Baháʼí studies#Journals

• Association for Baháʼí Studies{{cite web |url= http://bahai-studies.ca/ |title= Association for Baháʼí Studies }} − founded in 1975, the ABS operates under the supervision of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Canada.
• Baháʼí Library Online{{cite web |url= http://bahai-library.com/ |title= Baháʼí Library Online }} − a private, independent, all-volunteer project created by Jonah Winters and a team of contributors.
• Baháʼí Reference Library − an agency of the Baháʼí International Community, hosts authorized writings of the religion.
• H-Bahai − part of H-Net, an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars, H-Bahai is a website making available a wealth of difficult-to-obtain primary sources on the religion.
• Irfan Colloquium
• Landegg International University − a now defunct university that operated from 1992 to 2003 under the aegis of the Baháʼí community of Switzerland
• Unity Museum is a boutique{{cite web

| url =http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs138/1101372674346/archive/1123475627506.html

| title =WA Baha'i History Museum ranked #2 best museum in Western Washington

| date =February 2016

| website =The U District Partnership Newsletter

| access-date = October 3, 2016}} tax-exempt non-profit member of the Washington Museum Association and American Alliance of Museums, separate from the formal organizational structure of the Baháʼí Faith, with its own board of directors, in Seattle, Washington, located near the University of Washington.

• Wilmette Institute − founded in 1995 as an educational endeavor of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, the Wilmette Institute provides on-line and on-site summer residential sessions.
• Mediathèque {{not a typo|Baha'ie}} Francophon

{{see also|Baháʼí literature}}

• Baháʼí Studies Bulletin, published 1982–1993, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Somewhat informal, yet prepared with full scholarly standards, the Baháʼí Studies Bulletin was edited, photocopied and distributed by Stephen Lambden, Professor of Religious Studies at University of Newcastle upon Tyne (said university not itself affiliated with the Bulletin). Contributors were university professors and other scholars, and the early years saw Bulletins that were a mixture of handwritten and typed articles (of varying layouts).{{cite journal |url=https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/023-bahai-studies-bulletin.pdf |journal=Baháʼí Studies Bulletin and Monographs, 1982-1993 (A single PDF of all volumes) |title=Mission Statement (?) (volume 3, issue 4, inner-cover/page 1) |page=522 |editor-first=Stephen |editor-last=Lambden |publisher=Stephen Lambden @ University of Newcastle upon Tyne |location=Newcastle upon Tyne}} Many of the contributors later appeared in the later, "more polished" journals listed here.
• Baháʼí Studies (a French-English bilingual publication, full name on the journal's cover is Études Baháʼí Studies)
• published 19?? to 1987, in Ottawa, by the Canadian Association for Studies on the Baháʼí Faith{{cite journal |url=https://bahai-library.com/lee_bahai_community_ishqabad |title=(for example) The Bahá'í Faith in Russia: Two Early Instances |journal=Études Baháʼí Studies | volume=5 |date=January 1979 |location=Ottawa |publisher=Canadian Association for Studies on the Baháʼí Faith |access-date=2020-10-10 |via=Bahá'í Library Online}}
• the Canadian association, and its journal, changed names in 1988 − see next bullet...
• The Journal of Baháʼí Studies (a French-English-Spanish trilingual publication)
• published since 1988, in Ottawa, by the Association for Baháʼí Studies (North America), an agency of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Canada.{{cite web |url=https://bahaistudies.ca/publications/ |title=The Journal of Baháʼí Studies |work=Association for Baháʼí Studies (North America) |publisher=National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Canada |access-date=2020-10-11}}
• Baháʼí Journal of the Baháʼí Community of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or Baháʼí Journal UK some issues of which were digitized and is preserved online.{{cite web |url=http://www.bahaijournal.org.uk/archives.htm |title=The Baha'i Journal UK - Index to issues published on-line |website=www.bahaijournal.org.uk |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209213354/http://www.bahaijournal.org.uk/archives.htm |archive-date=9 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://bahai-library.com/bahai_journal_united_kingdom|title = Bahá'í Journal of the United Kingdom}} Then the periodical was redone and called the UK Baha'i Journal.
• Baháʼí Studies Review
• H-Bahai Digital Publications Series − published by H-Bahai, consisting of Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies; Research Notes in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies; Documents on the Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Movements; and Translations of Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Primary Texts
• Irfan Colloquia, consisting of Safini-yi 'Irfán: Papers Presented at the ʻIrfán Colloquia (in Persian); Lights of ʻIrfán: Papers Presented at the ʻIrfán Colloquia and Seminars (in English), and Beiträge des 'Irfán-Kolloquiums: 'Irfán-Studien zum Baháʼí-Schrifttum (in German)
• UK Baha'i Review, various issues of which were digitized and is preserved online{{cite web |url=http://www.bahai.org.uk/uk_review/ |title=UK Bahá'í Review Spring 2005 |website=www.bahai.org.uk |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814192907/http://www.bahai.org.uk/uk_review/ |archive-date=14 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}
• World Order Magazine (published 1935–1949 and 1966–2002)[http://wilmetteinstitute.org/world-order-magazines-topical-index-now-available-on-the-wilmette-institute-website/ World Order Magazine's "Topical Index" Now Available on the Wilmette Institute Website], by Robert Stockman, Wilmetteinstitute.org, November 29, 2014

