Bahai Library Online

Biographies

  1. Jack Boyd, Bill Washington. Faruq Izadinia, trans. یادی از حارسان مدنیت الهیّه خاطراتی از ایادیان امرالله جک بوید – بیل واشنگتون : Recollections of the Hands of the Cause (2024). Persian translation of the short essays in "Memories of Hands of the Cause of God" by Jack Boyd and "Hands of the Cause of God: Recollections" by Bill Washington: Z. Khadem, J. Robarts, T. Samandari, A.Q. Faizi, A. A. Furutan, C. Dunn, U. Giachery, etc.
  2. Various. Harry Liedtke, comp. 239 Days in America: Compilation of Essays from 239days.com (2012/2023). Compilation of text and visuals from the website 239days.com, covering Abdu'l-Bahá's visit from April 11 - Dec 5, 1912.
  3. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada. A-de-rih-wa-nie-ton On-kwe-on-we Neh-ha: A Message to the Iroquois Indians (1956). Three items: 2021 cover letter from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada, the 1956 message to the Iroquois Indians in Mohawk and English, and a biography of the translator, "Charles A. Cooke, Mohawk Scholar," by Marius Barbeau.
  4. Moojan Momen. 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1995).
  5. 'Abdu'l-Baha (2004).
  6. Constance Elizabeth Maud. Abdu'l-Baha (1924). Chapter on Abdu'l-Bahá and Qurratu'l-Ayn, from a book of biographical studies.
  7. Alessandro Bausani, Denis MacEoin. 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Life and Teachings (1985). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  8. Ali Kuli Khan, John Bosch, Louise Bosch. Marzieh Gail, ed. 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Portrayals from East and West (1971 Fall). Recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá, taken from papers of Ali-Kuli Khan and the conversations of John and Louise Bosch.
  9. Juliet Thompson. 'Abdu'l-Bahá: The Center of the Covenant (1948). 'Abdu'l-Bahá's vibrant personality and unique function as the Centre of the Covenant. His role as the servant of glory; the perfect exemplar; the stronghold of the Faith; and as link between the Heroic and Golden Ages of the Faith.
  10. Darius Shahrokh. Abdu'l-Bahá: The Mystery of God (1992). Overview of the life of Abdu'l-Bahá.
  11. Firuz Kazemzadeh. 'Abdu'l-Bahá 'Abbás (2009-04). On the eldest son and appointed successor of Bahá’u’lláh, the Center of His Covenant, and the Head of the Bahá’í Faith from 1892 to 1921, regarded, along with the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, as one of the Central Figures of the Bahá’í Faith.
  12. Ahmad Sohrab. David Merrick, ed. 'Abdu'l-Baha in Britain, 1913: The Diary of Ahmad Sohrab (2018). Diary of the travels to Liverpool, London, Oxford, Edinburgh, Bristol, and Woking, 1912/12/05-1913/01/21. Presented as a "hybrid" book with internet links, maps, and QR codes. Includes copious notes, alternative accounts, and an appendix of the talks.
  13. Ahmad Sohrab. David Merrick, ed. 'Abdu'l-Baha in Edinburgh: The Diary of Ahmad Sohrab (2008). Diary of Abdu'l-Bahá's visit to Edinburgh, January 6-10, 1913.
  14. Julio Savi. `Abdu'l-Bahá in Egypt: September 1910 (2013). Historical and political background of Abdu'l-Bahá's various travels to Egypt, discussion of the people he met, and press coverage.
  15. Violetta Zein. `Abdu'l-Bahá, the "Mystery of God" / Abdu'l-Bahá, Le "Mystère de Dieu" (2021). Slideshow prepared by the Utterance Project for the centenary of the ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. In English, French, Italian, and Indonesian.
  16. Marlene Macke, comp. 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Canada: A Compilation from Written Accounts (2012-08). Lengthy collection of passages from the books Origins of the Bahá’í Community in Canada, Maxwells of Montreal, Mahmúd’s Diary, and Abdu’l-Bahá in Canada, the newspaper Montreal Gazette, and other sources.
  17. Necati Alkan. `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás (2021). Abdu’l-Bahá’s life story, from his childhood in Iran and as an exile for 60 years in the Ottoman Empire; his unique station, unequalled in religious history; travels in the West; achievements and contributions to the expansion of His Father’s religion.
  18. H. Elsie Austin. Above All Barriers: The Story of Louis G. Gregory (1955/1976). Article, published as a pamphlet, summarizing the life of this famous lawyer and social activist.
  19. Agnes Baldwin Alexander. Thomas Linard, ed. Account of How I Became a Bahá'í and My Stays in Paris in 1901 and 1937, An: Written at the Request of Mrs. Laura Dreyfus-Barney (1958). Alexander's account of her acceptance of the Bahá'í teachings in Rome in 1900 and subsequent meetings with the Bahá'í group in Paris.
  20. Alili Ridvan. E. G. Browne, trans. Account of the Death of Mirza Yahya Subh-i-Azal (1918).
  21. Adib Masumian, trans. Account of the Life of Hakím Áqá Ján, An (2022). Originally written in Persian by Mírzá Áqá Khán Katírá’í (Ya‘qúb) and published in Payám-i-Bahá’í with minor edits by Hushidar Motlagh, this is an account of the former's great-grandfather, Ḥakím Áqá Ján (d. 1881), one of the first Jewish Bahá’ís.
  22. Shoghi Effendi, Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. Account of the Passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, An (1973-04-21). On the last days of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, his funeral, and tributes on his behalf.
  23. Adelbert Mühlschlegel. Gisele Liedtke, trans, Harry Liedtke, trans. Adelbert Mühlschlegel: Seine Gedichte in zwei Sprachen: His Poetry in Two Languages (2010). Overview of the life of this Hand of the Cause, written by his daughter and son-in-law, and a selection of 31 poems, with the original German and English translation presented side-by-side.
  24. Moojan Momen. Adíb Tálaqání (Hand of the Cause) (1985). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  25. Vincent Flannery. Adventures in Biographical Research: John and William Cormick (2004). Biographical details of the only European known to have met the Bab, William Cormick, and his father John Cormick.
  26. Moojan Momen. Afnán: Genealogy of the Afnān Family (1985). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  27. Ahang Rabbani. Afnán Family, The: Some Biographical Notes (2007). Genealogy of the Báb and biographies of his descendants; meaning of afnan.
  28. Darius Shahrokh. Ahmad, The Flame of Fire (1992). History of the recipient of the Tablet of Ahmad, extracted from an article by Hand of the Case Jinab-i-Abu'l-Qasim-i-Faizi in Bahá'í News, 1967.
  29. Richard Francis. Ahmad-i-Yazd (1993/2003). Life of the recipient of the Arabic Tablet of Ahmad.
  30. Denis MacEoin. Ahsá'í, Shaykh Ahmad (1985). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  31. Moojan Momen. Akhund, Haji (Haji Mulla `Ali-Akbar Shahmirzadi) (1995). Short biography of an Iranian Hand of the Cause of God.
  32. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke (2004). The life and ideas of the leading African-American intellectual Alain Locke and his involvement with the Bahá'í Faith.
  33. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Bahá'í Principles and the Salvation of Democracy (2007). Long presentation in slide format on the history and influence of Alain Locke.
  34. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Baha'i Philosopher (2001/2002). Biography of one of the important African American intellectuals and his impact on American thought and culture. Includes two letters written by or on behalf of Shoghi Effendi.
  35. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy (2005). The importance of Alain Locke (1885-1954), the 'Dean' of the Harlem Renaissance (1919-1934), and an American Bahá'í.
  36. Christopher Buck, Alain Locke. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Baha'i Pluralist: includes Alain Locke in his Own Words: Three Essays and a poem (2005). Article by Buck, poem "The Moon Maiden" and three essays by Locke introduced by Buck: "The Gospel for the Twentieth Century," "Peace between Black and White in the United States," and "Five Phases of Democracy: Farewell Address at Talladega College."
  37. John E. Kolstoe. Alaskan Bahá'í Community: Its Growth and Development: The Formative Years: To 156 B. E. (1999) (1999). Compilation of historical materials on the Faith in Alaska up through the late 1990s.
  38. Mehraeen Mottahedin-Mavaddat, Moojan Momen. Alavíyyih Khánum and 'Alí Ján, Mullá (2009). On the couple, both distinguished Iranian teachers of the Bahá’í Faith; Mullá ‘Alí Ján was executed for his faith.
  39. Duane Troxel. Alexander, Agnes: 70 years of service (1983-10/11/12). Biography of a prominent American Bahá'í and Hand of the Cause of God.
  40. Universal House of Justice. Ali Akbar Furutan, In Memoriam (2003-11-27). Obituary containing a brief biography of Ali Akbar Furutan, one of the longest surviving Hands of the Cause of God.
  41. Moojan Momen. Alí Akbar Shahmírzádí (Hájjí Akhund) (1985). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  42. Moojan Momen. Alí Bastámí, Mullá (2009). On the second disciple to recognize the Báb, and the first Bábí martyr.
  43. Denis MacEoin. Alí Bastámí, Mullá (1985). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  44. Moojan Momen. Ali Bastami, Mulla (1995).
  45. Lil Osborn. Alice Buckton: Baha'i Mystic (2014-07). Buckton, a central figure in the re-establishment of Glastonbury as England's spiritual centre, visited Abdul Baha in Egypt and received him at her home in Surrey, and visited the U.S. to help spread the Bahá'í movement.
  46. Lil Osborn. Alice Buckton's Glastonbury Pilgrimage (2020). Buckton's spiritual awakening and pioneering activities in Glastonbury, including her setting up a womens' and pilgrims' hostel, and the Pilgrimage of Avalon.
  47. Allen, Wellesca Pollock (1915). Brief bio of a kindergarten teacher from Washington DC who visited Abdu'l-Bahá in 1907.
  48. Violette Nakhjavani. Amatu'l-Bahá Visits India (1966). The story of Rúhíyyih Khánum's 9-month journey across India and Southeast Asia in 1964, as told by her travel companion.
  49. John S. Hatcher. Amazing Nashville Baha'i Community in the 1960s, The (2019). "From the Editor's Desk": Hatcher's personal memories of time in Nashville; overview of the lives of Robert Hayden and Magdalene Carney.
  50. Graham Hassall. Ambassador at the Court: The Life and Photography of Effie Baker (1999). Extensive biography of Effie Baker, an early Australian Bahá'í.
  51. Suheil Badi Bushrui (published as Suheil Bushrui). Ameen Rihani and the Unity of Religion: The Politics of Time and the Politics of Eternity (2014). Overview of the life and thought of a Lebanese-American writer, intellectual, and political activist, who believed in the oneness of religions and the brotherhood of nations and devoted his life to promoting East-West understanding.
  52. Moojan Momen. Amín Hájjí: trustees of Huqúqu'lláh (1985). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  53. Moojan Momen. Amin, Haji Abu'l-Hasan (1995).
  54. Richard Francis. Amoz Everett Gibson: The First Black Member of the Universal House of Justice (1998). Biography of a prominent black Bahá'í teacher and former member of the Universal House of Justice.
  55. Anne Gordon Perry. Anne Gould Hauberg and Mark Tobey: Lives Lived for Art, Cultivated by Spirit (2016). On the friendship and working relationship between Seattle art patron Hauberg and Seattle-based painter Tobey.
  56. Boris Handal. Áqá Buzurg, Entitled Badí "The Wonderful" (2023). Áqá Buzurg and Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Sultán; Tablet to Badí from Bahá'u'lláh; the Pride of the Martyrs of the Bahá'í Faith; excerpts from the Lawh-i-Sultán.
  57. Mangol Bayat. Áqá Khan Kermání (1987). Brief excerpt, with link to full article offsite.
  58. Sholeh A. Quinn. Aqasi, Haji Mirza ('Abbas Iravani) (2009). On the prime minister of Iran under Muhammad Shah Qajar from 1835 to 1848, regarded by Bahá’ís as the Antichrist of the Bábí dispensation.
  59. Marzieh Gail. Arches of the Years (1991). Early days of the Bahá'í Faith in America and of Abdu'l-Bahá's visit in 1912; Phoebe Hearst; Versailles Conference; and about Marzieh Gail herself.
  60. Denis MacEoin. Ardakání, Hajjí Abu'l-Hasan (Hand of the Cause) (1987). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  61. Kristine Leonard Asuncion. Armstrong, Counsellor Leonora: A Loving Portrait (1982-08). Brief biographical sketch of Counsellor Armstrong, the "Spiritual Mother of South America" (1895-1980).
  62. Quentin Farrand. Artemus Lamb, 1905-1998 (1998-01). Biography of a pioneer to Central and South America, who also recorded pilgrim's notes with the Guardian.
  63. Artist Biographies from Arts Dialogue (2001). A list of artist profiles which can be found in the Bahá'í Association for the Arts newsletter (offsite). Linked articles include poetry, photography, and samples of visual art.
  64. Olga Mehti. Ashgabat Collection (2019). On the life and works of Alexander Tumansky and his involvement with Bahá'í history.
  65. Mahnaze A. da Silveira. Ashraf, Ghodsieh (2012). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  66. Boris Handal. Ásíyih Khánum Called Navváb, Entitled Varaqiy-i-Ulyá "The Most Exalted Leaf," the Wife of Bahá'u'lláh (2023). The story of Bahá'u'lláh's wife Ásíyih Khánum, entitled Navváb (1820–1886), covering her life in Iran, Baghdád, Istanbul, Adrianople, and 'Akká.
  67. Marzieh Gail. At 48 West Tenth (memories of Juliet Thompson) (1983). Thompson (1873–1956) was an American painter, a prominent early American Bahá'í, disciple of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, and also "friend and neighbour" of Kahlil Gibran.
  68. Duane Troxel. Augur, George Jacob (2009). On the American doctor who became one of the early Bahá’ís of Hawaii and was the first resident Bahá’í in Japan, designated by Shoghi Effendi a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
  69. John Paul Vader. August Forel Defends the Persecuted Persian Bahá'ís: 1925-1927 (1986). History of Forel's involvement with the Faith. Includes correspondence from Shoghi Effendi.
  70. August Rudd: The First Bahá'í Pioneer to Sweden (1986). History of the Bahá'í Faith in Sweden, 1920-1947.
  71. Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. Auguste Forel: His Life and Enlightment (1976). Overview of Forel's life and his connections with the Bahá'í Faith.
  72. Graham Hassall. Australian Women and Religious Change: Margaret Dixson and the First Melbourne Baha'is (1988). Women played an important role in the initial spread and development of the Bahá’í Faith in Australia. In doing so, they struggled to break the bounds that traditionally defined women's place in the life and organization of a religious community.
  73. David Brown Carr. Australian-New Zealand Bahá'í Connections, The (1996). History and relationship of the early Australian and New Zealand Bahá'í communities, the magazine Herald of the South, and some brief biographies.
  74. Juan Cole. Autobiography and Silence: The Early Career of Shaykhu'r-Ra'is Qajar (1998). Early biography and thought of Abu al-Hasan Mirza Shaykh al-Ra'is, Qajar prince, dissident, Shi`ite jurist, poet and major figure in the Constitutional Revolution in Iran
  75. Harper John Pettypiece. Autobiography of Harper John Pettypiece (1921-2002) (1999). Detailed life of a Canadian who found the Faith in 1952 in Toronto, and had personal experiences with many well-known Bahá'í figures and authors across North America and Europe.
  76. Iraj Afshar. Áyatí, Abdu'l-Husayn (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  77. Ahang Rabbani, ed, Ahang Rabbani, trans. Báb in Shiraz, The: An Account by Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán (2008). Recollections of the early years of the Bab and his family, and the times following his declaration; written by a relative.
  78. Hasan M. Balyuzi. Báb, The: The Herald of the Day of Days (1973). The classic biography of The Báb, by the eminent historian who also wrote the major biographies of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
  79. Riaz Ghadimi. Riaz Masrour, trans. Báb, The: The King of Messengers (2009). A talk by Dr. Riaz Ghadimi, published posthumously in English.
  80. Denis MacEoin. Báb, The (ʿAlí Mohammad Shirází) (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  81. John Walbridge. Babi Martyrs, Some (2002). Includes bios of Shaykh Salih Karimi, Mulla Abd al-Karim Qazvini, the Farhadis of Qazvin, the Seven Martyrs of Tehran, and others.
  82. Anthony Lee. Bábí Theology in Poetry, A: The Creative Imagination of Táhirih, Qurratu'l-'Ayn (2023). Examination of Qurratu’l-Ayn's writings to discern her social, religious, and political beliefs, most of which broke with Islam's traditional theology in favor of a revolutionary new doctrine. Link to article (offsite).
  83. Richard Francis. Badi, Áqá Buzurg (1993/2001). Life of "the Pride of the Martyrs."
  84. Moojan Momen. Badí` Khurasani (1995). Short biography of Badi, a Bahá'í renowned for his bravery and devotion.
  85. Liz Monteiro. Baha'i a religion of unity and peace (2011-10-14). Profile of Dharlene and Sheldon Valeda, and the Bahá'ís of Kitchener, Ontario.
