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  1. Christopher Buck. 175 Years of Persecution: A History of the Bábís and Bahá'ís of Iran, by Fereydun Vahman: Review (2021).
  2. Manuchehr Derakhshani, trans. 1867 Petition from Bahá'ís in Shushtar, Iran, to the U.S. Congress, An (2006). — A petition sent by Baha'is in Persia in 1867 to the US Consulate general, seeking assistance in gett...
  3. 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995. Also available as a zipped archive: <a href="ht...
  4. Mina Yazdani. `Abdu'l-Bahá and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Embracing Principles while Disapproving Methodologies (2014). — Abdu’l-Baha’s orientation toward the Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911: he embraced the pri...
  5. Adib Masumian. `Abdu'l-Bahá's Blueprint for a Progressive and Prosperous Iran (2016). — 'Abduʼl-Baha's contributions to Iranian thought and social discourse, as recorded in his seminal wo...
  6. Muhammad Qazvini. Ahang Rabbani, trans. 'Abdu'l-Baha's Meeting with Two Prominent Iranians (1998). — Muhammad Qazvini's and Siyyid Hasan Taqizadeh's descriptions of their 1911 meetings with `Abdu'l-Bah...
  7. Iraj Ghanooni. Naeem Nabiliakbar, trans. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the World Stage (2022). — A contrast of the spiritual purpose of ‘Abdu'l-Baha's first visit to Paris with the secular aims o...
  8. Adib Masumian, trans. Account of the Life of Hakím Áqá Ján, An (2022). — Originally written in Persian by Mirza Áqa Khan Katira’i (Ya‘qúb) and published in Payam-i-Bah...
  9. 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.
  10. Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben. Across Asia on a Bicycle: Through Persia to Samarkand (1894). — A travelogue through Tabreez, with a short but somewhat hostile history of the Bab.
  11. Henry Savage-Landor. Across Coveted Lands (1903). — Brief mention of the Baha'is of Yazd.
  12. Activities in Iran in the 1960s: Documents from the US government (1964). — State Dept., CIA, and Defense documents regarding activities in Iran in the 1960s.
  13. Bahá'u'lláh Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh (2018). — 80 selections, updated August 2023.
  14. Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018). — 167 selections, updated August 2023.
  15. Amin Banani. Ahmad Kasravi and the "Purification" of Persian: A Study in Nationalist Motivation (1981). — Political theory of a modernist Iranian reformer, also known for his criticisms of the Baha'i Faith....
  16. Mehraeen Mottahedin-Mavaddat and Moojan Momen. Alavíyyih Khánum and 'Alí Ján, Mullá (2009). — On the couple, both distinguished Iranian teachers of the Baha’i Faith; Mulla ‘Ali Jan was execu...
  17. Moojan Momen. Alí Bastámí, Mullá (2009). — On the second disciple to recognize the Bab, and the first Babi martyr.
  18. Denis MacEoin. Alí Bastámí, Mullá (1985). — Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  19. Moojan Momen. Ali Bastami, Mulla (1995).
  20. Graham Hassall. Ambassador at the Court: The Life and Photography of Effie Baker (1999). — Extensive biography of Effie Baker, an early Australian Baha'i.
  21. Elnaz Nasehi. Ambivalence of Hostility and Modification: Patriarchy's Ideological Negotiation With Women, Modernity and Cinema in Iran (2020). — Passing mentions of the Baha'i Faith in the context of how forces behind the Constitutional Revoluti...
  22. Dan Rather. American Dream, The: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation (2001). — Commentary on Baha'i persecutions, by a famous TV news anchor.
  23. Foad Seddigh. Analysis of the Salient Features of Risáliy-i-Ja'faríyyih, An (2019). — This treatise, one of the major writings of the Báb, was written before He had disclosed His compl...
  24. Mina Yazdani and Omid Ghaemmaghami. Ante Litteram Critique of Orientalism, An: The Case of Abu'l-Fadá'il-i-Gulpáyigání and E.G. Browne (2023). — Gulpaygani’s analysis of Orientalism as presented in his book Kashfu'l-Ghita', which focused on th...
  25. Mehdi Abedi and Michael M. J. Fischer. Anti-Bahá'í Society, The (1990). — Autobiographical stories of Abedi and his involvement in opposition to the Baha'i Faith in Iran with...
  26. Sholeh A. Quinn. Aqasi, Haji Mirza ('Abbas Iravani) (2009). — On the prime minister of Iran under Muhammad Shah Qajar from 1835 to 1848, regarded by Baha’is as ...
  27. Marzieh Gail. Arches of the Years (1991). — Early days of the Baha'i Faith in America and of Abdu'l-Baha's visit in 1912; Phoebe Hearst; Versail...
  28. Mahnaze A. da Silveira. Ashraf, Ghodsieh (2012). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  29. Leila Chamankhah. At Home in the Ghettos: Bahá'ís in Iran (2010). — Essay on the causes of distrust and estrangement between Shias and Baha'is. The term "ghetto" here r...
  30. Abdu'l-Bahá. E.G. Browne, ed. Attitude of Bahá'ís towards Persian Politics (1910).
  31. John Paul Vader. August Forel Defends the Persecuted Persian Bahá'ís: 1925-1927 (1986). — History of Forel's involvement with the Faith. Includes correspondence from Shoghi Effendi.
  32. Todd Lawson. Authority of the Feminine and Fatima's Place in an Early Work by the Bab, The (2007). — While Tahirih inspired many in Europe and eventually America, she is very much a daughter of her own...
  33. Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman. Awakening: A History of the Bábi and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz (2013). — Eight items: The complete book in Spanish, sample chapter in English, reviews, audio interview, and ...
  34. Hussein Ahdieh, trans. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2013). — English translation of a short review in Persian.
  35. Anne Pearson. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2015).
  36. Naysan Naraqi. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2013). — Brief review of book, and short interview with Ahdieh, conducted by bahaiblog.net.
  37. Robert Harris. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2013).
  38. Zackery Mirza Heern. Báb and 'Alí Muhammad, Islamic and Post-Islamic, The: Multiple Meanings in the Writings of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad Shírází (1819-1850) (2023). — Writings of the Bab can be understood as a commentary on the Qur'an, the original Qur'an, and divine...
  39. Edward Payson Evans. Bab and Babism (1869). — Overview of Babi history, the dissemination of its teachings, events following the Bab's death, and ...
  40. Ahang Rabbani, ed. Báb in Shiraz, The: An Account by Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán (2008). — Recollections of the early years of the Bab and his family, and the times following his declaration;...
  41. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Báb on the Rights of Women, The (2023). — Statements of the Bab on issues such as mutʿah and tahlil marriages, polygyny, bridal consent, divo...
  42. Arminius (Armin) Vambery. Bab und Babis (1867). — Lengthy discussion of the Babis, by a Hungarian Jew who later met Abdu'l-Baha.
  43. Bahá'í Inspiration. Báb's Business Etiquette, The. — Anecdote about how the Bab changed unseemly business practices while he was a merchant in Bushihr, a...
  44. Moojan Momen. Babi and Bahá'í community of Iran, The: A case of 'suspended genocide'? (2005). — A description of the four phases of the persecutions that the Babis and Baha’is in Iran have suffe...
  45. 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...
  46. New York Times. Ralph D. Wagner, comp. Babi Attempt on the Life of the Shah, 1852: Coverage in the New York Times (1852). — Five brief newspaper reports, among the earliest known references to the Bab in an American publicat...
  47. John Walbridge. Babi Martyrs, Some (2002). — Includes bios of Shaykh Salih Karimi, Mulla Abd al-Karim Qazvini, the Farhadis of Qazvin, the Seven ...
  48. Ahmad Nur Fuad. Babi Movement in Iran, The: From Religious Dissent to Political Revolt, 1844 (1998). — Development of the Babi movement and the political implications of its religious teachings, as seen ...
  49. Peter Smith and Moojan Momen. Babi Movement, The: A Resource Mobilization Perspective (1986). — Babism from a sociological standpoint, esp. the place of the Babis in their contemporary cultural an...
  50. W. A. Rice. Babi Pamphlet, A (1902). — Review of an unnamed booklet sent to E.G. Browne, a "little manuscript book of 118 small pages, writ...
  51. Anthony Lee. Bábí Theology in Poetry, A: The Creative Imagination of Táhirih, Qurratu'l-'Ayn (2023). — Examination of Qurratu’l-Ayn's writings to discern her social, religious, and political beliefs, m...
  52. John Walbridge. Bábí Uprising in Zanjan, The (1996). — A study of the Babi uprising in Zanjan in 1850, examining the social, economic, and political backg...
  53. Minou Foadi. Bábí-Bahá'í Community in Khorasan, The (2022). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  54. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Bábí-State Conflict at Shaykh Tabarsi, The (2002). — On the background and events of the Shaykh Tabarsi conflict; developments, both in the political sph...
  55. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Babi-State Conflicts of 1848-1853, The (2003). — Overview of four conflicts between the Babis and the Qajar state: one at Shaykh Tabarsi in Mazandara...
  56. Ahang Rabbani, ed. Bábís of Nayriz, The: History and Documents (2006). — Extensive collection of historical documents: autobiographies, narratives, genealogies and chronolog...
  57. Moojan Momen. Badasht (1989). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  58. Moojan Momen. Badí' (Bahá'í) Calendar: An Introduction, The (2014). — Summary of the nature of Baha'i calendar, the way the Badi' calendar works, and the reason for the 2...
  59. Moojan Momen. Badí` Khurasani (1995). — Short biography of Badi, a Baha'i renowned for his bravery and devotion.
  60. Kamran Ekbal. Bagdádi Family (2014). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  61. Bahá'í Centres in Iran (1936) (1937).
