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Articles & Essays
The Role of Public Institutions in Ensuring Social Well-Being
By Alex Vedovi
From the Editors
A Most Dramatic Chapter in the Spiritual History of Humankind
A Pictorial Essay
Introduction by Julio Savi
A Twofold Mission
Some Distinctive Characteristics of the Person and Teachings of the Báb
By Elham Afnan
Tales of Magnificent Heroism
The impact of the Báb and His followers on writers and artists
By Robert Weinberg
Replacing the Sword
with the Word
Bahá’u’lláh’s Concept of Peace
By Nader Saiedi
Begin with the Village
The Bahá’í Approach to Rural Development
By Paul Hanley
For the Betterment of the World, to the Glory of God
The Emergence of Bahá’í Houses of Worship
By Ann Boyles
Technology, Values, and the Shaping of Social Reality
By Matt Weinberg
Bonds that Sustain
Bahá’í Community-Building Efforts Through the Lens of Disaster Response
By Bani Dugal
Religion in an Ever-Advancing Civilization
This article, from the 2017 publication The Bahá’ís, explores the concept of religion—renewed by Bahá’u’lláh—in the Bahá’í teachings.
From The Bahá’ís publication
From the Archive
The Re-florescence of Historical Romance in Nabil
In this essay, first published in the 1932–1934 edition of The Bahá’í World, Mary Maxwell—later known as Amatu’l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, following her marriage to Shoghi Effendi in 1937—reflects on the dominant themes of The Dawn-Breakers; an early narrative of Bábí history authored by Nabil-i-A’zam.
By Amatu’l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum
From the Archive
The Mission of the Báb
Retrospective 1844-1994
This essay, from The Bahá’í World 1994-95 volume, considers the Revelation of the Báb in the context of its impact on Western writers of the period and its subsequent influence.
By Douglas Martin
From the Archive
Knowledge and Civilization
Implications for the Community
and the Individual
From the 1997-98 volume, this article explores the relationship between science and religion as two great systems of knowledge that have a vital social role to play in the building of a world civilization.
By Farzam Arbab