  86. Baha'i Association for the Arts (-). Biographies of, essays about, and artwork by contemporary Bahá'í artists.
  87. James S. Tinney. Baha'i Doctrine Attracts Non-whites (1983-10-20). On the Bahá'í Faith's progress toward racial unity; brief bios of Glenford Mitchell, Amoz Gibson, Wilma Brady, Barbara Eaton Bond, and Alberta Deas; reflections on Black experiences of the Bahá'í community.
  88. Catherine Gent. Bahá'í Faith in Austin, The: The Early Years (1992). Covers years 1912–1971, and includes appendix "Anna Reinke: First Baha'i in Texas."
  89. John Walbridge. Bahá'í Faith in Iran, The (2002). Includes essay "Three Clerics and a Prince of Isfahan: background to Bahá'u'lláh's Epistle to the Son of the Wolf" and bios of Ayatollah Khomeini and Zill al-Sultan.
  90. Rowshan Mustapha. Bahá'í Faith in Tunisia, The: A History of the Initial Nine Decades (2024). History of the Faith in Tunisia, written in first-hand perspective; rise of opposition by the authorities; how one Tunisian woman obliged the President of the Republic to undo the steps he had taken to deport her Bahá'í husband from the country.
  91. John Walbridge. Bahá'í Faith in Turkey, The (2002). Includes bios of individuals from Turkey who figure prominently in Bahá'í history.
  92. Hussein Ahdieh. Bahá'í History and Videos (2013-2022). Links to Zoom videos on a variety of topics: Kahlil Gibran, the life of Varqá, Bahá'í schools for girls and Tahirih's influence, martyrs in Nayriz, Abdu'l-Bahá in New York, and Harlem Prep School.
  93. Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl Gulpáygání. Ali Kuli Khan, trans. Bahá'í Proofs, The (1902). A book of history and theology composed in America, in which Gulpaygani gives an exposition of the Faith from a Christian point of view. Until Esslemont's Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era, it was a standard Bahá'í textbook. Persian original included.
  94. Peter Terry. Bahá'í Studies in Europe (1981). Interviews with and bios of individuals engaged in study of the Bábí and Bahá'í religions, and descriptions of archives, in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, and Wales, 1980-81.
  95. Moojan Momen. Bahá'íyyih Khánum (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  96. Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh (1989). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  97. Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh (1995). Biography of Bahá'u'lláh, the Founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
  98. Hasan M. Balyuzi. Baha'u'llah: The King of Glory (1980). Bahá’u’lláh's ancestry and family, his journeys when banished from Iran, stories of those who accompanied Him to Constantinople and into Akká, the marriage of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and the closing months of His life at Bahjí. Mirrored from other online sources.
  99. Hasan M. Balyuzi. Bahá'u'lláh, A Brief Life: The Word Made Flesh (1963). Two long essays on the life of Bahá'u'lláh, published in conjunction with the Bahá'í Centennial (1963): "Bahá'u'lláh: A Brief Life," followed by an essay on the Manifestation, "The Word Made Flesh."
  100. Shoghi Effendi. Bahiyyih Khanum: Eulogy for the Greatest Holy Leaf, in the Guardian's handwriting (1932). A hand-written tribute to Bahiyyih Khanum, a daughter of Bahá'u'lláh.
  101. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Bahiyyih Khanum. Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Bahiyyih Khanum: The Greatest Holy Leaf (1982). A compilation from Bahá'í sacred texts and writings of the Guardian of the Faith and Bahíyyih Khánum's own letters.
  102. Graham Hassall. Baker, Euphemia Eleanor (1996). Short biography of an early Australian Bahá'í.
  103. Wendi Momen, Anthony A. Voykovic. Baker, Richard Edward St. Barbe (2009). On the world-famous environmentalist, founder in 1922 of Men of the Trees, the first global conservation movement, author of many books and articles.
  104. Etan Kohlberg. Balágí, Muhammad Jawád (anti-Bahá'í activist) (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  105. Moojan Momen. Balyuzi, H. M. (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  106. Richard Francis. Balyuzi, Hasan M. (1998). Brief bio of this "Hand of the Cause of God, the Treasure of All Humanity."
  107. Denis MacEoin. Barághání, Muhammad Taqí (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  108. Duane L. Herrmann. Barbara Senn Hilty Ehrsam (1997). Ehrsam (1848-1924) was a religious seeker who was instrumental in the establishment of the first Bahá'í group in Kansas, USA.
  109. Sandra S. Fotos. Barbara Sims' Contribution to Bahá'í Scholarship in Asia Pacific (2003-03). Two memorial articles for Barbara Sims, Pioneer to Japan from 1953-2002, biographer of Agnes Alexander, and author of many histories of Bahá'ís in eastern Asia.
  110. Denis MacEoin. Bárfurúshí, Muhammad `Alí (1989). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  111. Catherine McNickle Chastain. Barney, Alice Pike (2000). Barney (1857-1931) was an American artist and arts patron, and mother of prominent early Bahá'í Laura Dreyfus-Barney.
  112. Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti. Bausani, Alessandro (2008). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  113. Edward T. Hall. Beginning of the Bahá'í Cause in Manchester, The (1925-03). A brief early history, starting from Sarah Ann Ridgeway, the first Bahá'í in the North of England circa 1906, and the author himself who converted in 1910.
  114. Audrey Mike Parker. Beginnings of the Bahá'í Faith in Watauga County, North Carolina (1988/2019). Beginnings of the Faith in a mountain community. Less an historical account, this is more an overview of the efforts of Bahá'ís to establish a community within a southern Appalachian county. Includes biographical interview with Janie Winebarger Dougherty.
  115. Robert Weinberg. Bernard Leach, Potter: A Biographical Sketch (1999). The life and work of the potter Leach (1887–1979), the 'Father of British studio pottery', and a Bahá'í.
  116. Duane L. Herrmann. Bertha: An Early American Baha'i Stalwart (1991). Brief profile of an early pioneer in Bahá'í publications and education (and sister of Mabel Hyde Paine). Many of the Guardian's letters on education were written to her as secretary of the Louhelen School Committee.
  117. Earl Redman. Betty Becker, Valiant Servant Pioneer (2017). The story of a Bahá’í from Kansas who moved first to Alaska to spread the Bahá’í Faith there and then to Chile. Link to document offsite.
  118. Vedad Theophilus. Bibi Tuba, the Sister of the Martyr Varqá (2021). One-page translation and abridgment of a passage from a Persian Bahá’í history book published by the father of Adib Taherzadeh, about the daughter of Haji Mulla Mihdi-i-‘Atri, and sister of Mirza Ali-Muhammad (Varqá).
  119. Bahá'í International Community. Bicentenaire de Bahá'u'lláh (1992/2017). French translation of the Bahá'í International Community's 1992 Statement on Bahá'u'lláh, updated for the 2017 bicentennial of the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh.
  120. Richard Francis. Arden Lee, ed. Billie Marie (Tuttle) Brackett (2003). Tuttle Brackett (1921-2000) was an American Bahá'í from Reno, Nevada and niece of Hand of the Cause Leroy Ioas.
  121. Miriam Zuleta. Biografía de Clemencia Pavón Mejía (2022). Biografía de Pavón Mejía (1931-2020), una miembra de la Asamblea Espiritual Nacional de los Bahá’ís del Ecuador.
  122. Daya Ram Malviya. William Garlington, trans. Biographical letter from a Hindu villager (1974). A glimpse into the life of an Indian convert to the Faith.
  123. Adib Taherzadeh, Dariush Lamie, Juan Cole. Biographies of Jamal-i-Burujirdi (1998). Three short biographies of about the man who asked to be exempt from the laws of the Aqdas.
  124. Biography of Tsar Alexander: Tablet to Tsar Alexander II (Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus) (1999). Short biography of Tsar Alexander ll describing him as a great historical figure without the charisma of a great man. Suggests history should view what he did, such as abolishing serfdom and building railroads, as more important than who he was.
  125. Laura Clifford Barney (published as Laura C. Dreyfus-Barney), Shoghi Effendi. Thomas Linard, ed. Biography of Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney (1928). A biography of the first French Bahá'í, followed by telegrams and letters from Shoghi Effendi to Laura Dreyfus-Barney and Hippolyte's sister Mrs. Yvonne Meyer-May.
  126. Biography of Napoleon: Tablet to Napoleon III (Lawh-i-Napulyún) (1999). Biography of Napoleon III, to whom Bahá'u'lláh wrote two Tablets.
  127. Biography of Pope Pius IX: Tablet to Pope Pius IX (Lawh-i-Páp) (1999). Biography of Pope Pius IX, to whom Bahá'u'lláh wrote a Tablet.
  128. Biography of Queen Victoria: Tablet to Queen Victoria (Lawh-i-Malikih) (1999). Biography of Queen Victoria, to whom Bahá'u'lláh wrote a Tablet.
  129. Jonah Winters, comp. Biography of Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain (2013). Compilation of documents about an early feminist and peace advocate who received a Tablet from Abdu'l-Bahá in 1908.
  130. Dipchand Khianra. Bios of Mihraban Rustam Bulbulan and Kaushal Kishore Bhargava (1986). "One Kind Deed," a bio of Mihraban Rustam Bulbulan, and "Kaushal Kishore Bhargava: An Appreciation."
  131. David Merrick. Birth and Childhood of Baha'u'llah (2008). Childhood and Early Life of Bahá'u'lláh, told in plain English and suitable for reading aloud.
  132. Abu'l-Qasim Afnan. Black Pearls: Servants in the Households of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (1988). Biographies of Haji Mubarak, Fiddih, Isfandiyar, Mas'ud, and Salih Aqa; slavery and Islamic history. Preface by Moojan Momen.
  133. R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. Bourgeois, Jean-Baptiste Louis (1856-1930) (1997). Short biography of the architect and designer of Mashriqu'l-Adhkar at Wilmette, Illinois.
  134. Koumarth Sulaymani. Adel Shafipour, trans. Brief Biography of 'Azizu'llah Sulaymani, A (2007). Overview of the life and publications of a prominent Iranian scholar (1901-1985) who wrote on history, philosophy, and theology, and was especially known for his biographies of 99 Bahá'ís in the ten-volume series Masabih-i-Hidayat.
  135. Duane L. Herrmann. Brief Sketch of the Life of Hugh Chance, A: Thirty-year member of the Universal House of Justice (1994-11). Biography partly based on personal interviews with Chance over Thanksgiving weekend, 1994.
  136. Robert Stockman. Brittingham, Isabella (1995).
  137. Moojan Momen. Browne, Edward Granville (1995). Short biography of an English orientalist and famous scholar of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths.
  138. Michael Wickens. Browne, Edward Granville: life and academic career (1990). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  139. Denis MacEoin. Bushrú'í, Mullá Muhammad Husayn (1990). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  140. Duane L. Herrmann. By Thy Strengthening Grace: The First One Hundred Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Topeka: 1906-2006 (2006). An initial survey of the first century of the Topeka, Kansas Bahá'í community. Includes a Tablet from Abdu'l-Bahá unpublished for 100 years.
  141. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. Calling, The: Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries (2017). Simultaneous, powerful spiritual movements swept across both Iran and the U.S in the mid-1800s. On the life and martyrdom of Tahirih; the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the conference of Badasht; spiritualism and suffrage.
  142. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ecuador. Carmen Olimpia Ballesteros Sosa y Vicente Quiñonez de Esmeraldas: Epitafios (2020/2021). Messages from the NSA of Ecuador honoring the lives of Carmen Olimpia Ballesteros Sosa (-2020) and Vicente Quiñonez de Esmeraldas (-2021).
  143. Stanwood Cobb. Character: A Sequence in Spiritual Psychology (1938). A spiritual autobiography; scientific and religious foundations for character; self-development; the law of duty; altruism and selflessness; progress. Includes discussion of two days spent with Abdu'l-Bahá in 1908.
  144. Robert Stockman. Chase, Thornton (2009). On the first person in the West to become a steadfast Bahá’í, one of the founders of the Chicago Bahá’í community, included by Shoghi Effendi among a number of prominent early Bahá’ís he designated "Disciples of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá."
  145. Moojan Momen. Chase, Thornton (1992). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  146. Robert Stockman. Chase, Thornton (1995).
  147. Richard Francis. Chase, Thornton: The First Bahá'í from the Western Hemisphere (1998). Biography of the life of Thornton Chase, a prominent early American Bahá'í.
  148. Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. Chosen Highway, The (1940/1967). Oral Bahá'í histories collected by an eminent early English Bahá'í, first published in 1940.
  149. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. Chosen Path, The: Tahirih of Persia and Her Search for God (2020). Overview of the life of Tahirih of Qazvin and this period of Bábí history, written for a Bahá'í youth audience. PDF of the book, and an audio podcast about it.
  150. Julie Cruikshank. Claiming legitimacy: Prophecy narratives from northern aboriginal women (1994-03-22). Includes a discussion of Angela Sidney, a Tagish elder who was very active in the Bahá'í Faith, and who believed that there is not necessary any conflict between Anglicanism, Bahá'í, and indigenous shamanism.
  151. Michael Day. Clara Dunn: A Spiritual Pioneer (2010). Brief bio of Dunn, followed by an overview of the Australian Bahá'í community.
  152. Jonah Winters, comp. Cobb, Stanwood and Ida Nayan Whitlam: Bios and photos from "Find a Grave" (2014). Short biographies of Stanwood Cobb and his wife Ida.
  153. Richard Francis. Collins, Amelia: The Fulfilled Hope of 'Abdu'l-Baha (1993/2003). Short biography of a prominent American Bahá'í.
  154. Moojan Momen. Commentary on a Passage in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (2013). Short biography of the Son of the Wolf, Aqa Najafi; summary of persecutions from 1874-1903; and the Epistle's references to Qayyumu’l-Asma and the Muslim dawn prayer for Ramadan.
  155. Jack McLean. Confessions of a Child of the Half-Light (2022). Philosophical essays; recollections of 'Abdu'l-Bahá by Laura Dreyfus Barney, Curtis Kelsey, and other Europeans; recollections of Shoghi Effendi by ten individuals; dreams and visions; eulogies of the author's parents; travel teaching across Russia.
  156. W. G. Huxtable. Conqueror for St. Helena, A: A Tribute to Catherine Huxtable (1974-09). Huxtable, member of the LSA of Toronto, traveled from Canada to fulfil various pioneering goals, all while suffering from muscular dystrophy.
  157. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. Shirley Macias, ed. Conqueror of Hearts: Excerpts from Letters, Talks, and Writings of Hand of the Cause of God Abu'l-Qásim Faizí (2002). Collection of articles, personal letters, and learned talks, edited for posting as a single book. Includes Persian translation.
  158. Shirley Macias, Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. Conqueror of Hearts: Talks by Hand of the Cause of God Abu'l-Qásim Faizí (2002). Biography, and talks by Faizi to the World Congress (1963) and Wilmette House of Worship (1974).
  159. Jack McLean. Contemporary Biographies and In Memoriams (1999-2013). Biographies of contemporary Bahá'ís, known personally to the author: Andy Andrews, Charles Keedwell, Damian Firth, Edna Halsted Nablo, Ian Semple, Latifa Toeg, Majorie Eleanor Merrick, Michel Morisset, Peter Paul Morgan, Suzanne Sabih.
  160. Ahang Rabbani. Conversion of the Great-Uncle of the Báb, The (1999 Spring). The history of Hájí Mírzá Sayyid Muhammad (1798-1876), maternal uncle of the Bab.
  161. Joseph McCabe, comp. Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau, Professor Clement Imbault-Huart (1920). Two short dictionary entries.
  162. Aziz'u'llah Azizi. Nahzy Abadi Buck, trans, Christopher Buck, trans. Crown of Glory: Memoirs of Jinab-i-Aziz'u'llah Azizi (1991). Autobiography of Jináb-i-Azízí, "the Tailor," a companion of 'Abdu'l-Bahá who travelled with the Master to London and Paris, and also met with Shoghi Effendi. Includes photographs, and provisional translations of several Tablets.
  163. Moojan Momen. Cyprus Exiles, The (1991-06). History of Mirza Yahya's family and the four followers of Bahá'u'lláh exiled with them in Cyprus. Includes genealogies.
  164. Marco Oliveira. Czar Alexandre II: Breve apontamento biográfico e a sua relação com a religião Bahá'í (2007). Breve resumo histórico da vida do Czar Alexandre II; a relação da Russia com os Bahá'ís e a Epistola de Bahá'u'lláh a Czar. Short description of the life of Tzar Alexander II, Russia, and the Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to the Tzar.
  165. Hasan M. Balyuzi. Pierre Spierckel, trans. Dans la Gloire du Père: Une Biographie de Bahá'u'lláh (2021). Translation of Bahá'u'lláh: The King of Glory.
