1. 2025-09. Principled Engagement: The Bahá'í Community of Iran's Approach to Social Change. Iqan Shahidi. — Analyzes the Iranian Baha’i community’s principled, non-adversarial engagement in social change,...
2. 2024-09-04. Embracing Interdependence: Foundations for a World in Transition. Bahá'í International Community. — Statement on the occasion of the United Nations Summit of the Future, advocating for global governan...
3. 2023-01-08. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation. Roshan Danesh, Douglas White III. — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
4. 2022-08-03. Pursuit of Social Justice, The. Michael Karlberg. — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
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...
6. 2020-10. Ambivalence of Hostility and Modification: Patriarchy's Ideological Negotiation With Women, Modernity and Cinema in Iran. Elnaz Nasehi. — Passing mentions of the Baha'i Faith in the context of how forces behind the Constitutional Revoluti...
7. 2020-07-22. Letter on Racial Prejudice in the United States. Universal House of Justice. — Letter on need for American people to grasp the moment to create a reform of its social order relate...
8. 2018/2020. Laws Abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh. Anonymous, comp. — Laws abolished from previous religions and from the Bayan.
9. 2018. Bahá'u'lláh and Peace: A Series of Four Talks. Nader Saiedi. — Talks at the Santa Monica Baha’i Center in California on four areas within the context of Baha'u'l...
10. 2018. Power and the Bahá'í community. Moojan Momen. — While Baha'i social teachings may have sounded new and exciting a century ago, that is no longer the...
11. 2016. `Abdu'l-Bahá's Blueprint for a Progressive and Prosperous Iran. Adib Masumian. — 'Abduʼl-Baha's contributions to Iranian thought and social discourse, as recorded in his seminal wo...
12. 2015. Mikhail Sergeev, Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith: Review. Benjamin Olshin.
13. 2015. Theses on Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith. Mikhail Sergeev. — On how new religious movements respond to modernity; cycles of religion; project of modernity; cultu...
14. 2014. `Abdu'l-Bahá and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Embracing Principles while Disapproving Methodologies. Mina Yazdani. — Abdu’l-Baha’s orientation toward the Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911: he embraced the p...
15. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. — A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Baha'i history, key writings, and the need for schola...
16. 2012-12-24. Tablet of Glad-Tidings: A Proclamation to Scholars and Statesmen. Christopher Buck, Nahzy Abadi Buck. — The Lawh-i-Bishárát as a Proclamatory Aqdas and public announcement of principles from 'The Most...
17. 2012-12. Constitutional Movement and the Bahá'ís of Iran, The: The Creation of an 'Enemy Within'. Moojan Momen. — Baha'is had a complex relationship with the Constitutionalist Movement, sometimes supporting it and ...
18. 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 ...
19. 2010-04. Bahá'u'lláh's Bishárát (Glad-Tidings): A Proclamation to Scholars and Statesmen. Christopher Buck, Youli A. Ioannesyan. — Historical and textual study of the one of the major writings of Baha'u'llah, and new theories as to...
20. 2008-11. Revolution without Rights?, A: Women, Kurds and Baha'is searching for equality in Iran. Geoffrey Cameron, Tahirih Danesh. — Discussion from the Foreign Policy Centre in London on the religious, legal, and social obstacles to...
21. 2008-06. Baha'is and the Constitutional Revolution, The: The Case of Sari, Mazandaran, 1906-1913. Moojan Momen. — Accounts of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran have tended to ignore the role of the Baha’is. T...
22. 2008-02. Bahá'í Students and American University of Beirut in the Early 20th Century. Reed M. Breneman. — The influential activities of the campus Baha'i association in Beirut, 1900-1920 and during the firs...
23. 2008. Permanence of Change, The: Contemporary Sociological and Bahá'í Perspectives. Hoda Mahmoudi. — Sociohistorical changes of the Axial Age and the Renaissance, sociological views on modernity and it...
24. 2008. Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of National Reform, by Negar Mottaheddeh: Review. Jack Kalpakian. — Book review that touches on the Islamic Republic's treatment of judgment day and how it relates to B...
25. 2005. One Common Faith. Universal House of Justice. — Examines humanity’s spiritual crisis, critiques materialism and religious division, and affirms re...
26. 2004-06-15. Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith. Necati Alkan. — Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha had contact with many of the reformers and modernist ideas in Turkey in ...
27. 2004. Internationalism and Divine Law: A Baha'i Perspective. Roshan Danesh. — On the internationalism motif in Baha'i political and legal thought; the place of divine legal clai...
28. 2004. Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith, 1860s-1920s. Necati Alkan. — The relationship between the Young Ottoman and Young Turk reform movements and the Baha'is from the ...
29. 2003-07. Paradox of Protest in a Culture of Contest, The. Michael Karlberg. — In our culture, political and legal institutions are structured as contests and reform is characteri...
30. 2003. Exposition of the Tablet of the World (Lawh-i-Dunyá), An. James B. Thomas. — To fully appreciate the historical significance of the Tablet of the World, this essay first portray...
31. 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 ...
32. 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 ...
33. 1999. Secret of Divine Civilization: Expanded outline. Roger Coe. — Summary of contents, in outline format.
34. 1998-02. Treatise on Leadership. Abdu'l-Bahá, Juan Cole, trans. .
35. 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.
36. 1998. Bahá'í Studies Bulletin: Index by volume. Robert Stauffer, comp. — List of articles in all issues of Bahai Studies Bulletin, 1982-1992.
37. 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...
38. 1995-10. Turning Point for All Nations. Bahá'í International Community. — A statement on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, about the scope, function...
39. 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...
40. 1990. Browne, Edward Granville: Persian Constitutional movement. Kamran Ekbal. — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
41. 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.
42. 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...
43. 1968. Persia. Richard N. Frye. — Excerpt from a book on the history of Iran. Includes mention of Baha'i schools in the early twentiet...
44. 1957 [1875]. Secret of Divine Civilization. Abdu'l-Bahá, Marzieh Gail, trans. . — Originally issued anonymously in 1875, this was ʻAbdu'l-Baha's program for the developmental reform...
45. 1912. Bahá'ísm, the religion of brotherhood and its place in the evolution of creeds. Francis Henry Skrine. — An outsider's sympathetic portrayal of the Baha'i history and teachings, written with "express appro...
46. 1908. Development of Metaphysics in Persia, The: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy. Muhammad Iqbal. — Short philosophical observations on the theology of the Bab and Baha'u'llah.

1. 1875-00-04 — At the request of Baha'u'llah,`Abdu'l-Baha wrote The Mysterious Forces of Civilization, a treatise o...
2. 1963-00-01 — 15 years after the establishment of Israel and during the course of the unrest that swept through Ir...

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