• Baha'i Chair for Studies in Development{{cite web |url= http://bahaichairdavv.org/|title= Baha'I Chair for Studies in Development |website= Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya |access-date= September 28, 2016}} − at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
• Baha'i Chair for World Peace{{cite web |url= http://www.bahaipeacechair.umd.edu/ |title= Bahai Chair for World Peace |website= University of Maryland |access-date= September 28, 2016 }} − at the University of Maryland, College Park in College Park, Maryland, United States of America.
• Chair in Baháʼí Studies{{cite web |url= http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/english/units.php?cat=3479&incat=0 |title= Moshe Sharon |author= |website= Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Faculty of Humanities, Chair in Baha'i Studies |access-date= September 28, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170202001936/http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/english/units.php?cat=3479&incat=0 |archive-date= February 2, 2017 |url-status= dead }} − at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Lecture Series in Baha'i Studies, Meir & Miriam Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, University of Haifa[http://gulfc2.haifa.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=8&id=61&Itemid=31 Lecture Series in Baha'i Studies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002145956/http://gulfc2.haifa.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=8&id=61&Itemid=31 |date=2016-10-02 }}, The Meir & Miriam Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel, October 1, 2016

A number of collections of Baháʼí related materials are preserved around the world. Some are maintained at universities; the Baháʼí World Center, especially at the Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts, the International Archives, and International Baháʼí Library, most National Baháʼí Assemblies and many local Baháʼí assemblies or institutions maintain their own archives.

• Ghassem Ghani[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gani- Ghassem Ghani], Iranica Online, by Abbas Milani, Originally Published: December 15, 2000 Collection, at Yale University,[http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=mssa:ms.0235&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes Ghassem Ghani collection], Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, 128 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520 1800–1900, 3.5 linear feet (1 box, 2 folios) in Persian.
• Jamshed & Parvati Fozdar Collection at the National Library of Singapore.[http://www.nlb.gov.sg/donors/jamshed-parvati-fozdar-collection/ Jamshed & Parvati Fozdar Collection], National Library of Singapore
• Baron Victor Rosen's collection in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch.[http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/p_wmo_2_2015_08_ioannesyan.pdf The St. Petersburg 19th c. Collection of Materials on the Babi and Bahaʼi Faiths: Primary and other Sources], Youli Ioannesyan, Institute of Oriental manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, July 10, 2015[http://irfancolloquia.org/54/ioannesyan_petersburg The St. Petersburg 19th Century Orientalist Collection of Materials on the Babi and Baha'i Faiths: Primary and Other Sources], by Ioannesyan, Y., in Lights of Irfan 7: 75-100, 2006
• Badiʼu'lláh and Muhammad Ali Bahaʼi Papers, 1901–1944, Burke Library Archives, Columbia University Libraries, Union Theological Seminary, New York[http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/burke/fa/mrl/ldpd_4492535.pdf Badiʼu'lláh and Muhammad Ali Bahaʼi Papers, 1901–1944], Burke Library Archives, Columbia University Libraries, Union Theological Seminary, New York
• Hurqalya Publications: Center for Shaykhī and Bābī-Bahāʼī Studies by Stephen Lambden, University of California, Merced.[http://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/ Hurqalya Publications: Center for Shaykhī and Bābī-Bahāʼī Studies] by Stephen Lambden, University of California, Merced

