour a perspective in which reality is treated as a unified whole.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #89, Center for Bahá'í Studies, Acuto, Italy (June 28 - July 1, 2009). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/89/zaerpoor%20rahnamaie_minimalism
Keywords: Epistemology; Irfan Colloquia; Knowledge; Minimalism; Philosophy; Science

Minimalism: A Bridge between Classical Philosophy and the Bahá'í Revelation - Hatcher,William S. (Juxta Publishing Co., 2004)
An application of modern relational logic retroactively to problems in classical philosophy such as the existence and nature of God reveals answers which remarkably coincide with the answers found in the Bahá'í scriptures.
See also Hatcher's Minimalism presentation. See also Creating a new school of thought (review by B. Pokorny, 2003). Mirrored with permission from juxta.com. See publisher's Books for the World license.
Keywords: God; Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih (Tablet of the Universe); Metaphysics; Philosophy; Science; William Hatcher

Ministry of the Custodians: An Account of the Stewardship of the Hands of the Cause 1957-1963 - Universal House of Justice; Khanum,Ruhiyyih (Bahá'í World Centre, 1992)
Account of the stewardship of the Hands of the Cause of God from 1957-63, from the passing of Shoghi Effendi to the election of the House, riding the waves of crisis to the moment of victory — the fulfillment of prophecy.
Also available as an updated, corrected Microsoft Word document, prepared by Mike Thomas. While Ruhiyyih Khanum is not listed as an official author, we have included her as author here because, in the Introduction below, she says the book is "based on the files of the Hands in the Holy Land and on my personal experience as one of the Custodians of the Bahá'í Faith for five and a half years." As well, the Ruhi Book 8 (unit 2 section 1) says of this book "she [Khanum] presents a collection of messages from the Hands of the Cause of God."
Keywords: Appointed arm; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Custodians; Guardianship; Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; International Bahá'í Council; Ministry of The Custodians (book); Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice, Election of

Minorities and "Islamic" States: Explaining Bahá'í and Ahmadi Marginalization in Iran and Pakistan - Jamil,Uzma (2002)
Analysis of the marginalization of Bahá'ís in Iran and Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. Link to thesis (offsite).
Thesis for Master of Arts, Department of Political Science, McGill University (Montreal).

Minutes of the Fourteenth Session, 1928 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1928)
Petition to the League of Nations from the Spiritual Assembly of Baghdad regarding confiscation of property.
Keywords: 1920s; Baghdad, Iraq; Confiscation; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Iraq; League of Nations; Petitions

Minutes of the Nineteenth Session, 1930 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1930)
Half-page summary of the current status of "The Bahai Case," stating that no action has yet been taken.

Minutes of the Sixteenth Session, 1929 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1929)
Petition from the Bahai Spiritual Assembly of Baghdad regarding the confiscation of property; measures taken after the Council's decision.
Keywords: 1920s; Baghdad, Iraq; Confiscation; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Iraq; League of Nations; Petitions

Minutes of the Twentieth Session, 1931 June - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1931)
Two-page discussion of the status of "The Bahai Case" regarding confiscation of property in Iraq, possible resolutions, and setting up a "special Committee to consider the views expressed by the Bahai community in respect of certain houses in Baghdad."

Minutes of the Twenty-first Session, 1931 October - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1931)
Report that the League of Nations commission "not yet succeeded in obtaining redress for the Bahai community in respect of the miscarriage of justice of which it was the victim."

Minutes of the Twenty-fourth Session, 1933 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1933)
Report on the "Bahai Case" on the confiscation of houses in Baghdad, stating that "that nothing had as yet been done" though the Iraqi government proposed converting the property into a public space.

Minutes of the Twenty-second Session, 1932 - Permanent Mandates Commission (League of Nations, 1932)
On the confiscation of Bahá'u'lláh's house in Baghdad, "the redress of the miscarriage of justice from which the Bahai Community has been the victim has not been carried into effect" because "no measure had yet been taken by the Iraqi Government."