  166. Grace Shahrokh. Darius K. Shahrokh: Obituary (2005-03-20). Bio of the creator of Windows to the Past study series.
  167. Abbas Amanat. Dawlatábádí, Sayyed Yahyá (1996). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  168. Nabil-i-A'zam. Shoghi Effendi, trans. Dawn-Breakers: Nabil's Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Revelation (1932). The extensive and preeminent history of Babism and the early Bahá'í Faith, by Nabil-i-A'zam [aka Mullá Muḥammad-i-Zarandí, aka Nabíl-i-Zarandí].
  169. Christopher Buck. Deganawida, the Peacemaker (2015). Biography of the Iroquois / Haudenosaunee prophet-like figure who lived around 600 or 900 years ago.
  170. Nasir al-Din Shah. J. W. Redhouse, trans. Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, during his tour through Europe in 1873, The (1874). Contains no mention of the Bábí or Bahá'í Faiths, but is useful for historical context, and a window into the Sháh's worldview.
  171. Ali Murad Davudi. Vargha Taefi, trans. Discourse on Bahá'í Theology, A: A Treatise by Dr. 'Alí-Murád Dávúdí on God and Revelation (2021). Overview of the life of Davudi, a distinguished scholar and researcher and prolific author, followed by a translation of a treatise on the transcendence of God, apophatic theology, knowledge of God, emanation and manifestation, and divine attributes.
  172. Michael Bodakowski, Katherine Marshall. Discussion with Farida Vahedi, Executive Director of the Department of External Affairs, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India, A (2011-03-02). Overview of Vahedi's life and work, history of the Faith in India and development projects, the Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity, and issues regarding migration and protection of women and girls.
  173. Boris Handal. Dispensation of the Bab, The (2023). Detailed, systematic presentation of the Báb's teachings; Bábí prophecies relating to Bahá'u'lláh; the extent to which the Báb's laws have been carried forward into the Bahá'í revelation.
  174. Jack McLean. Divine Simplicity: Remembering the last Hand of the Cause of God, 'Ali-Muhammad Varqa (2008-09-18). Biography of Dr. Varqa, partly based on interviews with people who knew him in Iran.
  175. Richard Francis. Dodge, Arther Pillsbury (1998). Life of the first president of the New York Bahá'í Community (1898) and "disciple of Abdu'l-Bahá."
  176. Robert Stockman. Dodge, Arthur (1995).
  177. Robert Stockman. Dodge, Arthur Pillsbury (2009). On the early American Bahá’í named by Shoghi Effendi a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
  178. Dr. Cormick. E. G. Browne, comp. Dr. Cormick's Accounts of his Personal Impressions of Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, The Báb (1848/1918). A Westerner's account of meeting the Bab in 1848, and an account of separate incidents involving the persecution of Babis.
  179. Duane L. Herrmann. Dr. David S. Ruhe: Kansas Author (2003). Biography written for the Kansas Authors Club.
  180. Shapour Rassekh. Dreyfus-Barney, Hippolyte and Laura Clifford (1996). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  181. Graham Hassall. Dunn, Clara and Hyde (2000-01). Biography of two early Bahá'í teachers and pioneers.
  182. Graham Hassall. Dunn, Clara and John Henry Hyde (2009). On the couple who went to Australia in 1920 in response to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s call for worldwide expansion of the Bahá’í Faith and firmly established it in the Antipodes, designated Hands of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi.
  183. Madge Featherstone, Kaye Waterman. Dunns, The: Keys to Their Success (1996). John Henry Hyde Dunn(c. 1855–1941) and Clara Dunn (1869–1960) were a pioneer Bahá'í couple in Australia.
  184. Pamela M. Henson. Dyar, Harrison Gray, Jr. (2005). Bio and linked articles about the man who edited Reality magazine and also achieved infamy in Washington, DC for underground tunnel building.
  185. Duane L. Herrmann. Early Baha'is of Enterprise, Kansas, 1897 (1997). Originally published to commemorate the centennial of the Bahá'í community of Enterprise, Kansas, the second in the western hemisphere.
  186. Grace Shahrokh. Early Believers in the West, Some (1992). Stories of Thornton Chase, John David Bosch, Lua Moore Getsinger, May Ellis Bolles Maxwell, William Sutherland Maxwell, Thomas Breakwell, John Ebenezer Esslemont, George Townshend, and Horace Hotchkiss Holley.
  187. Christopher Buck. Edward Granville Browne (2014). Bio of E.G. Browne, with focus on his books and translations.
  188. Boris Handal. El Concurso en Lo Alto: La Vida de Once Distinguidos Personajes de la Edad Heroica de la Fe (1985). Biographies of eleven important Baha’i personages of the Heroic Age of the Bahá'í Faith: Mulla Ḥusayn, Vahid, Quddus, Mulla Sadiq, Shaykh Salman, Nabil-i-A’zam, Asiyih Khanum, Mirza Mihdi, Badi, and Varqa and Ruhu’llah.
  189. Anne King Sadeghpour. El Cuarto Acto: Una Pionera Bahá'í en Nicaragua durante los años 1976-1983: Un relato personal e histórico (2015). Un relato personal de la historia de la Fe en Nicaragua antes, después y durante la revolución Sandinista de 1979; la historia de Mathew Kaszab, primer pionero a Nicaragua; primera Bahá'í nicaragüense Blanca Mejía; referencia al poeta Rubén Darío.
  190. Gloria A. Faizi. Fred Frazelle, trans, Linda Frazelle, trans. El Fuego en la Cima de la Montaña (1993). Traducción de Fire on the Mountain-Top (Faizi, 1973).
  191. Duane L. Herrmann. Elizabeth and Elsbeth: Typically Extraordinary Kansas Women (1997-09). A sketch of two women who helped establish the Kansas Bahá'í community in 1897.
  192. Boris Handal. Ella del Valiente Corazón: La Vida de Miss Eve Blanche Nicklin (1895-1985), "Madre Spiritual del Perú" (2002/2024). The life of Eve Nicklin, "Spiritual Mother of Peru."
  193. Ron Price. Emergence of a Bahá'í Consciousness in World Literature: The Poetry of Roger White (2002). A study of White's verse with a short biography and an analysis of the Bahá'í Faith.
  194. Amine de Mille. Emogene Hoagg: Exemplary Pioneer (1973-10). Biography of travel-teacher and translator of the Writings into Italian.
  195. Encyclopaedia of Islam: Bahá'í Selections (1986-2004). 40 articles about, mentioning, or relevant to the Bábí or Bahá'í Faiths.
  196. Richard Logan. Enlightened Scholarship: E.G. Browne and H.M. Balyuzi (1996-01). Examination of the qualities of scholarship embodied by E. G. Browne and H. M. Balyuzi.
  197. Rúhíyyih Khánum, Rowshan Mustapha. Enoch Olinga: Hand of the Cause of God (2001). Lengthy biography of a Hand of the Cause, published in the In Memoriam section of Bahá'í World (1986), followed by a separate section "Enoch Olinga, Reminiscences of Moments with Him," by Rowshan Mustapha.
  198. Rúhíyyih Khánum, Rowshan Mustapha. Enoch Olinga: Main de la cause de Dieu (2006). French version of Ruhiyyih Khanum's "Enoch Olinga, Hand of the Cause of God" (Bahá'í World 18, 1986). Followed by a separate translation of Rowshan Mustapha's "Enoch Olinga, Reminiscences of Moments with Him." Translation anonymous or by committee.
  199. Anthony Lee. Enslaved African Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life of Fezzeh Khanom of Shiraz (2012-02). Through an examination of the life of this servant of The Bab, this paper addresses the enormous gap in our knowledge of the experience of enslaved women in Iran.
  200. Munirih Khanum. Ahmad Sohrab, trans. Episodes in the Life of Munirih Khanum (1924). A short autobiography by the wife of 'Abdu'l-Bahá; early draft of Munirih Khanum: Memoirs and Letters.
  201. Iraj Ayman. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib): Biography of Siyyid Ismail of Zavarih (1999).
  202. Moojan Momen. Esslemont, John Ebenezer (1995). Short biography of a famous Bahá'í author and Hand of the Cause of God.
  203. Abbas Amanat. Etemad-al-Dawla, Aqa Khan Nuri (1998/2020). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  204. Peter P. Morgan. Ethel Jenner Rosenberg, by Robert Weinberg: Review (1997).
  205. Boris Handal. Eve Nicklin: She of the Brave Heart (2011). The life of the "Spiritual Mother of Peru."
  206. Muhammad-Tahir Malmiri. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Events and Tragedies of Manshád, The (2007). Events and martyrs from the uprisings in Manshad and Yazd, in 1903. A translation of Haji Málmírí's Tarikh Shuhaday Yazd, pp. 432-503.
  207. Lil Osborn. Extraordinary Life and Work of Robert Felkin, Bahá'í Mage, The (2012). Felkin was a physician, missionary, a Bahá'í — and a Golden Dawn "magician" searching for esoteric truths.
  208. Lil Osborn. Extraordinary Life and Work of Wellesley Tudor Pole, The: Baha'i Seer (2013-07). On the role of Bahá'í beliefs in the life and spiritual quest of Tudor Pole.
  209. Violetta Zein. Extraordinary Life of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Slideshow / La vie extraordinaire de 'Abdu'l-Bahá diaporama (2021). This slideshow is a condensed version of the nine-part, 400-page, 900-photos & graphics online chronology, designed as an introduction to his life created for the centenary of his passing, entitled “The Extraordinary Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.”
  210. Moojan Momen. Fádl Mázandarání, Mírzá Asadu'lláh (1999). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  211. Darius Shahrokh. Fadl-i-Qa'ini: The Tamed Phoenix (1992). History of an early Bahá'í, teacher of Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani, and in whose honor the Lawh-i-Hikmat was revealed.
  212. Darius Shahrokh. Fadl-i-Shirazi: Guided By Dreams (1992). Life story of an early believer; content derived from the Persian book Masabih-i-Hidayat by Aziz'u'llah Sulaymani.
  213. Graham Hassall. Failure of the Tommy Kabu Movement, The: A Reassessment of the Evidence (1991-03). The rise and fall of Koivi-Aua, better known as Tom Kabu (1922?-1969), an influential local innovator and "proto-nationalist" leader in colonial Papua New Guinea and the first Papuan Bahá'í.
  214. Moojan Momen. Family and Early Life of Tahirih Qurrat al-`Ayn, The (2003). Summary of information about the ancestry and background of Tahirih available in Persian and Arabic; tensions in her paternal family, which must have affected her as she grew up.
  215. Boris Handal. Family of Mullá Husayn, The (2023). The life, context, and times of Mullá Husayn-i-Bushrú’í (1813-1849), the Bábu'l-Báb, "Gate of the Gate."
  216. Ahang Rabbani. Family of Vahid Darabi, The (2004). Ancestry and history of many Babis involved in the Nayriz uprising, 1850.
  217. Shafigheh Fatheazam. Family Stories about Ismu'llahu'l-Asdaq and His Son Ibn-i-Asdaq (2020). Recollections from a descendant of Mulla Sadiq Muqaddas Ismu'llah as-Sadiq, the Hand of the Cause who was one of the earliest to become a Babi, from the time of the Bab to the time of Shoghi Effendi; includes many stories not recorded in written sources.
  218. Moojan Momen. Fayzí, Abu'l-Qásim (Hand of the Cause) (1999). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  219. Graham Hassall. Fazel Mohammad Khan (1999). The life of Fazel "Frank" Khan, an Australian Muslim convert to the Bahá'í Faith.
  220. Fiftieth Anniversary of the Passing of Bahiyyih Khanum, The Greatest Holy Leaf (1986). Includes compilations about Bahiyyih Khanum, a selection of her letters, the 50th anniversary commemoration (1982), a bibliography, and tributes by Ruhiyyih Khanum, Ali Nakhjavani, and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani.
  221. Gloria A. Faizi. Fire on the Mountain-Top (1973/2005). A collection of stories about early members of the Bahá’í Faith, based on accounts gathered in Persia by 'Azizu'llah Sulaymani.
  222. Graham Hassall. First and Finest: John Henry and Clara Hyde Dunn in Australia (1985-07). Introduction of the Bahá'í Faith to Australia and New Zealand.
  223. Robert Weinberg. First Obligation, The: Lady Blomfield and the Save the Children Fund (1998). Bio prepared for the UK Bahá'í Centenary (1998-99).
  224. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. Flame of Fire, A: The Story of the Tablet of Ahmad (1967/1973). Biography of the recipients, both called Ahmad, of the Persian and Arabic Tablets titled Lawh-i-Ahmad.
  225. William Sears, Robert Quigley. Flame, The: The Story of Lua (1972). Biography of Lua Moore Getsinger (1871-1916), "mother-teacher of the American Bahá'í community," one of the earliest pilgrims from the West to meet 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
  226. Shahla Gillbanks. Footprints in the Sands of Time (2019). Memoir of time as a Bahá'í in Iran and pioneer to other countries around the world, and a historical account of service in the United States, New Zealand, and Czechoslovakia.
  227. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. Foreigner: From an Iranian Village to New York City and the Lights That Led the Way (2019). Biography of a young boy in Nayriz, Iran in the mid 20th-century, his reflection on the sad society; his experience as a immigrant in the United States, struggle to make the American dream, and helped the innovative Harlem Prep, a Bahá'í inspired School.
  228. Sandra Lynn Hutchison. Richard Hollinger, ed. Foreword to 'Abdu'l-Baha in America: The Diary of Agnes Parsons (1996). Overview of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's journeys to America and his meetings with Agnes Parsons.
  229. Iraj Ayman. Forutan, Alí-Akbar (2012). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  230. Freya Stark. Lucy Moorehead, ed. Freya Stark: Letters: Volume 1: The Furnace and the Cup 1914-1930 (1974). Letters about a stay in Baghdad in 1929, with a few passing references to Bahá'ís she met.
  231. Dorothy Freeman Gilstrap. From Copper to Gold: The Life of Dorothy Baker (1984). This biography’s purpose is to reflect not only the chronology of Baker’s life, but also the drives, the suffering, the delights, and the peak moments of decision that helped make her who she was.
  232. Shoghi Effendi. Genealogy of Bab, The (1932(?)). Genealogy of the family of the Bab and the family of Bahá'u'lláh in relation to the Bab.
  233. Grover Gonzales. Genealogy of Shoghi Effendi (1957/1992). A hand-drawn chart of Shoghi Effendi's family history.
  234. Ahang Rabbani, comp. Genealogy of the Aghsan and the Afnán (2005). Two family trees, one for The Bab and the other for Bahá'u'lláh.
  235. Kay Zinky. Genealogy of The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (1950?). Chart showing the Semitic line of prophets, including source citations.
  236. Jamileh Yazdi. Gertrude Bell and the Babi and Baha'i Faiths (2017). Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a British scholar and government official who knew the Middle East well, met `Abdu’l-Bahá and was in contact with Bahá’ís in Iran, Iraq and Palestine. Link to document offsite.
  237. Giachery, Ugo: Obituary (1989-08). Born into a Sicilian aristocratic family, Giachery (1896–1989) migrated to the USA in his 20s, where he met his future wife and became a Bahá'í. The couple returned to Italy in 1947, and he was subsequently appointed as a Hand of the Cause.
  238. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. Gloria A. Faizi, comp, Gloria A. Faizi, ed. Gift of Love, A: Offered to the Greatest Holy Leaf (1982). Booklet on various topics related to the life of Bahá'u'lláh's daughter Bahíyyih Khánum (1846-1932), dedicated as a gift of love to her memory on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of her passing
  239. Barry Kernfeld. Gillespie, Dizzy (2000). Gillespie (1917-1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer; his acceptance of the Bahá'í Faith is briefly mentioned. 
  240. Darius Shahrokh. Glimpse of Glory, A: Stories of the Life of Baha'u'llah (1992). Anecdotes about some early followers of Bahá'u'lláh, and the circumstances of his own life.
  241. Jack Davis. Glimpse of Ruhiyyih Khanum and Her 17 Days in Korea (n.d.). Overview of of Ruhiyyih Khanum (Mary Maxwell)'s tour through Korea, May 6-23, 1984.
  242. Mona Khademi. Glimpses into the Life of Laura Dreyfus-Barney, A (2009). The life of Laura Dreyfus-Barney (1879-1974), a prominent early American Bahá’í, compiler of Some Answered Questions, and wife of the French Bahá'í writer Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney.
  243. Anne King Sadeghpour, comp, Anne King Sadeghpour, ed. Gloriously Tragic Life of Mathew Kaszab, The: Letters from a Pioneer 1939-1942 (2019). The unusual drama of a pioneering life in Central America, revealed through personal letters. This account offers glimpses of a maturing Bahá’í administration in the U.S. and of what was learned through teaching efforts in Latin America.
  244. Calmard Jean. Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de (2003). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  245. Violette Nakhjavani. Great Safari of Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih Khánum, The (1970-1973). A diary of Ruhiyyih Khanum's travels through Africa. Serialized in Bahá'í News in 26 issues, from 1970 through 1973.
  246. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Greatest Holy Leaf's Unparalleled Role in Religious History and the Significance of the Arc, the Site of Her Resting Place, The (2014). Biography of Abdu'l-Bahá's sister, who acted as his "deputy, His representative and vicegerent, with none to equal her." Her burial place on Mount Carmel determined the location of the Arc and the later buildings of the World Centre.
