- 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995.
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- Ahang Rabbani. `Abdu'l-Baha in Abu-Sinan: September 1914 (2005). — The story of Abdu'l-Baha's relocating the Haifa/Akka Baha'i community of some 140 people to a nearby...
- Ahang Rabbani. Afnán Family, The: Some Biographical Notes (2007). — Genealogy of the Bab and biographies of his descendants; meaning of afnan.
- Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 1:2 (1999). — The complete issue of volume 1 number 2.
- Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 2 (2000). — The complete issue of volume 2. Some papers were delivered at the 18th annual ABS conference "The Cr...
- Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 3 (2001). — The complete issue of volume 3.
- Australian Bahá'í Studies: Vol. 4 (2002). — The complete issue of volume 4.
- Juan Cole. Azálí-Bahá'í Crisis of September, 1867, The (2004). — On the history of a fateful weekend during which the Babi movement in the nineteenth-century Middle ...
- Moojan Momen. Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts (1981). — A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Babi and Baha'i religions in contempo...
- Peter Smith and Moojan Momen. Bahá'í Faith 1957-1988, The: A Survey of Contemporary Developments (1989). — A general account of developments in the Baha'i Faith during these three decades.
- William S. Hatcher and Douglas Martin. Baha'i Faith, The: The Emerging Global Religion (1985). — Overview of Baha'i history and teachings, designed as an introductory textbook. Available in English...
- Firuz Kazemzadeh. Bahá'í History (n.d.). — Significance of history to the study of the Baha'i Faith.
- Moojan Momen and Peter Smith. Bahá'í History (1993). — A general survey of the history of the Baha'i Faith, including a brief overview of main events in Ba...
- Todd Lawson. Baha'i Religious History: Introduction (2012). — Introduction to a special issue of this journal titled "Baha'i History," summarizing the prophetic r...
- Peter Smith. Baha'i Studies Youtube Playlist (2020). — Link to Smith's videos on Babi and Baha'i history: Emergence of the Babi movement; Babi conflict and...
- Universal House of Justice, comp. Bahá'í World, The: Volume 18 (1979-1983) (1986). — Periodic volumes that survey the global activities and major achievements of the Faith.
- Biography of Tsar Alexander: Tablet to Tsar Alexander II (Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus) (1999). — Short biography of Tsar Alexander ll describing him as a great historical figure without the charism...
- Biography of Napoleon: Tablet to Napoleon III (Lawh-i-Napulyún) (1999). — Biography of Napoleon III, to whom Baha'u'llah wrote two Tablets.
- Biography of Pope Pius IX: Tablet to Pope Pius IX (Lawh-i-Páp) (1999). — Biography of Pope Pius IX, to whom Baha'u'llah wrote a Tablet.
- Jack McLean. Celestial Burning, A: A Selective Study of the Writings of Shoghi Effendi (2012). — Style, content, and context of the major writings of the Guardian; providential history; critique of...
- Centenary of a World Faith: The History of the Bahá'í Faith and its Development in the British Isles (1944). — On the lives of The Bab, Baha'u'llah, and Abdul-Baha, progress of the Faith in the East and West, an...
- Universal House of Justice. Century of Light (2001). — Survey of the history and dramatic changes of the 20th Century and the Baha'i Faith's emergence from...
- Moojan Momen. Change of Culture, A (2003). — An overview of the process of cultural change in the Baha'i community.
- Arjen Bolhuis. Chart of the Eras and Epochs of Bahá'í History (2000). — Diagram of the periods of Baha'i history. Available in English and Russian.
- Aqa Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani. E.G. Browne, trans. Chronicle of `Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani: Personal Reminiscences of the Insurrection at Zanjan (1897). — Translation of an account of the Babi struggle at Zanjan in 1850, as recollected by an aged eyewitne...
- Moojan Momen. Conspiracies and Forgeries: The Attack upon the Bahá'í Community in Iran (2004). — Early attacks on the Baha'i community in Iran were made mostly on the basis of religious accusations...
- Susan Maneck. Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran: Some Preliminary Observations (1990). — Conversion patterns of Zoroastrians and Jews in the period 1877-1921.
- Foad Katirai. "Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran," by Susan Stiles Maneck: Commentary (1992).
- Vance Salisbury. Critical Examination of 20th-Century Baha'i Literature, A (1997). — Explores the claim, first made by E. G. Browne, that some Baha'is suppress or distort historical tex...
