While there are thousands of mentions of the Baha'i Faith in non-Baha'i books, only a few hundred have sufficient content to warrant posting here. Anyone wishing to scan/type and submit any more excerpts is encouraged to do so; write to . For chapter-length excerpts from books, see also Published Articles. If you need an excerpt from a book not included here, see my personal library catalogue to see if I have it and then email . See also the scans of items held by the Cambridge library.

Excerpts listed alphabetically by title. All excerpts are short enough to be considered "fair use" and distributed here for nonprofit educational purposes; full copyright restrictions apply and no reprinting permission is assumed. (See a discussion of "fair use" on the copyrights page.) Only paragraphs and pages with mentions of the Babi or Baha'i religions are included here; for the rest of the text, the reader is encouraged to support the authors by purchasing a copy.

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1. 180 scans of items held by the Cambridge University Library: excerpts in TIFF (image) format needing to be OCRed; email to help.
   
   
2. Abdu'l-Baha in New York: the City of the Covenant, by Elaine Lacroix-Hopson and Hussein Ahdieh (New York: NewVistaDesign, 1999). Abridged and reformatted for the web. (offsite)
   
   
3. Across Asia on a Bicycle: Through Persia to Samarkand, by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr. and William Lewis Sachtleben, in The Century: a popular quarterly (48:3 July 1894), pp. 389-401: page 390 and page 391. (offsite)
   
   
4. American Dream, The: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation. Dan Rather. New York: William Morrow & Co., 2001. Pages ?-?.
   
   
5. Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, The. Cyril Glassé. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991. Pages 61, 62, 363-364.
   
   
6. Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914. Taj al-Saltana [Nasir al-Din's daughter], Ed. Abbas Amanat. Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 1993. Pages 59, 74, 83-84, 98-99, 209, 309-10, 328-32, 339-40.
   
   
7. Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition. Michael M.J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Pages 48-54: "The Anti-Baha'i Society"
   
   
8. Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam. Annemarie Schimmel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pages 50-51, 81, 189.
   
   
9. Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions, and the Occult. George A. Mather and Larry A. Nichols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1993. Pages 32-33. See also a response by Robert Stockman.
   
   
10. Earth in the Balance. Senator Al Gore. New York: Plume, 1993. Pages 261-62.
    
    
11. Fifth Dimension, The. John Hick. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1999. Page 79.
    
    
12. Five Years in a Persian Town, Napier Malcolm. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1907. Pages 86-96.
    
    
13. Frommer's Guide to Israel: The Best of Israel. Robert Ullian, 1998.
    
    
14. Frommer's Guide to Israel: The Golden Coast. Robert Ullian, 1998. (includes Akka and Bahji)
    
    
15. Frommer's Guide to Israel: Haifa. Robert Ullian, 1998.
    
    
16. Gathering of Lights, The. Joseph J. Dewey. Published online (at www.greaterthings.com/JJDewey/Gathering). Chapter 10, "The Three Revelations."
    
    
17. Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie. Alyn Shipton. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
    
    
18. Haifa, or Life in Modern Palestine, Laurence Oliphant. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1887. Pages 103-107. (includes note by Brent Poirier)
    
    
19. History of Islamic Societies, A. Ira M. Lapidus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pages 576, 578.
    
    
20. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. John William Draper. First published n.p., 1863. Vol. I pages 329-418 passim; Vol. II pages 8-136 passim. (Contains no mention of the Baha'i Faith, but is discussed by Abdu'l-Baha in Secret of Divine Civilization. See also the entire book, offsite at www2.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/A-E/D/draper/draptoc.htm.)
    
    
21. Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution. Nikki Keddie. New York: New York University Press (date?). not proofread or formatted; email to help
    
    
22. Iran between Two Revolutions. Ervand Abrahamian. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pages 16-17, 24-5, 54, 90, 163, 174, 385, 421, 432, 532.
    
    
23. Iranians, The: Persia, Islam, and the Soul of a Nation. Sandra Mackey. New York: The Penguin Group, 1998. Pages 4, 129-32, 210, 280, 306, 373.
    
    
24. Islam: Beliefs and Observances, Ceasar E. Farah. oodbury, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1970. Pages 220, 243-48, 274.
    