Miracles - 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/miracles.
Keywords: Eyewitnesses; Miracles; Pilgrims notes

Miracles and Metaphors - Gulpáygání,Mirza Abu'l-Fadl (Kalimat Press, 1981)
Collection of essays on metaphysical topics and Bahá'í answers to old religious controversies: are the Scriptures to be taken literally? Do miracles occur? What is an angel? Are the stories of the Old Testament to be believed?
Contributed by and posted with permission of publisher. Please support this online re-printing by ordering a copy of the book. A portion of this book scanned, with images, is available at books.google.com.
Keywords: Angels; Christianity; Donations; Fasting; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Miracles; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Pilgrimage; Prayer

Miracles in Religion: A Study of the miraculous in religion in context of the Baha'i Faith - Sarwal,Anil (1996)
Guide to spirituality, offers insights on the purpose of religion, experiences of Himalayan masters, worship of gods and goddesses, idol worship, psychic phenomena, prayer, meditation, and fasting.
Keywords: Bhagavad Gita; Buddhism; Christianity; Eyewitnesses; False prophets; Fasting; God; Gods and Goddesses; Guru Nanak; Himalayan masters; Hinduism; Idol worship; India; Islam; Magic; Mahatma Gandhi; Meditation; Miracles; Nepal; Prayer; Psychic powers; Religion (general); Rituals; Sikhism; Sri Aurobindo; Vedanta; Vivekananda; Worship; Yoga

Mirror of the Divine: Art in the Bahá'í World Community, by Ludwig Tuman: Review - Chen,Constance M. (Baha'i Studies Review, 1997)

Mirza Abu'l-Fadl - Farrokhzad,Babak (2021)
Wikipedia-Artikel über Mirza Abu‘l-Fadl, der den neusten Stand der Literatur (Oct 2021) berücksichtigt.
Adapted from de.wikipedia.org. The HTML below has not been reformatted for this website, but uses Wikipedia's code.
Keywords: Biography; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani

Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpáyegání - Momen,Moojan (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1985)
Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
The following is an excerpt of the article at www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abul-fazl-or-abul-fazael-golpayegani.
Keywords: Biography; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Scholarship

Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl in America - Khan,Ali Kuli; Gail,Marzieh (Baha'i World, 1945)
Khan's personal recollections of Gulpaygani, with mentions of other early American Bahá'ís.
Later published in Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays. Also available in RTF, from which the PDF below was generated, prepared by M. Thomas (2023).
Keywords: Biography; Chicago, IL; Laura Clifford Barney; Life after death (afterlife); Marzieh Gail; Maturity of humanity; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Repetition; Soul; Thornton Chase; `Alí Kulí Khán

Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl: The Greatest Scholar - Shahrokh,Darius (Windows to the Past, 1992)
Lengthy biography of an early scholar, whose writings Persian Bahá'ís often consider as ranking second to the Holy Writings and the writings of Shoghi Effendi.
From a series of deepening talks prepared from Persian and English sources, distributed on cassette tape in the 1990s and converted to online audio in the 2000s. See About Windows to the Past.
Keywords: Biography; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani

Mirza Hossein R. Touty: First Baha'i Known to Have Lived in the Philippines - Hassall,Graham; Austria,Orwin (2000)
Touty was a Bahá'í who stayed in the Philippines for about five years (1921-26), teaching the Faith to Filipinos.
Alternate spellings: Tuti, Touti, Touty.
Keywords: Biography

Mirza Mihdi, "Holy Family", Capitalization of Pronouns, Guardian's Use of English - Universal House of Justice (1998)
Five unrelated questions about Mirza Mihdi; use of the title "Holy Family"; capitalization of personal pronouns; and the Guardian's use of English in his translations.
Submitted by and posted with permission of recipient. Lightly edited; personal greetings and not-relevant content removed. Complete reply available in PDF and Microsoft Word, prepared by M. Thomas (2024 update).
Keywords: Capitalization; English language; Holy Family; Language; Mírzá Mihdi (Purest Branch); Publishing, Review; Research Department, Questions and answers; Style (Writings); Translation