  62. Moojan Momen. Bahá'í Community of Iran, The: Patterns of Exile and Problems of Communication (1991). — An examination of the causes and patterns of migrations of Iranian Baha'is.
  63. Robert Stockman. Bahá'í Faith and Globalization 1900-1912, The (2005). — Abdu’l-Baha’s thinking inspired much of the practice of Baha’i proselytising; overview of the ...
  64. Adam Berry. Bahá'í Faith and Its Relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, The: A Brief History (2004). — Baha'i history in Iran and America; relationship with Christian missionaries in Iran and Christian c...
  65. John Walbridge. Bahá'í Faith in Iran, The (2002). — Includes essay "Three Clerics and a Prince of Isfahan: background to Baha'u'llah's Epistle to the So...
  66. John Walbridge. Bahá'í Faith in Turkey, The (2002). — Includes bios of individuals from Turkey who figure prominently in Baha'i history.
  67. Seena Fazel and Minou Foadi. Bahá'í Health Initiatives in Iran: A preliminary survey (2008). — Baha'i-related initiatives in Iran in the 19th-20th centuries: Baha'is made important contributions ...
  68. Todd Lawson, ed. Bahá'í History (2012). — A complete issue of this well-known journal was dedicated entirely to Baha'i Studies. So far, only 3...
  69. Hussein Ahdieh. Bahá'í History and Videos (2013). — Links to Zoom videos on a variety of topics: Kahlil Gibran, the life of Varqa, Baha'i schools for gi...
  70. Moojan Momen. Bahá'í Influence on the Reform Movements of the Islamic World in the 1860s and 1870s (1983). — Baha'i influences on the Middle Eastern reform movement in the 1860s and 1870s.
  71. Margaret Caton. Bahá'í Influences on Mirza 'Abdu'llah, Qajar Court Musician and Master of the Radíf (1984). — The mystical milieu of musicianship and the Baha'i Faith's approval of music (in contradistinction t...
  72. Bahá'í International Community. Baha'i Institute Of Higher Education, The: A Creative And Peaceful Response To Religious Persecution In Iran (1999). — Overview of the history and architecture of BIHE, the independent, full-fledged, yet completely dece...
  73. Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali. Youness Khan Afroukhteh, trans. Bahá'í Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year 1903 AD (1917). — A memoir by Abdu'l-Baha, erroneously credited to Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali, published in English as a 28...
  74. Juan Cole. Baha'i Minority and Nationalism in Contemporary Iran (2005). — While Baha'is in Persia would seem to have been in a place to benefit from the rise of modern Irania...
  75. Bahá'í World News Service. Bahá'í News Publications Seek to Elevate Thought, Inspire Action (2018). — Brief overview of the histories of various Baha'i journals: Star of the West, Khurshid-i khavar, Son...
  76. Christopher Buck. 'Bahá'í Question' in Iran: Influence of International Law on 'Islamic Law' (2021). — On the "Baha’i question," a secret Iranian government document from 1991 which sets out oppressive...
  77. Bahá'í International Community. Bahá'í Question, The: Cultural Cleansing in Iran (2008).
  78. John Walbridge. Bahá'í Shrines (1989).
  79. Robert Stauffer, comp. Bahá'í Studies Bulletin: Index by volume (1998). — List of articles in all issues of Bahai Studies Bulletin, 1982-1992.
  80. Bijan Ma'sumian and Adib Masumian. Baha'i Studies in Iran: A Preliminary Survey (2014). — Overview of the cultivation and evolution of religious education in the Baha’i Faith in Iran in th...
  81. 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.
  82. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh, ed. Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights (2001). — Articles by Kiser Barnes, Greg Duly, Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Graham Hassall, Darren Hedley, Nazila...
  83. Moojan Momen. Baha'is and the Constitutional Revolution, The: The Case of Sari, Mazandaran, 1906-1913 (2008). — Accounts of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran have tended to ignore the role of the Baha’is. T...
  84. Firuz Kazemzadeh. Bahá'ís in Iran, The: Twenty Years of Repression (2000). — Overview of the modern persecution of Baha'is in Iran.
  85. Ankita Sanyal. Baha'is in Post-revolution Iran: Perspectives of the Ulema (2019). — Historical background of the ulema/monarchy equation; the Ayatollahs’ take on the Baha’is after ...
  86. Bahá'í International Community. Bahá'ísm - Its Origins and Role: A Rebuttal (1983). — The complete Iranian document "Bahaism — its origins and its role" together with BIC commentary on...
  87. Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology (1997). — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
  88. Roger White. Bahá'u'lláh and the Fourth Estate (1986). — Baha'u'llah's response to the martyrdom of seven Baha'is in Yazd in May, 1891, and his relationship ...
  89. Christopher Buck. Baha'u'llah as 'World Reformer' (1991). — This article places Baha'u'llah in the context of Islamic reform by comparing him to several contemp...
  90. Shoghi Effendi. Bahai Movement, The: A paper read by Shoghi Effendi at Oxford (1923). — Text of an address given to the Oxford University Asiatic Society, February 1921, before the passing...
  91. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Bábí-State Conflict at Shaykh Tabarsí, The (2004). — Analysis of first of four major clashes between the Babis and the Qajar state from 1848-1853. The Ba...
  92. M. E. Hume-Griffith. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (1909). — Three-page history of the Bab and his execution, with reference to the persecutions in Yazd.
  93. Moojan Momen and Abu'l-Qasim Afnan et al. Black Pearls: Notes on Slavery (1988). — Editor's note, foreword, preface, and introduction to two editions of Black Pearls; brief overview o...
  94. R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. Black Pearls: The African Household Slaves of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Merchant Family (2003). — The African slave trade to Iran in the 1800s, and the lives of household slaves of one specific merc...
  95. Akbar E. Torbat. Brain Drain from Iran to the United States, The (2002). — Excerpt from article mentioning the exodus of Baha'i intelligentsia from Iran in 1979, and the Baha'...
  96. 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.
  97. Arthur J. Arberry. Browne and the Babis (1960). — Brief history of the Babis and E. G. Browne's relations with them.
  98. Kamran Ekbal. Browne, Edward Granville: Persian Constitutional movement (1990). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  99. Nasser Mohajer. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Brutal Slashing to Death of Dr Berjis, The (2011). — English translation of an article in Persian about persecutions during the Pahlavi regime, and the d...
  100. Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman. Calling, The: Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries (2017). — Simultaneous, powerful spiritual movements swept across both Iran and the U.S in the mid-1800s. On t...
  101. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Amnesty International et al. Cases of Dhabihu'llah Mahrami and Musa Talibi, The (1998). — In June 1994 and January 1996, two Baha'is in Iran were arrested and later sentenced to death for th...
  102. Juan Cole and Amir Hassanpour. Chihriq (1990). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  103. Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. Chosen Highway, The (1940). — Oral Baha'i histories collected by an eminent early English Baha'i, first published in 1940.
  104. 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...
  105. Jonah Winters, comp. Chronology of Persecutions of Babis and Baha'is (1998).
  106. Paul Ward English. City and Village in Iran: Settlement and Economy in the Kirman Basin (1966). — Brief description of villages in Iran, including Langar, the "center of the Shaykhi sect."
  107. Bruce Whitmore. City of Love, The: Ishqábád and the Institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (1975). — History of the building of the temple in Turkmenistan, north of the Iranian province of Khurasan.
  108. 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...
  109. Peter Terry. Concealment and Burial of the Báb (2012). — This chapter from A.-L.-M. Nicolas' seminal biography Seyyed Ali Mohammed dit le Bab (1905) tells th...
  110. Moojan Momen. Concept of 'Light' in Iranian Religion, The (2003).
  111. 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...
  112. Salim A. Nakhjavani. Constitutional Coherence and the Legal Status of the Bahá'í Community of Iran (2016). — Constitutional coherence as a process norm; unfulfilled constitutional promises; aspects of the Iran...
  113. Moojan Momen. Constitutional Movement and the Bahá'ís of Iran, The: The Creation of an 'Enemy Within' (2012). — Baha'is had a complex relationship with the Constitutionalist Movement, sometimes supporting it and ...
  114. Firaydoun Javaheri. Constructive Resilience (2018). — How the perseverance of the Baha'is in Iran has resulted in the generality of the Iranian people beg...
  115. Michael Karlberg. Constructive Resilience: The Bahá'í Response to Oppression (2010). — Example of the non-adversarial approach of the Baha'is in Iran toward social change, their collectiv...
  116. Sulayman S. Nyang. Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity (1999). — Contains only brief mention of Baha'is, but discusses the Iranian Revolution and related topics.
  117. 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.
  118. Foad Katirai. "Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran," by Susan Stiles Maneck: Commentary (1992).
  119. Moojan Momen. Covenant, The, and Covenant-breaker (1995).
  120. 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...
  121. 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...
  122. Nabil-i-A'zam Shoghi Effendi, trans. Dawn-Breakers: Nabil's Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Revelation (1932). — The extensive and preeminent history of Babism and the early Baha'i Faith, by Nabil-i-A'zam [aka Mul...
  123. National Teaching Committee. Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl's Narrative of the Early Days of The Bahá'í Revelation: Study Guide (1932).
  124. Universal House of Justice. Day of the Covenant 26 November 2003: To the Followers of Baha'u'llah in the Cradle of the Faith (2003). — A message to the Baha'is of Iran; in both English and Persian.
  125. Boris Handal. De la Córdoba Mora a los Bahá'ís de Irán (2010). — Contrast between the contemporary Iranian Baha'i community and the treatment of religious minorities...
  126. Universal House of Justice and National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Deaths of Two Iranian Bahá'ís, 1997 (1997). — Reports from the Universal House of Justice and the NSA of the United States on the deaths of Masha'...