- Adib Masumian. Debunking the Myths: Conspiracy Theories on the Genesis and Mission of the Bahá'í Faith (2009). — Response to Iranian conspiracy theories portraying the Baha'i Faith as a subversive political group,...
- Hui Bau. Demystifying Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of the Holy Mariner: History, Translations, Interpretations and Analysis (2016). — Lengthy compilation, with background information on the Tablet, and commentary from Bau, Adib Taherz...
- Bahá'í International Community. Descripción de La Comunidad Internacional Bahá'í (2000). — Descripción de La Comunidad Internacional Baha'i
- Thomas the Slav. Early History of the Bahá'í Faith (2015). — A map showing the origins of the Baha'i Faith via the journeys and exile of the Bab and Baha'u'llah.
- Moojan Momen. Early Western Accounts of the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths (1995).
- Universal House of Justice. Election and Infallibility of the Universal House of Justice (1996). — Answers to three questions: Why were steps taken to elect a Universal House of Justice with the fore...
- Research Department of the Universal House of Justice. Epochs of the Formative Age (1996). — On dating and defining the three major evolutionary "Ages" of Baha'i history, and the five "epochs" ...
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination (2000). — On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjecti...
- Juan Cole. Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Middle Eastern Modernity, The (1999). — Middle Eastern religion is seldom mentioned in the same breath with modernism. The Baha'i faith, whi...
- Moojan Momen. Globalization of the Bahá'í Community: 1892-1921, The (2005). — On the connection between Abdu’l-Baha’s thinking and his practical directives in the global expa...
- Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By (1971). — The classic — and canonical — historical summary and interpretation of the significance of the d...
- Arthur Hampson. Growth and Spread of the Baha'i Faith, The (1980). — A detailed attempt to describe and account for the spread of the Baha'i Faith, including the roles p...
- Bahá'í International Community. Historia de su Cooperacion con las Naciones Unidas (n.d.).
- Vernon Elvin Johnson. Historical Analysis of Critical Transformations in the Evolution of the Bahá'í World Faith, An (1974). — Detailed study of major changes in the Faith's history, opposition to such changes, and their result...
- Amy Suzanne Hollander. Historical Development of Genoa Square in Acre Israel from the Seventh Century to the Present Day, The (1995). — A study of the structure, development, space, and historic preservation of a portion of Akka, includ...
- House of Abdu'llah Pasha, The (1986). — Short history and restoration of a house associated with "some of the most dramatic and historically...
- Douglas Martin. Humanity's Coming Encounter with Baha'u'llah (1992). — Retrospective look at the previous 100 years of Baha'i history, current shifts of focus and teaching...
- Duane L. Herrmann. International Bahá'í Council (1990). — History of the formation of the IBC.
- Ignaz Goldziher. Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law (1981). — An early academic overview of Babi and Baha'i history and theology. From translation of a 1910 book ...
- Mehrdad Amanat. Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran in the Qajar Period: Conversion to the Bahá'í Faith (2009). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Moojan Momen. Learning from History (1989). — The challenges caused by the influx of Third World villagers into the Baha’i world community. The ...
- John Conkling, comp. Majestic Process, The: Cycles, Eras, Epochs and Stages (2004). — A one page chart developed as a class handout on the "Majestic Process," the Ages and Epochs of the ...
- Muhammed Labib. Map of Stages in Baha'u'llah's Successive Exiles from Tihran to Akka (1968). — Map of Stages in Baha'u'llah's Successive Exiles from Tihran to Akka, compiled and designed by Labib...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Hawaiian Islands, comp. Map of the Travels of Baha'u'llah (1991). — The progressive exiles of Baha'u'llah through the Middle East. Includes timeline.
- E. G. Browne, comp. Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion (1918). — An early collection of historical documents related to Baha'i and Babi studies. (Not fully complete....
- Moshe Sharon. Meaning of Baha'i History, The (1999). — Disregarding personal belief, a neutral historian uses tools of objective research to deal with the ...
- Juan Cole. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in the Nineteenth-century Middle East [introduction only] (1998). — Introduction and first 4 pages of Chapter One.
- Paul Carus. New Religion, Babism, A (1904). — Overview of early Baha'i history, the Faith in Chicago, a review of Myron Phelps' book Life and Teac...
- Douglas Martin. Notes on the Twentieth Century (2001). — Multiple transcriptions of talks given in Atlanta, New York, and Massachusetts in September and Octo...
