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Bahá'í Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year 1903 AD. Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali, Youness Khan Afroukhteh, trans. (1917). A memoir by Abdu'l-Bahá, erroneously credited to Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali, published in English as a 28-page book in 1904 and 1917, covering events from March-September 1903. Books. Constructive Principles of the Bahá'í Movement. Charles Mason Remey (1917). A summary of the history, object, and institutions of the Bahá'í religious teachings. Books. Early Pilgrimage, An. May Maxwell (1917). Notes from an 1898 pilgrimage by the mother of Ruhiyyih Khanum, published in 1917 and reprinted in 1953. Books. Mashrak-el-Azkar: Descriptive of the Bahá'í temple. Charles Mason Remey (1917). Preliminary designs for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár to be built in America, showing nine varying treatments in different styles of architecture; includes discussions of the Ashkhabad temple and Bahá'í history, and a 1908 letter to Star of West. Books. Mohammed and Islam. Ignaz Goldziher (1917). Twelve pages on the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths — described as a modern movement within Islam which recognizes the religious evolution of mankind — covering history up to Abdu'l-Bahá's visit to the United States. Includes link to the complete book. Books. Persian Reformer's View of Art, A. Juliet Thompson (1917-03). Personal recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá's words on art and inspiration. Includes the portrait Thompson painted of Abdu'l-Bahá. Essays. Pilgrim Notes. Myron Henry Phelps (1917). Notes taken by Phelps during his second visit to Acca, 1917, from the words of Abdul-Baha. Pilgrims. Private Dowding: The personal story of a soldier killed in battle. Wellesley Tudor Pole (1966). A record of a soldier in WWI allegedly "channeled" to Pole from the afterlife. Emphasizing love over fear, encouraging personal growth and offering a hopeful view of death. Fiction. Shining Light from Persia, A. Albert Ross Vail, Emily McLellan Vail (1917). Overview chapter from a religious-studies textbook, written by a sympathetic outsider. This excerpt, from a "teacher's edition" of the book, contains an additional 7 pages of commentary not included in the regular edition. Excerpts. Tablets of the Divine Plan. Abdu'l-Bahá (1993). 14 letters written by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to Baháʼís in the United States and Canada between March 1916 and March 1917 on the goal of establishing the Bahá'í religion throughout the world. Writings.

 

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