  127. 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,...
  128. David Merrick. Declaration of the Bab (Poetic) (2008). — A poetic meditation on Mulla Husayn's transformation at the Declaration of the Bab.
  129. Kamran Ekbal. Der Messianismus des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts und die Entstehung der Baha'i Religion (1998). — On the resurgence of a millenarianistic climate in the 19th century from China through the Middle-Ea...
  130. Lory Alder and Richard Dalby. Dervish of Windsor Castle, The: The Life of Arminius Vambery (1979). — Two-paragraph discussion of Curzon and the Babis.
  131. Muhammad Iqbal. Development of Metaphysics in Persia, The: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy (1908). — Short philosophical observations on the theology of the Bab and Baha'u'llah.
  132. 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...
  133. Boris Handal. Dispensation of the Bab, The (2023). — Detailed, systematic presentation of the Bab's teachings; Babi prophecies relating to Baha'u'llah; t...
  134. Universal House of Justice and National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Dissimulation by Iranian Emigrants (1985). — Letters from the House and the US NSA concerning Baha'is who were able to escape Iran in 1997 by den...
  135. Jack McLean. Divine Simplicity: Remembering the last Hand of the Cause of God, 'Ali-Muhammad Varqa (2008). — Biography of Dr. Varqa, partly based on interviews with people who knew him in Iran.
  136. John Walbridge. Document and Narrative Sources for the History of the Battle of Zanjan (1998). — Analysis of Muslim and Baha'i historical texts, including Dawnbreakers.
  137. Moojan Momen. Dolgorukov Memoirs (1996). — Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  138. Simone Dennis and Megan Warin. Domestic Temporalities: Sensual Patterning in Persian Migratory Landscapes (2007). — Embodied paths of patterning, memory and emotion amongst Persian immigrant women in Adelaide, especi...
  139. Dr. Cormick. E.G. Browne, comp. Dr. Cormick's Accounts of his Personal Impressions of Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, The Báb (1848). — A Westerner's account of meeting the Bab in 1848, and an account of separate incidents involving the...
  140. Necati Alkan. Dreams and their Interpretation in the Bahá'í Religion: Some Preliminary Remarks (2007). — Outline of the importance of dreams and their interpretation in the Baha'i Religion; dream interpr...
  141. Mark Perry. Dress for Mona, A: Abridged one-act version (2002). — The story of Mona Mahmudnizhad.
  142. Universal House of Justice. Early Bahá'í Census in Iran (2016). — No systematic census was taken of the numbers of early believers, before the Guardian's call for suc...
  143. Early Mention of Bábís in Western Newspapers, Summer 1850 (1850). — Very brief newspaper mentions about the rise of the Babi movement: Tioga Eagle (Wellsborough, Pennsy...
  144. Susan Maneck. Early Zoroastrian Conversions to the Baha'i Faith in Yazd, Iran (1984). — A history of the gradual process of conversion among some Zoroastrians to the Baha'i Faith in Iran f...
  145. Major St. John. Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-72 (1876). — Brief description of the town of Niris [Nayriz], "the head-quarters of Babism," and the road to Shir...
  146. Ahang Rabbani. Efforts to preserve the remains of the Bab: Four historical accounts (2003). — Accounts by Mirza Hasan Adib Taliqani, Fadil Mazandarani, ‘Abdu’l-Husayn Avarih, and Aqa Husa...
  147. Gloria A. Faizi. Fred Frazelle, trans. El Fuego en la Cima de la Montaña (1993). — Traducción de Fire on the Mountain-Top (Faizi, 1973).
  148. Helen Cheng and Catherine Nash. Emblems of Faithfulness: Pluralism in Meaning and Beauty in the Ordinary (2015). — Memorials of the Faithful is notable for the diversity of personalities described, and the sheer ord...
  149. A.L.M. Nicolas. En Perse: La Constitution (1906). — Three documents related to the first Iranian Constitution, with passing mentions of Babis.
  150. Nooshfar B. Afnan. Encouragement of the Arts During the Ministry of 'Abdu'l-Bahá: The Services of Master Calligrapher Mishkín-Qalam (2023). — ‘Abdu’l-Baha promoted the arts, including through support of Mishkin-Qalam and artistic concepti...
  151. 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.
  152. William F. McCants and John Walbridge et al. Richard C. Martin, ed. Encyclopedia of Islam and The Muslim World (2004). — Articles on Abdu'l-Baha, the Bab, Baha'u'llah, the Babi and Baha'i Faiths, Hujjatiya, Persian langua...
  153. Denis Wright. English Amongst the Persians During the Qajar Period 1787-1921, The (1977). — Passing mentions of Baha'is seeking support or asylum from British consulates or missionaries in the...
  154. Anthony Lee. Enslaved African Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life of Fezzeh Khanom of Shiraz (2012). — Through an examination of the life of this servant of The Bab, this paper addresses the enormous gap...
  155. E. Crawshay Williams. Episode of The 'Báb' (1907). — Brief overview of the Bab's execution.
  156. Universal House of Justice. European Bahá'í Youth Conference in Innsbruck (1983). — Challenges facing European Baha'i Youth, followed by consolation to Baha'i youth in light of the 198...
  157. Muhammad-Tahir Malmiri. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Events and Tragedies of Manshád, The (2007). — Events and martyrs from the uprisings in Manshad and Yazd, in 1903. A translation of Haji Malmiri's ...
  158. Kamran Ekbal. Execution of the Jews of Banu Quraida and the Conquest of Persia, The: The Dilemma of Early Islam (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha's views on the mass execution of the Banu Qurayza Jews in Medina in 627 A.D. [article in...
  159. 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...
  160. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Eyewitness Account of the Massacre of Bahá'ís in Nayriz, 1909 (2013). — Shaykh Dhakariyya's rebellion in Nayriz culminated in the martyrdom of nineteen Baha'is on Naw Ruz, ...
  161. Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Faith Denied, A: The Persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran (2006). — The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center's account of persecutions of Baha'is of Iran (2006).
  162. Sen McGlinn. Family Law in Iran (2001). — Detailed overview of 20th-century Iranian laws regarding marriage, divorce, marriage rights and duti...
  163. Boris Handal. Family of Mullá Husayn, The (2023). — The life, context, and times of Mulla Husayn-i-Bushrú’i (1813-1849), the Babu'l-Bab, "Gate of the...
  164. Janet Afary and et al.. Feminist Movements in the Late Qajar Period (1999). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  165. Henry H. Jessup. Fifty Three Years In Syria (1910). — Passing encounters between Baha'is and a Christian missionary in Iran, 1867-1901.
  166. Gloria A. Faizi. Fire on the Mountain-Top (1973). — A collection of stories about early members of the Baha’i Faith, based on accounts gathered in Per...
  167. Steven Kolins, comp. First newspaper story of the events of the Bábí Faith (2013). — Six versions of the first public mentions in English of the Babis, from November 1845.
  168. Christopher Buck. First Recorded Bahá'í Fireside, The (2019). — An episode from Browne's A Year Amongst the Persians which can be regarded as a first "fireside" —...
  169. E.G. Browne, trans. Five unpublished contemporary documents relating to The Bab's examination at Tabriz in 1848 (1848).
  170. Ali Nakhjavani. Flame with Us, A (n.d.). — Discussion of the persecution of the Baha'is in Iran and the need for Baha'is to be transformed and ...
  171. Charles H. Stileman. Followers of Beha in Persia, The (1898). — A follow-up to the author's 1893 article "A Week with the Babis."
  172. Shahla Gillbanks. Footprints in the Sands of Time (2019). — Memoir of time as a Baha'i in Iran and pioneer to other countries around the world, and a historical...
  173. Hooper Dunbar. Forces of Our Time: Lecture Series (2011). — Six lectures series at Bosch Baha'i School, April 15-17 2011.
  174. Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman. Foreigner: From an Iranian Village to New York City and the Lights That Led the Way (2019). — Biography of a young boy in Nayriz, Iran in the mid 20th-century, his reflection on the sad society;...
  175. Carla Serena. Formation de la Secte des Babi (1883). — Also sections "Les Exploits de la Secte de Babi," "Mort du Point," "Complot des Babi contre Nasser-E...
  176. Ali Akbar Dareini, trans. Freemasonry, Bahá'ísm, and British Tudehis (1999). — Overview of Baha'i activities during the period of Mohammad Reza Shah, from the hostile perspective ...
  177. Juan Cole, ed. From Iran East and West (1984). — Essays on Baha'i history in the Middle East, the United States, and India.
  178. Boris Handal. From Moorish Cordova to the Bahá'ís of Iran: Islamic Tolerance and Intolerance (2007). — Though Baha'is are persecuted in Iran, Muhammad taught understanding and respect towards religious m...
  179. Naghme Naseri Morlock. From Outsider to Outsider: A Study of Iranian Bahá'ís' Identity in Iran and the United States (2023). — The denial of a national identity of Baha'is in Iran; their experiences in the U.S.; cultural differ...
  180. Amin E. Egea. Further Comments on a Passage of the Lawh-i-Hikmat (2009). — A study of Pre-Islamic sources on the relation of Greek Philosophers and Jewish sages.
  181. Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani and Avarih. Sepehr Manuchehri, trans. Further extracts concerning the remains of the Bab in Tehran (n.d.). — Two brief excerpts
  182. Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan. Ahang Rabbani, ed. Genesis of the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths in Shíráz and Fárs, The (2008). — Detailed account of the early years of the Bab, events of the 1880s and 1890s, the Constitutional Re...
  183. Lady Mary (Leonora Woulfe) Sheil. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia: With Notes on Russia, Koords, Toorkomans, Nestorians, Khiva, and Persia (1856). — Considered first travel book on Persia by a woman. Of particular interest to Baha'is are her account...