- John Walbridge. Notes on the Zuhuru'l-Haqq series (1996). — Brief overview of this historical work. Includes letter from the World Centre explaining that no off...
- Viola Tuttle and Margarite Ioas Ullrich et al. Part of the Baha'i History of the Family of Charles and Maria Ioas (1978). — Biographies of Charles and Maria: from his birth in 1859, their introduction to the Faith in 1898, e...
- Picture Gallery of Early British Bahá'ís (1998). — Published in honor of the UK Baha'i Centenary, 1998/99.
- Shoghi Effendi. Promised Day is Come, The (1980). — A book-length letter written by Shoghi Effendi to the Baha’is of the West, dated 28 March 1941, ab...
- William P. Collins. Sacred Mythology and the Bahá'í Faith (1990). — The mythological universe created by Baha’u’llah employs three significant spiritual verities: t...
- Jack McLean. Shoghi Effendi's View of Providential History in Light of the Judaeo-Christian Tradition (2005). — The Guardian's letters reveal six feature of his historicity: palingenesis and transitional history;...
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Social Activism Among Some Early Twentieth-Century Bahá'ís (2006). — Socialist involvement of some of Canada's earliest Baha'is, before and after the prohibition of invo...
- Universal House of Justice. Star of the West: Use of, in Electronic Form (1999). — Guidance on use of the publication Star of the West in electronic form as well as advice on how to d...
- Bahá'í International Community. Statement on Bahá'u'lláh, A (1992). — Introduction to the life and work of Baha'u'llah, released in 1992 in honor of the centenary of his ...
- Adib Taherzadeh. Kiser Barnes, comp. Stories of Baha'u'llah and Some Notable Believers (2003). — Extracts compiled by Kiser Barnes from Adib Taherzadeh’s The Revelation of Baha’u’llah, Volume...
- Aziz Rohani, comp. Sweet and Enchanting Stories (2005). — Stories and memoirs by and about ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Mirza Haydar ‘Ali, Zia Baghdadi, ‘Ali Akbar F...
- Shoghi Effendi. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet of the Centennial (1998). — Partial translation of an epistle to the Persian-speaking Baha'is, written shortly after "God Passes...
- Sepehr Manuchehri. Taqiyyah (Dissimulation) in the Babi and Bahá'í Religions (2000). — The historical application of taqiyyah and instances where Babis cooperated with the authorities in ...
- Arthur Pillsbury Dodge. Paul Carus, ed. The Bahá'í Revelation (1905). — Article, with photographs, correcting and expanding on some of Open Court's previous articles on the...
- Moojan Momen. Understanding Bahá'í History: Introduction to the study of history (2013). — Video and transcript, prepared for the Wilmette Institute, about how to approach and understand the ...
- Unfoldment of the Divine Plan (2021). — Visual overview of the Baha'i Cycle, the Baha'i Era, the three Ages, the three Epochs, and all of th...
- Research Department of the Universal House of Justice. Universal House of Justice, The (2021). — Compilation about the "Universal House of Justice" from the writings of Baha’u’llah, 'Abdu’l-B...
- Betsy Omidvaran. Visits of the Hands of the Cause of God to Ireland (2003). — An overview of all known visits by the Hands, the highest-ranking officers of the Baha’i Faith, to...
- Darius Shahrokh. Grace Shahrokh, comp. Windows to the Past (1992). — Deepening talks on 25 topics about Baha'i history and teachings, downloadable in MP3 audio format an...
- Ahang Rabbani. Witnesses to Babi and Bahá'í History (1996). — Multiple volumes of historical materials, translations, and original research.
- Moojan Momen. Zuhur al-Haqq (2002). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani, comp. اسرار الآثار (Asráru'l-Áthár): "Secrets of the (Bahá'í) Writings" (1968). — The first large-scale attempt to define Baha'i theology; the volumes, written ca. 1955, are essentia...
- Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani, comp. تاريخ ظُهور الحق (Tarikh-i Zuhur Al-Haqq): "The History of the Manifestation of Truth" (1968). — Nine volumes of Tarikh-i Zuhur Al-Haqq, hand-typed and proofread. The first volumes were originally ...
- Azizu'llah Sulaymani. مصابیح هدایت (Masabih-i-Hidayat): "Lights of Guidance" (1948). — Biographies of 99 prominent Baha'is from the formative years of the Faith, published between 1948 an...
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