  247. Robert Stockman. Greenleaf, Charles (1995).
  248. Emeric Sala. Greenleafs, The: An Eternal Reunion (1973-09). Brief bio of Elizabeth and Charles Greenleaf, who were members of the group of Midwest Bahá'ís which began with Thornton Chase in the 1890s in Chicago.
  249. Harlan F. Ober. Richard Francis, ed. Gregory, Louis G.: The Advancement of Racial Unity in America (1993/1998). Short biography of an early African-American Bahá'í.
  250. Gayle Morrison. Gregory, Louis George (2009). On the African American lawyer who became a leading Bahá’í speaker, writer, administrator, and proponent of race unity and equality, member of the national governing body of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada, and Hand of the Cause.
  251. A. Gracheva. Marina Ledkovsky, ed. Grinévskaia, Izabélla Arkád'evna (1994). Short bio of a poet and playwright who wrote a social drama Bab ed-Din (1903), dedicated to the life and teachings of The Bab — a play she considered "her most significant dramatic work" — and its sequel Bekha-Ulla (1912).
  252. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, The (1988). An abridged and updated version of the author's biography Priceless Pearl.
  253. Margaret Marie Rutledge. Sheridan Sims, comp. Gulick and Three Women: Diary of a Cross-country Auto Trip to and back from the 1942 Bahá'í National Convention (2015). Diary by the sister of Barbara Sims of a cross-country road trip with Ramona Brown, Marzieh Gail, and Robert Gulick.
  254. Moojan Momen. Gulpáygání, Mirza Abu'l-Fadl (1995).
  255. Graham Hassall. H. Collis Featherstone (1990-10). Biography of a prominent Australian Bahá'í and Hand of the Cause of God.
  256. Graham Waterman, Kaye Waterman. H. Collis Featherstone 1913-1990: An Extraordinary, Ordinary Man (1996). The life and activities of an Australian Bahá'í and Hand of the Cause.
  257. Iscander Micael Tinto. Hagiography: The Art of Setting Inspirational Examples for a Religious Community (2016). The life of Jesus was the example against which saints were measured, and the lives of saints were the examples against which the general population measured itself. Comparison of Attar's "Muslim Saints and Mystics" with Abdu'l-Bahá's "Memorials."
  258. Hainsworth, Philip (2001-12-21). Bio of a prominent pioneer, administrator, and author.
  259. Mahmoud Sadri. Halabi, Shaikh Maḥmud Khorásání, founder of Hojjatiya (2003). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  260. Anthony Lee. Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two African Slaves in Iran (2015). Biographies of two enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, the servants of The Bab. A history of slavery in Iran can be written, not only at the level of statistics, laws, and politics, but also at the level of individual lives.
  261. Barron Harper, et al.. Hand of the Cause Mr. `Alí-Akbar Furútan, 1905-2003 (2005). Compilation of information about Mr. Furutan: biography, in memoriam, photograph, and list of his books.
  262. Shirley Macias, comp. Hand of the Cause of God Abu'l-Qásim Faizí: Biography and photographs (2002). A eulogy for Hand of the Cause Abu'l-Qásim Faizi, also spelled "Fayḍí" (1909 [or 1906]–1980).
  263. Denis MacEoin. Hands of the Cause (Ayádí Amr Alláh) (1987). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  264. Hands of the Cause of God (2010/2020). List of mini bios and thumbnail photos of 43 of the 50 Hands of the Cause.
  265. Bill Washington. Hands of the Cause of God: Personal Recollections (2014). Recollections of A.Q. Faizi, A.A. Furútan, Clara Dunn, Rúhíyyih Khánum, Ugo Giachery, Leroy Ioas, Enoch Olinga, Rahmátu’lláh Muhajir, Bill Sears, Agnes Alexander, John Robarts, Collis Featherstone, and Jalal Khazeh.
  266. Richard Francis. Haney, Paul (1998). Brief bio of the life of a Hand of the Cause of God.
  267. Graham Hassall. Harold and Florence Fitzner: Knights of Bahá'u'lláh to Portuguese Timor (1994). Harold Thomas Fitzner (1893–1969) and his wife Florence (c. 1906-1980) were early South Australian Bahá'ís who pioneered to Portuguese Timor during the Ten Year Crusade; Harold was also involved in the publication of Herald of the South.
  268. John Kelly. Harrison G. Dyar: Articles (2012). Links to a 10-part series of columns about Harrison Dyar, one of Washington D.C.’s most unusual residents (the "mysterious tunnel builder"), and another Bahá'í, Wellesca Pollock. Includes many mentions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and the Bahá'í Faith.
  269. Moojan Momen. Haydar Alí Isfahání (2004). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  270. Christopher Buck, Derik Smith. Hayden, Robert (2019). In his poetics of history and his nuanced representations of black life, Hayden's art showed that the African American experience was quintessentially American, and that blackness was an essential aspect of heterogeneous America.
  271. Robert M. Greenberg. Hayden, Robert Earl (2000). The life and work of Hayden (1913-1980), African-American poet and teacher; his membership of the Bahá'í Faith is briefly mentioned.
  272. Bahá'í World News Service. Hearing "The Divinity in the Music": Dizzy Gillespie Remembered at 100 (2017-10-06). Reflections on the life of Gillespie and how his Baha’i beliefs seemed to inspire and drive his work. Includes photographs.
  273. John S. Hatcher. Helen Elsie Austin (1908-2004) (2019). Overview of the life of the first black woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati Law School, an active Bahá'í pioneer and travel teacher, and tireless educator on race issues.
  274. Marlene Macke. Helen Frances Grand (1865-1944): Traces of a Bahá'í Life (2020). Glimpse of one small facet of the Bahá’í Faith’s beginnings in cities like Toronto in the early decades of the 20th Century.
  275. Peter Terry. Henrietta Emogene Martin Hoagg: Short Biographical Monograph (1997). Biography of a travel-teacher, translator of the Writings into Italian, and the first pioneer to Italy. She had a great impact on her fellow believers during her lifetime, but is little-recognized today.
  276. Duane L. Herrmann. Hidden Meanings in the Poetry of Robert Hayden (2012). The Bahá'í Faith influenced Hayden's work on multiple levels, beyond his obvious allusions to the Bahá'í teachings regarding brotherhood of races or acceptance of religions.
  277. Graham Hassall. Hilda Brooks and the Australian Bahá'í Community (1989). The role played by Hilda Margaret Brooks (1896-1969) in the development of the Australian Bahá'í Community.
  278. Sepehr Manuchehri. Historical Account of Two Indian Babis: Sa'en Hindi and Sayyid Basir Hindi (2001-03). Includes translated excerpts from a number of Persian sources on these two individuals.
  279. Darius Shahrokh. History of Baha'u'llah and the Uniqueness of the Bahá'í Faith (1994). Overview of the life and writings of Bahá'u'lláh, with an epilogue on how the Bahá'í Faith differs from previous religions.
  280. Darius Shahrokh. History of the Báb (1994). Biography of the Bab, distributed by Images International as a 34-page booklet.
  281. Maureen M. Thur. History of the Bahá'í Faith in Arizona, The: The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950 (2004). Historical details and biographies about Arizona, from Nellie French moving from Chicago to Bisbee in 1900, to the formation of LSAs in 1949. Includes biographies of Amelia Collins and Orcella Rexford aka Louise Cutts-Powell (Appendices 1-2).
  282. Agnes Baldwin Alexander. Barbara R. Sims, ed. History of the Bahá'í Faith in Japan 1914-1938 (1977). An account of the Bahá'í Cause in Japan, China, Korea, and the Hawaiian Islands, prepared by request of the Guardian.
  283. Kathryn Anderson, Kathleen Farabi. History of the Bahá'í Faith in Trinidad and Tobago: Biographies and newspaper articles (2010). Link to a website containing history and biographies. Includes newspaper articles "First Bahá'í wedding in Trinidad" (1970), "First NSA of the Bahá'ís of Trinidad" (1971), and "Hand of the Cause Ugo Giachery" (1972).
  284. Graham Hassall. Hoahania, Hamuel (1999). Short biography of an early Pacific islander convert to the Bahá'í Faith.
  285. Robert Stockman. Hoar, William (1995).
  286. Hofman, David (1997/2003). Two short articles about Hofman, one from 1997 and one on his death in 2003.
  287. R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. Holley, Horace Hotchkiss (1995). Biography of a Hand of the Cause of God.
  288. Julio Savi. Homage to Memorials of the Faithful, An (2016). Poems inspired by eight of the personages of "Memorials": Shaykh Salman, Nabil-i-Zarandi, Darvish-i-Sidq-‘Ali, Shaykh Sadiq-i-Yazdi, Zaynu’l-‘Abidin Yazdi, Shaykh ‘Ali Akbar-i-Mazgani, ‘Abdu’llah Baghdadi, and Jinab-i-Munib.
  289. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Horace Hotchkiss Holley (1970). Fairly detailed biography, including observations of the relationship between Holley and the Guardian.
  290. Stephen Lambden. Ibn Abhar, Hand of the Cause (1996). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  291. Stephen Lambden. Ibn Asdaq, missionary and martyr (1996). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  292. Richard Hollinger. Ibrahim George Kheiralla and the Bahá'í Faith in America (1984). A study of the Lebanese Bahá'í who first spread the Faith to the United States but later renounced his allegiance to Abdu'l-Bahá, based on many primary source materials the author unearthed in public and private archives.
  293. Juan Cole. Ideology, Ethics, and Philosophical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Iran (1989 Winter). Intellectual biography as a discipline assumes that the life and thought of an individual can shed light on an epoch. This paper examines 1700s Iran via the Shi'i scholar Mohammad Mehdi Niraq (d. 1794). No mention of the Bábí or Bahá'í Faiths.
  294. In Memoriam (1978). Ahmadpur, 'Inayatu'llah; Arbab, Ruhi; Ashen, Elizabeth Anna; Azamikhah, Qudratu'llah; Baghdadi, 'Abbas Ihsan; Baghtiyari, Isfandiyar; Bare, Karen; Becker, Matilda; Beeton, James Henry Isaac; Bode, Edward; Dhabih, Ishraqiyyih; Dreyfus-Barney, Laura ...
  295. In Memoriam (1970). Valiyu'llah Varqa, Amelia Collins, George Townshend, Corinne Knight True, Horace Holley, Clara Dunn, Juliet Thompson, Carrie Kinney, Harlan Foster Ober, Husayn Uskuli, Albert Windust, Pritam Singh, Louisa Mathew Gregory, Edith and Joseph de Bons ...
  296. In Memoriam (1976). 'Ala'i, Ni'mat; Alexander, Agnes Baldwin; Allen, Jeanne Gwendolin; Almond, Percy Meade; Backwell, Richard; Banani, Mbsa; Baxter, Evelyn; Bergamaschi, Napoleon; Blue Mountain, Pacora; Blum, Alvin; Bode, Mary Hotchkiss; Bolton, Mariette Germaine ...
  297. In Memoriam (1986). 95 biographies from Bahá'í World 18. Includes detailed bios of H.M. Balyuzi, A.Q. Faizi, Robert Hayden, Bernard Leach, Stanwood Cobb, Rahmatu'llah Muhajir, Adelbert Muhlschlegel, Doris Holley, Paul Haney, Enoch Olinga, Muhammad Labib, etc.
  298. In Memoriam (1974). Leroy Ioas, Jessie Revell, Mildred Eileen Clark, Marcia Steward de Matamoros, Charles William Dunning, Roy Fernie, Mabel Grace Geary, Elizabeth Hopper, Catherine Heward Huxtable, Alyce Janssen, Malcolm King, Richard Nolen, Ali Akbar Rafi‘i Rafsanjání ...
  299. In Memoriam (1956). William Sutherland Maxwell, Roy Wilhelm, Siegfried Schopflocher, Louis Gregory, Dorothy Baker, Marion Jack, Edward Kinney, Youness Afrukhtih, Ella Goodall Cooper, Sulayman Berjis, Ella Bailey, Maria Ioas, Nuri'd-Din Fath Azam, Muhamammad Tahir Malmiri ...
  300. In Memoriam (1932). Ethel Rosenberg, Claudia Stuart Coles, Consul Albert Schwarz.
  301. In Memoriam (1936). Bahiyyih Khanum, Keith Ransom-Kehler, Agnes Parsons, Yusuf Khan-i-Vujdani, Arastu Khan Hakim, George Benke, Edwin Scott, Alice Barney, Lisbeth Kitzing.
  302. In Memoriam (1937). Susan I. Moody, Hooper Harris, Harry H. Romer, Howard Luxmoore Carpenter, Edward C. Getsinger, Sarah Blundell, Khalil Qamar, Haji Muhammad Yazdi.
  303. In Memoriam (1942). May Ellis Maxwell, Lua Getsinger, Martha Root, Thornburgh-Cropper, Lady Blomfield, Rahmatu’lláh Alá’i, Grace Robarts Ober, Háji Ghulám-Ridá, Pauline Knobloch Hannen, Louise Waite, Isabel Fraser Chamberlain, Marie Moore, Robert Abbott, Grace Krug ...
  304. In Memoriam (1945). John Henry Hyde Dunn, Abdu'l-Jalil Bey Sa'ad, Mirza Buzurg Afnan Ala'i, Margaret Stevenson, Mary Revell, M. Salih, Oswald Whitaker, Hilda Gilbert, Elizabeth Greenleaf, Howard Colby Ives, Mirza Abdu'l-Rahim Khan, Matthew Kaszab, Mabel Rice-Wray Ives ...
  305. In Memoriam (1939). Alfred E. Lunt, Zia Bagdadi, Laurie C. Wilhelm, Mary Hanford Ford, Elmore E. Duckett, Colonel I. Piruzbakht, Mirza Muhammad Kazim-Pur, Y. S. Tsao, Muhammad Basjhir, Malakat Nushugati.
  306. In Memoriam (1948). Siyyid Mustafa Rumi, Henrietta Emogene Martin Hoagg, Azizu'llah Mesbah, Muhammad Sa'id Adham, Ali-Asghar Qazvini, Lydia Zamenhof, Hasan Muhajir-Zihid, Muhammad Jadhbani, George Henderson, John Stearns, Sultan Nik-A'in, Ali-Muhammad Nabili, Esther Tobin...
  307. In Memoriam (1952). Fannie Lesch, Walter Olitzki, Fanny Knobloch, Marta Brauns-Forel, Fred Mortensen, Haj Taha El-Hamamsi, Friedrich Schweizer, John David Bosch, Ali Saboor, Orcella Rexford, Abu'l-Fetouh Battah, Ali Said Eddin, Mumammad-Taqi Isfahini, Haji Mahmud Qassabchi.
  308. In Memoriam (1930). Hippolyte Dreyfus Barney, Mirza Mahmud Zargani, William H. Randall.
  309. In Memoriam (1981). Anderson, Angela Annette; Azzáví, Siyyid Muḥammad; Battrick, Jeannette Hilda; Blackwell, Ellsworth; Blundell, Hugh; Boon, Choo Yeok; Bowman, Amelia; Brown, Ramona Allen Bray; Busey, Garreta Helen; Derozhinsky, Pamela; Ebo, António Francisco; Enongene...
  310. In Memoriam: Amin Banani (1926-2013) (2014). Bio of an Iranian-American Bahá'í and prominent academic who authored The Modernization of Iran, and pioneered the Iranian Studies program at UCLA; he and his wife Shiela also served as Bahá'í pioneers to Greece during the Ten Year Crusade.
  311. Universal House of Justice, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Australia. In Memoriam: Bill Washington (2014-11). Messages of condolence from the Universal House of Justice and the National Assembly of Australia.
  312. In Memoriam: Dr. Zia M. Bagdadi (1938). Biography of one-time editor of Star of the West.
  313. In Memoriam: Heshmat Shariary (1934-2018) (2018). Overview of the life of an active participant in the Irfan Colloquia and Bahá'í studies.
  314. In Memoriam: Houshang Arjmand (1930-2015) (2016). Short biography of the founder of the Háj Mehdi Arjmand Memorial Fund at the Bahá’í National Treasurer’s Office in the United States, sponsor of Irfan Colloquia publications.
  315. Ismael Velasco. In Memoriam: Hugh McKinley (2007). McKinley (1924-1999) was a British Bahá'í pioneer to Cyprus during the Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963).
  316. Shahbaz Fatheazam. In Memoriam: Hushmand Fatheazam (1924-2013) (2014). Born into a prominent Iranian Bahá'í family, he pioneered to India where he was later elected to the National Spiritual Assembly, serving as its secretary until 1963, when he was elected to the Universal House of Justice, serving on that body until 2003.
  317. Boris Handal, Enrique Sanchez. In Memoriam: Isabel Camacho de Sánchez (1931-2013) (2021). On the life of an active member of the early Peruvian community, who first encountered the Bahá'í Faith in her hometown in Argentina in 1948 before travel-teaching in Peru.
