Featured Updates

2020-2025

See also List of New Items and Featured Pieces.

2026

February: added four volumes to مصابیح هدایت (thank you A.S.)
January: added article to Naming Names: The Power to Control the Meaning of Media Symbols (thank you D.V.)
January: added presentation to An Organic Order: An Approach to the Philosophy of Bahá'u'lláh through the Writings of Shoghi Effendi (thank you R.C.)

2025

December: added new version of Baha'u'llah's Ground Plan of World Fellowship (thank you M.T.)
October: updated and expanded Now They Are Hanging Women (thank you J.T.)
October: updated all versions "Bab and Babism" and other excerpts from Persia by a Persian (thank you M.T.)
October: added to Some Prayers by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (thank you S.A.)
October: updated Pilgrim Accounts Collection and many items linked to it, e.g. William Sears Pilgrimage, and prepared a list of Pilgrims Notes to Add to BLO
July: updated Bahá'í Library Offline from 5.1 to 5.2, adding: the complete Inventory and its Subjects database, both integrated into our content; dozens of new languages
July: added Compilation of Selected Materials for Further Study following from a series of brief talks given by Douglas Martin
July: added new pdfs and epub of Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era, including Mongolian
July: expanded and proofread, Guy Murchie: A Visit to Persia; Journey Through Northern Iran
June: added formatted, annotated Word version of Stephen Lambden: Some Aspects of Isrá'íliyyát and the Emergence of the Bábí-Bahá'í Interpretation of the Bible (thank you M.T.)
June: updated to Version 5 of Loom of Reality: A Partial Inventory of the Works of the Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith, and added new Youtube video "Update on the Partial Inventory: Charting the coastline, and initial soundings"
June: expanded our Inventory from 560 to 29,220 entries (thank you S.P.)
May: updated Bahá'í Library Offline archive and database torrent from 5.09 to 5.1, a significant upgrade
April: added complete book of Boris Handal: Quddús: The First in Rank
April: added PDF e-book export to Lights of Guidance
March: added mbox downloads of soc.religion.bahai: Complete Archives
March: added 3 new videos to Hussein Ahdieh: Bahá'í History and Videos
March: added transcript of Todd Lawson: Islam and the Life of the Mind (thank you A.B.)
March: added 96 new versions of Word documents and PDFs to Iranian National Bahá'í Archives (thank you A.S.)
March: added formatted version of A Tribute to Amatu'l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum
February: added more translations to Some Prayers by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (thank you S.A.)
February: added Word version and optimized PDF of Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism (thank you M.T.)
January: added complete-volume PDFs to Lights of Irfan (thank you S.R.)
January: updated and improved Bahá'í Library Offline archive and database torrent

2024

December: added La proclamation de Baha'u'llah (thank you D.M.)
December: updated bahaullah_additional_prayers, bahaullah_additional_tablets_extracts, abdul-baha_additional_prayers, abdul-baha_tablets_extracts_talks
November: added Living the Life original scan (thank you M.T.)
August: BitTorrent archiving re-enabled
August: New scan of Shoghi Effendi: Bahá'í Procedure (thank you M.T.)
July: many backend updates to the Library; see Version 5
February: added "Life of Hand of the Cause Agnes Baldwin Alexander 1875-1971" at Powerpoints for Deepening (thank you D.T.)
February: proofread Oregon Newspaper Archive (thank you E.J.)
February: updated Enregistrements audio en français with Épître au fils du Loup (thank you D.M.)
January: completed Emma Maxie Jones Collection

2023

September: added PDF and Word versions of Message from Acca (thank you M.T.)
September: added PDF and Word versions of Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi (thank you M.T.)
September: added PDF and Word versions of Horace Holley's Kitáb-i-Íqán: A Study Guide (thank you M.T.)
September: added updated versions of Compilation of Utterances from the Pen of Abdul-Baha Regarding His Station (thank you M.T.)
September: expanded Comments on "Infallible Institutions?" by Udo Shaefer and response by Peter Terry (thank you W.B.)
September: added published version of Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá'í (thank you R.S.)
September: corrected scan of The Religion of the Bahá'ís (thank you M.T.)
September: updated Timeline of Members of the Universal House of Justice (thank you S.R.)
September: many additions to list of translations by Adib Masumian
August: added complete book of Five Years in a Persian Town
August: added complete book of Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
July: added new versions of Principles of Bahá'í Administration (thank you M.T.)
July: added ebook version of میرزا مهدی غصن اطهر Mirza Mehdi, Ghusn-i-Athar (thank you B.H.)
July: added complete book of Haifa, or Life in Modern Palestine (thank you M.T.)
June: added proofread PDF of Heavenly Vista: The Pilgrimage of Louis G. Gregory (thank you M.T.)
June: updated to Version 3 of Loom of Reality: A Partial Inventory of the Works of the Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith (thank you S.P.)
May: added proofread PDF of The Rise and Fall of the Parliament of Religions at Greenacre (thank you E.J.)
February: updates are on hold pending a server migration for Version 5. See our Fundraising letter.
February: added more volumes, new indexes, and a Persian introduction to Iranian National Bahá'í Archives (thank you A.S.)
January: added proofread PDF and new image scan of Artemus Lamb's Haifa Notes
January: added proofread PDF and image scan of Institution of the Counsellors
January: added new edition of Journey of Courage: From Disability to Spiritual Ability