• US National Bahai Archives, for Louhelen Baháʼí School Library, and the National Baha'i Library, US[https://bnl.follettdestiny.com/common/welcome.jsp?context=saas16_1208724 Welcome to National Bahai Archives, US][http://wilmetteinstitute.org/catalog-for-the-national-bahai-library-now-available/ Catalog for the U.S. National Baháʼí Library Now Available], by Robert Stockman, December 31, 2014
• Eliot Baha'i Archives[http://eliotbahai.mainememory.net/page/2341/display.html Eliot Baha'i Archives] associated with Green Acre Baháʼí School
• Los Angeles Baha'i Archives on Facebook,[https://www.facebook.com/Los-Angeles-Bahai-Archives-600786379946901/ Los Angeles Baha'i Archives] on Facebook and YouTube.[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq8f_v7hEL8usKhR43QwwfA Los Angeles Baha'i Center]
• Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Washington, D.C. Archives[https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/bow.html Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Washington, D.C. Archives], Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, Humanities & Social Sciences division, Library of Congress
• Afnan Library, collection is the books, manuscripts and papers left by the late Hasan Balyuzi and others, located in Sandy near Cambridge, United Kingdom.[http://news.bahai.org/story/1040 Outstanding collection of Baha'i literature finds permanent home], Baháʼí World News Service, 15 February 2015.[http://www.afnanlibrary.org Afnan Library Online]

A number of venues exist for publishing materials related to the Baháʼí Faith.{{cite web

| url =http://bahai-library.com/books/rg/rg.publishers.html

| title =Publishing Houses and Journals

| date =2016

| website = Bahai-library.com

| access-date =October 3, 2016}} Many national assemblies have their own publishing trust and there are a few publishing houses that run more or less independently. Among them are:

• BahaiBookStore.com[http://www.bahaibookstore.com/ BahaiBookStore.com] the Baháʼí Distribution Service acting as an agency of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States
• BahaiBooksUK is the publishing trust of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United Kingdom.[http://www.bahaibooks.org.uk/PBCPPlayer.asp?ID=1212825 About Us], BahaiBooks.org.uk
• BahaiBooks is the publishing trust of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Australia, founded in 1976.[http://www.bahaibooks.com/aboutus About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005071344/http://www.bahaibooks.com/aboutus |date=2016-10-05 }}, Baha'i Publications Australia
• Baha'i Publishing Trust of India.[http://www.bahaipublishingtrust.in/ Baha'i Publishing Trust, New Delhi, India]
• Oneworld Publications[https://oneworld-publications.com/ Oneworld Publications] founded in 1986 in the UK[https://oneworld-publications.com/about About Us] has published Baha'i books.[https://oneworld-publications.com/books/non-fiction/religion/baha-i.html Baha'i books] on Oneworld Publications
• Kalimát Press[http://www.kalimat.com/ Kalimát Press] is a small, privately owned Baha'is publishing company.
• Baháʼí Encyclopedia Project was also established by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States for invited scholars to contribute scholarly articles.[http://www.bahai-encyclopedia-project.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=56 Baháʼí Encyclopedia Project], About

Starting in the earliest days of Bábísm, viewed by Baháʼís as the predecessor to their own religion,{{cite book

| author=Christopher Buck | editor1=Moshe Sharon | editor2= W. J. Hanegraaff |editor3=P. Pratap Kumar

| title =Studies in Modern Religions and Religious Movements and the Babi/Baha'i Faiths

|chapter=The eschatology of globalization: the multiple-messiahship of Baháʼulláh revisited

| chapter-url=http://christopherbuck.com/pdf/Buck_2004_Globalization.pdf

| publisher =Brill Academic Publishers

| series =Mumen Book Series, Studies in the history of religions

| volume =CIV

| date =August 2004

| pages =143–173

| url =https://www.questia.com/library/117757165/studies-in-modern-religions-and-religious-movements

| isbn = 9789004139046 }} scholarship on the religion has been produced.{{citation | last = Momen | year = 1981 | first = Moojan | title = The Babi and Baha'i Religions, 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts | location = Oxford, England |publisher = George Ronald | isbn = 978-0-85398-102-2}}