  318. Ramez Ekbal. In Memoriam: Kamran Ekbal (1946 - 2014) (2015). Bio of a scholar, translator of the Writings, and frequent contributor to the Irfan Colloquia.
  319. In Memoriam: Mahboubeh Arjmand (d. 2013) (2014). Arjmand was an Iranian Bahá'í who settled in California, and was an active supporter of the Irfan project.
  320. Boris Handal. Samuel Duboisme, trans. In Memoriam: Mas'úd Khamsí (1922-2013), Spiritual Father of Peru, Mentor and Counselor (2021-03). On the life of a distinguished Bahá'í from Rasht, Iran, who travel-taught to Africa and South America and later became a member of the National Spiritual Assemblies of Bolivia and Peru.
  321. Boris Handal. In Memoriam: Mercedes Sánchez (1912-1999) (2021). On the life of one of the first Peruvian Bahá'ís, who encountered the Faith via Eve Nicklin, the first American pioneer to settle in Peru.
  322. In Memoriam: Muhammad Afnan (1930-2017) (2018). Overview of the life of a supporter, active collaborator, and advisor for the Irfan Colloquia and its publications.
  323. Boris Handal. In Memoriam: Salomon Pacora Estrada (Pacora Blue Mountain) 1899-1969 (2022). Short bio of the first known Bahá'í of Inca descent, who served as a pioneer in Ecuador.
  324. Paul Vreeland, ed. In Memoriam 1992-1997 (2010). The first In Memoriam supplement to Bahá'í World after the journal converted to a shorter, annual format in 1992.
  325. Universal House of Justice, Sheridan Sims, Sandra S. Fotos. In memoriam Barbara Sims (2002-05-10). Two obituaries of a prominent American Bahá'í teacher and pioneer to Japan.
  326. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, Universal House of Justice, et al.. In Memoriam Fred Schechter: Bahá'í House of Worship Memorial Program (2017). Messages from the Universal House of Justice and the U.S. National Spiritual Assembly, and a selection of quotations, that summarize and celebrate the life of this Knight of Bahá'u'lláh and Continental Counsellor, for a memorial service at Wilmette.
  327. Beth McKenty. In Memory of Grace Anderson (1974-08). Memories of an early Bahá'í from Kenosha, Wisconsin, who met Abdu'l-Bahá.
  328. Barbara R. Sims. Sheridan Sims, ed. In the Light of the Rising Sun: Memoirs of A Bahá'í Pioneer to Japan (2002/2020). Expanded and newly-annotated version of Sims' auto-biography, covering the history of the Faith in Japan 1953-2002.
  329. Patricia Paccassi, comp, Frank Paccassi, comp. Indexes to Bahá'í World volumes: Obituaries, chronologies, contents, illustrations (2013). Seven separate indexes for Bahá'í World, in PDF, Word, and Excel versions.
  330. Christopher Buck. Indigenous Messengers of God: In Honor of Kevin Locke (1954-2022) (2022-12). Biographies and photos of Kevin and Patricia Locke and tributes to them; themes of respect for spiritual traditions, prophecies, and the destiny of indigenous peoples.
  331. Ismael Velasco. Ineffability in Scripture: A Conversation with 6 Medieval Mystics (2006). On how the experience of six 13th- and 14th-century Christian mystics was shaped by their language, environment, and background; how that process illuminates Baha’i scripture; implications for the conduct and direction of Baha’i scholarship.
  332. E. G. Browne. Introduction: A Traveller's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb (1891/1975). Overview of Browne's early research into the Bábís and his collecting their historical materials; autobiographical summary of part of his career; impressions of Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá.
  333. Annemarie Schimmel. Iqbál and the Bábí-Bahá'í Faith (1990). One of the more influential Muslim thinkers of the first half of the 20th century, Iqbal expressed views on the the Bábí and Bahá'í religions in his dissertation "The Development of Metaphysics in Persia" and his poetical magnum opus the Javidnama.
  334. Fuad Izadinia. Ishqabad, City of Love: A Study into the Story of Those Who Became the Foremost in the Bahá'í Faith (2014). Biographies of many dozen Bahá'ís of historical interest; construction of the House of Worship in Turkmenistan; Bahá'í schools for boys and for girls; stories of exiled Bahá'ís.
  335. Vahid Rafati. Ishráq Khávarí (1998). Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  336. Ugo Giachery. Italian Scientist Extols the Báb, An (1956). On the life of Michele Lessona (1823-1894), a scientist, writer, explorer, and educator, who visited Iran and wrote a 66-page monograph entitled I Babi (1881): one of the first documentations made by a European of the episode of the Báb.
  337. 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 Palestine Policeman service in the 1940s, and the story of his acceptance of the Bahá'í Faith.
  338. J. E. Esslemont (1926). Esslemont's is the only biography or in memoriam in this first volume of Bahá'í World.
  339. Jack Boyd. Gary Fuhrman, ed, Jonah Winters, ed. Jack Boyd memoirs (2004/2013). Memoirs of Jack and Eileen Boyd, pioneers in Canada, covering the years 1960-2012. Includes recollections of travel, biographies of other Bahá'ís, and historical observations.
  340. Anthony Lee. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram: In Memoriam (2004-10). A short biography of Bahá'í scholar and archivist R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, who passed away October 20, 2004.
  341. John Cornell: in memoriam (1998/2001). Brief bio note written by Dr. Cornell in 1998 for posting at the Bahá'í Library Online, and a memoriam biography published by the BCCA in 2001.
  342. D. Llewellyn Drong. John Henry Wilcott: A Pioneer Twice Over (1998). Book length biography of an early Bahá'í pioneer.
  343. Charles Mason Remey. Journal Diary of European Baha'i Travels: April - November 1948 (1948). A record of Remey's visits across Europe, from England to Germany. Includes coverage of Bahá'í participation in the first U.N. convention on Human Rights, held in Geneva.
  344. Robert Gregory Shaw. Julia's Journey: A Life Illumined by the Light of Akká (2023). A brief record of the background of Julia M. Grundy and her lifelong services to the Faith following a 1905 pilgrimage, based on genealogical and internet sources, with extracts from her pilgrim notes relating to personal encounters with 'Abdu'l-Baha.
  345. Juliet Thompson. Juliet Remembers Gibran: As told to Marzieh Gail (1978). Juliet Thompson's recollections of Kahlil Gibran.
  346. Hussein Ahdieh. Juliet Thompson: Champion of the Baha'i Faith in New York City (2021-05-06). Essay about the life of Juliet Thompson, a prominent early Bahá'í and friend of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
  347. Gary Eskow. K. C. Porter (2002-04-01). Interview with a Bahá'í music producer and arranger with A & M Records
  348. Christopher Buck. Kahlil Gibran (2010). A detailed study of the life and work of the Arab-American author and artist Gibran (1883—1931), who achieved fame in the West through his book The Prophet; a Maronite Christian by birth, he was influenced by Sufi ideas and admired 'Abdu'l-Bahá'.
  349. Suheil Badi Bushrui (published as Suheil Bushrui), Joe Jenkins. Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet (1998). Includes portrait of 'Abdu'l-Bahá sketched by Kahlil Gibran.
  350. Marco Oliveira. Kaiser Guilherme I: Breve biografia e excertos da epístola revelada por Bahá'u'lláh (2004-06-18). Short biography of Kaiser William I and the tablet revealed by Baha'ullah to this Monarch.
  351. Duane L. Herrmann. Kansas Farm Boy (1985). Brief autobiography, with background on the author's introduction to and acceptance of the Bahá'í Faith.
  352. Ali Reza Manafzadeh, et al.. Kasravi, Ahmad (2012/2020). Five brief excerpts that reference the Bahá'í Faith, with link to article offsite.
  353. Armin Eschraghi. Kázem Rashtí (2013). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  354. Boris Handal. Khamsis, The: A Cradle of True Gold (2020-07). Biography of the five-brother Báqirof-Khamsi clan, designated by Bahá'u'lláh as the "Five Siyyids" after they accepted the Bahá'í Faith in 1881.
  355. Robert Stockman. Knobloch, Fanny (1995).
  356. Shahbaz Fatheazam. Last Refuge, The: Fifty Years of the Universal House of Justice (2015). History of the House by the son of 40-year member Houshmand Fatheazam, an eye-witness to its development; organizational structure of Bahá'í polity and its vision of politics; connections between institutions and culture; personal recollections.
  357. Layli Maria Miron. Laura Barney's Discipleship to 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Tracing a Theological Flow from the Middle East to the United States, 1900-1916 (2018). How Laura Barney employed ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s teachings to influence social discourse as she taught the Bahá'í Faith in Europe and the United States.
  358. Dominic Parvis Brookshaw. Letters to Bahá'í princesses: Tablets revealed in honour of the women of Ibn-i Asdaq's household (2004). A study and translation of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's tablets to the daughters of Hand of the Cause of God, Ibn-i Asdaq: Laqá'iyya, Huviyya, Rúhá and Talí`a. Includes various biographies and other tablets.
  359. Jose Luis Marques Utrillas. Julien Hagelstein, trans. Lettres à un bon catholique (1987). Translation of "Letters to a Good Catholic," in which Spanish Bahá'í Utrillas narrates his personal adventure, his inner crises and mental readjustments, his experience as a post-conciliar priest, and his secularization
  360. John T. Dale. Lidia Zamenhof (1996). Brief biography of the daughter of Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.
  361. Ann Boyles. Life and Poetry of Robert Hayden, The: A Baha'i Perspective (2004-11-16).
  362. Sheila Banani. Life and Times of August Forel, The (2005). A review of Forel's scientific accomplishments, philosophical/religious perplexities, and social concerns which led him to embrace the Bahá'i teachings as he understood them during the last decade of his life.
  363. Duane Troxel. Life of Agnes Alexander (1998). Essay prepared for the Bahá'í Esperanto League's 25th anniversary booklet (see wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'í_Esperanto-League).
  364. G. F. Barbour. Life of Alexander Whyte, The (1923). One-page overview of Abdul'-Baha's visit to a home in Edinburgh in January 1913.
  365. Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani. David Merrick, comp. Life of Baha'u'llah, The (1938). Life of the Bahá'u'lláh by the historian Jinab-i-Fadil (Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani)
  366. Helen Danesh, John Danesh, Amelia Danesh. Life of Shoghi Effendi, The (1991). Chapter length biography, and overview of the Guardian's life's work.
  367. Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani. David Merrick, ed. Life of Tahirih: The Wonderful Life of Kurratu'l-Ayn (1923-08). The Life of the great Heroine of the Bábí Faith
  368. Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani. David Merrick, comp. Life of the Bab, The (1938). Life of the Bab by the historian Jinab-i-Fadil (Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani)
  369. Rajwantee Lakshiman-Lepain. Life of Thomas Breakwell, The (1998). Breakwell (1872–1902) was a religious seeker who became a Bahá'í in Paris in 1901, the first Englishman to become a Bahá'í as well as the first westerner to contribute to the Huqúqu'lláh.
  370. Aqa Husayn Ashchi. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Lifetime with Bahá'u'lláh, A: Events in Baghdad, Istanbul, Edirne and ‘Akká while in the Company of Bahá'u'lláh (2007-03). One-third of a lengthy primary-source history, annotated by translator.
  371. Lily Áhy Ayman (1929-2018) (2019). Ayman was a prominent Iranian educationalist who later became a Bahá'í, moving with her family after the Revolution and finally settling in the USA and becoming actively involved in various Bahá'í educational projects.
  372. E. G. Browne, trans. List of Descendants of Mirza Buzurg of Nur, the Father of Baha'u'llah (1918). Brief genealogy of Bahá'u'lláh and His family.
  373. Brent Poirier. Lists of Articles (2009-2019). Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites.
  374. Christopher Buck. Locke, Alain (2010).
  375. Leonard Harris. Locke, Alain Leroy (2014). The life and work of Locke (1885-1954), the African-American philosopher and literary critic who helped initiate the Harlem Renaissance during the interwar period; there is a brief mention of his sympathy for the Bahá'í Faith.
  376. Walter Waia. Lonely road to native title determination, A (2000). A personal account of the Saibai Island Native Title Claim: a story of an Indigenous Australian who "walked a learning road to fulfill his obligations to his family, his clan and to the community."
  377. John S. Hatcher. Louis Gregory (1874-1951) (2019). Overview of the life of a famous Bahá'í lawyer, anti-racism educator and travel-teacher, and Hand of the Cause.
  378. Janet A. Khan. Louise Dixon Boyle and Maria Montessori (2006). American Louise Dixon Boyle (1875–1953) was an active Bahá'í who engaged with wider social issues. Here the focus is on her involvement in the field of education, particularly the work of the Italian physician and educator Dr. Maria Montessori.
  379. Jack McLean. Love That Could Not Wait, A: The Remarkable Story of Knights of Baha'u'llah Catherine Heward Huxtable and Clifford Huxtable (2016). The story of the Canadian Knights of Bahá'u'lláh, Catherine Heward Huxtable and husband Cliff Huxtable, who opened the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia to the Bahá'í Faith in October, 1959.
  380. Robert Stockman. Love's Odyssey: The Life of Thornton Chase (1999/2001). Detailed overview of the first American Bahá'í. Provided in draft form as "Love's Odyssey" as well as a link to the PDF published as Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá'í.
  381. Amine de Mille. Lua Getsinger: Herald of the Covenant (1971-12). Biography of Getsinger, with recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá.
  382. Barbara R. Sims. Macau Bahá'í Community in the Early Years (1991). Brief overview of the history of Macau, and a detailed account of Bahá'í involvement 1953-1975, and stories of early believers.
  383. Robert Stockman. Macnutt, Howard (1995).
  384. M. V. Gandhimohan. Mahatma Gandhi and the Bahá'ís: Striving towards a Nonviolent Civilization (2000). Review of Ghandi's comments about the Faith as well as relationships between his ideas and those of the religion.
  385. Boris Handal. Mahoma, Profeta de Dios (2005/2020). Overview of the life of Muhammad and the teachings of the Qur'an, and world Islamic culture.
  386. Fuad Izadinia. Major Opus, The: A Study of the German Templers Movement and Its Relationship with the Bahá'í Faith (2014). The story of the journey of two parallel movements to the Holy Land in 1868: the Bahá'ís from Iran and the Templars from Germany. Includes early descriptions of Haifa from both sources, comparative translations of the Tablet to G. Hardegg, and more.
  387. Hussein Ahdieh. Making of a Survivor, The: A Foreigner's Story (2019-05-22). The author on his new book, growing up as a Baha’i in Iran, and how his faith and family nourished and taught him to be who he is today.
  388. Hasan Nushabadi. Adib Masumian, trans. Man of Courage, The: A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Life of Mírzá Áqá Khán Qá'im-Maqámí (2019). Mirza Aqa Khan Qa'im-Maqami (1868-1954) was the great grandson of Mirza Abu'l-Qasim Farahani, the Qa'im-Maqam, the first Prime Minister of Persia to serve under Muḥammad Sháh, and the first of the Qaʼim-Maqam’s descendants to accept the Bahá'í Faith.
  389. Nevada Metherd. Richard Francis, ed. Margaret Ariel Gallagher: Field Sergeant of the Western Frontier (1993). Gallagher (1920-2001) was an American Bahá'í and auxiliary board member.
  390. Richard Hollinger. Margaret Danner, the Black Arts Movement, and the Bahá'í Faith (2016 Summer). Short overview of the life of a black Bahá’í poet of some renown in the 1960s and 1970s. Includes one sample poem.
  391. Peter Terry. Marian Crist Lippitt: Short Biographical Monograph (1999). Controversial both during her lifetime and after, Lippitt was a trained engineer who applied her rigorous intellect to the study of metaphysics and epistemology, and is best known for developing an education philosophy titled "The Science of Reality."
  392. Boris Handal. Maronite Physician's Encounter with 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 'Akká, A (2021). Brief notes from the autobiography of Lebanese doctor Shakir El Khoury on meeting ‘Abdu’l-Bahá when he was working as a physician in ‘Akká (date unknown, circa 1870). Scan of original Arabic included.
  393. Barbara Casterline. Martha Root: "Herald of the Kingdom" (1972 July-August). Two-part overview of Root's life and a concise history of her travels.
  394. Ahang Rabbani. Martyrdom of Hájí Muhammad-Ridá: 19 Historical Accounts (2007). Accounts of the 1889 martyrdom of Haji Muhammad Rida Isfahani in Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) in Russian Turkestan.
  395. Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl Gulpáygání. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Martyrdom of Haji Muhammad-Rida, The (1890). Gulpaygani's firsthand account of the events leading up to and following the murder of Muhammad-Rida and the trial of his killers.
  396. Universal House of Justice. Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him (1997). Letter from the US NSA on the importance of commitment to the covenant, a letter from the UHJ on covenant-breaking, and the history "Mason Remey and Those Who Followed Him."
  397. E. G. Browne, comp, E. G. Browne, trans. Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion (1918/1961/2013). An early collection of historical documents related to Bahá'í and Bábí studies. (Not fully complete.)
  398. Universal House of Justice, comp. May Ellis Maxwell (1925-1954). Detailed biography, published in A Compendium of Volumes of the Bahá'í World I-XII, 1925-1954; includes photo.
