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Some main Baha'i starting points

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    Official sites

  1. The Baha'is homepage, run by the Baha'i International Community, is a good introductory point on the Baha'i Faith.

  2. United States Baha'i National Center, the online presence of the administration, includes some news announcements and detailed information about the National Center.

    Private sites

  3. Planet Baha'i includes a wide range of links listed by topic, as well as weekly featured articles, a Baha'i chat room, a forum, and a newsletter.

  4. The Association for Baha'i Studies of North America (http://www.bahai-studies.ca) contains abstracts and, in a few cases, even the text of all publications of the ABS. News such as conference information and registration, ABS bulletins, and a bulletin board are also included.

  5. The Baha'i Academics Resource Library (http://bahai-library.com), with thousands of individual essays, Tablets, and books, is the internet's largest collection of Baha'i texts. Many things here are unpublished and perhaps not yet edited, so much of it must be used with the appropriate caution. It has all been screened and subjected to a cursory editing before being posted, though, so everything available there is at least useful and not too likely to contain errors.

  6. Casper Voogt's The Baha'i Faith Index is one of the most complete archives of Baha'i resources online.

  7. Glen Little's Baha'i Faith Home Page offers perhaps the clearest index to Baha'i material on the web.

  8. The H-Baha'i homepage (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai) is the only academic webpage on the Faith sponsored by a non-Baha'i organization, in this case the University of Michigan in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities. It features the internet's largest collection of original online publications of texts in Arabic and Persian, and as well contains a growing collection of academic articles and research notes.

  9. The Leiden List to the Writings of Baha'u'llah, compiled by Sen McGlinn et al., is available online at http://bahai-library.com/resources. Though a work-in-progress which is but a fraction of the size such a list must oneday become, it is an indispensible resource tool. It lists much information about 340 major Tablets of Baha'u'llah, including (where known) publication and translation information, dates, and language and place of revelation.

  10. Descriptions of other Baha'i Internet Resources, such as listservers, the Usenet (newsgroups), ftp archives, and other homepages can be found at http://bahai-library.com/books/rg/rg.internet.html.

    Search Engines

  11. The search engines at this site are the most complete for searching Baha'i texts and resources, but have a limited interface.

  12. True Seeker allows searchs of the Baha'i sacred texts by keyword, and allows for more complex searches.

  13. Concordances of Baha'i Texts provides detailed search options for a number of Baha'i sacred writings.

  14. Casper Voogt's search engine allows for searching of other Baha'i websites

  15. The Baha'i by Subject website provides an online search interface of Baha'i texts modelled like a home computer program.

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