While there were previous Iran or near-Iranian sources of scholarship of the religion in early periods, wide-ranging publications covering mostly western literature include Moojan Momens' 1981 The Babi and Baha'i Religions, 1844–1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts, William Collins' 1992 Bibliography of English-language works on the Bábí and Baháʼí faiths, 1844–1985,{{cite book|author=William P. Collins|title=Bibliography of English-language works on the Bábí and Baháʼí faiths, 1844–1985|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixMZAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1990|publisher=G. Ronald|isbn=978-0-85398-315-6}} and MacEoin's annotated bibliography borrowing heavily from Collins' work.{{cite web | last = MacEoin | first = Denis| title = The Babi and Baha'i Religions: An Annotated Bibliography | publisher = Greenwood Press's ongoing series of Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies | url =http://bahai-library.com/maceoin_annotated_bibliography| accessdate = October 3, 2016 }} There is also the Resource Guide for the Scholarly Study of the Baháʼí Faith by Robert Stockman and Jonah Winters published in 1997,[http://bahai-library.com/stockman_winters_resource_guide Resource Guide for the Scholarly Study of the Baháʼí Faith], by Robert Stockman and Jonah Winters, Wilmette, IL: Research Office of the Baháʼí National Center, 1997 focusing more on later works. Mostly these works explicitly ignored newspaper accounts.

A wide variety of accounts, encounters and investigations began to circulate outside of Persia as events began to unfold from the Spring of 1844 with the Declaration of the Báb. Initially viewed as an Iranian development and often through Christian missionary perspectives, the growth of religion{{cite book| last =Johnson| first =Todd M. |author2=Brian J. Grim | title =The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography |chapter =Global Religious Populations, 1910–2010 |publisher =John Wiley & Sons| date =26 March 2013| pages =59–62| chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=CkFVF8nFiqkC&pg=PA59|doi =10.1002/9781118555767.ch1| isbn = 9781118555767}} would soon far transcend that limited perspective.

• Diplomatic reports on Bábí activities begins January 8, 1845 concerning the fate of Mullá ʿAli-e Bastāmi. These were exchanges between Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet who wrote first to Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe.
• Newspaper accounts in the West began November 1, 1845, in The Times of London.{{Cite journal |author=Robert Cadwalader|journal=World Order|title="Persia": An Early Mention of the Báb|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUYlAQAAIAAJ&q=An+Early+Mention+of+the+Báb+eclectic+1845|accessdate=October 2, 2016|year=1977}} Followed November 15 by the Literary Gazette[https://books.google.com/books?id=UcdLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA757 "Mahometan Schism"], Literary Gazette, November 15, 1845, p. 757, 1st column, below middle which was subsequently echoed widely.for example see:
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023200/1846-02-19/ed-1/seq-4.pdf "Mahomedan Schism"], Vermont Watchman and State Journal, February 19, 1845, p. 4, second column, top
• [https://aadl.org/signalofliberty/SL_18460223-p3-06 "Mahometan Schism"], Signal of Liberty, p. 3, center top of full page view
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=4MIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA142 "Mahometan Schism"], The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January/February 1846, p. 142, bottom left then top of right columns
• [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016957/1846-04-04/ed-1/seq-1.pdf "A modern Mahomet"], Boon's Lick Times, April 4, 1846, p. 1, fourth column, halfway down
• [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31747707 "Mahometan Schism"], Morning Chronicle, April 4, 1846, p. 4, 5th column, top, as highlighted
• [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71604390 "Mahometan Schism"], South Australian, April 7, 1846 p. 3, bottom of second column, top of next, as highlighted
• [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27452599 "Persia"], South Australian Register, April 11, 1846, p. 3, 5th column near bottom, as highlighted
• [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZSCSG18460715.2.11 "Mahometan Schism"], New Zealand Spectator Cook's Strait Guardian, July 15, 1846, p. 3, near bottom of text selection This earliest coverage does not mention the Báb − instead it covers an episode related in The Dawn-Breakers, as first noted in a book by Hasan M. Balyuzi.{{cite book|author=Hasan M. Balyuzi|author-link=Hasan M. Balyuzi|title=The Báb: The Herald of the Day of Days|date=31 January 1973|publisher=G. Ronald|isbn=978-0-85398-054-4}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=sUYlAQAAIAAJ&q=London+Times "Persia": An Early Mention of the Báb], by Robert Cadwalader, World Order vol Winter 1976–77, pp. 30-34 Subsequent newspaper accounts occurred across Europe.* {{cite journal

| author= Amin Egea

| title =A preliminary survey of the press references to the Bábi and Baháʼí religions 1844–1932

