Special Offers

For the Betterment of the World provides an illustration of the Bah?'? community's ongoing process of learning and action in the field of social and economic development.

Taraz'u'llah Samandari-The guiding light of teaching (Arabic)

Author: Abdel - Hussein Fikri

This is the biography of Hand of the Cause Taraz'u'llah Samandari in Arabic, an honorable life full of devotion and sacrifice, full of achievements and victories, and a strong will that never wavered.

A personal journey through heartbreak and reconstruction, filled with spirit and insight

All songs written and composed by Jacqueline Odess-Gillett

Scientists - mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, and chemists - study the laws that govern the universe; this book examines the laws that govern our relationship with the One who created the universe. This knowledge is sunshine for the soul. It is the greatest and most enduring source of joy and peace for every human being.

"The Bah?'i Faith and Nature are central to all that I do in my Poetry and Art" are the words of Timothy Crawford Wilson who has written poetry since high school and enjoys the process of using words and the excitement this process brings.

Women who changed the World (CD)

Inspirational stories for children (6-14 years old). It contains 9 biographical narratives of culturally and spiritually diverse women who stood up for their beliefs, took action, and had a huge impact on society.

Bahr-i-Pur Gawhar

A Survey of the Writings of Shoghi Rabbani in Persian

Ocean of Gems (Bahr-i-Pur Gohar), the last and immensely significant work of Mr. Hushmand Fatheazam was completed, due to his passing, by Dr. Shapour Rasekh. The book surveys and introduces the Beloved Guardian's Letters to the Bah?'i Community of Iran. The importance of these letters in the formation of the Bah?'? Administrative system and their implication in the expansion of the Bah?'? Faith in the early epochs of the Formative Age is highlighted and discussed.

IN PERSIAN

The Forgotten Schools

The Bah?'?s and Modern Education in Iran, 1899-1934

By Soli Shahvar; Translated by Hourivash Rahmani

Baran Publishers, Sweden, 2013; 518 pages

The author is the head of the School of Oriental and African Studies at Haifa University, Israel. He has written a number of books about the Bah?'? communities. This book treats the history of the emergence, development and dissolution of the modern schools established in Iran by the Bah?'?s during 1899-1934. The text consists of five chapters, 253 pages. The four appendices, actual pictures, notes, bibliography, and indexes cover the rest of book in 265 pages.

After recent events, Iran has returned to the forefront of global news. Its main religious minority is the Bah?'? Faith, born in the mid-19th century in that country. According to many connoisseurs of Iranian society and history, the Bah?'?s have proven to be, in a century and a half, the great social and moral force capable of modernizing and democratizing that country, cradle of one of the most splendid civilizations in history. Its followers, however, have been and continue to be victims of great atrocities.

Tras los acontecimientos recientes, Ir?n ha vuelto al primer plano de la actualidad mundial. Su principal minor?a religiosa es, despu?s del islam, la Fe Bah?'?, nacida a mediados del siglo XIX en ese pa?s. Seg?n muchos conocedores de la sociedad e historia iran?es, los bah?'?s han demostrado ser, en un siglo y medio, la gran fuerza social y moral capaz de modernizar y democratizar a ese pa?s, cuna de una de las civilizaciones m?s esplendorosas de la historia. Sus adeptos, sin embargo, han sido y siguen siendo v?ctimas de las mayores atrocidades por parte de la Rep?blica Isl?mica.

This book, edited by Dr. Vahid Rafati, contains the account of the renown Sh?h Khalil'u'll?h F?r?ni on the history of the inception and development of the Bah?'? Faith in the city of T?n-Ferdows, applauded by Bah?'u'll?h as F?r?n (Holy Spot where every Prophets received His Revelation-a holy spot wherein the divine attributes manifest), at the instruction of Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bah?'? Faith. The book also includes all the Tablets revealed by the Central Figures of the Faith to the Bah?'?s of F?r?n and to the family of Sh?h Khalil'u'll?h and his family.

IN PERSIAN