Documents on Baha'i History and Thought




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• Relatives of Baha'u'llah and the Bab (Courtesy of Wig DeMoville)

• Petition of Baha'is of Baghdad, March, 1867, to U.S. Government: Text, Translation, Commentary." Translations of Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Texts, no. 3, July, 1997 (Presented by Robert B. Stauffer and slightly edited and digitally enhanced by Juan R. I. Cole from a photocopy of a microfilm from "Petition from the Persian Reformers," United States National Archives Record Group 59 [State Department]) T 367 Roll 5
  

  References: Rev. Henry Harris Jessup, Fifty-three Years in Syria (New York and Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910], Volume I, p.329.

• Report of the Iranian Ambassador on the Condition of the Baha'is of Akka, 1901. Trans. Dr. Ahang Rabbani.

• Qazvini's and Siyyid Hasan Taqizadeh's descriptions of their 1911 meetings with `Abdu'l-Baha in Paris. Preceded by a brief biography of Abdu'l-Baha. Trans. Dr. Ahang Rabbani.

  
  

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• W. Smith Murray, "Report on the Murder of U.S. Consul Imbrie in Tehran, 1924, on Charges of being a Baha'i" [From the U.S. State Department Records, Near East Affairs Division; submitted by Robert B. Stauffer. Documents on the Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Movements no. 1 (July, 1997)

• W. Smith Murray, U.S. Embassy, Tehran, "A consideration of the Baha'i Religion, its tenets, the character of its followers, and the possibility of its spread in Persia and elsewhere," (Consular Report dated January 8, 1925). Documents on the Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Movements no. 2 (July, 1997)

  
  

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• Robert Stockman. "Notes on the Thornton Chase Papers": Research Notes in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, Vol. 2, no. 1 (March, 1998)

• Robert Stockman. "Notes on the Chicago House of Spirituality archives, 1901-1912": Research Notes in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, Vol. 2, no. 2 (April, 1998)

• Laura Barney Dreyfus' unpublished biographical notice on Hyppolyte Barney-Dreyfus (discovered and presented by Thomas Linard)

  
  

• Writings and Biographical Materials concerning Alain Locke, his philosophy, Baha'i and the Harlem Renaissance

  
  

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• History of the Green Acre Baha'i School

  
  

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• Suthers, A.E. "A Baha'i Pontiff in the Making." Moslem World, Volume 25, January 1935. Account of a meeting with Shoghi Effendi by a Christian missionary in the early 1930s.

  
  

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• Baha'i International Community Statement Archive

  
  

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• Statistics on the Baha'i Population of the United States in 1978-1979

  
  

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• Los Angeles Study Class Newsletters, 1976-1983

  
  

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• "The Censorship of Salmani's Memoirs by the Baha'i Authorities: Historical Documents from 1982." Vol. 6, no. 1 (February, 2002).

  
  

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• Dialogue Magazine, 1986-1988

  
  

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• "A Modest Proposal" (Nine-point proposal for improving the functioning of the U.S. Baha'i community, originally scheduled for publication in the Summer/Fall 1987 issue of Dialogue Magazine)

  
  

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• "The Service of Women on the Institutions of the Baha'i Faith" Typescript, 1988.

  
  

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• Psychiatrist cuts deal on sex assault charges (1994). Re: Hossain Danesh, formerly member, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada and then appointed by the Universal House of Justice as Director, Landegg Academy.

  
  

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• Talk of Dr. Peter Khan, Member, Universal House of Justice, given in Wilmette, Ill. on September 23, 1995.

  
  

• A Baha'i Academic strategizes on how to deal with Administrative Tyranny in the Baha'i Faith in the wake of the wrongful deprivation of David Langness's administrative rights, rejecting any action such as organizing that would be contrary to the covenant. 7 February 1996. (Message to majnun, sent accidentally to talisman@indiana.edu).

  
  

• Commentary on the 7 February, 1996, Majnun Posting by Juan Cole (11 Feb. 1999, Talk.Religion.Bahai).

  
  

• Steven Scholl, Critique of Baha'i Status Quo, May 15, 1996

  
  

• Letter of Counselor Stephen Birkland of Minneapolis, 16 July 1996, to a Baha'i Academic forcing him out of the Baha'i Faith for the statment of Liberal views on Email Networks, on Pain of being Shunned.

  
  

• Letter of Counselor Stephen Birkland of Minneapolis, 16 July 1996, to Steven Scholl, a Baha'i Intellectual and Publisher, forcing him out of the Baha'i Faith for the statment of Liberal views on Email Networks, on Pain of being Shunned.

  
  

• Reply of Steven Scholl to Birkland Letter, 11 December 1996

  
  

• Documents related to the Expulsion by the Universal House of Justice of Michael McKenny from the Baha'i Faith, July 25, 1997. McKenny is a Canadian fiction writer who edited for many years the little magazine, Bardic Runes, and who was a Baha'i for 25 years. At the time of his expulsion he had lent the Canadian National Spiritual Assembly 4,000ドル as an interest-free loan.

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• "Personal Statement on Baha'u'llah, 3 Years on." Soc.Religion.Bahai, 03/02/1999

• Archives of alt.religion.bahai 1998-1999 (now largely replaced by talk.religion.bahai)

• Dismissal of National Spiritual Assembly Chairman Judge James F. Nelson in April, 1999

• Commentary on a Letter of the Universal House of Justice Dated April 7, 1999, by Juan Cole

• Resignation of a Baha'i Scholar, 26 June, 1999, in Response to the UHJ letter of April 7, 1999.

• Commentary on a Letter of Douglas Martin regarding Juan Cole, via the BWC Secretariat, dated 27 June 1999.

• Letter of Douglas Martin regarding Modernity and the Millennium, via the BWC Secretariat, dated 3 August 1999.

• Commentary by J. Cole on passages of a Letter of Douglas Martin regarding Modernity and the Millennium, via the BWC Secretariat, dated 3 August 1999.

• Issues Pertaining to Growth, Retention and Consolidation in the United States A Report by the National Teaching Committee of the United States Dec. 12, 1999. (Contains many interesting statistics)

• A Brief History of Douglas Martin, Member, Universal House of Justice, Talisman9@onelist.com, 26 Jan. 2000.

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