| journal =Irfan Colloquia

| volume =69

| date =July 7–10, 2006

| language =it

| url =http://irfancolloquia.org/69/egea_press

| access-date = October 2, 2016}}

• {{Cite journal

| author1=Amín E. Egea

| title =Early References to the Bábi and Baháʼí Religions in Spain

| journal =Irfan Colloquia

| volume =48

| date =July 10, 2003

| url =http://irfancolloquia.org/48/egea_chronicles1

| access-date = October 2, 2016 }}

• A number of articles were printed in 1848–9 in Journal de Constantinople in French near the time Battle of Fort Tabarsi. Before that in June 1848 a letter from May 1 was summarized.[http://bahai-library.com/pdf/journal-de-constantinople/ocr-ed_pdfs/1848/journal_constantinople_1848-06-21_p1.pdf D'apres notre correspondance de Perse, datée de Teheran, 1 mai…(pt 1)], Journal de Constantinople, June 21, 1848, p. 1, far right below middle[http://bahai-library.com/pdf/journal-de-constantinople/ocr-ed_pdfs/1848/journal_constantinople_1848-06-21_p2.pdf D'apres notre correspondance de Perse, datée de Teheran, 1 mai…(pt 2)], Journal de Constantinople, June 21, 1848, p. 2, top left A series in March 1849 followed,* [http://bahai-library.com/pdf/journal-de-constantinople/ocr-ed_pdfs/1849/journal_constantinople_1849-03-24_p1.pdf Nouvellees de Perse], Journal de Constantinople, March 24, 1849, p. 1, bottom fourth column, above middle
• [http://bahai-library.com/pdf/journal-de-constantinople/ocr-ed_pdfs/1849/journal_constantinople_1849-03-29_p1.pdf Aux détails sur la Perse…], Journal de Constantinople, March 29, 1849, p. 1, bottom second column, top third and another appeared separately in April in the Revue de l'Orient.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k106650d/f276.highres second part of "'Perse'." Revue de l'Orient (Paris) 5 (2ème serie 1849) page 264] Momen believes this article in Revue de l'Orient to be from Dr. Ernest Cloquet. These accounts name the Báb. Accounts followed in English and French.* "Turkey", Morning Post, 12 April 1849, p. 7, 1st column, near middle
• "Persia", London Daily News, 23 April 1849, p. 5, 4th column, near top
• "The Levant Mail", Glasgow Herald, 7 May 1849, p. 2, 2nd column, below middle
• 1850 newspaper accounts mention the Báb having a "holy book",* "Persia", London Standard, 7 June, p. 3, 2nd column, near bottom
• "Persia", London Daily News, 21 June 1850, p. 4
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/london-st-james-chronicle-whiteltall-and-general-evening-post/1850/07-16/page-2 Turkey], London St James Chronicle Whiteltall And General Evening Post, July 16, 1850, p. 2, 5th col, above bottom
• [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1850-01-01/1851-12-31?basicsearch=%2Bpersia%20%2Bbab&freesearch=persia%20bab&contenttype=article%2Cillustrated%2Cmiscellaneous&sortorder=dayearly&page=0 (unreadable title)], Morning Post, London, England, 18 July 1850, p. 5 and was followed through the Fall of 1850,* [https://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/london-magnet/1850/08-05/page-6 A new religious sect], London Magnet, August 5, 1850, p. 6, 2nd col, above bottom
• Two at [http://bahai-library.com/1850_brief_reports Early mention of Bábís in western newspapers, summer 1850], Church and State Gazette, Middlesex, London, 1850-07-19, p. 3 and Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Pennsylvania, 1850-08-21, p. 3
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2088590/babibahai_history_babi_faith_echoed/ A new religious sect], Pittsburgh Daily Post, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 21 August 1850, Page 2
• [http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/New%20York%20NY%20Sabbath%20Recorder/New%20York%20NY%20Sabbath%20Recorder%201850-1853/New%20York%20NY%20Sabbath%20Recorder%201850-1853%20-%200038.pdf New Religious Sect], The Sabbath Recorder, August 22, 1850, p. 38, 6th col, down from top
• [http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%206/New%20York%20NY%20Tribune/New%20York%20NY%20Tribune%201850%20May%20-%20Aug%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Tribune%201850%20May%20-%20Aug%20Grayscale%20-%200675.pdf A new religious sect…], New York Daily Tribune, August 7, 1850, p. 6, 2nd col, bottom
• [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k106653j/f128.highres Perse, Revue de l'Orient, (Paris) August 1850, page 124]
• [http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201850%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201850%20Grayscale%20-%200864.pdf New Sect], Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 12, 1850, p. 2, 3rd col., mid
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2088567/babibahai_history_babi_faith_noted/ A Persian has formed…], Oshkosh Democrat, (Oshkosh, Wisconsin), 22 November 1850, Page 2
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=lLYOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA619 New Sect in Persia Allens], Indian Mail, London, UK, October 21, 1850, p. 19
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/allens-indian-mail/1850/10-21/page-19?tag=persia+rifles&rtserp=tags/persia-rifles?ndt=bd&pd=1&pm=7&py=1850&pe=1&pem=1&pey=1851 New Sect in Persia Allens], Indian Mail, London, UK, October 21, 1850, p. 19 and as far as Australia and New Zealand late in the year.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4765857 English News], The Argus, (Melbourne, Victoria), 4 November 1850, page 2, 3rd column (scroll up and over from the opening of the page)
• [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36267542 English Extracts], Launceston Examiner, (Tasmania), 23 November 1850, page 5, near beginning of selection]
• [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article687889 Extracts from our own previous files], The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, (NSW), 30 November 1850, page 4, far right end of selection, last section
• The first paper on the religion was as a letter dated February 10, 1851 by Dr. Rev. Austin H. Wright to the American Oriental Society, then holding its meetings in Boston and published by the society June 14, 1851,{{cite journal