  399. Jack McLean. May Maxwell and the Maxwells of Montreal (2019-10). Presentation of Violette Nakhjavani's book The Maxwells of Montreal.
  400. Mehrangiz Afnan (1937-2018) (2019). Afnan was an Iranian Bahá'í and medical doctor who settled in Canada where she and her husband, Muhammad Afnan, established an Institute for Bahá’í Studies in Persian; the couple worked in the Bahá'í Research Department in Haifa for a number of years.
  401. Arjen Bolhuis, comp, Sana Rezai, comp. Members of the Universal House of Justice 1963-2023 and Hands of the Cause: Timeline (2003/2023). List of names and dates of all who served on the House of Justice or as Hands.
  402. Ahang Rabbani, trans, Ahang Rabbani, ed. Memoirs of a Bahá'í in Rasht 1889-1903: Autobiography of Mírzá Yahyá `Amídu'l-Atibbá Hamadání (2007). Personal account of some activities of the Bahá'í community in Iran and persecutions they endured.
  403. Moshe Sharon. Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov: A Summary (2011). Summary of pages 25-91 of the Arabic text of the "Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov," a fraudulent work.
  404. Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein. Memoirs of Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein (1999). Memoirs of the first pioneer to Famagusta (as requested by Shoghi Effendi to pioneer from the City of the Covenant to the City of the Arch-Breaker of the Covenant), and pilgrim to Haifa in December 1953. First written June 1985, completed April 1999.
  405. Nora Crossley. Memoirs of Nora Crossley (1893-1977) (1921). Autobiography of an early British Bahá'í, known for cutting her famous hair to help fundraise for the Chicago temple. Includes two Tablets of Abdu'l-Bahá, one to Crossley and one mentioning her and praising her "self-sacrifice."
  406. Abdu'l-Bahá. Marzieh Gail, trans. Memorials of the Faithful (1971 [1924]). 'Abdu'l-Bahá's volume of short biographies of Bábí and Bahá'í figures and heroes, translated from the original Persian text and annotated by Marzieh Gail.
  407. Ali M. Yazdi. Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1986). Recollections by a prominent Iranian-American Bahá'í.
  408. Ahang Rabbani, Sen McGlinn. Memories of Ashchi: Background (1999). Background information on and a start at translation of the narratives of Aqa Husayn Ashchi.
  409. Jack Boyd. Memories of Hands of the Cause of God (2014). Personal memories of meeting Zikrullah Khadem, John Robarts, and Tarazullah Samandari.
  410. Ahang Rabbani. Memories of My Life: Translation of Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán's Khátirát-i-Hayát (2007). Bio of the life of Habíbu'lláh Afnán-i-A`lá'í, born 1875, especially his years with the family of the wife of the Báb, Khadijih Bagum, and her sister, Zahrá Bagum.
  411. Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. Memories of the Sojourn of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris (1937). Memoir of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s four-month stay in Paris in 1911. Notes taken by the author's daughters were later published as the book Paris Talks.
  412. Guy Murchie. Men on the Horizon (1932). Lengthy travel diary, the first book of a renowned journalist, war correspondent, and author/artist who would adopt the Bahá'í Faith in 7 years and published more extensively on Bahá'í-inspired themes explicitly after 1955.
  413. Shahriar Razavi. Mihdí, Mírzá (2009). On the son of Bahá’u’lláh, who entitled him "the Purest Branch," younger brother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Bahíyyih Khánum.
  414. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. Milly: A Tribute to The Hand of the Cause of God Amelia E. Collins (1977). A moving personal biographical history of Amelia Collins.
  415. Babak Farrokhzad. Mirza Abu'l-Fadl (2021). Wikipedia-Artikel über Mirza Abu‘l-Fadl, der den neusten Stand der Literatur (Oct 2021) berücksichtigt.
  416. Darius Shahrokh. Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl: The Greatest Scholar (1992). Lengthy biography of an early scholar, whose writings Persian Bahá'ís often consider as ranking second to the Holy Writings and the writings of Shoghi Effendi.
  417. Moojan Momen. Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpáyegání (1985). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  418. Ali Kuli Khan, Marzieh Gail. Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl in America (1945). Khan's personal recollections of Gulpaygani, with mentions of other early American Bahá'ís.
  419. Graham Hassall, Orwin Austria. Mirza Hossein R. Touty: First Baha'i Known to Have Lived in the Philippines (2000-01). Touty was a Bahá'í who stayed in the Philippines for about five years (1921-26), teaching the Faith to Filipinos.
  420. Boris Handal. Mirza Mihdi: The Purest Branch (2017). Two excerpts from a book-length biography of the son of Bahá'u'lláh — "Akká, the Most Great Prison" (chapter 1) and "The Treasure of God in the Holy Land" (chapter 9) —  which describe the life and martyrdom of Mirza Mihdi on 23 June 1870.
  421. Vasu Mohan, Donna Denize, Nadim van de Fliert. Monologues on the Bicentenary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah and Howard University Visit Commemoration (2017-10/2018-04). Five biographical monologues delivered in the fictionalized voices of Harriett Gibbs Marshall, Laura Dreyfus Barney, Louis Gregory, Alain Locke, and Pocahontas Pope.
  422. Betty Bennett. Montana Baha'i History (1998). Collection of historical materials compiled between 1994-1998 and distributed at Montana summer schools.
  423. R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. Moody, Susan (1998).
  424. Miriam Haney. Moody, Susan I., 1851-1934: Obituary (1935-03). Tribute to a travel-teacher who was especially known for bringing education and medical care to women and girls in Iran, and who helped found the Tarbiyat School for Girls.
  425. Justin Penoyer. Mortensen, Fred (2007). Three biographies of an American who met Abdu'l-Bahá, by his great-grandson.
  426. Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall. Mother's Stories: Recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá (1998). Stories of Abdu'l-Bahá and early Bahá'ís told by Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall (1897-1984), daughter of Howard Colby Ives and Elizabeth Church Hoyt.
  427. Gamal Hassan. Moths Turned Eagles: The Spiritual Conquests of Sabri and Raissa Elias (2008). Introduction of the Bahá'í Faith to Ethiopia and Djibouti, and the activities of Gila Bahta.
  428. Vahid Houston Ranjbar. Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab and Shaykh Ahmad (2016-12-23). Brief comparison of two opposing ideologies: fundamentalist Wahhabism vs. the less literalistic teachings of Shaykhism and the Bábí Faith.
  429. Soli Shahvar. Muhammad-Taqi Wakil al-Dawla Shirazi (2016). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  430. Lowell Johnson. Mulla Husayn (1982). A biography of Mulla Husayn, the first Letter of the Living.
  431. Darius Shahrokh. Mulla Husayn Bushru'i: The Indomitable (1992). Life story of the first believer in the Bab.
  432. Darius Shahrokh. Mulla Rida: The Indestructible (1992). Extracts from the Persian book Masabih-i-Hidayat, by Azizu'llah-i-Sulaymani, about a famous life-long teacher of the Faith in Iran.
  433. Vahid Rafati. Mulla Sadiq-i-Khurasani (Muqaddas) (2016). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  434. John Walbridge. Mulla `Abdu'l-Karim Qazvini (Mirza Ahmad Katib) (1997).
  435. Munirih Khanum. Sammireh Anwar Smith, trans. Munirih Khanum: Memoirs and Letters (1986). Autobiography of Khanum (1847-1938), the wife of Abdu'l-Bahá. Includes the arrangements for her marriage, her travel to Akka, her time with the wife of the Bab, and memorial letters written on the anniversaries of the passing of Abdu'l-Bahá.
  436. LeNelma Johnson. Munson, Joy: A Shining Example of Steadfastness (1983-12). Munson was an American Bahá'í who pioneered to India in 1976 at the age of 73, remaining in her post until her death in 1983.
  437. Ustad Muhammad-'Ali Salmani. My Memories of Baha'u'llah (1982). Memories of one of Baha'u'llah's companions during his exile.
  438. Shirley Macias. My Memories of Hand of the Cause of God, A. Q. Faizí (2002). Personal letters from Faizi to Macias, and her recollections of him.
  439. Roy P. Mottahedeh. Ná'ím: A Bahá'í Poet (1967 Winter). Biography of and selection of poems by a Persian Bahá'í in the time of Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá.
  440. Guity Etemad. Nabil al-Dawla: Iranian diplomat and translator of Bahá'í scriptures (2012). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  441. Vahid Rafati. Nabil-i A'zam (Mulla Muhammad Zarandi) (2016). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  442. Minou Foadi. Nabil-i Akbar (2005). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  443. Namibia, Pacific Islands, Queen Marie, and Emeric Sala (2005-02).
  444. Marco Oliveira. Napoleão III: Breve biografia e excertos da epístola revelada por Bahá'u'lláh (2004-07-19). Short biography of Napoleon III and several paragraphs of one of the Tablets revealed by Bahá'u'lláh to Napoleon III.
  445. Narayenrao Rangnath Vakil (1998-09). Short biography of the first Hindu Bahá'í (?-1943).
  446. Paula Bidwell, comp. Native Bahá'ís: Bios of past and contemporary Bahá'ís of native ancestry (2014). Links to photographs and information from the 1910s to the present about Native Bahá'ís, both from the United States, Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska, and indigenous Bahá'ís elsewhere around the world.
  447. Graham Walker. Navidi, Dr. Aziz (1913-1987): Intrepid Pioneer, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh (1988-01). A brief tribute of this scholar, attorney, and travel teacher. Taken from an address by his son-in-law, Walker.
  448. Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla. Gool Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans, Behram Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans. Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai, The: (Chapter 68) (1975). Overview of the Faith, and the author's interactions with Bahá'ís in the early 1900s. (Navjote is the initiation ceremony where a child receives his/her ceremonial garments and first performs the Zoroastrian ritual.)
  449. Hussein Ahdieh. Nayriz Heroes: 22 Biographies of Bábís and Bahá'ís from Nayriz, Calligraphy of Ahmad Nayrizi, and Poetry of Vafá (2013). Bios of Muhammad Shafi, Nayrizi Vahidi, Abu Turab, Imam Jumih Shirazi, Ahmad Khoshnevis Nayrizi, Muhammad Nayrizi, Pari Jan Khanum, Shaykh Bahá'í, Jalal Misaghi, Rooha Ahdieh Misaghi, Muhammad Husayn, Shafi Rouhani, Ja'fari Yazdi, Ibrahim Khoshnevis, etc.
  450. Necati Alkan. Nazif, Suleyman (2021). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  451. Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam. Nicolas, Alphonse (A.-L-.M. Nicolas) (2021). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  452. Jackie Mehrabi. Nine Holy Days (1975). Booklet geared to children and junior youth, giving an overview of all principal Bahá'í holidays, and bios of the Figures they commemorate.
  453. Robert Stockman. Notes on The Báb, Some (1998). Brief overview of sources on the Bábí period, the Bab's history, and his writings.
  454. Robert Weinberg. O. Z. Whitehead (1911-1998): Actor and writer (1998). Oothout Zabriskie 'Zebby' Whitehead (1911–1998) was an American stage and film character actor who later became a Bahá'í pioneer in the Republic of Ireland, and authored three books of Bahá'í biographies.
  455. Anjam Khursheed. Obituary: Antonella Khursheed (1958-2000) (2000). Bio of the co-founder and secretary of the Singapore Association for Bahá'í studies, who organized every annual Singapore ABS conference.
  456. Universal House of Justice, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, Kenneth C. McCulloch. Kenneth C. McCulloch, comp. Obituary: Knight of Baha'u'llah Mary Zabolotny McCulloch (1996). Includes a tribute from the Universal House of Justice, a bibliography by Kenneth McCulloch, a letter from the National Spiritual Assembly, and a note from her husband.
  457. Heshmat Moayyad. Obituary: Alessandro Bausani (1921-1988) (2001). The life and work of Bausani (1921–1988), a leading Italian scholar of Islam, Middle Eastern studies, interlinguistics and the History of Religion, and a prominent Italian Bahá'í.
  458. Novin Doostdar. Obituary: Alimurad Davudi (1922-1979) (1999). Davudi was Professor of Philosophy at Tehran University, and long-time secretary of the Iranian Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly; he was abducted by government agents, and assumed to have been murdered shortly after the Islamic Revolution.
  459. Graham Hassall. Obituary: James Heggie (1999). The life and work of Heggie (1915-1992), a prominent Australian Bahá'í and long-term member and secretary of the Australian National Spiritual Assembly.
  460. Keith Thursby. Obituary: James Nelson (2011-03). James Frank Nelson (1927-2011) was a Municipal Court judge in California and long-term member of the American Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly.
  461. Constance M. Chen. Obituary: Marzieh Nabil Carpenter Gail (1908-1993): Translator and Author, "Patron Saint" of Women Bahá'í Scholars (1996). A short biography of a famous female Bahá'í scholar and translator.
  462. Obituary: R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram: April 30, 1954 - Oct. 21, 2004 (2004-12-04). An obituary of Bahá'í scholar and archivist R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, who passed away October 20, 2004, from his hometown newspaper.
  463. Richard Francis. Olinga, Enoch (1998). Life of Hand of the Cause of God and "Father of Victories."
  464. Ted Cardell. One Person's Search for a Better World (1992).
  465. Orbison, Virginia: 40 years of service to Faith (1980-01). Interview with Orbison at age 77.
  466. Lowell Johnson. Our Beloved Guardian: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Shoghi Effendi (1993). A comprehensive summary biography of Shoghi Effendi. Includes glossary of some antiquated English words and their contemporary or simplified English equivalents. Introduction by Marguerite Sears.
  467. C. Edmund Card. Our Precious Heritage: The Coming of the Faith to Wales (n.d.). History of Bahá'í activities in Wales 1942-1973, focusing especially the active sixteen-year period 1946-1962.
  468. Anton Haddad. Outline of the Bahá'í Movement in the United States, An: A sketch of its promulgator [Ibrahim Kheiralla] and why afterwards denied his Master, Abbas Effendi (1902). Overview of the early days of the Bahá'í Faith in the U.S.
  469. Garreta Busey. Paine, Mabel Hyde: Obituary (1979-10). Paine (1877-1955) was an American Bahá’í teacher and author.
  470. Fuad Izadinia. Panama, The Crossroads between the Continents: The Story of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Faith in Panama 1939-1972 (2015). History of the first Bahá'í community in Panama, including a photo album; biographies of Martha Root, Mathew Kaszab, Louise Caswell, Cora Oliver, Julie Lois Regal, Hascle Cornbleth–Colon, Alfred Osborne, Raquel Francois, Clare Hamilton, Blanca De Campos.
  471. Marco Oliveira. Papa Pio IX: Breve biografia e excertos da epístola revelada por Bahá'u'lláh (2004-06-16). Short biography of Pope Pius IX and the tablet revealed by Baha'ullah to this leader of the Catholic Church.
  472. JoAnn M. Borovicka. Parallels in the Ministries of Táhirih and Paul (2016). Stories of early believers of the Bahá’í Faith as presented in "Memorials of the Faithful" compared with the lives of early believers in Christianity as recorded in the New Testament; Táhirih and Paul represent a similar type of early convert.
  473. Viola Tuttle, Margarite Ioas Ullrich, Monroe Ioas, et al.. Part of the Baha'i History of the Family of Charles and Maria Ioas (1978-08). Biographies of Charles and Maria: from his birth in 1859, their introduction to the Faith in 1898, experiences with 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 1912, and four Tablets from 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
  474. Shoghi Effendi, Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. Passing of Abdu'l-Baha, The (1922). A compilation on the last days of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, his funeral, and tributes on his behalf. Later published in abridged form in World Order.
  475. Rúhíyyih Khánum, John Ferraby. Passing of Shoghi Effendi, The: 1896-1957 (1958). Detailed account of the final days of the life of the Guardian.
  476. Sandra Lynn Hutchison. Path of Beauty, The: The Literary Life of Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum (1999-2000). An extensive review of the varied literary works of Ruhiyyih Khanum – poems, plays, ethical guidance, practical guidelines for Baha’i pioneering and teaching, inspirational essays, literary and scriptural commentary, biography, and even a film script.
  477. Universal House of Justice, comp. Persecution of the Bahá'í Community of Iran: 1983-1986 (1994). Lengthy survey of events, and life stories of participants.
  478. Patricia Verge. Personal Journey toward Reconciliation, A (2016). On the author's spiritual journey and how it has been entwined with First Nations people; tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Bahá'ís; pioneering to the Nakoda community; and the importance of learning, listening, and personal transformation.
  479. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study: Poetry and essays (1944-2013). Table of Contents for a memoir of six decades of teaching & international travel, an extensive personal account of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch, 1944 to 1963, of the teaching Plans.
  480. Robert E. Hayden, Douglas Ruhe, John S. Hatcher. Place of Poetry in Religion and Society, The: An Interview of Robert E. Hayden with Douglas Ruhe (2014). Introduction by Hatcher to the life of Hayden (2014); transcript of a talk between Hayden and Douglas Ruhe in 1975 on the future of poetry, transcendence, American destiny, important American poets, the Library of Congress, and Bahá'í spirituality.
