Abdul baha library (english and french section)
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A) books about Abdul Baha
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
by Moojan Momen
Written for possible inclusion in The Baha’i Encyclopedia.
http://bahai-library.com/momen_encyclopedia_abdulbaha
by Marzieh Gail
London: George Ronald, 1959
https://bahai-library.com/gail_sheltering_branch
compiled by Chad Jones.
Short descriptions of Abdu’l-Baha by Horace Holley, Louis Gregory, Howard Colby Ives, Wellesley Tudor Pole, E. G. Browne, Ali Yazdi, Florence Khan, Stanwood Cobb, and Albert Vail.
http://bahai-library.com/word_portraits_abdulbaha
LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF ABBAS EFFENDI
A STUDY OF THE RELIGION OF THE BASIS, OR BEHA’IS FOUNDED BY THE PERSIAN BAB AND BY HIS SUCCESSORS,
pdf old version 1912
The Oriental Rose:
The Teachings of Abdul Baha Which Trace the Chart of “The Shining Pathway”
by Mary Hanford Ford
Chicago: Baha’i Publishing Society, 1910
by Francis Henry Skrine
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1912
https://bahai-library.com/skrine_bahaism_religion_brotherhood
by Thornton Chase
New York: Baha’i Publishing Committee, 1933
Chicago: Baha’i Publishing Society, 1909
http://bahai-library.com/chase_bahai_revelation
Unity Triumphant:
The Call of the Kingdom
by Elizabeth Herrick
London: The Unity Press, 1925
London: Kegan Paul, 1923
https://bahai-library.com/herrick_unity_triumphant
by necati alkan
http://www.academia.edu/218954/Midhat_Pasha_and_Abdul-Baha_in_Akka
by Necati Alkan
published in Studies in Modern Religions: Religious Movements and the Babi-Baha’i Faiths, ed. Moshe Sharon, pages 253-274
Leiden: Brill, 2004
by Necati Alkan
published in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule, ed. Eyal Ginio and Yuval Ben Bassat, pages 260-278
London: I.B. Tauris, 2011
http://bahai-library.com/alkan_young_turks_palestine
A Compilation
compiled by National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the British Isles.
London: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1963
http://bahai-library.com/compilation_covenant_bahaullah_1963
A Study Guide to the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
by Adib Taherzadeh
http://www.bahai-library.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151%3Athe-child-of-the-covenant&catid=7%3Abahai-studies&Itemid=8
by Moojan Momen
1995
Written for possible inclusion in The Baha’i Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project. Mirrored with permission from http://www.momen.org/relstud.
http://bahai-library.com/momen_encyclopedia_covenant
A sketch of its promulgator [Ibrahim Kheiralla] and why afterwards denied his Master, Abbas Effendi
by Anton Haddad
http://bahai-library.com/haddad_outline_bahai_movement
by Anton Haddad
circa 1900 (date not verified)
some notes corrected by Abdu’l-Bahá in his own hand
by Abdel Karim Effendi Teherani
translated by Anton Haddad.
Chicago: Behais Supply and Publishing Board, 1900
http://bahai-library.com/teherani_addresses_new-york_chicago
by Paul Kingston Dealy
Published by
Bahá’í Publishing Society
Chicago, U. S. A. 1903
http://bahai-library.com/dealy_dawn_knowledge
The Life of Thornton Chase
by Robert Stockman
draft of a book later published as
Thornton Chase: The First American Bahá’í
(Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2001)
http://bahai-library.com/stockman_loves_odyssey_chase
by Thornton Chase
1902-09-27
http://bahai-library.com/chase_before_abraham_was
Title: A Heavenly Feast: Some Utterances of Abdul-Baha to Two American Pilgrims [Charles and Mariam Haney] in Acca, Syria, February 1909
The Pilgrimage of Louis G. Gregory
by Louse G. Gregory and Abdu’l-Bahá
Washington: R. L. Pendleton, 1911
http://bahai-library.com/gregory_heavenly_vista
by Muhammad Qazvini translated by Ahang Rabbani.
http://bahai-library.com/qazvini_abdulbaha_prominent_iranians
by Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield (Sitarih Khanum)
Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1940/1967
http://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway
I, Mary Magdalene
by Juliet Thompson
New York: Delphic Studios, 1940
http://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary
Portrayals from East and West
by Ali-Kuli Khan, John Bosch, and Louise Bosch
edited by Marzieh Gail.
http://bahai-library.com/gail_abdul-baha_portrayals
The City of the Covenant
by Eliane Lacroix-Hopson and Abdu’l-Baha
http://bahai-library.com/hopson_abdulbaha_new_york
Une sélection d’anecdotes sur la vie d’Abdu’l-Bahá
Traduction de courtoisie d’une sélection d’anecdotes
tirées du livre “Vignettes from the life of Abdu’l-Bahá”
An Introduction to the Divine Philosophy of Abdu’l-Baha
by Julio Savi
Oxford: George Ronald, 1989
http://bahai-library.com/savi_eternal_quest_god
Éditées par G. Faizi, traduit de l’anglais par Roland St-Onge, 2002
Mirza Mihdi:
The Purest Branch
by Boris Handal
George Ronald, 2017
Episodes in the Life of Munirih Khanum
by Munirih Khanum
translated by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab.
