- Michael W. Sours. 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahá'í Secondary Literature, The (1998). — This edict, issued the year the Baha'i era began, permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return ...
- Manooher Mofidi. 'Abdu'l Bahá's Tablet of the Two Calls: Civilizing Barbarity (2005). — The relatioship between civilization and barbarity, and the capabilities of humanity.
- Marion Weinstein. ['Abdu'l-Bahá] Declares Zionists Must Work with Other Races: From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York, July 17, 1919) (1919). — An interview with 'Abdu'l-Baha on the League of Nations, Baha'i ideas for peace, and the Holy Land. ...
- G. D. Turner. Account of the Main Events in Persia during October 1912 to October 1913, An (1913). — Overview of developments in Iran in 1913, with passing references to Abdu'l-Baha and E.G. Browne.
- Laurence Oliphant. Babs and Their Prophet, The (1887). — Excerpt from a book described by E.G. Browne as "the first published notice of Beha and the Babi col...
- Francis Henry Skrine. Bahá'ísm, the religion of brotherhood and its place in the evolution of creeds (1912). — An outsider's sympathetic portrayal of the Baha'i history and teachings, written with "express appro...
- 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.
- Abbas Amanat. British influence in Persia in the 19th century (2003). — Includes various mentions of the Babi context. Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Nozomu Sonda. Bushido (Chivalry) and the Traditional Japanese Moral Education (2007). — Japanese virtues explained by Nitobe in 1900 in comparison with the Baha'i perspective on moral educ...
- Maude M. Holbach. Call of Mt. Carmel, The (1912). — Includes passing references to Abdu'l-Baha and Akka, a description of life in Haifa at the time, and...
- Ruhaniyyih Ruth Moffett. Cause of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, The (1954). — A chart correlating the growth of maturity of humanity and the evolution of religions with major eve...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jack McLean. Characterization in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi: With Special Attention to Yahya (2000). — The Guardian employed a creative literary device of adding moralistic comment about historical figur...
- Melissa Tansik. Chronological study: Tablets to the Rulers (1998). — Timeline of the rise of nation states, 1844-1871, and the history and fate of the rulers to whom Bah...
- Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their milita...
- 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...
- Alexandra Yerolimpos. Contribution to the Topography of 19th Century Adrianople, A (1993). — Overview of the layout, the ethnic neighbourhoods, and history of Adrianople, including the period o...
- Clive Irving. Crossroads of Civilization: 3000 Years of Persian History (1979). — Passing mentions of Babi history and the word "Babi" being used as a label to tarnish political diss...
- Taj al-Saltana. Abbas Amanat, ed. Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914 (1993). — Passing references to the Babis in Amanat's introduction to, and in the autobiography of, Nasir al-D...
- 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,...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Deepening Our Knowledge and Understanding of the Faith, The Importance of (1991).
- Universal House of Justice. Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan (2022). — Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis...
- Nasir al-Din Shah. J. W. Redhouse, trans. Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, during his tour through Europe in 1873, The (1874). — Contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but is useful for historical context, and a window...
- Necati Alkan. Divide and Rule: The Creation of the Alawi State after World War I (2013). — Summary of 20th-century history of the Nusayri/Alawi Shi'i movement in Syria and Turkey. (No mention...
- Robert D. Crews. Empire for the Faithful, A Colony for the Dispossessed, An (2009). — History of the establishment of Tsarist power in Turkestan and the goal of earning support from thei...
- Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
- Ann Boyles. Epistolary Style of Shoghi Effendi, The (2022). — The purposes of this paper are to investigate the new style of the epistle and the roots of its deve...
- Eileen Estes and Richard Hollinger et al. Exile from El Salvador: A Conversation with Antonio (1987). — Interview with a former member of the Salvadorean Baha'i community about his history, and about thre...
- James B. Thomas. Exposition of the Tablet of the World (Lawh-i-Dunyá), An (2003). — To fully appreciate the historical significance of the Tablet of the World, this essay first portray...
- 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...
- Necati Alkan. Fighting for the Nuṣayrī Soul: State, Protestant Missionaries and the ʿAlawīs in the Late Ottoman Empire (2012). — Overview of the Alawites/Nusayris (Syrian Shi'is) in the start of the 19th century, political attitu...
- Universal House of Justice. Five Questions: Loss of Voting Rights, Mani, Magi, Five-Pointed Star, Joseph Smith (1991). — Responses to various questions. Closes with quotations on Confucianism and Genesis.
- Harry Liedtke. German Baha'i Community under National Socialism, The: A Historical Perspective With Notes, Postscript, and Photographs (1999). — Examination of why Baha’is, as an international Community or as individuals, did not play an activ...
- Elham Afnan. Good of the World and the Happiness of the Nations, The: A Study of Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature (1989). — The Baha'i Writings, with their new understanding of human destiny, can bridge the gap between utopi...
- Harry Liedtke. Guardian's Wartime Travels, The (2016). — Brief chronology of world events 1938-1940 juxtaposed with Shoghi Effendi's travels in 1940, when he...
- 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...
- John William Draper. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1864). — A selection of excerpts from the book. Contains no mention of the Baha'i Faith, but is of interest p...
- Universal House of Justice. Infallibility and Historical Knowledge of the Guardian (2005). — While the Guardian's infallibility applies to interpretation of revelation, it does not include hist...
- Ervand Abrahamian. Iran between Two Revolutions (1982). — Multiple references to the Baha'i Faith, in an academic book of history.