  184. Howard B. Garey. Howard B. Garey, trans. Gobineau's Account of the Beginnings of the Bahá'í Revelation (2000). — Short summary of the Bab's time in Shiraz and Mecca, circa 1843.
  185. Anthony Lee. Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two African Slaves in Iran (2015). — Biographies of two enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, the servants of The Ba...
  186. Jack McLean. Heroic in the Historical Writings of Shoghi Effendi and Nabil, The (2006). — Unlike academic historians, Shoghi Effendi and Nabil interpret the events and characters they portra...
  187. Daniel Akira Stadnicki. Hidden Words and Sounds: Tracing Iranian Legacies and Traumas in the Music of the Bahá'ís of North America (2019). — On the legacy of Persian culture, aesthetics, and history of religious persecution as reflected in B...
  188. A. R. Neligan. Hints for Residents and Travellers in Persia (1914). — 2-sentence mention of Babis/Baha'is.
  189. Cesar Cantu. Historia Universal (1859). — 1-sentence mention.
  190. Robert Grant Watson. History of Persia from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1858, A (1866). — A review of the events that led to the establishment of the Qajar dynasty, with discussion of the Ba...
  191. Robert Stauffer, ed. History of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Tihran, Iran (1978). — Brief history of the birth-place of Baha'u'llah distributed to pilgrims to the site.
  192. Mahmoud Sadri. Hojjatieh (Hujjatiya) (2004). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  193. Reuters. Human Rights Watch on Persecution of Baha'is in Iran (1997). — Two articles covering a report by Human Rights Watch on the treatment of the Baha'is and other minor...
  194. Juan Cole. Ideology, Ethics, and Philosophical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Iran (1989). — Intellectual biography as a discipline assumes that the life and thought of an individual can shed l...
  195. Kamran Ekbal. Ihsan'u'llah Khan Dustdar, die Kaukasischen Revolutionare und die Grundung der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepublik Iran 1920-1921 (2005). — Dustdar was a Bahai commander of the Persian Red Army who in 1920-1921 landed with his revolutionary...
  196. Peter Smith, ed. In Iran (1986). — Essays on Babi-Baha'i history, sociology, and theology in Iran.
  197. Ramez Ekbal. In Memoriam: Kamran Ekbal (1946 - 2014) (2015). — Bio of a scholar, translator of the Writings, and frequent contributor to the Irfan Colloquia.
  198. Geoffrey Cameron. In the Face of Oppression (2011). — The Baha'is in Iran have long been persecuted, but stand strong in their pursuit of a just society.
  199. Charles James Wills. In the Land of the Lion and the Sun, or, Modern Persia: Being Experiences of Life in Persia from 1866 to 1881 (1891). — Numerous passing mentions of the Babi Faith.
  200. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Interdependence of Bahá'í Communities, The: Services of North American Bahá'í Women to Iran (1991). — Some early American Baha’i women’s contribution to the development of the Iranian Baha’i commu...
  201. Roshan Danesh. Internationalism and Divine Law: A Baha'i Perspective (2004). — On the internationalism motif in Baha'i political and legal thought; the place of divine legal clai...
  202. Edith Sanderson. Peter Terry, trans. Interview with A.L.M. Nicolas of Paris: Translator of many important works of the Báb (1942). — Nicolas' life, his encounter with the Babi movement, his motivations and translation efforts.
  203. Anthony Lee. Interview with Ruhollah Geula regarding Robert Imbrie (1997). — Interview by Lee, the general editor of Kalimat Press, with his father-in-law, an eyewitness to the...
  204. Nader Saiedi. Introduction to Abdu'l-Baha's The Secret of Divine Civilization, An (2000). — 'Abdu'l-Baha's The Secret of Divine Civilization in the context of the Iranian social and political ...
  205. Juan Cole. Invisible Occidentalism: Eighteenth-Century Indo-Persian Constructions of the West (1992). — Iranian attitudes toward Western culture, science, and philosophers in the colonial era. (No mention...
  206. Moojan Momen. Iran: History of the Bahá'í Faith (1994).
  207. Eric Hooglund. Iran: Religious Life (1991). — Descriptions of the principal religious communities in Iran.
  208. Thomas Schirrmacher. Iran: Suppression of religious freedom and persecution of religious minorities: case studies (2009). — The legal status of non-Shiite Muslims, Baha'is, and various Christian confessions in Iran.
  209. Sepehr Zabih. Iran since the Revolution (1982). — Discussion of the Iranian constitution, with one passing mention of Baha'is not being recognized.
  210. Saman Sabeti. Iran's Systemic Denial of Access to Higher Education (2017). — Discrimination as embedded in the Iranian Constitution and in higher education since 1979; dismissal...
  211. Vahid Rafati. Iran, Bahá'í Community of (1989). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  212. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Ádharbáyján (1994).
  213. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Fárs (1994).
  214. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Gílán (1994). — History of the Baha'i Faith in the Iranian province of Gilan.
  215. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Isfahan (1994).
  216. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Káshán and Central Provinces (Sultánábád, Mahallát, and Gulpáygán) (1994).
  217. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Khamsih (Zanján) (1994).
  218. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Khurásán (1994).
  219. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Khúzistán (1994).
  220. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Qazvín (1994).
  221. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Tehran (including Qumm, Simnán, and Dámghán) (1994).
  222. Moojan Momen. Iran: Province of Yazd (1994).
  223. Moojan Momen. Iran: Provinces of Kirmán and Sístán (1994).
  224. Moojan Momen. Iran: Provinces of Kirmánsháh, Hamadán, Kurdistán, and Luristán (1994).
  225. Moojan Momen. Iran: Provinces of Mázandarán and Gurgán (1994).
  226. Universal House of Justice. Iranian Believers Throughout the World, Message to (1997). — Inspirational discussion of the history of the Baha'is in Iran, including exhortations for the educa...
  227. Universal House of Justice. Inayat Rawhani, trans. Iranian Expatriates, Letter to, following 1979 Iranian Revolution (1986). — Letter of support and guidance to Iranians who had recently fled the Iranian Revolution, dated 10 Fe...
  228. Ted Slavin. Iranian fun and games with Bahá'í followers (2010). — Satirical look at contemporary Iranian persecutions of the Baha'is.
  229. Juan Cole. Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1992). — The growth of belief in representative government within the Baha'i faith in the last third of the 1...
  230. Iranian National Bahá'í Archives (INBA) (1976). — 105 volumes of Baha'i writings and manuscripts, compiled before the Islamic revolution in Iran by th...
  231. Allen K. Jones. Iranian Refugees: The Many Faces of Persecution (1984). — A paper detailing the persecution and displacement of Iranian refugees (including Baha'is) due to re...
  232. Frank Lewis and Puran Stevens. Iranian Refugees in America: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (1986). — Introduction to Persian culture, history, and customs, designed as an aid in cultural understanding ...
  233. Christopher Buck. Islam and Minorities: The Case of the Baha'is (2003). — "The Baha'i question" is really a test case for whether Islam can legitimately claim to respect huma...
  234. 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...
  235. John L. Esposito. Islam: The Straight Path (1988). — Passing mention of political persecutions.
  236. Ugo Giachery. Italian Scientist Extols the Báb, An (1956). — On the life of Michele Lessona (1823-1894), a scientist, writer, explorer, and educator, who visited...
  237. Roshan Danesh. Journey Motif in the Bahá'í Faith, The: From Doubt to Certitude (2012). — The process of individual spiritual growth lies at the heart of human purpose. Baha’u’llah speak...
  238. Todd Lawson. Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses (2015). — Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their r...
  239. 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.
  240. Mehrdad Amanat. Kashan: Religious Communities: Bahá'í Community (2012).
  241. Boris Handal. Khamsis, The: A Cradle of True Gold (2020). — Biography of the five-brother Baqirof-Khamsi clan, designated by Baha'u'llah as the "Five Siyyids" a...
  242. Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin. Kirk, Durbin Introduce Resolution Condemning Iran's Continued Persecution of Bahá'í Minority (2013). — In recognition of the five-year anniversary of imprisonment of Baha'i leaders in Iran, senators meet...
  243. Robin Wright. Last Great Revolution, The: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2000). — Mentions of the Baha'is not having political representation in Iran; brief summary of Baha'i persecu...
  244. Le Journal de Constantinople (1848). — Collection of 818 files, unsorted. They contain an unknown number of references to the Bab and his m...
  245. Sepehr Zabih. Left in Contemporary Iran, The (1986). — Discussion of "urban guerilla warfare" pre-1979 with one passing mention of an unnamed Baha'i busine...
  246. Azer Jafarov and Bayram Balci. Les Bahaïs du Caucase: b.a.-ba d'une communauté méconnue (2007). — Chapter on "the Baha'is of the Caucasus, the basics [lit. the ABCs] of an unknown community."
  247. Alfred von Goumoens. Letter on the Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah (1852). — Austrian captain Alfred von Goumoëns witnessed and reported on the attempted assassination of Nasir...
  248. Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Haifa. Letter to the Friends, Throughout the East and the West, through the Spiritual Assemblies (1938). — 3-page report by Z. N. Zeine on questions directed at a Dr. 'Abdu'llah Jawid in Khorasan "as a resul...
  249. Austin Wright. Letter [on Babis and Nestorians] (1853). — Letter from November 1852, with a brief mention of the assassination attempt on the Shah.
  250. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Lifetime with 'Abdu'l-Bahá, A: Reminiscences of Khalíl Shahídí (2008). — Extensive recollections of four decades with the Holy Family in the time of Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi E...
  251. Abdu'l-Bahá. Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2021). — Tablets of ‘Abdul-Baha describing aspects of the life of Baha’u’llah including the tribulation...
