1. 2021 Spring. In the Noble, Sacred Place: One Rainy Day in a Holy City. Sandra Lynn Hutchison. — A memoir of visiting Jerusalem — a contemporary pilgrim's note written as a literary piece — wit...
2. 2021. What is Bahá'í Orientalism?. Geoffrey Nash. — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri...
3. 2018-11-26. Remembering 'Abdu'l-Baha's Call for Unity, a Century after World War I. Bahá'í World News Service. — Collection of newspaper articles and photographs of Abdu'l-Baha, on the general theme of unity in th...
4. 2015-01-13. Humanitarian Responses to Global Conflicts. Universal House of Justice. — A letter to and response from the House about why Baha'is do not condemn the 2014 attacks on Gaza, a...
5. 2014. "Two Great Powers" in the Lawh-i Maqsud. Ismael Velasco. — On the identity of the two countries that arose against the followers of Moses, referenced by Baha'u...
6. 2012-12. Transnational Bahá'í Print Culture: Community Formation and Religious Authority, 1890-1921. Farzin Vejdani. — Explores how Baha’is used print culture (1890–1921) for community-building, scriptural canonizat...
7. 2011-04-05. Bahá'í Settlements in the Jordan Valley, 1882-1954, The. Shay Rozen.
8. 2011. Young Turks and the Bahá'ís in Palestine, The. Necati Alkan. — Reform movements in turn-of-the-century Palestine and the influence of Abdu'l-Baha on his political ...
9. 2005. `Abdu'l-Baha in Abu-Sinan: September 1914. Ahang Rabbani. — The story of Abdu'l-Baha's relocating the Haifa/Akka Baha'i community of some 140 people to a nearby...
10. 1998. 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahá'í Secondary Literature, The. Michael W. Sours. — This edict, issued the year the Baha'i era began, permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return ...
11. 1991/2001. Itchyfeet: Travels with Reg Priestley. Reginald L. Priestley. — Autobiography of a world traveller who visited many places in and around Israel while in the Palesti...
12. 1985. Letters and Essays, 1886-1913. Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání, Juan Cole, trans. . — Treatises of "the greatest and most learned of all Baha'i scholars" about Alexander Tumansky; on mee...
13. 1981. Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts. Moojan Momen, ed. — A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Babi and Baha'i religions in contempo...
14. 1961-01. Preface. Firuz Kazemzadeh. — The original introduction for the book. In editions after 1967, this preface has been replaced by a ...
15. 1953/1970. Israel between East and West. Raphael Patai. — Passing mention of Baha'is in Palestine in the 1940s, estimating that they numbered around 300.
16. 1947/1948. Letter to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. Shoghi Effendi, Horace Holley. — Shoghi Effendi's summary of the relationship of the Baha'i Faith to Palestine, written as an introdu...
17. 1947-07. Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, The: A World Religion. Shoghi Effendi. — A summary of the origin, teachings and institutions of the Baha'i Faith, prepared in 1947 for the Un...
18. 1947. Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies, volume 2. Esco Foundation for Palestine. — One-page discussion of Baha'is being evicted from properties in Iraq, and their appeal to the League...
19. 1940/1967. Chosen Highway, The. Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. — Oral Baha'i histories collected by an eminent early English Baha'i, first published in 1940.
20. 1936. Road to Nazareth, The: Through Palestine Today. John Gibbons. — Two-page discussion of the Babis and Mount Carmel, from a travel diary.
21. 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...
22. 1926. Easter in Palestine, 1921-1922. Millicent Fawcett. — Background of Tiberias, Akka, and Haifa, with passing mentions of The Bab and Abdu'l-Baha.
23. 1925. Modern Pilgrimage to Palestine, A. Lovell Bearse Pemberton. — Includes "Interviews with 'Abdu'l-Baha" (Chapter 12, pp. 97-104) and a photograph of 'Abdu'l-Baha on...
24. 1922. Handbook of Palestine, The. Harry Charles Lukach (published as Harry Charles Luke). — Passing mentions of the Bab, Baha'is, and Subh-i-Azal, along with the history and geography of Akka....
