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Periodicals
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Star of the West (1910–1935).
Star of the West Archive.
Star of the West: Complete Issues (Bahá'í Library Online).
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Bahá'i News: U.S. Supplement (1958–1967).
National Bahá'í Review (U.S. Supplement) (1968–1990).
The Bahá'í World (1925– ).
Documents published in Bahá'í World, with scanned volumes (Bahá'í Library Online).
Maps and Charts in Bahá'í World volumes (Bahá'í Library Online).
The Bahá’í World Volumes, Vols 1–6 (Bahá’í Reference Library)World Order (1935–1949, 1966–1990, 1993–2008).
Documents published in World Order (Bahá'í Library Online).Malaysian Bahá’í News (1965–1974).
Light of the Pacific (Hawai'i) (1965?–?).
Bahá'í Journal (UK) (1984– ).
One Country — Newsletter of the Bahá'í International Community (1989– , issues back to 1995).
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Early Publications
The Báb
Ketab-è-Hukkam (The Arabic Bayan, incomplete), Appendix to Les Religions et Philosophies dans l'Asie Centrale, Joseph Arthur le Comte de Gobineau, 1866.
Le Béyân Arabe: Le Livre Sacré du Bâbysme (The Arabic Bayan), trans. A.-L.-M. Nicolas, 1905. [Transcript]
Le Béyan Persan, Tome Premier (The Persian Bayan, Vol. 1, Váhids 1 and 2), trans. A.-L.-M. Nicolas, 1911. [Transcript]
Le Béyan Persan, Tome Deuxième (The Persian Bayan, Vol. 2, Váhids 3 and 4), trans. A.-L.-M. Nicolas, 1913.
Le Béyan Persan, Tome Troisième (The Persian Bayan, Vol. 3, Váhids 5 and 6), trans. A.-L.-M. Nicolas, 1913.
Le Béyan Persan, Tome Quatrième (The Persian Bayan, Vol. 4, Váhids 7, 8, and 9), trans. A.-L.-M. Nicolas, 1914.
Bahá'u'lláh
Hidden Words (Arabic), trans. Ibrahim Kheiralla, published in "Beha 'U'llah (The Glory of God)", Vol.2, pp.521-532, Chapter XXX, 1900. [Transcript]
Jewels of Wisdom (Hidden Words, Arabic), trans. Hussein Rouhy, published in "The Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi" by Myron H. Phelps, 1903. [Transcript]
The Book of Ighan (Kitáb-i-Iqán, The Book of Certitude), trans. Ali Kuli Khan, 1904.
[Transcript]Tablet of Joseph (Lawh-i Yusuf), trans. Anton Haddad, 1904. [Transcript]
The Seven Valleys (Haft-Vádí), trans. Ali Kuli Khan, 1906.
The Tablet of Ishrakat (Effulgences) Preceded by the Tablet on the Most Great Infallibility, trans. Ali Kuli Khan, 1908.
Tablet of Tarazat, Tablet of the World, Words of Paradise, Tablet of Tajalleyat, The Glad Tidings (Ṭarázát, Lawḥ-i-Dunyá, Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih, Tajallíyát, Bishárát), trans. Ali Kuli Khan, 1913.
Abdu'l-Bahá
A Traveller's Narrative, Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb, trans. Edward G. Browne, 1891. [Transcript]
Bahai Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year 1903, A. D., originally attributed in error to Hájí Mírzá Haydar ʿAlí, 1904. [Transcript]
Some Answered Questions, trans. Laura Clifford Barney, 1908. [Transcript]
Tablets Revealed by Abdul Baha Abbas to the East and the West, trans. Mirza Ahmad Esphahani, 1908.
The Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas, 1909.
[Volume 1] [Volume 2] [Volume 3] [Transcript 1] [Transcript 2]The Mysterious Forces of Civilization (The Secret of Divine Civilization), trans. Johanna Dawud, 1918 Chicago (1910 London). [Transcript]
Abdul Baha on Divine Philosophy, ed. Isabel Fraser Chamberlain, 1918. [Transcript]
Compilations
The Splendour of God: Being Extracts from the Sacred Writings of the Bahais, with introduction by Eric Hammond, 1909 (1911 ed.) [Transcript]
Universal Principles of the Bahai Movement, Social, Economic, Governmental, 1912.
Materials for the Study of the Bábí Religion, compiled by Edward G. Browne, 1918.
[Transcript]Compilation of the Holy Utterances of Baha'o'llah and Abdul Baha Concerning the Most Great Peace, War and Duty of the Baha'is toward their Government, 1918.
[Transcript, uncorrected]
Other Authors
Les Religions et Philosophies dans l'Asie Centrale, Joseph Arthur le Comte de Gobineau, 1866. [Transcript, uncorrected]
The Bábís of Persia, Edward G. Browne, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 21, p.485, 1889.
La Religion de Bab: Réformateur Persan du XIXe Siecle, M. Clément Huart, 1889.
[Transcript]Bábíism, Edward G. Browne, in "Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative Religion", pp.333-353, 1890 (1892 ed.) [Transcript]
Some Remarks on the Bábí Texts edited by Baron Victor Rosen in Vols. I and VI of the Collections Scientifique de l'Institut des Langues Orientales de Saint-Pétersbourg, Edward G. Browne, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, p.259, 1892.
Catalogue and Description of 27 Bábí Manuscripts, Edward G. Browne, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, p.433, 1892.