  252. Christopher Buck. Bolhuis Arjen, comp. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2020). — List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
  253. Stephen Lambden. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. List of Baha'i Studies and Translations. — A list of content available at Lambden's personal website, Hurqalya Publications, with select links ...
  254. Sahba Shayani. Literary Imitation in Three Poems Attributed to Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn (2023). — The poetry of Tahirih has largely been ignored by historians, partly from politico-religious intoler...
  255. Iraj Ghanooni. Naeem Nabiliakbar, trans. Love of Iran, A (2022). — Philosophical reflections on how fundamentally our homeland shapes our reality, and how ‘Abdu’l-...
  256. Richard G. Badger. Mahdi in Persia and Syria, The (1918). — Extract on the Babi and Baha'i Faiths, in a book exploring the concept of the Mahdi, a messianic fig...
  257. Hussein Ahdieh. Making of a Survivor, The: A Foreigner's Story (2019). — The author on his new book, growing up as a Baha’i in Iran, and how his faith and family nourished...
  258. Hasan Nushabadi. Adib Masumian, trans. Man of Courage, The: A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Life of Mírzá Áqá Khán Qá'im-Maqámí (2019). — Mirza Aqa Khan Qa'im-Maqami (1868-1954) was the great grandson of Mirza Abu'l-Qasim Farahani, the Qa...
  259. Map of Persia (1932). — Map included in the 1932 edition of Dawnbreakers.
  260. David Merrick. Martyrdom of the Bab (2008). — Martyrdom of the Bab, told in plain English and suitable for reading aloud. Based on many early acco...
  261. David Merrick. Martyrdom of the Bab: An Outline for Researchers (2019). — The events of the Martyrdom of the Bab, including the weeks before and days after, presented through...
  262. Siyyid Muhammad Tabíb Manshadi. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Martyrs of Manshad (1996). — Detailed eyewitness account of martyrdoms in Iran in 1903.
  263. A.L.M. Nicolas. Massacres de Babis en Perse (1936). — On events in 1903 in Rasht, Isfahan, Yazd, and Tehran, written by a French consul in Iran.
  264. Moshe Sharon. Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov: A Summary (2011). — Summary of pages 25-91 of the Arabic text of the "Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov," a fraudulent work.
  265. Moshe Sharon. "Memoirs of Dolgorukov" and "The Protocols of the Elders Of Zion" (2007). — Comparison of two fraudulent anti-religion works: "Elders of Zion" is one of the most notorious anti...
  266. Ali M. Yazdi. Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1986). — Recollections by a prominent Iranian-American Baha'i.
  267. Ahang Rabbani, ed. Memories of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Memoirs of Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán (2005). — Autobiography of a close confidant of the holy family. Includes appendices on Baha'i historical plac...
  268. Mention of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths in the New York Times 1852 - 1922 (1852). — 45 articles and brief mentions, spanning 70 years.
  269. Hamid Algar and Moojan Momen et al. Mentions of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Encyclopedia Iranica: Sixty Excerpts (1985). — Excerpts of 60 articles in the Encyclopedia, with links to the offsite originals, which contain a re...
  270. Universal House of Justice. Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age (1996).
  271. Juan Cole. Millennialism in Modern Iranian History (2002). — Religions in Iran have been volatile and evolving, from a tool of the establishment to representing ...
  272. Douglas Martin. Mission of the Báb, The: Retrospective 1844-1994 (1996). — The revelation of the Bab in the context of its impact on the Western writers of the period and its ...
  273. Julio Savi. Most Dramatic Chapter in the Spiritual History of Humankind, A: A Pictorial Essay (2020). — Introduction to the life of the Bab, with historical photo-realistic illustrations by Romanian artis...
  274. Bahram Choubine. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Muhammad Musaddiq and the Bahá'ís (2010). — Two essays: "Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh and the Baha’is" (2009) and "Suppression of the Baha’is of I...
  275. Soli Shahvar. Muhammad-Taqi Wakil al-Dawla Shirazi (2016). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  276. Boris Handal. Mulla Husayn's Journey: Google Earth video (2022). — This silent video captured from Google Earth shows Mulla Husayn's 800km, 82-day journey from Mashhad...
  277. Vahid Rafati. Mulla Sadiq-i-Khurasani (Muqaddas) (2016). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  278. Negar Mottahedeh. Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-'Ayn's Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Bábís (1998). — A Freudian interpretation of the extreme antipathy underlying common Iranian opposition to the Babis...
  279. Darius Shahrokh and Grace Shahrokh. Mystery of Martyrdom, The (1992). — Life stories of many early martyrs, and some explanations of what inspires self-sacrifice.
  280. Roy P. Mottahedeh. Ná'ím: A Bahá'í Poet (1967). — Biography of and selection of poems by a Persian Baha'i in the time of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha.
  281. Soheila Vahdati. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Nabil's Narrative: What History has Forgotten (2008). — An outsider's view of how Iranian media and society have glossed over or intentionally obscured Iran...
  282. Bahá'í International Community. Nature of the Persecution against the Bahá'ís in Iran (2010). — The situation of the Baha'is in Iran in 2010; historical and legal context; denial of individual and...
  283. Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla. Gool Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans. Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai, The: (Chapter 68) (1975). — Overview of the Faith, and the author's interactions with Baha'is in the early 1900s. (Navjote is th...
  284. Hussein Ahdieh. Nayriz Heroes: 22 Biographies of Bábís and Bahá'ís from Nayriz, Calligraphy of Ahmad Nayrizi, and Poetry of Vafá (2013). — Bios of Muhammad Shafi, Nayrizi Vahidi, Abu Turab, Imam Jumih Shirazi, Ahmad Khoshnevis Nayrizi, Muh...
  285. Husayn Hamadani. E. G. Browne, trans. New History (tarikh-i-jadid) of Mirza Ali-Muhammed the Bab, The (1893). — Detailed history of the Bab, translated into English. Also known as Tarikh-i Badi'-i Bayani.
  286. Bani Dugal. Morten Bergsmo, ed. Non-Governmental Perspective on the Relative Effectiveness of Multilateral and Bilateral Measures to Combat Hate Speech, A: An Analysis of Tools Deployed in Response to Religious Hate Speech in Iran (2023). — International Human Rights framework; Iran's obligations under international law; history of Baha'i ...
  287. Universal House of Justice. Non-Involvement in Partisan Politics (2013). — Lengthy letter to the Baha'is of Iran, and copied to all NSAs, about how Baha'is can contribute to g...
  288. Bui Tyril. Nonpartisan Engagement in Public Affairs: A Critical Analysis of the Bahá'í Approach to Dialogue, Democracy, and Diplomatic Relations (2009). — How to address the dilemma of protesting human rights abuses in Iran while remaining non-partisan. L...
  289. Peter Smith. Note on Babi and Baha'i Numbers in Iran, A (1984). — Estimates, sources, and bibliography for early Babi and Baha'i populations.
  290. Marzieh Gail. Notes on Persian Love Poems (1968). — A short history of Persian poetry. Includes a selection of poems by Hafiz, Rumi, Ali-Kuli Khan, and ...
  291. Jaine Toth. Now They Are Hanging Women (2018). — Notes and script of a presentation on contemporary persecution of Baha'is in Iran; title taken from ...
  292. Novin Doostdar. Obituary: Alimurad Davudi (1922-1979) (1999). — Davudi was Professor of Philosophy at Tehran University, and long-time secretary of the Iranian Baha...
  293. Negar Mottahedeh. Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War (2004). — Observations on contemporary culture and gender issues in Iran.
  294. Susan Maneck. Old Charges for a New Religion, Some (2009). — The background and significance of the fantastic charges made against Baha’is in Iran and elsewher...
  295. Universal House of Justice. Orange Tree, Myth of (1997). — Refutation of the "miracle" of an immortal orange tree growing at the site of the former House of th...
  296. Ervand Abrahamian. Paranoid Style in Iranian Politics, The (1993). — A seminal essay which mentions contemporary Iranian attitudes toward the Baha'is. Includes three oth...
  297. Shoghi Effendi. Pedigree of the Qajar Dynasty (1932). — Genealogical chart of the Qajar Dynasty
  298. Dorothy de Warzee. Peeps Into Persia (1913). — Brief mention of the Baha'i Faith in a travelogue about Persia.
  299. Moojan Momen. Perfection and Refinement: Towards an Aesthetics of the Bab (2011). — The writings of the Bab have implications for the "plastic" arts; significance for native traditions...
  300. Universal House of Justice, comp. Persecution of the Bahá'í Community of Iran: 1983-1986 (1994). — Lengthy survey of events, and life stories of participants.
  301. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh. Persecution of the Bahá'í Community of Iran Under the Islamic Republic: Twenty Years of Intolerance (2000). — Description of some of the persecutions of the Baha'i community in Iran over the past twenty years.
  302. Bahá'í International Community. Persecution of the Baha'is in Iran: 1979-1986: A 7-year campaign to eliminate a religious minority (1986). — Overview of activities and propaganda against Baha'is in Iran, and the responses of the United Natio...
  303. Douglas Martin. Persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran 1844-1984 (1984). — Treatment of the Baha'is in Iran by the state and by the Shi'ism under the Qajars (1844-1925), Pahla...
  304. Various. E.G. Browne, trans. Persecutions of Babis in 1888-1891 at Isfahan and Yazd (1918). — Eyewitness or historical accounts of specific events, uprisings, and attacks, as collected by E.G. B...
  305. Persia (1866). — Short summary of the Babi Faith and Qurratu'l-Ayn, on last page of an entry about Persia.
  306. Richard N. Frye. Persia (1968). — Excerpt from a book on the history of Iran. Includes mention of Baha'i schools in the early twentiet...
  307. James Bassett. Persia: The Land of the Imams (1886). — Brief mention of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths.
