- 2012-11-00 — The launch of the website Loom of Reality by Steven Phelps. Steven served at the Bahá'í World Center for 13 years in the Research Department where he coordinated the indexing and collation of the Bahá'í Sacred Writings and their translation from Persian and Arabic into English.
It is an unofficial catalog of some 650 works attributed to the Báb, 11,800 works attributed to Bahá’u’lláh, and 12,000 works attributed to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá which are accessible to the public, either in published form, in manuscripts held in national or institutional archives, or in digital images, texts and translations found on the Internet. The holdings of the Bahá’í World Centre Archives in Haifa, which are not open to the public, are not included. A "Partial Inventory" of a two-volume resource for the identification of over 29,000 Bahá'í texts in Persian Arabic and English can be download here. More information on the website can be found on his blog.
His presentation Overview of the Writings of the Báb can be found on the Wilmette Institute website as well as Approaching the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh.
- 2019-10-02 —
The British Library marked the bicentenary of the birth of the Báb with various initiatives alongside the launch of a new website, Discovering Sacred Texts. With the launch of this website there were companion exhibitions which featured examples of the Faith's original texts.
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The library displayed three rare and exquisite pieces in its Treasures Gallery: an original of the Báb's own handwriting, in the shape of a five-pointed star; calligraphic exercises written by Bahá'u'lláh in His childhood; and an example of "Revelation Writing", the form in which Bahá'u'lláh's words were recorded at speed by His secretaries as they were revealed. These manuscripts were on display at the library for six months.
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Coinciding with the launch of the site and the exhibition was the publication of an article by Moojan Momen, specially commissioned by the library for the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Báb. Dr. Momen wrote about the three original works on display at the exhibition, set in the context of a brief historical account of the life of the Bab.
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To further mark the bicentenary, the library invited actor and comedian Omid Djalili to stage his one-man show A Strange Bit of History written by Annabel Knight. The play recounts events surrounding the appearance of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh. This performance ran for four days. It was first performed at the 1993 Edinburgh Festival, where it won the Spirit of the Fringe Award. Over the next four years it was performed 109 times in 10 different countries.
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- In addition to the Bahá'í literature that is available that can be borrowed or can be found on-line, the British Library has a collection of about 10,000 tablets (~15GB of B&W images) that have been digitized and may be purchased by special request. Caveat Lector! The source of these texts was the grandson of Majdi'd-Din, the unfaithful son of Bahá'u'lláh's faithful full-brother, Mírzá Músá. [Overview of the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh by Steven Phelps 40min]
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