  481. Youness Khan Afroukhteh. Ismael Velasco, comp. Portrait of Abdu'l-Bahá: Selections From Memories of Nine Years in Akká (2006). Habits of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His daily tasks and services, his concentration, the way he revealed verses, his manner of speaking, his bearing, interactions with governments, his burdens and tasks, and his love and generosity.
  482. A. D. H. Bivar. Portraits and Career of Mohammed Ali, Son of Kazem-Beg, The: Scottish Missionaries and Russian Orientalism (1994). Kazem-Beg has a place in Bahá'í history because of his early book The Bab and the Babis (St. Petersburg, 1865). Article contains no mention of the Bábí or Bahá'í Faiths.
  483. Hussein Ahdieh. Precious Glimmers: The Bahá'í Faith in New York, 1892-1932 (2020). Highlights of the first forty years of the Bahá'í Faith in the City of the Covenant, 1892-1932. Includes chronology of meetings, conferences, activities, and milestones, and photographs.
  484. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Priceless Pearl, The (1969). The classic biography of The Guardian, written by his wife.
  485. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. Prince of Martyrs, The: A brief account of the Imam Husayn (1977). The story of the Third Imam, whose death in the year 680 became a pivotal event for Shi'i Islam.
  486. Ramezanali Amoui. Payman Amoui, trans. Prison Memories of Mr. Amoui (Feb. 1984 - March 1989) (1989). Memoirs of five years in an Iranian prison. Includes Persian original. The author's full name is not known — and the last name could be Amu'i — and the translator's name is not certain.
  487. Pritam Singh (1998-09). Short biography of the first Sikh Bahá'í (1881-1959).
  488. Farideh Sobhani-Matejko. Adib Masumian, trans. Professor: A Tribute to Dr. 'Alí-Murád Dávúdí (2022-07). Tribute by a young psychology student in the late 1960s to Dr. ‘Alí-Murád Dávúdí, a philosopher and intellectual giant of the Bahá’í Faith who was later kidnapped by the Islamic regime and never heard from again.
  489. Duane L. Herrmann. Profiles of Some Topeka Bahá'ís (1997). Background for the author's research into Kansas Bahá'í history.
  490. Ismael Velasco. Prolegomenon to the Study of Babi and Baha'i Scriptures, A: The Importance of Henry Corbin to Babi and Baha'i Studies (2004). On the foremost Western authority on the Islamic philosophy of Persia, one of the most influential Islamicists of the 20th century, whose work is uniquely relevant in understanding the philosophical context for the emergence of the Bábí Faith.
  491. Anne King Sadeghpour. Promoting Peace: 100 Years of the Baha'i Faith in Santa Paula, California, 1914-2014 (2017). Detailed history of the community in southern California, including references to Marzieh Gail, Ethelwyn Drew Hall, Florence Mayberry, Molly King, the Yamamotos, Asadullah Fadil-i-Mazandarani, Guy Murchie, Isabella Brittingham, Louise Waite, et al.
  492. Juan Cole. Provincial Politics of Heresy and Reform in Qajar Iran, The: Shaykh al-Rais in Shiraz, 1895-1902 (2002). Biography and political/historical context of "the poet laureate of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution," who was secretly a second-generation Bahá'í.
  493. Minou Foadi. Qá'ení, Shaikh Mohammad-ʿAli (2005). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  494. A.L.M. Nicolas. Peter Terry, trans. Qourrèt-oul-Aíne [Qurratu'l-`Ayn] (2004). First publication in English translation of early accounts of the life and death of Táhirih. These passages are from Seyyed Ali Mohammad dit le Bab (1905) by A.-L.-M. Nicolas, French diplomat and author.
  495. Lowell Johnson. Quddus (1982). Overview of the life of Quddus, the most prominent disciple of the Báb and the eighteenth and final Letter of the Living.
  496. Nosratollah Mohammad-Hosseini. Quddus (2009). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  497. Husayn Villar. Quddús (2008-01-02).
  498. Robert Postlethwaite. Queen Marie and the Baha'i Faith (1994). On the first monarch to embrace the Bahá'í Faith; the stature and the character of Queen Marie and her unique position in the early 20th century; her identification as a Bahá'í and her plan to visit Haifa in 1929; her relationship with Martha Root.
  499. Peter Terry. Rabindranath Tagore: Some Encounters with Bahá'ís (1992/2015). 'Abdu'l-Bahá is alleged to have met India's poet laureate Tagore in Chicago in 1912. This article examines the historical sources for that story.
  500. Richard Francis. Rahmatu'llah Muhajir: Hand of the Cause of God the Treasure of All Humanity (1998). Short biography of a Hand of the Cause of God.
  501. Marco Oliveira. Rainha Vitória: Breve biografia e excertos da epístola revelada por Bahá'u'lláh (2004-05-24). Short biography of Queen Victoria and the tablet revealed by Baha'ullah to this Monarch.
  502. Barbara R. Sims. Raising the Banner in Korea: An Early Bahá'í History (1996). Bahá'í activities in Korea 1921-1988.
  503. Janet Ruhe-Schoen. Ransom-Kehler, Keith Bean (2009). On the American Bahá’í lecturer and world traveler, designated by Shoghi Effendi as the first American Bahá’í martyr, and a Hand of the Cause of God, the first woman to be so named.
  504. Stanwood Cobb. Real Turk, The (1914). Reflections on three years spent in Turkey during the rise of the Young Turk Party and the downfall of Abdul Hamid; the character of the Turkish, their temperament, and their way of looking at life.
  505. Muriel Handley, John Handley. Recollections of Muriel Handley (1996). Personal history of an early Bahá'í life in Australia.
  506. Thomas Kelly Cheyne. Reconciliation of Races and Religions, The (1914). Early history of the Bábí and Bahá'í movements, life stories of their participants, and their contemporary religious context, written by a distinguished British Biblical scholar.
  507. Anthony Lee. Recovering the Lives of Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A First Attempt (2016). Reconstructing the lives of four slaves in the Middle East, including Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, servants of The Bab.
  508. Various. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ecuador, comp. Recuerdos de los amigos del Consejero Raúl Pavón Mejía: Padre de la enseñanza a los indígenas en Ecuador (2008). Compendium of stories and testimonies from the many friends who shared life and Faith with this renowned teacher to the indigenous peoples of Ecuador. Includes five pages of poetry, at end.
  509. John S. Hatcher, ed. Reflections on the Art of My Poetry: An Interview of Roger White (1929-1993) (2016). A glimpse into the mind of a gifted poet and the struggles that he, like many Bahá'í artists, encountered in responding to Bahá'u'lláh's exhortation that art best serves humanity when it elevates and edifies the soul and its spiritual receptivity.
  510. Graham Hassall. Religion and Proto-Nationalism: Apelis Mazakmat and 'traces of mild sectarian strife' in New Ireland (2001-02). The career of Apelis Mazakmat, the first native Bahá'í in Papua New Guinea, set against the complex period of rapid social change in New Ireland after World War II.
  511. Lil Osborn (published as L.C.G. Abdo). Religion and Relevance: The Baha'is in Britain 1899 - 1930 (2003). On the Bahá'í history in the British Isles during the first decades of the 20th century, when it was an inclusive supplementary religious movement not requiring renunciation of existing affiliation; identification of the 80 or so earliest British Bahá'ís.
  512. Ahang Rabbani. Remains of the Bab in Tehran, The (1997). Brief bio of Aqa Husayn-'Ali Nur and an extract from Khatirat Muhajiri Az Isfahan, "Memoirs of a Refugee from Isfahan," discussing the history of these remains. Includes biographical notes.
  513. Lowell Johnson. Remember My Days: The Life-Story of Bahá'u'lláh (1980). Biography of the prophet-founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
  514. Trudi Scott. Remembering Bernard Leach (1986). Memories of the Bahá'í potter Bernard Leach (1887–1979).
  515. Robert Stockman. Remey, Charles Mason (1995).
  516. Charles Mason Remey. Reminiscences of the Summer School Green Acre Eliot, Maine (1949). On the evolution of Green Acre from a meeting place for New England intellectuals and religious speakers into a Bahá'í-managed summer school; Sarah Farmer's family and her personal difficulties; personalities of some early Bahá'ís; anecdotes by Remey.
  517. Charles Mason Remey. Report to Abdul Baha of the Bahá'í Activities in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, A (1919-06-07). Diary of travel-teaching March-April 1919. Includes letter to the members of the Bahá'í Board of Teaching in America about successful techniques.
  518. Clemencia Pavon de Zuleta. Reseña Biográfica de la Vida de la Sra. Isabel Pavón de Calderón: Biographical Summary of the Life of Mrs. Isabel Pavón de Calderón (2009-03). Biografía de Pavón de Calderón (1929-2000), una miembra de la Asamblea Espiritual Nacional de los Bahá’ís del Ecuador y Consejero Continental.
  519. Lee Brown. Return to Tyendinaga: The Story of Jim and Melba Loft, Bahá'í Pioneers, by Evelyn Loft Watts and Patricia Verge: Review (2013). History of the first Aboriginal believers in Canada, who moved from Michigan to pioneer in the Tyendinaga First Nation in Ontario in 1948.
  520. Christopher Buck. Robert Hayden (2004-01-29). The first African American poet-laureate of the United States (as Library of Congress "Consultant in Poetry").
  521. Duane L. Herrmann. Robert Hayden and Being Politically Correct (1993-08). Robert Hayden did not bow to or rebel against expectations of political correctness, and regarded his race as "human" rather than "black." He embraced his African-American identity, but did not want to be defined by it.
  522. Benjamin Friedlander. Robert Hayden's Epic of Community (1998). A study of Hayden's poetry in the context of the American experience.
  523. Robert Weinberg. Roger White: An Obituary: Writer and editor, "poet laureate" of the Bahá'í community (1929-1993) (1997). Brief biography, written as an obituary, of a famous Bahá'í poet.
  524. Norman Zepp. Rogers, Otto Donald (1997-09-06).
  525. Richard Francis. Root, Martha (1993/1998). Bio of the "Herald of the Kingdom, Lioness at the Threshold."
  526. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Ruhe, David S. (1914-2005) (2005-09-06). A letter from the NSA, followed by a biography from Bahá'í World News Service.
  527. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. Miguel Gil, trans. Rúhíyyih Khánum (2024). Amatu'l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum, autora, dramaturga, directora de cine, poeta, embajadora bahá'í y, sobre todo, esposa del Guardián de la Fe bahá'í, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, a quien ‘Abdu’l-Bahá describió como la Señal de Dios sobre la tierra.
  528. Sacrifice to Fidelity, A: The senseless, brutal slayings of Enoch Olinga, his wife and children (1980-05). An account of the murder of Enoch Olinga in 1980.
  529. Will C. van den Hoonaard. Schopflocher, Siegfried (1993-06). Short biography of a prominent Baha''i from a German-Jewish background who served as a Hand of the Cause of God.
  530. Will C. van den Hoonaard. Schopflocher, Siegfried (2009). On the Canadian Bahá’í of German-Jewish background named by Shoghi Effendi a Hand of the Cause of God in 1952.
  531. Steven Kolins, ed. Select Clevenger Archives, 1926-1936 (2021). Personal letters to Ella Robarts, the National Spiritual Assembly, Horace Holley, and others; article "The Riddle of the Slain Co-ed" from Insider Detective.
  532. Graham Hassall. Self and Society: Biography and Autobiography in Baha'i Literature (1999). On some of the 'moral implications' in writing biography in a Bahá'í perspective; the modes, intentions, and problems of Bahá'í biography.
  533. Jack McLean. Semple, Ian (1963-2005): A Personal Appreciation (2011-12-04). Brief personal recollections of a scholar and member of the Universal House of Justice.
  534. Anonymous, Universal House of Justice. Semple, Ian Chalmers: In Memoriam (2012). Biography of long-serving member of the Universal House of Justice and frequent contributor to scholarly publications and conferences.
  535. Adrienne Morgan, Dempsey Morgan. Servants of the Glory: A Chronicle of Forty Years of Pioneering (2017). Memoirs of a black couple from the United States who lived and spread the Bahá’í Faith in across parts of east Asia and Africa in the 1950s-1980s. Text by Dempsey Morgan, poems by Adrienne Morgan. Link to document offsite.
  536. A.L.M. Nicolas. Seyyèd Ali Mohammed, dit le Bâb (1905). The first detailed biography of The Bab written in a Western language.
  537. Darius Shahrokh. Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunuzi: The Promises Fulfilled (1992). Life story of an early follower of Shaykhs Ahmad and Rashti, who also met both the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.
  538. Marzieh Gail. Sheltering Branch, The (1959). The life and teachings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
  539. Shirin Ebadi: A collection of newspaper articles (2003-10). Articles about the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize who has championed the rights of the Bahá'í community.
  540. Moojan Momen. Shoghi Effendi (2011). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  541. Shoghi Effendi: After a Hundred Years (1997 Fall). Editorial for an issue dedicated to the centennial of the Guardian's birth, summarizing his life and his place in Bahá'í history.
  542. Glenford Mitchell. Shoghi Effendi: Guide for a New Millennium (1997). The Bahá'í community is a global laboratory in which a transformation in individual and collective behaviour is progressing, leading to a new sense of community and the glimmerings of a new world order.
  543. Ugo Giachery. Shoghi Effendi: Recollections (1973). Biography of Shoghi Effendi from the close standpoint of the author's personal experiences.
  544. Ali Nakhjavani. Shoghi Effendi: The Range and Power of His Pen (2006). The evolving style of the Guardian's writings; comparison of different periods of his writing; his translations; his writings in Persian and Arabic.
  545. Grace Shahrokh, Darius Shahrokh. Shoghi Effendi: The Sign of God on Earth (1998-07). The Guardian's life, his station, his accomplishments, and his passing.
  546. Boris Handal. Siyyid Yahyá-i-Dárábí, Entitled Vahíd "The Incomparable" (2023). The Commissioner of Muhammad Sháh; Bahá'u'lláh in Tehran; the episodes of Yazd and Nayríz.
  547. Sohrab Arjmand (1935-2019) (2019). Arjmand was an Iranian Bahá'í who settled in California and was active in the Irfan Colloquia.
  548. June Perkins. Something Regal: Uncle Fred Murray Extracts from a compilation of tributes, photographs and stories (2000). Stories about and pictures of Fred Murray, an early Indigenous Baha’i.
  549. Jonah Winters, comp. Sources for studying the life and writings of Abdu'l-Baha: A topical bibliography (1999). Now outdated bibliography; retained for historical interest.
  550. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Speaking in Edinburgh (1981-08). Address at Edinburgh Bahá'í Centre. Includes discussion of Shoghi Effendi in Scotland and the eagle and pillar at his resting place.
  551. Ali Kuli Khan. Terry Nelson Randolph, ed. Spontaneous Talks by Dr. Khan, at His Sunday Morning Classes, Answering Some of His 95 Questions (2013-04). Proofs of the Bahá'í Faith, written by a prominent translator and companion of Abdu'l-Bahá. Includes short biography of Khan regarding the history of this document, with photographs.
  552. Bahá'í International Community. Statement on Bahá'u'lláh, A (1992-05). Introduction to the life and work of Bahá'u'lláh, released in 1992 in honor of the centenary of his death, at the request of the Universal House of Justice.
  553. Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí, trans. Stories from The Delight of Hearts: The Memoirs of Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí (1980). Anecdotes and history, a personal glimpse of the Middle East in the 19th century, as told by a follower of Bahá'u'lláh and companion of Abdu'l-Bahá.
  554. Adib Taherzadeh. Kiser Barnes, comp. Stories of Baha'u'llah and Some Notable Believers (2003). Extracts compiled by Kiser Barnes from Adib Taherzadeh’s The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh, Volumes 1-4.
  555. Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall. Stories of Muriel Ives Newhall Barrow: Elizabeth Cheney (1998). One-paragraph account of an incident in the life of Elizabeth Cheney, pioneer Bahá'í teacher in Paraguay.
  556. Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall. Stories of Muriel Ives Newhall Barrow: Grace Robarts Ober (1998). Brief account of Grace Ober's interactions with 'Abdu'l-Bahá during his visit to the USA.
  557. Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall. Stories of Muriel Ives Newhall Barrow: Harry and Ruth Randall (1998). Brief account of William Henry ('Harry') Randall (1863-1929) and his wife Ruth's first encounter with 'Abdu'l-Bahá; Randall became a prominent American Bahá’í and was named a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by Shoghi Effendi.
  558. Houri Falahi-Skuce. Story of Anis Zunuzi, The (2020). Links to 53-minute video presentation with original music and narration. Includes transcript.
  559. Jan T. Jasion. Story of J. E. Esslemont and His Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era, The: Bibliography (2020). List of all of Esslemont's known writings, including his Bahá’í pamphlets and his medical writings, plus a bibliography of all translations of New Era.