  308. George N. Curzon. Persia and the Persian Question, volume I (1892). — In Moojan Momen's "The Babi and Baha'i Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts" (198...
  309. Bernard Temple. Persia and the Regeneration of Islam (1910). — An argument to a British business audience that Persia is becoming more civilized and is experiencin...
  310. Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson. Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research (1906). — A few passing mentions of the Babis.
  311. Heshmat Moayyad. Persian Bahá'í Poets and Poetry: A General Overview (2008).
  312. Abbas Amanat. Persian Bayan and the Shaping of the Babi Renewal, The (2007). — On the Babi Faith as a product of the religious environment of Shi'i Iran, including its esoteric cu...
  313. E. G. Browne. Persian Revolution of 1905-1909, The (1910). — Includes discussion of Baha'is and Babis in "Attitude of Bahá’ís towards Persian Politics" (pp...
  314. Various. Persian Revolution of 1905-1909, The, by E. G. Browne: Reviews (1996). — Three reviews, published in CIRA Bulletin, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Jour...
  315. Mary Boyce. Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, A (1977). — Brief mention of Baha'i converts to Zoroastrianism in Yazd.
  316. E. G. Browne. Personal Reminiscences of the Bábí Insurrection at Zanjan in 1850 (1897). — The testimony of Áqa 'Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani.
  317. Petition from the Persian Reformers (1867). — A petition sent by Baha'is in Baghdad and Shushtar, Iran, in 1867 to the US Consulate general, seeki...
  318. Ahang Rabbani. Pilgrimage in Baha'u'llah's Writings (2010). — On pilgrimage to the Twin Shrines in the Holy Land and their Tablets of Visitation, to the House of ...
  319. Sholeh A. Quinn. Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat: Review (1998).
  320. Muhammad Afnan. "Point" and "Letter" in the Writings of the Báb (2001). — In the Bab’s writings, the Point of Truth is the source of all existence in both the spiritual an...
  321. Homa Katouzian. Political Economy of Modern Iran, The: Despotism and Pseudo-Modernism 1926-1979 (1981). — Mention of Sheikh Fazlollah Noori denouncing opponents as Babis; 1-page discussion (in footnotes) of...
  322. Universal House of Justice. Politics and Engagement in the Life of Society (2010). — On which principles should guide Iranian believers in their participation in the life of society, an...
  323. Moojan Momen. Preliminary Survey of the Bahá'í Community of Iran during the Nineteenth Century, A (1998). — On the early growth and consolidation of the Baha'i community in Iran; its membership and social and...
  324. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Preparing Bahá'í Communities in the East and West to Embrace Gender Equality (2011). — The way Abdu'l-Baha dealt with the matter of gender equality, some of his writings revealed in honor...
  325. Farideh Sobhani-Matejko. Adib Masumian, trans. Professor: A Tribute to Dr. 'Alí-Murád Dávúdí (2022). — Tribute by a young psychology student in the late 1960s to Dr. ‘Ali-Murad Davúdi, a philosopher a...
  326. Ismael Velasco. Prolegomenon to the Study of Babi and Baha'i Scriptures, A: The Importance of Henry Corbin to Babi and Baha'i Studies (2004). — On the foremost Western authority on the Islamic philosophy of Persia, one of the most influential I...
  327. Susan Maneck. Prophets of Mahabad, and Nature of Creation: The Two Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria (2011). — Discussion of Baha’u’llah’s letters to Manakji Hataria as found in the Tabernacle of Unity, co...
  328. Abdu'l-Bab as-Sahyuni. Protocols of the Followers of Baha'u'llah: Anti-Bahá'í propaganda in Iran (1998). — A sympathetic overview by "Freethought Mecca" of persecution of Baha'is, and activities of the Irani...
  329. Juan Cole. Provincial Politics of Heresy and Reform in Qajar Iran, The: Shaykh al-Rais in Shiraz, 1895-1902 (2002). — Biography and political/historical context of "the poet laureate of the Iranian Constitutional Revol...
  330. Vahid Rafati. Adib Masumian, trans. Qáʼim-Maqám Faráhání in the Baháʼí Writings (2019). — A comprehensive survey of references to the Qá’im-Maqám, prime minister of Iran under Muhammad...
  331. A.L.M. Nicolas. Peter Terry, trans. Qourrèt-oul-Aíne [Qurratu'l-`Ayn] (2004). — First publication in English translation of early accounts of the life and death of Tahirih. These p...
  332. Anna Kunz. Questions about Science and Religion: Interviews with Abdul Baha at Tiberias and Haifa (1922). — Questions asked of Abdu'l-Baha by two Christians visiting Haifa in 1921.
  333. Geoffrey Cameron. Quiet Exodus, A (2013). — Recent history of immigration law and practice in Canada, and the Baha'i community's involvement in ...
  334. Mina Yazdani. Quiet Strangulation: Islamic Republic's Treatment of Baha'is since 1991 (2018). — Summary of persecution of Baha'is in Iran especially since 1991, and on analyses by other historians...
  335. Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum. Re-florescence of Historical Romance in Nabil, The (1934). — Essay reflecting on the dominant themes of The Dawn-Breakers, an early narrative of Babi history aut...
  336. Anthony Lee. Recovering the Lives of Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A First Attempt (2016). — Reconstructing the lives of four slaves in the Middle East, including Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum...
  337. Kimiya Tahirih Missaghi. Redefining Resiliency, Resistance, and Oppression: A Case Study of the Bahá'i Underground University in Iran (2021). — On the nature of resiliency in a systematically oppressed population; the existence and growth of th...
  338. United States Department of State. Ralph D. Wagner, comp. References to the Bahá'í Faith in the U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (1991). — Excerpts from the State Department's annual compilation of Country Reports on Human Rights Practices...
  339. Ismael Velasco. Reflections on Baha'u'llah's Claims to Being the Return of Imam Husayn (2020). — On Imam Husayn in Shi'a Islam, expectations of his return, his place in Babi theology, and various r...
  340. Linda Walbridge. Reforming the Marja` at-Taqlid: The Baha'i Example (1997). — Shi'i leadership paradigms and the marja` at-taqlid, "clerical exemplar" or "religious guide."
  341. Universal House of Justice. Regarding the Implementation of the Badi` Calendar (2014). — Message to the Baha’is of the world on the updated calendar of Baha'i holy days. Includes a table ...
  342. Steven Scholl. Releasing the Captive from His Chains (1986). — Baha'i activism for human rights, and involvement with Amnesty International. Includes response by D...
  343. Arthur J. Arberry. Religion in the Middle East: Three Religions in Concord and Conflict: Volume 1, Judaism and Christianity (1969). — Three mentions of the Babis and Baha'is.
  344. Arthur J. Arberry. Religion in the Middle East: Three Religions in Concord and Conflict: Volume 2, Islam (1969). — Five mentions of the Babis, Baha'is, and Ahmadiyya.
  345. Ismael Velasco. Religion, Modernity and the "Clash of Civilisations": Context and Prospects (2013). — On the broader intellectual context for the emergence of the Baha'i Faith in 19th century Iran and i...
  346. Frederick Jones Bliss. Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine, The (1912).
  347. Moojan Momen. Religious Background of the 1979 Revolution in Iran (1995).
  348. Mina Yazdani. Religious Contentions in Modern Iran, 1881-1941 (2011). — In 20th-century Iran, anti-Bahaism played a role in transforming Shi'i religious piety into the poli...
  349. Christopher Buck. Religious Minority Rights (2008). — Discussion of three minority religions within Islamic states that have experienced persecution and h...
  350. Naghme Naseri Morlock. Religious Persecution and Oppression: A Study of Iranian Baha'ís' Strategies of Survival (2021). — Research based on extensive interviews exploring three ways that members of the Baha'i community res...
  351. Ahang Rabbani. Remains of the Bab in Tehran, The (1997). — Brief bio of Aqa Husayn-'Ali Nur and an extract from Khatirat Muhajiri Az Isfahan, "Memoirs of a Ref...
  352. Austin Wright. (Report to the) American Oriental Society / A New Prophet (1851). — First paper on Babi history, from a letter to the American Oriental Society, published in multiple n...
  353. Jack Kalpakian. Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of National Reform, by Negar Mottaheddeh: Review (2008). — Book review that touches on the Islamic Republic's treatment of judgment day and how it relates to B...
  354. Donna Hakimian. Resistance, Resilience and the Role of Narrative: Lessons from the Experiences of Iranian Bahá'í Women Prisoners (2009). — A study of Iranian Baha’i women who were imprisoned in Iran following the 1979 revolution. Aspects...
  355. Amin Banani. Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Bábí Movement in Iran, by Abbas Amanat: Review (1989).
  356. John S. Hatcher, ed. Reunion with the Beloved: Poetry and Martyrdom (2004). — Poetry by or in honor of early Babi and Baha'i martyrs. Includes foreword by Hushmand Fatheazam, and...
  357. Nazila Ghanea-Hercock. Review of secondary literature in English on recent persecutions of Bahá'ís in Iran (1997). — Issues of misinformation, perceived favoritism under the Shah's regime, charges of espionage, and th...
  358. Geoffrey Cameron and Tahirih Danesh. Revolution without Rights?, A: Women, Kurds and Baha'is searching for equality in Iran (2008). — Discussion from the Foreign Policy Centre in London on the religious, legal, and social obstacles to...
  359. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh. Right to Education, The: The Case of the Bahá'ís in Iran (2001). — On the ongoing harassment of Baha’i students and educators resulting from the state-sponsored reli...
  360. Todd Lawson. Role of Wonder in Creating Identity, The (2023). — The term badi', "wondrous" or "new," is used dozens of times by the Bab in his proclamatory work the...