Mirza Mihdi: The Purest Branch - Handal,Boris (George Ronald, 2017)
Two excerpts from a book-length biography of the son of Bahá'u'lláh — "Akká, the Most Great Prison" (chapter 1) and "The Treasure of God in the Holy Land" (chapter 9) —  which describe the life and martyrdom of Mirza Mihdi on 23 June 1870.
This sample of this book has been shared for posting here, with publisher's permission. Purchase the book at grbooks.com. It is also available in Persian translation and in Spanish at editorialbahai.com. See also the author's Wilmette Institute presentations.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Biography; Mírzá Mihdi (Purest Branch)

Mírzá Yahyá Azal, Designation of in the Writings of the Báb - Universal House of Justice (Lights of Irfan, 2007)
See also the two attachments to this letter Will and Testament of The Báb and Excerpt from Making the Crooked Straight. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/justice_yahya
Keywords: Báb, Writings of; Covenant; Hadith of Kumayl; Irfan Colloquia; Lawh-i-Vasaya; Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Research Department, Questions and answers

Miscellaneous historical and doctrinal topics - Walbridge,John (Essays and Notes on Babi and Baha'i History, 2002)
Short comments on miscellaneous topics: Seven Proofs, Lawh-i-Aqdas, Dreams, Evolution, RMS Titanic.
Included in author's compilation Essays and Notes on Bábí and Bahá'í History. Mirrored with permission from www.h-net.org.
Keywords: Dalail-i-Sabih (Seven Proofs); Dreams and visions; Evolution; Lawh-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Tablet); Science; Titanic

Miscellaneous philosophy topics - Walbridge,John (Essays and Notes on Babi and Baha'i History, 2002)
Islamic vs. Bahá'í philosophy; Greek philosophers and the Jews; other topics of philosophy.
Included in author's compilation Essays and Notes on Bábí and Bahá'í History.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Islamic; Philosophy, Jewish; Philosophy, Shaykhi; Shaykhism; Some Answered Questions (book)

Missionaries Who Aided the Cause of God - Herrmann,Duane L. (Glory Magazine, 1991)
Brief account of the work of Dr. William Cormick and Rev. John H. Shedd and their interest in the Bábí Faith.
Keywords: Christian missionaries; John H. Shedd; Mentions; William Cormick

Missionary Principles and Practice: A Discussion of Christian Missions and of some Criticisms upon them - Speer,Robert E. (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902)
Brief testimonial of a "converted Moslem" who turned to Babism, but then became a Christian.
Author note: Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States
Keywords: Christian missionaries; Christianity

Mobilizing Institutional, Legal and Cultural Resources to Achieve Gender Equality - Bahá'í International Community (2008)
The central role of girls and women in human development; the need to end the cultural, institutional, and legal obstacles towards their progress and all forms of discrimination against them.
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Equality; Gender; Statements; Women

Modelling Human Rights Education: A View from the Pacific - Hassall,Graham (1997)
For Bahá'ís to be successfully involved in the promotion of human rights development, they will have to decide what their model of 'human rights' is, and how to deal with the variant conceptions of human rights already held across the Asia-Pacific region.
Presented at Asia-Pacific Panel, Association for Bahá'í Studies 21st Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. 14-16 November 1997.