Los Angeles: Persian American Publishing Company, 1924
source: “The baha’i world” 1938-1940, page 259
Episodes de la vie de Munirih Khanum,
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/temoignage/munirih-khanum.htm
la bien-aimée femme d’Abdu’l-Baha.
– Extraits d’une Autobiographie –
Munirih Khanum:
Memoirs and Letters
by Munirih Khanum
translated by Sammireh Anwar Smith.
Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1986
http://bahai-library.com/munirih_khanum_memoirs_letters
Memories of Nine Years in Akka
by Youness Afroukhteh
translated by Riaz Masrour.
Oxford: George Ronald, 1952/2003
http://bahai-library.com/afroukhteh_nine_years_akka
Hippolyte Dreyfus, apôtre d’Abdu’l-Bahá
Hippolyte Dreyfus, apôtre d’Abdu’l-Bahá
Les sources des informations présentées dans ce livret sont les archives nationales des bahá’ís de France sur Laura Clifford Dreyfus Barney.
Publié par l’Assemblée Spirituelle Nationale des Bahá’ís de France
Rédigé par le comité pour l’histoire de la foi bahá’íe en France
Armindo PEDRO, Pascale et Eric Louvet
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/ouvrage/dreyfus/dreyfus_sommaire.htm
A Glimpse into the Life of Laura Dreyfus-Barney
by Mona Khademi
published in Lights of Irfan, Volume 10, pages 71-106
Wilmette, IL: Irfan Colloquia, 2009
http://bahai-library.com/khademi_life_laura_dreyfus-barney
My Visit to Abbas-Effendi in 1899, Margaret Bloodgood Peeke
by Margaret Peeke
edited by David Merrick
http://bahai-library.com/margaretpeeke_1899_abbaseffendi_visit
In His Presence:
Visits to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
by Roy Wilhelm, Stanwood Cobb, and Genevieve L. Coy
Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1989
http://bahai-library.com/wilhelm_cobb_his_presence
An Early Pilgrimage by May Maxwell
First published April 1917
This edition reprinted 1953
George Ronald Wheatley, Oxford
http://bahai-library.com/maxwell_early_pilgrimage
Mon premier pèlerinage
Souvenirs de May Maxwell
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/temoignage/premier-pelerinage-may-maxwell.htm
Kahlil Gibran:
Man and Poet
by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins
Oxford: Oneworld, 1998
http://bahai-library.com/bushrui_gibran_man_poet
Portals to Freedom
by Howard Colby Ives
Oxford: George Ronald, 1983
first written or published 1937
http://bahai-library.com/ives_portals_freedom
par Howard Colby IVES
Histoire de la rencontre entre un pasteur de l’Eglise Unitaire
et Abdu’l-Baha lors de son voyage en Amérique en 1912
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/ouvrage/voies-liberte/voies-liberte-sommaire.htm
Abdu’l-Baha in Abu-Sinan:
September 1914–May 1915
by Ahang Rabbani
published in Bahá’í Studies Review, 13, pages 75-103
Association for Baha’i Studies English-Speaking Europe, 2005
http://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan
Crown of Glory:
Memoirs of Jinab-i-Aziz’u’llah Azizi
by Aziz’u’llah Azizi
translated by Nahzy Abadi Buck and Christopher Buck.
North Vancouver, BC: 1991
http://bahai-library.com/azizi_crown_glory
Eight Years Near `Abdu’l-Bahá:
The Diary of Dr. Habíb Mú’ayyad
edited and translated by Ahang Rabbani.
published in Witnesses to Babi and Bahá’í History, vol. 3
2007
http://bahai-library.com/rabbani_diary_habib_muayyad
The Light of the World
by George Orr Latimer
Boston: self-published, 1920
http://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world
The Diary of Mirza ‘Isa Khan Isfahani
The Diary of Mirza ‘Isa Khan Isfahani
by Mirza `Isa Khan Isfahani
ranslated and edited by Ahang Rabbani.