A Year Amongst the Persians, Edward G. Browne, 1893. [Transcript]
The Táríkh-i-Jadíd, or New History of Mírzá ʿAlí Muḥammad the Báb, Mírzá Ḥusayn Hamadání based on Hájí Mírzá Jání Káshání, edited also by Áqá Muḥammad-i-Qá'iní Nabíl-i-Akbar, trans. Edward G. Browne, 1893. [Transcript]
The Bab and Babism, John David Rees, Littell's Living Age, Vol.210, No.2720, pp.451-58, 1896.
Personal Reminiscences of the Bábí Insurrection of Zanján in 1850, Áqá ʿAbdu'l-Aḥad-i-Zanjání, trans. Edward G. Browne, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 29, p.761, 1897. [Transcript]
Bab and Babism, Isaac Adams, in "Persia by a Persian", pp.453–490, 1900.
[Transcript]Behá 'U'lláh (The Glory of God), Ibrahim George Kheiralla, 1900.
[Volume 1] [Volume 2] [Transcript, uncorrected]Greenacre on the Piscataqua, Anna Josephine Ingersoll, 1900. [Transcript]
Prayers, Tablets, Instructions and Miscellany: Gathered by American Visitors to the Holy City During the Summer of 1900, Edward Getsinger, Lua Getsinger, William Hoar, and Anna Hoar, 1900. [Transcript]
The Báb and the Bábís, Edward Sell, in "Essays on Islám", 1901.
[PDF-text transcript]The Babites, Henry Harris Jessup, The Outlook, Vol.68, No.6, p.451, June 1901.
[PDF-OCR transcript]Hujaj'ul Beheyyeh (Behai Proofs), Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání, 1902.
[Transcript 1921 ed.]The Revelation of Bahä'-Ullah' in a Sequence of Four Lessons, Isabella D. Brittingham, 1902. [Transcript]
The Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi, Myron H. Phelps, 1903. [Transcript]
[1912 ed.]A New Religion: Babism, Paul Carus, The Open Court, Vol.18, 1904.
[Part 1, Vol.18, June No.577, p.355] [Part 2, Vol.18, July No.578, p.398]
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The Bahai Revelation, Arthur Pillsbury Dodge, The Open Court, Vol.19, January No.584, p.54, 1905. [PDF-text transcription]
A Brief Account of My Visit to Acca, Mary L. Lucas, 1905.
[Transcript]Unity Through Love, Howard MacNutt, 1906.
Tens Days in the Light of Acca, Julia M. Grundy, 1907. [Transcript]
A Year with the Bahais of India and Burma, Sydney Sprague, 1908. [Transcript]
Daily Lessons Received at Acca, January, 1908, Helen S. Goodall and Ella Goodall Cooper, 1908. [Transcript]
The Dawn of Knowledge and The Most Great Peace, Paul Kingston Dealy, 1908.
[Transcript]In Galilee and In Spirit and in Truth, Thornton Chase and Arthur S. Agnew, 1908.
[Transcript]The Bahá'í Revelation, Thorton Chase, 1909 (1933 ed.). [PDF-text transcription]
The Universal Religion: Bahaism, Hippolyte Dreyfus, 1909.
God's Heroes: A Drama in Five Acts, Laura Clifford Barney, 1910.
The Oriental Rose, or the Teachings of Abdul Baha, which trace the chart of "The Shining Pathway", Mary Hanford Ford, 1910. [Transcript]
A Brief Account of the Bahai Movement, Ethel J. Rosenburg, 1911.
[PDF-text transcript]The Bahai Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers, Charles Mason Remey, 1912.
[PDF-text transcript]The Bahai Movement for Universal Religion, Brotherhood and Peace, A Sketch of its History and Teaching, Charles Mason Remey, 1912. [PDF-text transcript]
Bahaism in Persia, J. Davidson Frame, The Moslem World, Vol.2, July No.3, p.236, 1912.
Bahaism: The Religion of Brotherhood, and its Place in the Evolution of Creeds, Francis Henry Skrine, 1912. [PDF-text transcript]
The Brilliant Proof (Burhäne Lämé), In reply to an attack upon the Bahai Revelation by Peter Z. Easton, Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání, 1912.
The Covenant, Charles Mason Remey, c.1912. [PDF-text transcript]
Views of Acca, Haifa, Mt. Carmel, and Other Places (aka Portfolio of Views of the Holy Land), Bahai Publishing Society, 1912.
What is Behaism?, James T. Bixby, The North American Review, Vol. 195, No. 679, 1912. [Transcript]
The Modern Social Religion, Horace Holley, 1913.
Bahaism—A Study of a Contemporary Movement, Arthur R. Vail, The Harvard Theological Review, Vol.7, p.339, 1914.
Observations of a Bahai Traveler 1908, Charles Mason Remey, 1914.
[PDF-text transcript]Through Warring Countries to the Mountain of God, Charles Mason Remey, 1915.
[PDF-text transcript]Constructive Principles of the Bahai Movement, Charles Mason Remey, 1917.
[PDF-text transcript]Mashrak-El-Azkar, Charles Mason Remey, 1917. [Transcript]
The Bahai Revelation and Reconstruction, Charles Mason Remey, 1919.
The New Day: The Bahai Revelation, A Brief Statement of its History and Teachings, Charles Mason Remey, 1919. [Transcript]
The Peace of the World, Charles Mason Remey, 1919. [Transcript]
Bahai: The Spirit of the Age, Horace Holley, 1921. [PDF-text transcript]
Unity Triumphant: The Call of the Kingdom, an Introduction to the Bahaí Teachings and a Testimony of Faith in the Revelation of Bah'u'llah, Elizabeth Herrick, 1923.
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