Models and Idols: Towards a Philosophy of the Community of Mind - Fatheazam,Shahbaz (Lights of Irfan, 2005)
It is the coexistence of action and learning that modifies community and its traditions, and this coexistence needs systematic study. Community building is a dynamic process amongst the Bahá’ís. The danger of Bacon's 'idols of the mind'.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #51, Louhelen Bahá'í School, Michigan (October 10-13, 2003). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/51/fatheazam_models.
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia; Philosophy

Moderation and the Art of Teaching - Velasco,Ismael (2001)
Compilation, designed as a deepening and handout, on teaching the Faith, the importance of language, moderation and receptivity, and atmosphere and language.
Keywords: Moderation; Teaching

Modern Iran - Avery,Peter (Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1967)
24 pages from chapters on "Nasiru'd-Din Shah's heritage," "Nasiru'd-Din Shah on his own," and "Prologue to Revolution."

Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution - Keddie,Nikki R. (Yale University Press, 1981)
5-page overview of the historical and ideological context of the Bábí uprising in Iran; passing discussion of Mohammad Reza Shah allegedly favoring Bahá'ís in the 1970s (extensive excerpts from two different editions of the book).

Modern Movements among Moslems - Wilson,Samuel Graham (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1916)
A Christian missionary's overview of contemporary Islam, including the Bábís.
Also available in Microsoft Word format. See also excerpt Chapter 4, Mahdist Movements, on the Bábís and Bahá'ís, posted separately. See other versions at archive.org
Keywords: Bábísm; Criticism and apologetics; Islam

Modern Movements in Islam - Germanus,Gyula (Visva-Bharati Book Shop, 1932)
Chapter on the Shaykhis, Babis, and Bahá'ís. Not proofread, has scanning errors.
This excerpt did not scan properly and needs to be proofread by consulting the original; email us if you find this book in your local or university library and can help.

Modern Syncretistic Sects: Babism-Bahá'ísm and the Ahmadiyya - Ling,Trevor (A History of Religion East and West, 1968)
2-page summary of Bábí history.
See the rest of this book online at scribd.com.

Modernity and Millennium, by Juan Cole: Some Reflections - Banani,Amin (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
See also a Response to this commentary by Juan Cole.
Keywords: Amin Banani; Criticism and apologetics; Modernity and the Millennium (book)

Modernity and the Millennium, a response by Amin Banani: Response to review - Cole,Juan (2000)
Mirrored with permission from www-personal.umich.edu
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Modernity and the Millennium (book)

Modernity and the Millennium, by Juan Cole - MacEoin,Denis (Times Literary Supplement, 1999)
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Modernity and the Millennium (book)

Modernity and the Millennium, by Juan Cole: Review - Metcalf,Barbara D. (Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2000)
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Modernity and the Millennium (book)

Modernity and the Millennium, by Juan Cole: Review - McGlinn,Sen (1999)
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Modernity and the Millennium (book)

Modernity and the Millennium, by Juan Cole: Review - Swartz,Merlin (American Historical Review, 2000)
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Modernity and the Millennium (book)

Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in the Nineteenth-century Middle East [introduction only] - Cole,Juan (Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 1998)
Introduction and first 4 pages of Chapter One.
This excerpt was posted online by Google Books and is shared here both by fair-use, and with the author's permission (given at time of publication). While published by Columbia, the book was also included in Kalimat's Studies series. This book was the subject of some letters from the Universal House of Justice, posted at Kalimat Press and Distribution by Bahá'í Agencies. See also a discussion in the Forum.
Keywords: Bahá'í history; Bahá'í studies; Church and state; Collective security; Constitutions (general); Criticism and apologetics; Freedom and liberty; Gender; Kalimat Press; Middle East; Modernity; Modernity and the Millennium (book); Publishing, Review; Reform

Modernity as an Age of Transition - Schewel,Benjamin (Baha'i World, 2023)
Modernity reconceptualized as a period of humanity’s collective adolescence; origins of the modern age of transition; ideological frustration; toward a new horizon of research and intellectual activity.
Mirrored from bahaiworld.bahai.org, where it is available in a nicer HTML format.
Keywords: Adolescence of humanity; Age of transition; Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT); Communication; Enlightenment; History (general); Maturity of humanity; Modernity; Philosophy; Research; Sociology; Transformation; Transportation; Universities