published in Witnesses to Babi and Bahá’í History, vol. 11
http://bahai-library.com/isfahani_rabbani_with_abdul-baha
Writing on the Ground
by Wellesley Tudor Pole
London: Neville Spearman Ltd, 1968
http://bahai-library.com/pole_writing_ground
The Passing of Abdu’l-Baha
by Shoghi Effendi and Lady Blomfield
Haifa: Rosenfeld Bros., 1922
http://bahai-library.com/shoghieffendi_blomfield_passing_abdulbaha
Recollections of Abdu’l-Baha
by Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall
http://bahai-library.com/ives_mothers_stories_abdulbaha
compiled and edited by
Aziz Rohani
http://juxta.com/wp-content/uploads/sweet_enchanting_electronic.pdf
by Ali M. Yazdi
published in Bahá’í World, Vol. 18 (1979-1983), pages 907-11, out of 995 total pages
Haifa: Baha’i World Center, 1986
http://bahai-library.com/yazdi_bw18_memories_abdulbaha
Réminiscences of Khalíl Shahídí
Translated and Annotated by Ahang Rabbani
by Marzieh Gail
Oxford: George Ronald, 1987
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf
B) books of Abdul baha in the time of his father Baha’ullah
‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Commentary on The Islamic Tradition: “I Was a Hidden Treasure …”
introduced and translated by Moojan Momen
originally published in Baha’i Studies Bulletin 3:4 (Dec. 1985), 4-35
http://bahai-library.com/provisionals/hidden.treasure.html
Secret of Divine Civilization
by Abdul-Bahá
translated by Marzieh Gail.
original written in Persian.
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_secret_divine_civilization#F70
A Traveller’s Narrative:
Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb
by Abdu’l-Bahá
original written in Persian.
translated by E.G. Browne.
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_travellers_narrative
c) books tablets of Abdul Baha
La politique Auteur: Abdu’l-Baha, traduction de courtoisie de Hippolyte Dreyfus vers 1920
Avertissement aux dirigeants, comportements des politiques et leçons de l’histoire, liens sociaux et facteurs de stabilité
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/abd-politique.htm
ou
http://bahai-library.com/provisionals/siyasiyya.html#edn9
Le secret de la Civilisation Divine
Abdul Baha
http://www.religare.org/epub/ba/ba-civd.pdf
‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Description of His Father
by Abdu’l-Bahá
Bahá’í International Community, 2006
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_royal_family_description
by Abdu’l-Bahá
translated by Khazeh Fananapazir.
edited by Mehdi Wolf.
published in Makátib ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Volume 2, page 59
2001-04
originally written as “Tafsír-i-Áyát-i-Yuhanná”.
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_tafsir_ayat_yuhanna
`Abdu’l-Bahá’s Commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the Qur’ánic Sura 95 by Necati Alkan
published in Bahá’í Studies Review, 10, pages 115-126
London: Association for Baha’i Studies English-Speaking Europe, 2001
http://bahai-library.com/alkan_fig_olive
by Abdul-Bahá
Issued by National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada, 1944, from text received at 104 Wall Street, New York, February 25, 1922, addressed by the Guardian to “The Beloved of God and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the United States of America and Canada.”
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_will_testament
Centre de Resources Baha’ies Francophones
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/noyau/saint-TEST.htm
Abdu’l-Bahá
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_voluntad_testamento
La catastrophe du Titanic
Causerie d’Abdu’l-Baha – 23 avril 1912
Abdu’l-Baha, Promulgation of Universal Peace, pp 46-48
Chez M. et Mme Arthur J. PARSONS, 1700 Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/abd-catastrophe-titanic.htm
Tablets of the Divine Plan
by Abdu’l-Bahá
original written in Persian.
Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_tablets_divine_plan
Les tablettes du plan divin
Abdu’l Baha
ASN Canada-1981-ISBN 0-88867-010-9
http://www.religare.org/epub/ba/ba-plan.pdf
Tablettes additionnelles, Extraits et Causeries:
Tablettes supplementaires données par ‘Abdu’l-Bahá à ‘Akká
translated by Pierre Daoust.
edition 2020
https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_tablettes_supplementaires_daoust
Tablet to Auguste Forel
by Abdu’l-Bahá
published in Bahá’í World, Vol. 15 (1968-1973), pages pp. 37-43
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_tablet_auguste_forel
Lettre d’Abdu’l-Baha au Professeur Auguste Forel
Traduction révisée de Pierre Spierckel, approuvée par la
Commission de Traduction pour la Francophonie
Octobre 1997
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/lettre-abd-forel.htm
Tablets to The Hague
Two letters of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá written in response to letters addressed to Him by the Executive Committee of the Central Organization for a Durable Peace. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/tablets-hague-abdul-baha/
Tablets of Abdu’l-Baha:
Volumes 1-3
by Abdu’l-Bahá
original written in Persian and Arabic.
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_tablets_abdulbaha
Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Bahá
by Abdu’l-Bahá
original written in Persian.
Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_selections_writings_abdulbaha
by Abdul-Bahá
original written in Persian.