2022

December: added updated, illustrated version of The German Bahá'í Community under National Socialism (thank you H.L.)
December: added new books to Enregistrements audio en français (thank you D.M.)
December: added new information from the Universal House of Justice to Authenticity of Prayers and Tablets
November: improved PDF and added Word version of Mother's Stories (thank you M.T.)
August: added first edition, and Word version, of The Brilliant Proof (thank you M.T.)
August: added Persian original, and Word version, of The Bahá'í Proofs (thank you M.T.)
August: added complete text of God & Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America (thank you C.B.)
August: new translation of Tabla de la Medicina (thank you H.E.)
July: updated version of Table Talks and Notes Taken at Acca (thank you M.T.)
June: completed The Reference Desk: Projects that Support Bahá'í Scholarship in the Digital Age
May: added 25 volumes, including new Indexes, to Iranian National Bahá'í Archives (thank you A.S.)
April: proofread version of The Deification of Jesus (thank you G. A.)
March: added new items to Bahá'í Essays in the Times Colonist and Random Thoughts of a Mystic Economist (thank you B.S.)
January: completed OCR/proofing of Emma Maxie Jones Collection (thank you M.T.)
January: more resources added to Bahá'u'lláh's Long Healing Prayer: Parallel Translation and Notes (thank you D.P.)

2021

December: updated, added full PDF version to Revisioning the Sacred (thank you J.M. and M.T.)
November: added more download formats for Prescription for Living
October: added "From the Unpublished Diary of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab During his Sojourn in Palestine With the Centre of the Covenant" etc. (thank you V.Z.)
October: added complete text of Celestial Burning: A Study of the Writings of Shoghi Effendi (thank you J.M.)
October: added complete text of Iran between Two Revolutions
August: updated 26 Prières de 'Abdu'l-Bahá with an "official" translation (thank you P.S.)
August: added transcript for Vision of Shoghi Effendi as Reflected in The Advent of Divine Justice (thank you H.B.)
July: updated April & June 1913 PDFs of Ahmad Sohrab's diary letters with improved grayscale versions (thank you M.T.)
July: added 4th and final volume to Persian Bayan: English Translation from Nicolas
July: added transcript for The Story of Anis Zunuzi (thank you H.B.)
June: New version of Map of Stages in Bahá'u'lláh's Successive Exiles from Tihran to Akka (thank you A.G.)
June: added Persian translation of Success in Teaching (thank you F.I.)
June: added 2020 Letter from the UHJ re Bahá'u'lláh's Long Healing Prayer (thank you D.P.)
June: added A North Carolina Bahá’í history 1850 - 2021 presentation (thank you S.K.)
June: added a stamp of Mark Tobey at the bottom of Bahai Personalities (thank you R.S.)
May: added handtyped text of The Philosophical Year and the Bábys (thank you D.C.)
April: added text / book scan of The Wonder Lamp by A.Q. Faizi
April: added scan of The Prince of Martyrs: A brief account of the Imam Husayn, and other items by Faizi
April: updated PDFs of Community Histories: Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions (thank you D.C. and S.K.)
April: Revised digital edition of Promised Day Is Come (thank you M.T.)
April: added second edition of Messages to the Antipodes (thank you B.Z.)
April: added newer published version of The Bahá'ís of the United States (thank you B.D.)
March: added April & June 1913 (624 new pages) of Ahmad Sohrab's diary letters (thank you A.B.)
March: added pamphlet version of Success in Teaching
March: added published version of The German Bahá'í Community under National Socialism (thank you D.T.).
February: typed, proofed version of Seven Valleys: Notes from a Deepening Class (thank you T.W. and B.C.)
February: added 3 contemporary photographs to Bahá'í Response to Racial Injustice and Pursuit of Racial Unity (thank you R.P.)
January: improved, OCRed version of Bahá'í View of the Educated Person (thank you M.T.)
January (and ongoing): continued updates to List of John Hatcher's Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (thank you A.B.)

2020

December: posted second half of Shoghi Effendi: Recollections
December: expanded Tablet of the Holy Mariner (Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds): Study Compilations (thank you A.M.)
December: expanded Laws Abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh (thank you A.B.)
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