Mohammed and Islam - Goldziher,Ignaz (Yale University Press, 1917)
Twelve pages on the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths — described as a modern movement within Islam which recognizes the religious evolution of mankind — covering history up to Abdu'l-Bahá's visit to the United States. Includes link to the complete book.
PDF below generated from a Word document prepared by Ernie Jones (2022). See also original scan of excerpted section. PDF from google.com. See also the complete book [PDF, 9MB]. Ignaz Goldziher also corresponded with E.G. Browne, as shown in this bibliographic database: goldziheren.mtak.hu.
Keywords: Ignaz Goldziher; Interfaith dialogue; Introductory; Islam

Moisés: Uma breve perspectiva sobre a figura de Moisés nas Escrituras Baha'is - Oliveira,Marco (2006)
No âmbito de um estudo mais amplo sobre o Kitab-i-Iqan, foi feita uma breve análise sobre o fundador do Judaismo e a forma como as Escrituras Bahá'ís abordam a Sua Vida e Ensinamentos. Este texto foi inicialmente publicado no blog Povo de Bahá.
A brief baha'i perspective on Moses.

Molla Nasreddin Magazine and Bahá'í Faith - Babayeva Majnunqizi,Gulbeniz (Universidad y Sociedad, 2023)
Mollá Nasr-al-Din, a weekly journal in Azeri Turkish published from 1906-1931, provided a platform for social and political commentary and criticized autocratic regimes; tensions between the magazine and Bahá'ís, whom it sharply criticized. Link.
Online at rus.ucf.edu.cu/index.php/rus/issue/view/93. See full issue at rus.ucf.edu.cu/index.php/rus/issue/view/93.
Keywords: Azerbaijan; Criticism and apologetics

Monarchy, The Future of: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (2002)
Keywords: Introductory; Monarchy (kingship)

Monogamy, Sexual Equality, Marital Equality, and the Supreme Tribunal - Universal House of Justice (1996)
Questions about monogamy, the Supreme Tribunal, and the Bahá'í concept of equality of the sexes in light of some Bahá'í laws and history which appear to undermine it
Keywords: Contradictions; Criticism and apologetics; Equality; Gender; Gradual implementation of laws; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Laws; Monogamy; Polygamy; Research Department, Questions and answers; Supreme Tribunal; Universal House of Justice, Membership on; Women

Monologues on the Bicentenary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah and Howard University Visit Commemoration - Mohan,Vasu; Denize,Donna; Fliert, van den,Nadim (2017)
Five biographical monologues delivered in the fictionalized voices of Harriett Gibbs Marshall, Laura Dreyfus Barney, Louis Gregory, Alain Locke, and Pocahontas Pope.
The first three monologues were delivered at the Bicentenary celebrations in Washington, D.C., October 22, 2017. Mohan, Denize, and van de Fliert each wrote one script, and all three collectively edited them. The last two were done for the Commemoration of Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 visit to Howard University, April 22, 2018. Mohan wrote and performed "Locke." Van de Fliert wrote "Pocahontas Pope" and it was performed by Denize. See a page about this event, including a press release, at dcbahai.org. [archive.org]
Keywords: Alain Locke; Arts and crafts; Biography; Centenaries; Drama; Harriett Gibbs Marshall; Howard University, Washington, DC; Laura Clifford Barney; Louis G. Gregory; Pocahontas Pope; Race; Race unity; United States (documents); Universities; Washington, DC, USA; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Monotheistic Religion in Africa: The Example of the Swazi People - Pemberton-Pigott,Margaret; Pemberton-Pigott,Crispin (Bahá'í Faith and the World's Religions, 2005)
Similarities between the Bahá'í Faith and the ancient traditional beliefs of the Swazi people of Southern Africa.
First presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #14, Bahá'í Centre, Manchester, England (July 4-6, 1997). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/14/pemberton-pigott_africa.
Keywords: Africa; African religion; Indigenous people; Interfaith dialogue; Sabaeanism; Swazi religion

