1. 2026-03-30. Interregnum, The. Filip Boicu, W. Andy Knight. — An open, candid interview offering a unique view of what he terms the "interregnum," linking today's... Video.
2. 2025-12. Negotiating Gender Equality among Pakistani Bahá'ís: A Qualitative Study. Saleha, Ayesha Zaka, Humaira Tehsin. — Explores how Pakistani Baha’is negotiate religious ideals of gender equality within everyday life,... Articles.
3. 2023-2026. BWNS Podcasts: Conversations and Insights from the Field. Bahá'í World News Service. — Links to 46 interviews highlighting how Baha’i individuals and communities worldwide apply spiritu... Audio.
4. 2023-06. Báb on the Rights of Women, The. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. — Statements of the Bab on issues such as mutʿah and tahlil marriages, polygyny, bridal consent, divo... Articles.
5. 2021-05. Secret of Divine Civilization, The. Fariba Moghadam. — Overview of the history Abdu'l-Baha's treatise, and its themes presented through a compilation of qu... Presentations.
6. 2021. What is Bahá'í Orientalism?. Geoffrey Nash. — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri... Articles.
7. 2015-10-01. Migrants and Refugees in Europe. Universal House of Justice. — Principles to guide the response of the Bahá’í community to the dramatic social changes concer... UHJ-letters.
8. 2015. Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two African Slaves in Iran. Anthony Lee. — Biographies of two enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, the servants of The Ba... Articles.
9. 2013-11. Divide and Rule: The Creation of the Alawi State after World War I. Necati Alkan. — Summary of 20th-century history of the Nusayri/Alawi Shi'i movement in Syria and Turkey. (No mention... Articles.
10. 2012. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity during His Western Travels. Wendi Momen. — Abdu'l-Baha's responses to the West's technology and innovations on the one hand, vs. its archaic ra... Articles.
11. 2012. Fighting for the Nuṣayrī Soul: State, Protestant Missionaries and the ʿAlawīs in the Late Ottoman Empire. Necati Alkan. — Overview of the Alawites/Nusayris (Syrian Shi'is) in the start of the 19th century, political attitu... Articles.
12. 2011. Bahá'í Faith in Africa, The: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962. Anthony Lee. — African presence in early Babi and Baha'i history; Baha'i response to crises in Middle East and West... Books.
13. 2006. Bahá'í Faith in the Arabic Speaking Middle East, The: Part 1 (1753-1863). Ramsey Zeine. — Babi and early Baha'i links to the Arab world and the Arabic language; the identity of the Faith is ... Articles.
14. 2002. Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East. Oliver Scharbrodt. — With their theologies, Baha'u'llah and Muhammad 'Abduh both responded to the challenge of modernity ... Articles.
15. 2001 Winter. Academic Irrelevance or Disciplinary Blind-Spot?: Middle Eastern Studies and the Baha'i Faith Today. Ismael Velasco. — Possible reasons for the lack of attention to the Baha'i religion in Middle Eastern academic studies... Articles.
16. 2000. Introduction to Abdu'l-Baha's The Secret of Divine Civilization, An. Nader Saiedi. — 'Abdu'l-Baha's The Secret of Divine Civilization in the context of the Iranian social and political ... Articles.
17. 1999-03. Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Middle Eastern Modernity, The. Juan Cole. — Middle Eastern religion is seldom mentioned in the same breath with modernism. The Baha'i faith, whi... Essays.
18. 1998. Der Messianismus des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts und die Entstehung der Baha'i Religion. Kamran Ekbal. — On the resurgence of a millenarianistic climate in the 19th century from China through the Middle-Ea... Articles.
19. 1998. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in the Nineteenth-century Middle East [introduction only]. Juan Cole. — Introduction and first 4 pages of Chapter One. Excerpts.
20. 1998. Bahá'í Studies Bulletin: Index by volume. Robert Stauffer, comp. — List of articles in all issues of Bahai Studies Bulletin, 1982-1992. Bibliographies.
21. 1997. Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology. Juan Cole. — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd... Articles.
22. 1993. Still Lives. Denis MacEoin. — The nature of private lives and biography in Middle Eastern culture, with brief discussion of Rushdi... Articles.
23. 1991. Baha'u'llah as 'World Reformer'. Christopher Buck. — This article places Baha'u'llah in the context of Islamic reform by comparing him to several contemp... Articles.
24. 1989 Winter. Ideology, Ethics, and Philosophical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Iran. Juan Cole. — Intellectual biography as a discipline assumes that the life and thought of an individual can shed l... Articles.
25. 1986-10-27. Places Where the Manifestations of God Have Appeared; Equality of Men and Women. Universal House of Justice. — The consistent portrayal of all known Manifestations of God as male and their historical emergence e... UHJ-letters.
26. 1983-09. Bahá'í Influence on the Reform Movements of the Islamic World in the 1860s and 1870s. Moojan Momen. — Baha'i influences on the Middle Eastern reform movement in the 1860s and 1870s. Articles.
27. 1981 Spring. Muhammad `Abduh and Rashid Rida: A Dialogue on the Bahá'í Faith. Juan Cole. — Translation of a dialogue between two influential Sunni thinkers of the early Twentieth Century; con... Articles.
28. 1930. Treasures of the East: The Life of Nine Oriental Countries. Zia M. Bagdadi. — Descriptions of nine "Treasures" — Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jijaz (Arabia), Transjordania (A... Books.

1. 1845-01-10 — The beginning of the Islamic new year. Messianic fervour grew, particularly among Shaykhis. [BBRSM15...
2. 1850-07-31 — The Faith of the Bab had spread to two countries at this point, Iran and Iraq. [MBW147] Bab148–60...
3. 1916-05-16 — The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreeme...
4. 1956-04-00 — Shoghi Effendi announced the extension to Egyptian Baha'i women of the right to be elected to the Na...

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