  361. Negar Mottahedeh. Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-'Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht (1998). — Implications of Tahirih's revolutionary act at Badasht in terms of a decisive break with Islamic his...
  362. Arnold Wilson. S.W. Persia: A Political Officer's Diary 1907-1914 (1941). — Two passing mentions of Baha'is and Babis.
  363. Universal House of Justice. Sabaeans and African-based Religions in the Americas, The (2012). — Overview by the Research Department about the religion of the Sabaeans [aka Sabeans], and some indig...
  364. Moojan Momen. Sabet, Habib (2015). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  365. Margaret Caton. Sacred Refrains: Arabic and Persian Dhikrs in the Bahá'í Community (2024). — introduction to dhikr (remembrances) and the use of music in Baha'i spiritual practices; 74 recordin...
  366. Bahram Choubine. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Sacrificing the Innocent: Suppression of Bahá'ís of Iran in 1955 (2008). — Activities of Reza Shah, Ayatollah Borujirdi, Muhammad-Taqi Falsafi, Shaykh Hossein-Ali Montazeri, a...
  367. Christopher Buck. Sapiential Theosis: A New Reading of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Paradise (1995). — Prepublication chapter from Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha...
  368. Alexandra Leavy. Searching for Bahá'í Identity (2009). — How do religious minorities adapt to the new nationalist identity of Iran post-1979?
  369. 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...
  370. Universal House of Justice. Secret of Divine Civilization Translation, Capital Punishment, and Other Questions (1991). — On the capitalization of pronouns, reference to "we Muslims," works of Abdu'l-Baha revealed during t...
  371. Fariba Moghadam. Secret of Divine Civilization, The (2021). — Overview of the history Abdu'l-Baha's treatise, and its themes presented through a compilation of qu...
  372. 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...
  373. Universal House of Justice. Servants in the Households of Baha'u'llah and the Bab (2000). — Whether or not the servants of the Bab and Baha'u'llah were slaves, and a list of relevant sources f...
  374. James B. Thomas. Service, Joy and Sacrifice: An Essay on Commentaries by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2004). — On the exemplary life of service to God and to humankind; choosing to change one's life from predom...
  375. Aqa Mirza Qabil Abadeh'i. Sepehr Manuchehri, trans. Shah Abdu'llah and the Bahá'ís of Abadeh: An account of the persecution of Bahá'ís by followers of an imaginary Imam (2001). — Account of persecutions in Abadeh, Fars province, in 1901.
  376. Darius Shahrokh. Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunuzi: The Promises Fulfilled (1992). — Life story of an early follower of Shaykhs Ahmad and Rashti, who also met both the Bab and Baha'u'll...
  377. Yann Richard. Shaykhisme à la période qajare, by Denis Hermann: Review (2020).
  378. Fares Gillon. Shaykhisme à la période qajare, by Denis Hermann: Review (2019).
  379. William Michael Rossetti. Shelly's Life and Writings (1878). — Brief overview of the Babi Faith and Qurratu'l-Ayn vis-a-vis themes and personages in "The Revolt of...
  380. Juan Cole. Shi'i Clerics in Iraq and Iran, 1722-1780: The Akhbari-Usuli Conflict Reconsidered (1985). — A debate which came to shape Shi'i jurisprudence, between those who believed that only the Imams sho...
  381. Shirin Ebadi: A collection of newspaper articles (2003). — Articles about the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize who has championed the rights of the Baha'i ...
  382. Austin Wright. Steven Kolins. Short Chapter in the History of Bâbeeism in Persia, A (1853). — Letter to the American Oriental Society recounting the continuation of Babism and attack on the Shah...
  383. Shahrokh Monjazeb. Sijn-i-Akbar (The Great Prison): The Event of Bahá'u'lláh's Incarceration in the Síyáh Chál Prison of Tehran (2002). — Historical details of the period of Baha'u'lláh's 1852 imprisonment in the infamous dungeon of Teh...
  384. Boris Handal. Siyyid Yahyá-i-Dárábí, Entitled Vahíd "The Incomparable" (2023). — The Commissioner of Muhammad Shah; Baha'u'llah in Tehran; the episodes of Yazd and Nayriz.
  385. Reza Afshari. Slice of Persia in the Heart of Israel, A: Followers of the Baha'i Faith Are Persecuted at Home but Welcomed Abroad (2021). — Brief reflections by a Muslim professor of history on the experience of visiting the Baha'i World Ce...
  386. Moojan Momen. Sobhi, Fazlollah Mohtadi (2015). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  387. Moojan Momen. Social Basis of the Bábí Upheavals in Iran (1848-1953): A Preliminary Analysis (1983). — In the mid-19th century, Iran was shaken by unrest caused by the Babi movement, which set off a chai...
  388. Friedrich W. Affolter. Specter of Ideological Genocide, The: The Bahá'ís of Iran (2005). — History of the persecution and suppression of the Baha'is in Iran, through the lens of genocide stud...
  389. Henry Corbin. Nancy Pearson, trans. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran (1977). — An analysis of interrelated themes in Iranian religion, including the angelology of Mazdaism and Isl...
  390. Bahá'í International Community. Statement in Rebuttal of Accusations Made against the Bahá'í Faith by the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations (1982). — In a document distributed to the UN, "Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Iran made a num...
  391. William O. Douglas. Station Wagon Odyssey: Baghdad to Istanbul; A famous American traveler continuing a journey across the Moslem East (1959). — Very short mention in this travelogue by a Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
  392. Denis MacEoin. Still Lives (1993). — The nature of private lives and biography in Middle Eastern culture, with brief discussion of Rushdi...
  393. Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali. Abu'l-Qasim Faizi, trans. Stories from The Delight of Hearts: The Memoirs of Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí (1980). — Anecdotes and history, a personal glimpse of the Middle East in the 19th century, as told by a follo...
  394. Necati Alkan. Süleyman Nazif's Nasiruddin Shah ve Babiler: an Ottoman Source on Babi-Baha'i History (2000). — On the author of the 1919 Persian history "Nasiru’d-Din Shah and the Babis," including a translati...
  395. Marzieh Gail. Summon Up Remembrance (1987). — Memoir left by Ali-Kuli Khan, one of the first translators of Baha'i Writings; writings of his wife ...
  396. Christopher Buck. Symbol and Secret: Qur'an Commentary in Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Iqan (1995). — Comparative study of tafsir, exegesis, and theology in the Qur'an and the Kitab-i-Iqan. Includes Per...
  397. Bahá'u'lláh. Tabernacle of Unity, The: Bahá'u'lláh's Responses To Mánikchi Sáhib (2006).
  398. Abdu'l-Bahá. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Tablet Concerning Covenant-Breakers: Excerpt (1998). — Translation, posted to email list, of a portion of a Tablet revealed on the occasion of the expulsio...
  399. Foad Seddigh. Tablet of Patience (Surih Sabr): Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh and Selected Topics (2014). — This significant Tablet from Ridvan 1863 covers the Seal of the Prophets, appearance and presence of...
  400. Bahá'u'lláh. Denis MacEoin, trans. Tablet of Pilgrimage to the House of the Báb (Suriy-i-Hajj): Shiraz (1994).
  401. 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...
  402. Abdu'l-Bahá. Shoghi Effendi, trans. Tablet on the Debasement of Persia (1923). — Short comment by Abdu'l-Baha on the present debasement of Persia and its future glory, date unknown,...
  403. Bahá'u'lláh and Universal House of Justice. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet to Sháh-Muhammad-Amín (Amínu'l-Bayán) (Lawh-i-Amínu'l-Bayán): Excerpt (2003). — Excerpt of a tablet revealed in honour of the first Trustee of Huquq’u’llah, surnamed the “Tru...
  404. Bahá'u'lláh. Hasan M. Balyuzi, trans. Tablet to Shaykh Kazim-i-Samandar II (Lawh-i-Shaykh Kazim-i-Samandar II) (1985).
  405. Bahá'u'lláh. Mehdi Wolf, ed. Tablet to The Times of London (1987). — Short tablet calling newspapers to investigate the Truth.
  406. Bahá'u'lláh. Hasan M. Balyuzi, trans. Tablet to Varqá Regarding the Prince and King of Martyrs (Lawh-i-Varqá dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultánu'sh-Shuhada) (1985). — Short tablet of tribute to the King and Beloved of the Martyrs, from H. M. Balyuzi's <I>Emine...
  407. Iraj Ayman. Tablets of Pilgrimage (Suriy-i-Hajj): Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999). — In the Aqdas, Baha'i pilgrimage is enjoined to the House of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad and the House of ...
  408. Abdu'l-Bahá. Mirza Ahmad Esphahani, trans. Tablets Revealed by Abdul Baha Abbas to the East and West (1908). — An early collection of Tablets by 'Abdu'l-Baha.
  409. Universal House of Justice. Tahirih and Women's Suffrage (1990). — Two letters on Tahirih's association with women's suffrage, and the authenticity of the words "You c...
  410. Martha L. Root. Táhirih's Message to the Modern World (1941). — Transcript of a radio address from Sunday April 21, 1940, telling the story of Ṭahirih, describing...
  411. Robert Weinberg. Tales of Magnificent Heroism: The Impact of the Báb and His Followers on Writers and Artists (2019). — This concise survey explores how this particular episode in humanity’s religious history resonated...
  412. 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 ...
  413. Moojan Momen. Tehran, Iran (2009). — On the capital city of Iran and birthplace of Baha’u’llah, called by Him the "Land of Ta" (Ard-i...
  414. Universal House of Justice and Bahá'í International Community. Television Address of Iranian President Khatami (1998). — Questions and answers about a historically unique television interview of Iranian President Khatami,...