    
25. Islam: The Straight Path. John L. Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pages 192, 193.
    
    
26. Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet. Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins. Oxford: Oneworld, 1998. Pages 9, 123-26, 128, 251-5, 261, 263, 266, plate.
    
    
27. Letters & Essays 1886-1913. Mírzá Abú'l-Fadl Gulpáygání, trans. Juan Cole. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1985. "The Báb and the Bábí Religion," pages 95-109.
    
    
28. A Literary History of Persia, vol. IV. E. G. Browne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. zipped file not proofread or formatted; email to help
    
    
29. Living Religions. Mary Pat Fisher. Prentice-Hall, 1999. Excerpt from Chapter 10, New Religious Movements: "Bahá'í."
    
    
30. Living Schools of Religion. Vergilius Ferm, ed. Ames, Iowa: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1956. Chapter 19, "The Baha'i Cause," by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, pages 309-14.
    
    
31. Modern Iran. Peter Avery. New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1967. Pages 46-67, 76, 121, 469.
    
    
32. Modern Movements in Islam, Julius Germanus. Calcutta: Viva-Bharati Book Shop, 1932. Pages 54-78.
    
    
33. Mountain of God, The. E.S. Stevens. London: Mills & Boon, 1911. 380 pages. Excerpts of the book published in World Order 4:3 and 4:4 [1970]). Partial excerpt only; email if you have a copy and can help.
    
    
34. Pilgrims and Travelers to the Holy Land, eds. B. F. Le Beau and M. Mor. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 1996. "Baha'i Pilgrimage to Israel," by G. M. Viswanathan, pages 269-84.
    
    
35. A Popular Dictionary of Islam. Ian Richard Netton. London: Curzon Press, 1992. Pages 48-50.
    
    
36. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in the Pahlavi Period. Shahrough Akhavi. Albany: New York University Press, 1980. Pages 76-90. not proofread or formatted; email to help
    
    
37. Religions of the World. Lewis M. Hopfe. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1987. Chapter 14, pages 427-437.
    
    
38. Religious Experience of Mankind, The. Ninian Smart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Pages 22, 417-18.
    
    
39. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. Robert S. Ellwood, Jr.New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1973. Chapter Eight, "The East in the Golden West: Other Oriental Movementes," pages 253, 275-280.
    
    
40. "The Resurgence of Apocalyptic in Modern Islam." by Abbas Amanat, in Stephen J. Stein, ed. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. III: Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age. New York: Continuum, 2000. Pages 237-246.
    
    
41. Revelation of Baha'u'llah, The, vol. 4, Mazra'ih and Bahji 1877-92. Adib Taherzadeh. Oxford: George Ronald, 1987. Chapters 24-25. See also scans of book indexes.
    
    
42. Scriptures of the World's Religions. James Fieser and John Powers, eds. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1998. Chapter 12, "Baha'i" (pages xv, 425-30, 473).
    
    
43. Sexual Morality in the World's Religions. Geoffrey Parrinder. Oxford: Oneworld, 1996. Chapter 11, "Baha'i Ideals," pages 242-251.
    
    
44. Shi'ism, Resistance, and Revolution. Ed. Martin Kramer. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, pages 127-28. (article name and author not indicated on my photocopy; email if you have information)
    
    
45. Short History of Religions, A. E.E. Kellett. London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. Pages 364-372 .
    
    
46. Station Wagon Odyssey: Baghdad to Istanbul; A famous American traveler continuing a journey across the Moslem East finds new friends and changing nations. William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice. National Geographic Magazine, CXV:1, January 1959. Page 73.
    
    
47. Ten Religions of the East. Edward Rice. New York: Four Winds Press, 1978. Chapter 6, "Some 'New' Religions: Cao Dai, The Baha'i Faith, Theosophy," pages 126-27, 133-39.
    
    
48. They Have Found a Faith. Marcus Bach. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. Chapter 7, "The Baha'i Faith," pages 189-221.
    
    
49. Venture of Islam, The, volume three. Marshall G. S. Hodgson. (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1974 [and other editions]). Pages 304-306, 310.
    
    
50. The Vision of Shoghi Effendi, excerpt from "The Persian Style of the Guardian." A.M. Varqi, trans. from the French by Ismael Velasco. (Ottawa: Baha'i Studies Publications, 1993).
    
    
51. World Faiths. Solomon A. Nigosian. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Chapter 15, "Baha'i," pages 459-470.