25. 1920. Light of the World, The. George Orr Latimer. — A book chronicling Latimer's visit to the Holy Land, November 1919; includes words of Abdu'l-Baha.
26. 1919-09-08. ['Abdu'l-Bahá] Declares Zionists Must Work with Other Races: From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York, July 17, 1919). Marion Weinstein. — An interview with 'Abdu'l-Baha on the League of Nations, Baha'i ideas for peace, and the Holy Land. ...
27. 1912. Call of Mt. Carmel, The. Maude Holbach. — Includes passing references to Abdu'l-Baha and Akka, a description of life in Haifa at the time, and...
28. 1912. Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine, The. Frederick Jones Bliss.
29. 1911. Palestine: Depicted and Described. G. E. Franklin. — Four pages of pictures of Haifa, Carmel, and the American College at Beirut (Shoghi Effendi's alma m...
30. 1887. Babs and Their Prophet, The. Laurence Oliphant. — Excerpt from a book described by E.G. Browne as "the first published notice of Beha and the Babi col...
31. 1876. Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria . Thomas Cook (firm). — Many passing references to Haifa, Carmel, Akka, and the Holy Land; see e.g. pages 20-21, 30-31, 47-4...

1. 1799-00-00 — Napoleon, returning from Egypt, captured Jaffa and laid siege to Acre. At this juncture the French...
2. 1819-00-00 — 'Abdu'llah Pasha became the governor of `Akka in 1819. In 1832 when the Egyptians took `Akka he surr...
3. 1831-00-00 — Egyptian occupation of `Akka. [BBR202; DH128] 'Abdu'llah Pasha was the governor of 'Akka from 181...
4. 1844-03-21 — Edict of Toleration was issued by the Sultan of Turkey: The Muslim government of the Ottoman Empire ...
5. 1868-10-30 — Christoph Hoffman, founder of the Templers, and Georg David Hardegg, his principal lieutenant, lande...
6. 1880-06-18 — Baha'u'llah visited the Druze village of Yirkih (Yerka). `Abdu'l-Baha joined Him for the last four n...
7. 1887-00-00 — Husayn, the young son of 'Abdu'l-Baha and Munirih Khanum died in Akka at the age of three or four. ...
8. 1914-11-01 — Turkey entered the war on the side of the Central Powers. Palestine was blockaded and Haifa was b...
9. 1915-05-00 — The Baha'is of Haifa and `Akka returned to their homes from the village of Abú-Sinan. [DH147]
10. 1915-07-00 — The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was a series of ten letters exchanged from July 1915 to March 1...
11. 1916-05-16 — The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreeme...
12. 1917-11-02 — The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent to Lord Walter Rothschild by British Foreign Secretary Ar...
13. 1918-03-00 — The British Military Administration of Palestine began. [BBR488] Sir Ronald Storrs was detached f...
14. 1919-07-17 — From the newspaper Globe and Commercial Advertiser in New York, Àbdu'l-Baha was quoted as saying : ...
15. 1920-00-00 — The British Mandate for Palestine began. [BBR488] For `Abdu'l-Baha's attitude to the administra...
16. 1920-04-27 — `Abdu'l-Baha was invested with the insignia of the Knighthood of the British Empire as Sir Abbas Eff...
17. 1927-05-01 — The funeral of a believer resident in the Holy Land, Mira Moshen Afnan, was the first entirely Baha'...
18. 1928-12-31 — Ruth White, who had met 'Abdu'l-Baha in New York in 1912 and who had been on pilgrimage in 1922, wro...
19. 1929-05-04 — When the British Mandate in Palestine had been set up, an Order-in-Council had been enacted that all...
20. 1933-00-00 — The construction of the Akka-Haifa highway. The town of Haifa was taking on a greater importance wi...
21. 1938-00-00 — Shoghi Effendi remained in Europe for the year owing to terrorist activities in Palestine. [PP219] ...
22. 1947-07-09 — Shoghi Effendi, as Head of the Baha'i Faith resident in the Baha'i World Centre, received a letter f...
23. 1948-00-13 — War broke out in Palestine. Many Covenant-breakers fled the country. [DH118]
24. 1948-05-14 — The British Mandate in Palestine ended and the state of Israel was proclaimed. The notion of a Je...

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