- Michael W. Sours. 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahá'í Secondary Literature, The (1998). — This edict, issued the year the Baha'i era began, permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return ...
- Ahang Rabbani. `Abdu'l-Baha in Abu-Sinan: September 1914 (2005). — The story of Abdu'l-Baha's relocating the Haifa/Akka Baha'i community of some 140 people to a nearby...
- Marion Weinstein. ['Abdu'l-Bahá] Declares Zionists Must Work with Other Races: From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York, July 17, 1919) (1919-09-08). — An interview with 'Abdu'l-Baha on the League of Nations, Baha'i ideas for peace, and the Holy Land. ...
- Moojan Momen. Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts (1981). — A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Babi and Baha'i religions in contempo...
- Laurence Oliphant. Babs and Their Prophet, The (1887). — Excerpt from a book described by E.G. Browne as "the first published notice of Beha and the Babi col...
- Shay Rozen. Bahá'í Settlements in the Jordan Valley, 1882-1954, The (2011-04-05).
- Maude M. Holbach. Call of Mt. Carmel, The (1912). — Includes passing references to Abdu'l-Baha and Akka, a description of life in Haifa at the time, and...
- Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. Chosen Highway, The (1940/1967). — Oral Baha'i histories collected by an eminent early English Baha'i, first published in 1940.
- Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their milita...
- Thomas Cook (firm). Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria (1876). — Many passing references to Haifa, Carmel, Akka, and the Holy Land; see e.g. pages 20-21, 30-31, 47-4...
- Shoghi Effendi. Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, The: A World Religion (1947-07). — A summary of the origin, teachings and institutions of the Baha'i Faith, prepared in 1947 for the Un...
- Universal House of Justice. Humanitarian Responses to Global Conflicts (2015-01-13). — A letter to and response from the House about why Baha'is do not condemn the 2014 attacks on Gaza, a...
- Sandra Lynn Hutchison. In the Noble, Sacred Place: One Rainy Day in a Holy City (2021 Spring). — A memoir of visiting Jerusalem — a contemporary pilgrim's note written as a literary piece — wit...
- Reginald L. Priestley. Itchyfeet: Travels with Reg Priestley (1991/2001). — Autobiography of a world traveller who visited many places in and around Israel while in the Palesti...
- Shoghi Effendi, Horace Holley. Letter to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (1947/1948). — Shoghi Effendi's summary of the relationship of the Baha'i Faith to Palestine, written as an introdu...
- Frederick Jones Bliss. Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine, The (1912).
- Bahá'í World News Service. Remembering 'Abdu'l-Baha's Call for Unity, a Century after World War I (2018-11-26). — Collection of newspaper articles and photographs of Abdu'l-Baha, on the general theme of unity in th...
- Zia M. Bagdadi. Treasures of the East: The Life of Nine Oriental Countries (1930). — Descriptions of nine "Treasures" — Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jijaz (Arabia), Transjordania (A...
- Ismael Velasco. "Two Great Powers" in the Lawh-i Maqsud (2014). — On the identity of the two countries that arose against the followers of Moses, referenced by Baha'u...
- Geoffrey Nash. What is Bahá'í Orientalism? (2021). — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri...
- Necati Alkan. Young Turks and the Bahá'ís in Palestine, The (2011). — Reform movements in turn-of-the-century Palestine and the influence of Abdu'l-Baha on his political ...
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