- W. St. Clair Tisdall. Islam in Persia (1906). — Passing discussions of Babis and Baha'is in Iran at the start of the 20<sup>th</sup> cen...
- Robert G. Wilson. Ita and the Sandinista Revolution (1987). — An interview with Ita, one of the earliest participants in the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua th...
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Les Paradigmes cachés de l'histoire: Comparaison de l'histoire des premiers siècles du christianisme et de la foi bahà'ie (1994). — Exploration of some lessons from history relevant to our era and our near future, from the perspecti...
- Juan Cole and Moojan Momen. Mafia, Mob and Shiism in Iraq: The Rebellion of Ottoman Karbala 1824-1843 (1986). — On the role of gangs in urban social history of the 19-century Ottoman empire; with a decline in gov...
- Phillip Berryman. Making of Central America, The: Intervention, Dictatorship, and Revolution (1986). — History of Western and Christian involvement in Latin America. (No mention of the Baha'i Faith.)
- Brian A. Miller. Mid-East History during the Islamic Period: Chronology and Commentary (2000). — Brief overview of Islamic history.
- Benjamin Schewel. Modernity as an Age of Transition (2023). — Modernity reconceptualized as a period of humanity’s collective adolescence; origins of the modern...
- Ali-Akbar Furutan. Negahi-bi-Tarikh (1985). — This book, "Examination of history," is about the word history. It talks about history in general a...
- Douglas Martin. Notes on the Twentieth Century (2001). — Multiple transcriptions of talks given in Atlanta, New York, and Massachusetts in September and Octo...
- Universal House of Justice. One Common Faith (2005). — Review of relevant passages from both the writings of Baha'u'llah and the scriptures of other faiths...
- Hoda Mahmoudi. Permanence of Change, The: Contemporary Sociological and Bahá'í Perspectives (2008). — Sociohistorical changes of the Axial Age and the Renaissance, sociological views on modernity and it...
- John Huddleston. Phoenix and the Ashes: The Bahá'í Faith and the Modern Apocalypse, by Geoffrey Nash: Review (1988). — 19th-century optimism, disillusionment with contemporary society, philosophy of history, political t...
- Sholeh A. Quinn. Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat: Review (1998).
- Paul Pearsall. President Wilson and the Bahá'í Connection (1988). — Short overview of myths and facts on the Wilson-Baha'i connection. Includes addenda on the League of...
- 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...
- Sathia Varqa. Prophecy of Bahá'u'lláh, The: A Backward Bending Supply Curve Theorem (2006). — The fates of some of the dictators to whom Baha'u'llah addressed his tablets, and the choices and co...
- Brian D. Lepard. Protecting the Human Family: Humanitarian Intervention, International Law, and Bahá'í Principles (2003). — The moral and legal problems raised by the use of military force to aid human rights victims. Releva...
- Matthew Hughey. Race and Racism: Perspectives from Bahá'í Theology and Critical Sociology (2017). — Review of the concepts of race and racism based on social scientific understanding, in order to bett...
- Amin E. Egea. Reading Reality in Times of Crisis: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and the Great War (2021). — How ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s analysis of the crises of His time was profoundly distinct from contemporan...
- Anjam Khursheed. Religion in the Modem World (2001). — On aspects of the Western secular rebellion against theocracy and the rise of free enquiry and freed...
- Moojan Momen. Religious Background of the 1979 Revolution in Iran (1995).
- Roshan Danesh and Douglas White III. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation (2023). — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
- Jack Boyd. Road, The: Reflections on Scottish history (2005). — Essays on the birth of Scotland, Saint Patrick, William Wallace, Robert Bruce, and Rob Roy MacGregor...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Marzieh Gail, trans. Secret of Divine Civilization (1957). — Originally issued anonymously in 1875, this was ʻAbdu'l-Baha's program for the developmental reform...
- Jamar M. Wheeler. Seeking Light in the Darkness of "Race" (2017). — A historical sketch of how race concepts evolved, with analysis at macro and micro levels of society...
- Bradford W. Miller. Seneca Falls First Woman's Rights Convention of 1848: The Sacred Rites of the Nation (1998). — Explores parallels between the Seneca Fails First Woman’s Rights Convention in the USA and the Bad...
- Sandra Lynn Hutchison. Shoghi Effendi and the American Dream (1997). — Context and import of Advent of Divine Justice, American destiny, the American frontier, ethical imp...
- 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;...
- Universal House of Justice. Tablet of Maqsud (2001). — Date of the revelation of the Tablet of Maqsúd and its mention of "Two great powers."
- Ramin Neshati. Tablet of Maqsúd (Lawh-i-Maqsúd): Guidance on Human Nature and Leadership (2003). — Reference to human aptitude and potential being contingent upon education; the need for a global con...
- Universal House of Justice and Juan Cole. Tablet of The Desired One (Lawh-i-Maqsúd): Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999).
- Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Tablet of Wisdom Questions and Answers (1995). — Authorized translation of unpublished Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Baha to Ethel Rosenberg in 1906 in reply to ...
- Todd Lawson. Tafsir and the Meaning of the Qur'an: The Crucifixion in Muslim Thought (2010). — Using Qur'an 4:156-7 as an example, classical tafsīr, “scholastic" exegesis, has not always taken...
- Ismael Velasco. "Two Great Powers" in the Lawh-i Maqsud (2014). — On the identity of the two countries that arose against the followers of Moses, referenced by Baha'u...
- Charles O. Lerche. Us and Them: A Study of Alienation and World Order (1994). — The division of the world into mutually exclusive identity groups and its implications for internati...
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