  415. Percy Molesworth Sykes. Ten Thousand Miles in Persia or Eight Years in Iran (1902). — Brief overview of Babism, including estimate of numbers of Baha'is and Azalis in Kirman.
  416. Gerald C. Keil. Textual Context and Literary Criticism: A Case Study based on a Letter from Shoghi Effendi (2010). — The importance of systematic analysis of the written word prior to the process of exegesis to achiev...
  417. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada. The Story of Mona: 1965-1983 (1985). — Biography of Mona Mahmudnizhad, an Iranian teenager who, in 1983, together with nine other women, wa...
  418. Marzieh Gail. The White Silk Dress (1945). — An "intimate portrait" of Ṭahirih first published Friday April 21, 1944.
  419. Mary A. Sobhani. The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel, by Bahíyyih Nakhjavani: Review (2018).
  420. Harry Liedtke. Thousand Years Must Elapse: Examining a Tablet by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2022). — Commentary on a tablet by 'Abdu'l-Baha that addresses the present debasement of Persia and its futur...
  421. Geoffrey Cameron. Threatening Agenda, A: Iran's Shameful Denial of Education to its Bahá'í Community (2008). — Iranian government hardliners promote a coordinated and threatening agenda aimed at suffocating the ...
  422. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Three Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh to Mullá Yahúdá, an Early Jewish Convert to the Bahá'í Faith from Hamadán (2023). — English side-by-side with Persian or Arabic of three short Tablets.
  423. Arthur E. Arnold. Through Persia by Caravan (1877). — Early three-page overview of Babi and Baha'i history. Baha'u'llah is here referred to as "Behar."
  424. Universal House of Justice. To the Believers in the Cradle of the Faith (2009). — Regarding the family and its role in the advancement of civilization.
  425. Universal House of Justice. To the Believers in the Cradle of the Faith (2010). — Regarding subjects such as family life, wealth, materialism, and justice.
  426. Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009). — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
  427. Stephen Lambden. Translation of the Arabic Du'á' al-Sahar (The Dawn Supplication) or Du'á' al-Bahá' (The Supplication of Splendour) with Select Expository Scriptural Writings of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, A (2023). — Translation of and commentary on the Shi'i "dawn supplication" for the Islamic month of Ramadan, and...
  428. Stephen Licata. Transmission of Cultural Values in Persian Bahá'í Families, The (1997). — On how immigrant Persian Baha’i families have carried their cultural values to the U.S., how the m...
  429. Zia M. Bagdadi. Treasures of the East: The Life of Nine Oriental Countries (1930). — Descriptions of nine "Treasures" — Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jijaz (Arabia), Transjordania (A...
  430. Juan Cole. Treatise on Leadership: Introduction (1998). — Informal notes about and introduction to `Abdu'l-Baha's Risalih-i-Siyasiyyih (1893).
  431. Abdu'l-Bahá. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Treatise on Persecution of Bahá'ís in 1903 (2007). — Events in Isfahán and Yazd from March-September 1903.
  432. Denis MacEoin, trans. Trial of the Báb: Alim-i Hashtrud's account (1997). — Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial.
  433. Denis MacEoin, comp. Trial of the Báb: Answers given during the interrogation of the Báb (1997). — Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial.
  434. Denis MacEoin, trans. Trial of the Bab: Mulla Muhammad Mamaqani's account (1997). — Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial.
  435. Denis MacEoin, comp. Trial of the Báb: Questions, rebukes, statements made during the interrogation of the Bab (1997). — Translation of source documents preserved from the 1848 trial.
  436. Denis MacEoin. Trial of the Báb: Shi'ite Orthodoxy Confronts its Mirror Image (2000). — Overview of, and documents preserved from, the Bab's 1848 trial for heresy against Islam.
  437. Christopher Buck. Trial of The Yaran ("Friends in Iran"): Six Essays (2009). — Six essays by Buck from a legal perspective about the extended imprisonment of seven Baha'i leaders ...
  438. Said Amir Arjomand. Turban for the Crown, The (1988). — Passing mentions of Babis and Baha'is on six pages.
  439. Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Twelve Table Talks Given by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 'Akká (2019). — Talks from 1904-1907.
  440. Catherine Nash. Two Books on the Life of Tahirih: Review (2019). — Reviews of Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Tahirih and The Calling: Tahirih of Persia and Her Am...
  441. Moojan Momen. Two Episodes from the Life of Bahá'u'lláh in Iran (2019). — Regarding the conference of Badasht and Baha'u'llah's arrival at the shrine of Shaykh Tabarsi, and o...
  442. Elham Afnan. Twofold Mission, A: Some Distinctive Characteristics of the Person and Teachings of the Báb (2019). — Some features of the Bab's life and Writings highlighting the rare combination of qualities that hav...
  443. Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and the Persecution of the Bahá'ís in Iran, The (2001). — Are the Human Rights of the Universal Declaration universal: a comparison of Western and Islamic not...
  444. David Piff. Unofficial information and rumour in the Bahá'í community: The case of "The tree they couldn't kill" (1998). — Legend and rumor spread via online discussion groups, and the place of "unofficial information" in t...
  445. Moojan Momen. Usuli, Akhbari, Shaykhi, Babi: The Tribulations of a Qazvin Family (2003). — The emergence of the Usuli school in the evolution of Shi'is jurisprudence and theology in 18th and ...
  446. Moojan Momen. Vahíd (Sayyed Yahyá Dárábí) (1996). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  447. Abdu'l-Bahá. Nasser Saeedi, trans. Varqá and His Son: A Talk by `Abdu'l-Bahá (2022). — English translation, and two transcripts of the Persian original, of a talk given by `Abdu'l-Baha in...
  448. Darius Shahrokh. Varqa and Son: The Heavenly Doves (1992). — History of the family of Varqa, the only family with the distinction of having a grandfather, a fath...
  449. Iraj Ayman. Varqá, Ali-Mohammad (2017). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  450. Iraj Ayman. Varqá, Wali-Alláh (2017). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  451. Boris Handal. Varqá and Rúhu'lláh: 101 Stories of Bravery on the Move (2020). — On the lives of Varqa, the physician and talented poet, and his gifted adolescent son Ruhu'llah, who...
  452. Bahá'í International Community. Violence with Impunity: Acts of aggression against Iran's Bahá'í community (2013). — Book-length report on the rising tide of violence directed against the Iranian Baha'i community 2005...
  453. Guy Murchie. Visit to Persia, A (1965). — Notes from travels to Baha'i holy places in Iran in 1964, on a trip made with special permission fro...
  454. Hussein Ahdieh. What Did They Die For? (2019). — Reflections on the Baha'is of Iran, the discrimination and brutality they have faced, and how their ...
  455. Geoffrey Nash. What is Bahá'í Orientalism? (2021). — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri...
  456. Negar Mottahedeh. Where the Future Nests: 19th Century Babi and Bahá'í Photography (2009).
  457. Universal House of Justice. Whether Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb Met, Indications in the Writings and Historical Records Relative to the Question (1985). — Overview of sources indicating that Baha'u'llah and the Bab never met in person.
  458. Moojan Momen. Who Was a Bahá'í in the Upper Echelons of Qájár Iran? (2023). — The nature of multiple religious identities in a traditional society; five criteria by which many in...
  459. W. V. Emanuel. Wild Asses, The: A Journey through Persia (1939). — Passing mentions of Babis in Tabriz and Zanjan.
  460. Ahang Rabbani, ed. Witness to Shaykh Tabarsi: The Narrative of Haji Nasir Qazvini (2007). — Biography of Qazvini, sources for the study of the conflict at Shaykh Tabarsi, and Qazvini's narrati...
  461. Ahang Rabbani. Witnesses to Babi and Bahá'í History (1996). — Multiple volumes of historical materials, translations, and original research.
  462. Juan Cole. Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions (2015). — Reflections on Baha'u'llah's theology of previous religions and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of "...
  463. E. G. Browne. Year Amongst the Persians, A (1893). — Browne's famous account of his extended visit to Iran in 1887-1888; includes many references to Babi...
  464. John Walbridge. Reina Pennington, ed. Zaynab (2003). — Brief biography of a female Babi fighter.
  465. Anthony Lee. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2017). — Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th a...
  466. Susan Maneck. Zoroastrian Conversions to the Bahá'í Faith in Yazd, Iran (1983). — The Baha'i Faith appealed to Zoroastrian messianic motifs, Iranian paradigms of legitimacy, and refo...
  467. Olga Mehdi. История Ашхабадского храма бахаи (2012). — Небольшое историческое эссе о строительстве ашхабадс...
  468. Adel Shafipour. تاريخ امرئی بهايی روشنکوه: History of the Bahá'í Faith in Roshankoh (2022). — History of the Faith in an Iranian town (also transliterated Roshankouh, Roshan Kouh, and Rowshan Ku...
  469. Hasan Fuadi Bushru'i. Minou Foadi, ed. تاريخ ديانت بهائى در خراسان (Táríkh-e Diyánat-e Bahá'í dar Khorásán): "The History of the Bahá'í Faith in Khorasan" (1931). — History of the Baha'i Faith in Khorasan is considered one of the most important early histories of t...
  470. 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 ...
  471. 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...
  472. Muhammad Husayn Nayrizi. وقایع حیرت‌انگیز قصبه نی‌ریزمشکبیز (Vaqáyi`-yi Hayratangíz-i Qasbih-yi Nayríz-i Mishkbíz): "The Astonishing Events in the Town of Nayriz the Perfumed". — Account written by the grandfather of Hossein Ahdieh, who describes this book as an authentic and de...
  473. یادگار جشن پنجاهمین سال تاسیس محفل مقدس بهائیان طهران 55-103: Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bahá'í Assembly of Tehran B.E. 55-103 (1947). — Booklet and collection of historical photographs published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of th...
 

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