Monsieur Nicolas - the French: Extracts from Tarikh-i Azarbeyijan - Uskui,Haji Mirza Haydar Ali (1950)
Exracts from an unpublished manuscript by the author of the "History of Faith in Azerbayijan" about A.L.M. Nicolas's background, his involvement with the local Bahá'í community in Azarbeyijan, and his links with Tomanski.
Extracts taken from a hand-written manuscript dating from the early 1950s.
Keywords: A.L.M. Nicolas; Alexander Tumansky; Azerbaijan

Montana Baha'i History - Bennett,Betty (1998)
Collection of historical materials compiled between 1994-1998 and distributed at Montana summer schools.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Betty Bennett; Biography; Montana, USA; United States (documents)

Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith - Hacker,Barbara (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1988)
The work of the educationalist Maria Montessori was attuned to the spirit of the Bahá’í Era. Her view that children are key to the development of human society and ultimately world peace are presented in relation to Bahá’í writings on these subjects.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Education; Montessori (system)

Moody, Susan - Armstrong-Ingram,R. Jackson (1998)
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project.
Keywords: Biography; Susan Moody

Moody, Susan I., 1851-1934: Obituary - Haney,Miriam (The Baha'i Magazine, 1935)
Tribute to a travel-teacher who was especially known for bringing education and medical care to women and girls in Iran, and who helped found the Tarbiyat School for Girls.
The Bahá’í Magazine was the successor to Star of the West. See also a cable from Shoghi Effendi and an encyclopedia article.
Keywords: Biography; In Memoriam; Susan Moody; Tarbiyat School, Tihran

Moral and Spiritual Development - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Ethics; Spirituality

Moral Education - Arbab,Farzam
Transcription of a talk in English, date and place unknown. Includes Persian translation.
From a talk given sometime prior to 2004, the date this English transcript was translated into Persian (by Faruq Izadinia); contact us if you have further information.
Keywords: Farzam Arbab; Moral education

Moral Leadership - Anello,Eloy (European Bahá'í Business Forum, 2001)
Nur University's moral leadership training for business; ‘transformational training’ and the development of mental models based on key criteria (detailed).
Unedited transcript of a conference lecture. Originally online as a free download from ebbf.org, preserved at archive.org.

Moral Leadership: The Leadership of the Future: An Exploratory Study in a Bahá'í-Inspired Faith School - Davis,Adrian John (2008)
Relationship between theory and practice of moral leadership in a faith-based school, including discussion of institutional dissonance, moral capital, team management, conflict resolution, and the challenges of idealism. Link to thesis (offsite).
Dissertation for Doctor of Education, University of Leicester.

Moral Relativism and the Bahá'í Faith - Cook,Brendan (2006)
An outsider's perspective challenging unquestioning obedience to religious commandments. Right and wrong, this author believes, are relative to situations and to the needs of human beings in a given time and place.

Mormonism and the Bahá'í Faith - Collins,William P. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1990)
Historical contacts between Bahá’ís and Mormons; Mormon views of the Bahá’í Faith; Bahá’í views of Mormonism; literature on Mormons and Bahá’ís.
This article is posted online at the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive. Permission to cross-post articles given by ABS editor in 1997 and 2000 when I was building the first bahai-studies.ca website.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Mormonism (Latter Day Saints)

Mortensen, Fred - Penoyer,Justin (2007)
Three biographies of an American who met Abdu'l-Bahá, by his great-grandson.
This document compiles three separate sources: one from the official website centenary.bahai.us, one from the family's personal website fredmortensen.org, and a 29-page excerpt from a Master's thesis from scribd.com. Justin Penoyer is Fred Mortensen's great grandson.
Keywords: Biography; Fred Mortensen; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Moslem Mystics - Younghusband,Francis (Modern Mystics, 1935)
An entire chapter with background on the Imam Mahdi and Shaykhism, and a detailed history of the Bábí faith, actions of the early believers, and the Báb's martyrdom.

