Baha category: 97 books
The Baha'is of Iran
Socio-Historical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Baha’i community of Iran is the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. This collection of essays presents a comprehensive study of the social and historical development of the Baha’i community, and its role in shaping modern Iran.
Central to this study is the pioneering...
Baha'u'llah
A Short Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Worldwide in its membership and increasingly being recognized as a world religion, the Baha’i Faith is enjoying rapid expansion. In this captivating book, one of the world's leading Baha’i scholars gives a brief survey of the life, the works, and the teachings of Baha'u'llah, its founder. Covering...
by Eric Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
The Splendour Of God
by Eric Hammond
This is a short introduction to the Baha'i religion. It includes short but profound texts by the founders of the religion, including the Bab, Baha'u'llh and Abdul Baha (also known as Abbas Effendi). It includes a longer text, The Seven Valleys an allegorical...
Baha'u'llah and the New Era: An Introduction to the Bahai Faith
An Introduction to the Bahai Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Baha'u'llah and the New Era shines as the very best general introductory book about the Bahai Faith of its time, and remains today the most widely known and most used textbook of the Bahai Faith, having been translated into some 60 languages. In this compact work, Esslemont comprehensively yet succinctly...
God Speaks Again
An Introduction to the Bahai Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The Baha'i- Faith is a recognized independent world religion attracting increasing attention--and followers--in the U.S. and around the globe as people from all walks of life search for practical spiritual direction and meaning in these deeply troubled times. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the Baha'i-...
The Baha'i Faith
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this clear, readable, and informative guide, Momen provides a vibrant introduction to all aspects of the Baha’i Faith, which now has over 5.5 million adherents. From the spiritual development of the individual to the belief in the need for world peace, Momen’s comprehensive study gives anyone...
by Robert H. Stockman
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Abdul-Baha in America is the account of the journey of Abdul-Baha, eldest son of Bahaullah and appointed head of the Bahai Faith after his father’s passing, across much of the United States in 1912. His exhausting yet exhilarating 239-day trek from coast to coast took him to fifty cities and towns,...
The Development of the Babi/Baha'i Communities
Exploring Baron Rosen's Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Baron Rosen’s Babi/Baha’i archives presents private letters and diplomatic correspondence from the nineteenth century, preserved among the prominent Russian scholar Baron Victor Rosen’s materials in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch.
The materials cast...
175 Years of Persecution
A History of the Babis and Baha'is of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
For almost two centuries, followers of the Baha’i faith, Iran’s largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state. They have been made scapegoats for the nation’s ills, branded enemies of Islam and denounced as foreign agents. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Baha’is have been...
Champions of Oneness
Louis Gregory and his Shining Circle
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Champions of Oneness tells the story of outstanding Bahai teachers during the early years of the twentieth century (1898-1911). Nearly all of them had the fortune of meeting, at one time or another, Abdul-Baha--the son and appointed successor of Bahaullah, the Prophet and Founder of the Bahai Faith....
Prophet's Daughter: The Life and Legacy of Bahiyyih Khanum, Outstanding Heroine of the Bahai Faith
The Life and Legacy of Bahiyyih Khanum, Outstanding Heroine of the Bahai Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Prophet's Daughter is the first full-length biography of one of the greatest women in world religious history. Her towering spiritual strength offers readers an unrivaled model of sacrifice and service to one's faith. Born in Tehran, Bahiyyih Khanum (1846-1932) was the daughter of Baha'u'llah (1817-1892),...
The Baha'i Faith
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This authoritative account traces the Baha'i Faith from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Iran to the spiritual and social concerns of the present.
by Frederick Glaysher
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Twenty years in the making, in Letters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations,pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical...
by Eric Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
The Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories. The Splendour of God is a brief introduction...