  560. Ralph Dexter. Story of Mr. Rufino Gualvisí (2020-07). Biography of a well-known travel teacher in Ecuador. English and Spanish text by Dexter; includes section by Isabel Pavon de Calderón; includes photographs.
  561. Fariborz Sahba. Storytelling and Once Upon a Time, The: Youtube Playlists (2020). Zoom videos of some historical events witnessed by the manager for the Arc Project during 10 years of the development of the Bahá'í Temple in India and 15 years of the development of the Mount Carmel Bahá'í Project in Haifa, and other stories.
  562. Necati Alkan. Süleyman Nazif's Nasiruddin Shah ve Babiler: an Ottoman Source on Babi-Baha'i History (2000). On the author of the 1919 Persian history "Nasiru’d-Din Shah and the Babis," including a translation of passages on Tahirih.
  563. Marzieh Gail. Summon Up Remembrance (1987). Memoir left by Ali-Kuli Khan, one of the first translators of Bahá'í Writings; writings of his wife Florence; other family papers and memories.
  564. Lorol Schopflocher. Sunburst (1937). Autobiography of the life story, and travels on behalf of the Bahá'í Faith, of prominent socialite and wife of the Hand of the Cause of God Siegfried Schopflocher. (Author name misspelled as Shofflocher.)
  565. Aziz Rohani, comp. Sweet and Enchanting Stories (2005). Stories and memoirs by and about ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Mirza Haydar ‘Ali, Zia Baghdadi, ‘Ali Akbar Furutan, Adib Tahirzadih, Abul-Qasim Faizi, and other loved and historic figures.
  566. Willard P. Hatch. Sydney Sprague: In Memoriam (1945). Sprague (1875-1943) was an American Bahá’í who traveled the East to promote the religion in the early 1900s. He became alienated from the Bahá’í community at some point but reconciled shortly before his passing.
  567. Juan Cole. Tablet to Fuad (Lawh-i-Fuad): Translator's introduction, and bio from Encyclopedia Britannica (1997).
  568. Lowell Johnson. Tahirih (1982). Overview of the life of Qurratu'l-`Ayn, "Solace of the Eye," aka Zarrín-Táj, "Crown of Gold."
  569. Amin Banani. Táhirih: A Portrait in Poetry (2000). An account of Tahirih allowing her own voice, through her poems, to speak for herself, her time, and her motivations; it is her poetry that both reveals the layers of her complex motivations and makes her accessible.
  570. Martha L. Root. Táhirih's Message to the Modern World (1941). Transcript of a radio address from Sunday April 21, 1940, telling the story of Ṭáhirih, describing her as the foremost woman of her generation known across Persia for her beauty, intelligence, and courage, who gave her life for the emancipation of women.
  571. Darius Shahrokh. Tahirih, Letter of the Living, and Khadijih Bagum, Wife of the Báb (1992). Life stories of two key heroines of Bábí history.
  572. Martha L. Root. David Merrick, comp. Tahirih, The Pure, Iran's Greatest Woman (1938). Life story of Tahirih, the "heroine" of the Faith of the Bab.
  573. Barbara R. Sims. Taiwan Bahá'í Chronicle: An Historical Record of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Faith in Taiwan (1994). Bahá'í activities in Taiwan and personal histories, 1952-1992. Includes earliest pamphlet published in Chinese.
  574. Lynn Echevarria-Howe (published as Lynn Echevarria). Take My Love to the Friends: The Story of Laura R. Davis, by Marlene Macke: Review (2008). Key figures in the development of the Bahá'í community in Canada.
  575. Robert Weinberg. Tales of Magnificent Heroism: The Impact of the Báb and His Followers on Writers and Artists (2019-11). This concise survey explores how this particular episode in humanity’s religious history resonated so strongly through the decades that followed.
  576. Hedi Moani. Teaching the Faith in Australia 1963-1975: Personal Recollections (1999). [needs abstract]
  577. Jack McLean. Teaching the Faith, Magic Moments, Meeting Great Souls (2012-06-02). Autobiography of a prominent Bahá'í scholar, written on occasion of the 50th anniversary of his conversion.
  578. Ilona Sala Weinstein. Tending the Garden: A Biography of Emeric and Rosemary Sala (1998/2016). Detailed story of two pioneers from Canada to South America and Africa, told through reference to letters, papers, and archival documents.
  579. Terah Cowart-Smith. Terah: Personal reminiscences of teaching, traveling, loving (1981-02). Brief recollections of teaching in North America. Includes short letter from the Guardian.
  580. Kathryn Jewett Hogenson. The Cause of Universal Peace: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Enduring Impact (2021-02-23). On Abdu'l-Bahá's interest in the Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration in New York, 1912, and the Quaker founders Albert and Alfred Smiley; Leroy Ioas and the World Unity Conferences; World Unity magazine (later World Order).
  581. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada. The Story of Mona: 1965-1983 (1985). Biography of Mona Mahmudnizhad, an Iranian teenager who, in 1983, together with nine other women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz on the grounds of being a member of the Bahá'í Faith.
  582. Marzieh Gail. The White Silk Dress (1945). An "intimate portrait" of Ṭáhirih first published Friday April 21, 1944.
  583. Graham Hassall. Thelma Perks (1998). Perks (1901-1988) was a prominent Australian Bahá'í who served at various times on the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia, and as an inaugural Auxiliary Board member and later Continental Counselor.
  584. Duane L. Herrmann. Theodore Russell Livingston (1997). Bahá'í teacher and Mayor of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.
  585. Crawford Howell Toy. Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1916-01). Overview of the works and diverse intellectual interests of Cheyne, who championed the Faith as an independent Biblical scholar before joining it in 1914.
  586. Keith Munro. Through the Eyes of Margaret Cousins: Irish and Indian Suffragette (2018). Biography of the co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League, a theosophist, who met both Martha Root and Shoghi Effendi.
  587. Charles Mason Remey. Through Warring Countries to the Mountain of God (1915-07). Experiences of two American Bahá'ís in France, England, and Germany on their way to visit Abdul-Baha in the Israel in 1914. Includes excerpt of address by Abdu'l-Bahá on proofs of the coming Prophet, and letter written by Abdul Sana to a friend in London.
  588. Jack McLean. To Russia with Love: Journal of a Member of the Quddus Team (1990/2018). Journal of a visit through Moscow, Kiev, and Levov in August 1990 by the four travel teachers Shamsi Sedagat, Ann Clavin, Leo Misagi, and Jack McLean.
  589. Judith S. Kays. Tobey, Mark George (2000). Tobey (1890-1976) was a famous American painter.
  590. Mahmud Jamal. Top Court Appointee a Model of Diversity (2021/06/18). Brief bio of Mahmud Jamal, the judge "poised to be the first person of colour on the Supreme Court of Canada."
  591. Jahangir Dorri. Toumansky, Aleksandr Grigorevich (2009). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  592. Barbara R. Sims. Sheridan Sims, ed. Traces That Remain: A Pictorial History of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Faith among the Japanese (1989). Extensive history of Bahá'í events and personages in Japan, 1914-1983.
  593. Abdu'l-Bahá. E. G. Browne, trans. Traveler's Narrative, A: Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb (1982). Reprint of Browne's original translation of 1891 but lacking all of Browne's notes.
  594. Violette Nakhjavani. Tribute to Amatu'l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum, A (2000). Born Mary Maxwell in Montreal, Amatu’l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum’s life spanned almost the entire 20th century. To her husband, Shoghi Effendi, she was his "helpmate", "shield" and "tireless collaborator in the arduous tasks I shoulder."
  595. Marjorie Morten. Tribute to Bahíyyih Khánum, A (1934). Short biography of the daughter of Bahá'u'lláh, written by one of her close companions late in life.
  596. Violetta Zein. Tribute to Hand of the Cause Hájí Akhúnd, A (2023). Compilation of selections from biographies and articles, tablets and prayers, and photographs of one of the first Hands of the Cause, one of only four appointed by Bahá'u'lláh himself.
  597. Violetta Zein. Tribute to the Greatest Holy Leaf, A (2023). Compilation of biographical materials, quotations, and photographs, from the year of her passing (1932) and its 50th anniversary commemorations (1982).
  598. Boris Handal. Trilogy of Consecration, A: The Courier, the Historian and the Missionary (2020). On the lives of Shaykh Salmán, Nabil-i-A'zam and Mullá Sádiq, three important people in the early years of the Bahá'í Faith in Iran.
  599. Robert Stockman. True, Corinne (1995).
  600. True, Edna M. (1888-1988) (1989-01). Brief bio of the daughter of Hand of the Cause of God Corinne True.
  601. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Twenty-Five Years of the Guardianship (1948). An early account of Shoghi Effendi's ministry, written by his wife while he was still alive.
  602. Moojan Momen. Two Episodes from the Life of Bahá'u'lláh in Iran (2019). Regarding the conference of Badasht and Baha'u'lláh's arrival at the shrine of Shaykh Tabarsi, and on His experience in the Siyah Chal, close attention to the text of two Tablets leads to conclusions that differ from current Bahá'í history books.
  603. UK Bahá'í Histories Project, ed. UK Bahá'í Histories: Links to stories of individual Bahá'ís in the United Kingdom (2011-2013). Links to contemporary bios of English Bahá'ís (offsite).
  604. Robert Gregory Shaw. Uncle Bill: A Personal Memoir (2020-07). Personal recollections of Albert Edwin Dorrida, "Uncle Bill" (1901-1972), who became a Bahá'í after meeting 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 1912; history of the Bahá'í Faith in Baltimore. Includes articles from Bahá'í News from 1947 and 1982.
  605. Barbara R. Sims. Unfurling the Divine Flag in Tokyo: An Early Bahá'í History (1998). History of Bahá'í activities in Japan, 1909-1994, and life stories of notable persons.
  606. David Hornsby, Jane Clark. Unity of Humanity, The: An Interview with Professor Todd Lawson (2016). Biography of Lawson and his personal interests in the Qur'an and the Bahá'í Faith, discussion of contemporary Western approaches to Islam, and commentary on current world affairs and hope for the future. (Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.)
  607. Moojan Momen. Vahíd (Sayyed Yahyá Dárábí) (1996). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  608. Susan Gammage. Various Essays (2013-2018/2023). 47 short essays on following the teachings and living a Bahá'í life, life coaching and counselling, recovery from substances or abuse, family matters, dreams, elections, debt, abortion, and more. Includes bios of Bruce Matthews and Caroline Lehmann.
  609. Darius Shahrokh. Varqa and Son: The Heavenly Doves (1992). History of the family of Varqa, the only family with the distinction of having a grandfather, a father, and a son all named Hand of the Cause.
  610. Iraj Ayman. Varqá, Wali-Alláh (2017). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  611. Boris Handal. Varqá and Rúhu'lláh: 101 Stories of Bravery on the Move (2020). On the lives of Varqa, the physician and talented poet, and his gifted adolescent son Ruhu'llah, who travelled across Iran to teach the Faith before being martyred in 1896.
  612. Elizabeth de Souza. Views from a Black Artist in the Century of Light (2020). On the experiences of Black artists; biographical notes on McCleary “Bunch” Washington; African-American spiritual songs.
  613. William Miller. Joshua V. Himes, ed. Views of the Prophecies and Prophetic Chronology: Selected from Manuscripts of William Miller with a Memoir of His Life (1842). Miller's memoir; scriptural interpretation; Bible chronology; various addresses and lectures; various reviews and letters.
  614. Joyce Baldwin. Walking the Spiritual Path with Both Feet Planted Firmly on the Ground (2016). Overview of the life of a Bahá'í native from indigenous-Tsimshian ancestry, who pioneered to Alaska and a reserve in Washington, and member of the LSA of Arcata, California. Includes reflections on teaching to Natives.
  615. Harry Liedtke. Wayfarer between Two Worlds, A: Recollections (2013/2022). A chronicle of some of the highlights of the author's seventy-five years as a Bahá'í, and covering the years 1927-2022, including periods in Germany and Canada and historical events from each. Includes poems and photographs.
  616. Charles Uzzell. We Kept the Light Bulb On: An Interview with Ellerton and Marjorie Harmer (2000-02). Short overview of the lives of the first pioneers to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.
  617. Matt Briggs. Well Dressed Woman of Recent Times, A (2000). Historical fiction which contains part of The Wardrobe of Gertrude Heim Remey, a book Mason Remey wrote about his wife's wardrobe (which the Des Moines Register wrote was "quite likely the best book ever written about his wife's clothes").
  618. Jack McLean. What A Young Man Learned from Laura Rumney Davis about Shoghi Effendi (2007-09-02). Interview with Laura Davis, "The Mother of the Toronto Bahá’í Community," and some recollections of the Guardian.
  619. Jack McLean. What Stanwood Cobb Told Me about 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2007-08-12). Reflections on Cobb's life and his recollections of Abdu'l-Bahá, partly based on two personal interviews.
  620. Sidney Edward Morrison, Frank Lewis. When the Saints Come Marching In: The Art of Bahá'í Biography (1986). Comments on hagiography, including reviews of nine popular Bahá'í biographies. Includes response "In Praise of Saints" by Frank Lewis (from dialogue 1:3).
  621. Blanche Cox Clegg. Whiting, Lilian (2000). Whiting (1847-1942) was an American journalist, essayist, and poet; a religious seeker, she showed interest in the Bahá'í teachings.
  622. Ismael Velasco. Who Was Archangel, the Potowatami Woman on Whose Land the Wilmette Temple Was Built? (2011). Brief investigation into the surname "Ouilmette" (Wilmette), and the identity of a Native American girl named Archangel whose home was at one time on this point of land.
  623. Wm. Keith Bookwalter. Who Was Daniel Jordan?: A Tribute (1992/2023). Detailed overview of the life and thought of Dr. Jordan, philosopher and educator.
  624. Robert Weinberg. Who Was Thomas Breakwell? (1997-08). Brief biography of the first English Bahá'í and an individual central in early European Bahá'í community.
  625. Michael L. Penn. Why Constructive Resilience? An Autobiographical Essay (2020). Reflections on growing up African-American; guidance from and a meeting with William Hatcher; the relationship between stress and anxiety, depression, and powerlessness; the practice of constructive resilience.
  626. Jonah Winters, comp. William S. Hatcher 1935-2005 (2008). Bio and CV from the author's website.
  627. Ahang Rabbani, ed, Ahang Rabbani, trans. Witness to Shaykh Tabarsi: The Narrative of Haji Nasir Qazvini (2007). Biography of Qazvini, sources for the study of the conflict at Shaykh Tabarsi, and Qazvini's narrative. Includes the Persian text, and bios of Táríkh Samandar and M. A. Malik-Khusravi (in Persian).
  628. Miriam Dixson. Women and Religious Change: A case study in the colonial migrant experience (2000). The story of Margaret Dixson, and one woman's growth from Anglicanism, via numerology and astrology, to commitment to the world ideals of the Bahá'í Faith.
  629. Moojan Momen. Work of A.L.M. Nicolas (1864-1937), The (1981). Short bio, including list of the works of Nicolas.
  630. Marco Oliveira. Xá Nasiri'd-dino: Breve relato da sua vida e da Epistola revelada por Baha'u'llah (2007). Breve resumo da vida deste monarca persa do sec. XIX e sua relação com a religião Bahá'í. Short description of Nasiri'd-Din Shah and his relation with the Bahá'í Faith.
  631. Moojan Momen. Yahyá, Mírzá (2009). On the younger half-brother of Bahá’u’lláh, later his opponent, known as Subh-i-Azal, described by Shoghi Effendi as "the arch-breaker of the Covenant of the Báb."
  632. Marion Yazdi. Yamamoto, Hiroshi: Eldest son of the world's first Japanese believer (1980-04). Japanese-American Yamamoto (c. 1909-1979) was the eldest son of Kanichi (Moto) Yamamoto, the first ethnic Japanese Bahá’í in the world.
  633. John Walbridge. Reina Pennington, ed. Zaynab (2003). Brief biography of a female Bábí fighter.
  634. Anthony Lee. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2017). Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th and 20th centuries; historiography of African women in Iran; the Herati-Khorasani family tree.
  635. Hussein Ahdieh. طاهره پیشتار آزادی زنان شرق (Táhirih Písh-tár Ázádí-yi Zanán-i Sharq): Tahirih: Forerunner of Women's Liberation in the East (2019). A biographical work on the life of Tahirih detailing significant moments including her early years, marriage, the murder of her uncle, the events at Badasht, and final years leading to her martyrdom. Features appendices including excerpts of her writings.
  636. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. غریب از تیریز تا نیویورک (Gharib az Nayriz ta New York): Foreigner: From Nayriz to New York (2020). A memoir detailing the author's life journey from a rural village in Iran to the director of a University in New York, offering intimate firsthand glimpses of the history of the Faith in Iran and the immigrant experience in America.
  637. Boris Handal. Ehsan Kazemi, trans. میرزا مهدی غصن اطهر (Mirza Mehdi, Ghusn-i-Athar): "Mirza Mehdi, the Purest Branch" (2022). The dramatic story of Mirza Mihdi, the son of Bahá'u'lláh who fell from a skylight in the roof of the prison where they were imprisoned.
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