- Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections, by Layli Maparyan (2020). — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology, by Juan Cole (1997). — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Peace: A Series of Four Talks, by Nader Saiedi (2018). — Talks at the Santa Monica Baha’i Center in California on four areas within the context of Baha'u'l...
- Bahá'u'lláh, The Liberator of the Oppressed, Mohammad Norozi, comp. and ed. (2024). — Brief compilation of accounts of two Ethiopian slaves in Iran; African servants in Baha'u'llah's hou...
- Black Pearls: Servants in the Households of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, by Abu'l-Qasim Afnan (1988). — Biographies of Haji Mubarak, Fiddih, Isfandiyar, Mas'ud, and Salih Aqa; slavery and Islamic history....
- Black Pearls: The African Household Slaves of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Merchant Family, by R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram (2003-10). — The African slave trade to Iran in the 1800s, and the lives of household slaves of one specific merc...
- Black Pearls: Notes on Slavery, by Moojan Momen, Abu'l-Qasim Afnan, Anthony Lee (1988/1999). — Editor's note, foreword, preface, and introduction to two editions of Black Pearls; brief overview o...
- Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, by Derik Smith (2019). — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
- Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history, by Encyclopaedia Iranica, Arjen Bolhuis, comp. (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
- Enslaved African Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life of Fezzeh Khanom of Shiraz, by Anthony Lee (2012-02). — Through an examination of the life of this servant of The Bab, this paper addresses the enormous gap...
- Ethiopian King, The, by Nader Saiedi, Omid Ghaemmaghami, trans. (2011). — This article brings to light a number of hitherto unknown passages from the writings of the Bab abou...
- Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination, by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání (2000). — On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjecti...
- Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two African Slaves in Iran, by Anthony Lee (2015). — Biographies of two enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, the servants of The Ba...
- Laws Abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh, Anonymous, comp. (2018/2020). — Laws abolished from previous religions and from the Bayan.
- List of Articles by Nader Saiedi on BahaiTeachings.org, by Nader Saiedi (2017-2020). — Links to 40 essays about Baha'i teachings on spiritual unity, justice, freedom, democracy, and globa...
- Recovering Biographies of Enslaved Africans In Nineteenth-Century Iran, by Anthony Lee (2016). — On the history, and lack of scholarship about, the East-African slave trade to Iran; as many as 1-2 ...
- Recovering the Lives of Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A First Attempt, by Anthony Lee (2016). — Reconstructing the lives of four slaves in the Middle East, including Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum...
- Servants in the Households of Baha'u'llah and the Bab, by Universal House of Justice, Research Department (2000-02-02). — Whether or not the servants of the Bab and Baha'u'llah were slaves, and a list of relevant sources f...
- Tablet of Emancipation, The, by Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. (2014-09-02). — Authorized translation of a prayer in which Baha'u'llah frees a slave.
- Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age, by Nader Saiedi (2014). — A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Baha'i history, key writings, and the need for schola...
- Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue, by National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (1991). — A formal statement from the US NSA on "the most challenging issue confronting America."
- Writings of the Báb: Lecture Series at the Norwegian Summer School, by Nader Saiedi (2019). — On topics including the concept of God; Manifestations of God; Day of Resurrection, heaven and hell;...
- Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran, by Anthony Lee (2017). — Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th a...
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