Most Great Peace (a rap) - Zamir,Brett (2007)
This rap was created for use by the Chicago Bahá'í Workshop, but was never performed with the Workshop. It would ideally be performed by two people, alternating verses rapidly.
Keywords: Music; Peace; Rap music; Songs

"Most Great Peace," The: A New Phase of Human Thought - Holley,Marion (Bahá'ı́ Publishing Committee, 1935)
On the causes of war; the need for international relations; no plan so unites every movement, so harmonizes efforts towards the goal of world peace, as does the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Peace; War

"Most Great Reconstruction": The Bahá'í Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 - Venters,Louis E. (2010)
The Faith enjoyed a period of growth from the 1960s-1980s that was largely inspired by interracial teaching campaigns in the South. The Bahá'í movement in South Carolina was a significant, sustained response to racist ideologies. Link to thesis (offsite).
Dissertation for PhD in the Department of History, University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC); later published by University Microfilms International (ISBN 9781243741752, 2011).
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Interfaith dialogue; Race; South Carolina, USA; United States (documents); Unity

Mostofi vs. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1996 - Wagner,Ralph D., compiler (1996)
A "Bahá'í" immigration case, in which an Iranian immigrant sought asylum by falsely claiming affiliation with the Bahá'í Faith.
See also sobhani_vs_ins_1994 and sarhangzadeh_vs_ins_1996. Text taken from "Westlaw," a commercial database published by the West Publishing Company. To comply with copyright law, any annotations have been deleted, leaving the original public-domain text. -R.D.W.
Keywords: Asylum (migration); Court cases; Refugees

Mother's Stories: Recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá - Barrow Newhall,Muriel Ives (1998)
Stories of Abdu'l-Bahá and early Bahá'ís told by Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall (1897-1984), daughter of Howard Colby Ives and Elizabeth Church Hoyt.
These stories were first collected by Newhall in 1970, then revised and updated by her son Reginald Barrow for posting here in 1998. Original PDF (1998) cleaned up by Mike Thomas and converted to Word (2022), which was re-converted to the PDF embedded below; see also the original 1998 PDF (after Thomas' 2022 clean-up) and the 2022 Microsoft Word version. See also H.C. Ives' Portals to Freedom and Ocean of His Utterances. See also more stories by Newhall.
Keywords: Biography; Howard Colby Ives; Stories; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Second Western tour; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Moths Turned Eagles: The Spiritual Conquests of Sabri and Raissa Elias - Hassan,Gamal (National Spiritual Assembly of Ethiopia, 2008)
Introduction of the Bahá'í Faith to Ethiopia and Djibouti, and the activities of Gila Bahta.
A large portion of this history is from audio tapes made by Sabri and Raissa Elias, and interviews with Gila Bahta. The author is also an eyewitness to some of these events. See author's personal website at gamalhassan.com.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Gila Bahta; Pioneers; Raissa Elias; Sabri Elias; Teaching

Mr Faizi and Mr Furútan in Australia: The Yerrinbool tapes - Faizi,Abu'l-Qasim; Furutan,Ali-Akbar (Australian Baha'i Studies, 2000)
Lengthy talks of Hands of the Cause A.Q. Faizi and A.A. Furútan in Australia at the Yerrinbool summer school.
See also the rest of this issue.
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; Australia; Talks; `Alí-Akbar Furútan

Muhammad `Abduh and Rashid Rida: A Dialogue on the Bahá'í Faith - Cole,Juan (World Order, 1981)
Translation of a dialogue between two influential Sunni thinkers of the early Twentieth Century; contains much of historical interest.
Mirrored with permission from h-net.org. Also available as a Microsoft Word document.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Middle East; Muhammad Abduh; Rashid Rida; Reform