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_memorials_faithful
Mémorial des Fidèles
‘Abdu’l-Bahai
Anecdotes sur la vie exemplaire de 69 baha’is
(traduit de l’anglais par Arlette Ala’i)
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/memorial-des-fideles.htm
Tablet of Visitation from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to be read at the burial place of the heads of the martyrs of Nayriz, in Abadih
http://nayriz.org/template.php?pageName=tablet201&menuStates=000001001010000
From ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the Martyrs of Nayriz
Provisional Summary Translation
http://nayriz.org/template.php?pageName=tablx125&menuStates=000001001010000
Prières supplémentaires révélées par ʻAbdu’l-Bahá
(Traduction provisoire)Pierre Daoust
https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_prieres_supplementaires_daoust
c) Books of discours and talks of Abdul Baha
Some Answered Questions
by Abdu’l-Bahá
original written in Persian.
Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1990
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_some_answered_questions
Les leçons de Saint-Jean d’Acre
Edition: PUF, 5ième Edition 1982, ISBN 2-13-037588-X
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/noyau/saint-LECO.htm
The Life of Thomas Breakwell
by Rajwantee Lakshiman-Lepain
London: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1998
http://bahai-library.com/lakshiman-lepain_life_thomas_breakwell
La vie de Thomas Breakwell
Une étoile dans le firmament de Paris
Par Rajwantee LAKSHMAN-LEPAIN
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/temoignage/thomas-breakwell.htm
1906 Pilgrim Notes of Ali Kuli Khan
by Ali Kuli Khan
edited by David Merrick.
http://bahai-library.com/ali-khan_pilgrim-notes_1906
In Galilee and In Wonderland
by Arthur S. Agnew and Thornton Chase
http://bahai-library.com/chase_galilee_agnew_wonderland
Ten Days in the Light of Akka
by Julia M. Grundy
1907
http://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka
Grundy, Julia Margaret Kunkle, 1874.
Ten days in the light of Akká.
January 1908
by Helen S. Goodall and Ella Goodall Cooper
http://bahai-library.com/goodall_cooper_daily_lessons#10
Memories of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
ذكريات عن حضرة عبد البهاء
by Stanwood Cobb
Washington, DC: Avalon Press, 1962
http://bahai-library.com/cobb_memories_abdul-baha
by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Mírzá Ahmad Sohrab
Translated by Mírzá Ahmad Sohrab.
New York: J. H. SEARS & COMPANY Inc. for NEW
HISTORY FOUNDATION, 1929
by Abdul-Bahá
Abdu’l-Baha à Londres
Allocutions et notes de conversations
(traduit de l’anglais par Cyril Tirandaz)
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/abdulbaha-londres1.htm
In the Footstepsof‘Abdu’l-Bahá
The Master in the British Isles4 September 1911 – 3 October 1911
https://bahaidata.com/wp-content/uploads/NSA/NSA_publications/Abdul_Baha_centenary_booklets/In_footsteps_Abdul-Baha-1st_visit.pdf
In the Footstepsof‘Abdu’l-Bahá The Master in the British Isles13 December 1912 – 21 January 1913
https://bahaidata.com/wp-content/uploads/NSA/NSA_publications/Abdul_Baha_centenary_booklets/In_footsteps_Abdul-Baha-2nd_visit.pdf
Abdu’l-Bahá in Edinburgh
Sohrab’s Diary: 5 Jan 1913 – 10 Jan 1913
with additions, notes and appendices.
http://www.paintdrawer.co.uk/david/folders/spirituality/bahai/Sohrab%20Diary%20Edinburgh.pdf
by Abdul-Bahá
Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1972
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_paris_talks
Abdu’l-Baha’
http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/saint/noyau/saint-CABP.htm
by Abdul-BaháWilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_promulgation_universal_peace
The Diary of Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Zarqání Chronicling ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Journey to America
by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Zarqání
http://bahai-library.com/zarqani_mahmuds_diary
http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_drama_kingdom
Abdul Baha
Edition: MEB – 3ème édition 1984 – D/1984/1547/5
http://www.religare.org/epub/ba/ba-artd.htm
by Abdu’l-Bahá
compiled by Elizabeth Fraser Chamberlain.Boston, MA: Tudor Press, 1918
Baha’i Qotations
by Susan Gammage
http://susangammage.com/bahaiquotes/quotepage.php?Quotes%2FAbdu%27l-Baha+-+pictures+of
what a library!! pray that it will take more than a few centuries for the lessons to reach humanity~ Abdu’l-Baha received the message of Baha’u’llah on behalf of humanity and has never stopped reflecting and diffusing the Divine Light.
What about the book, “Lighting the Western Sky”: The Hearst Pilgrimage and the Establishment of the Baha’i Faith in the West?