| title =American Oriental Society

| journal =The Literary World

| volume =8

| issue =228

| page = 470

| date =June 14, 1851

| id ={{ProQuest|90101699}}

}}{{subscription required|s}} It was also published in a Vermont newspaper June 26, 1851,{{cite news

| author =Austin H. Wright |editor =Daniel Pierce Thompson

| title =A New Prophet

| newspaper = Green Mountain Freeman

| location =Montpelier Vermont

| pages =1

| date =June 26, 1851

| url =http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023209/1851-06-26/ed-1/seq-1.pdf

| accessdate = March 12, 2015}} and in a German newspaper in 1851 translated by his superior, Rev. Justin Perkins. It was also published in a South Carolinian newspaper in June 1865 on the front page.{{cite news

| title =Bab - A curious history

| newspaper =The Daily Phoenix

| location =Columbia, South Carolina

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• In 1852 there was a clumsy fringe{{cite journal | last =Momen | first = Moojan | s2cid = 143581508 | title =Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852 | journal =Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions | volume =12 | issue =1 | pages =57–82 | date =August 2008 | jstor =10.1525/nr.2008.12.1.57 | doi =10.1525/nr.2008.12.1.57 }} attempted assassination of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. Various aspects of the events that unfolded were reported in newspapers in the West over a period of time and referred to back in time occasionally. Mention occurs in a hard to find very early Persian newspaper,[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.akhbar-rooz.com%2Farticle.jsp%3FessayId%3D47104&edit-text= (Google Translate) "Baha'i Babi - and discrimination in the historiography"], by B. Masoumian, akhbar-rooz.com, August 5, 2012 while Western papers begin October 1852."Persia", Morning Chronicle, p. 14, October 1, 1852 The French {{Lang|fr|Journal des débats politiques et littéraires}}, 30 October 1852, citing the Journal de Constantinople of 14 Oct had a story mentioning the event.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4496262 Des Nouvelles de Perse], Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 30 October 1852, page 1, 3rd column, halfway down This French entry in late October mentions some 400 Bábís being executed. By December coverage is talking about 20,000 or 30,000 being executed.[http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=%22babs%20was%20awful%2C%20and%20that%2020%2C000%20or%2030%2C000%22&phrasesearch=%22babs%20was%20awful%2C%20and%20that%2020%2C000%20or%2030%2C000%22&sortorder=score&o=date&d=asc "Turkey"], London Standard, 20 December 1852, p. 3, 3rd column, section on the Bab above middle, {{subscription required}} to view original site requires fee unless accessed "in premises owned or operated by the British Library, or within a premises subscribed to The British Newspaper Archive Community Edition" Comparisons with Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome were made decades later.[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18740214.2.34 The Shah of Persia], Sacramento Daily Union, 14 February 1874, p. 4, 4th col
• A number of articles report Bábís west of Iran, in "Syria", in June 1853.* [https://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/church-and-state-gazette/1853/06-03/page-9 Poetical Rebellions], Church And State Gazette, June 3, 1853, London, Middlesex, p. 9, at the end of the article, right col, below top
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/atlas-london-middlesex/1853/06-04/page-3 Foreign Miscellany] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012223940/http://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/atlas-london-middlesex/1853/06-04/page-3 |date=2016-10-12 }}, Atlas, June 4, 1853, London, Middlesex, p. 3
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/344122/babibahai_history/ A New Religion], The Zanesville Courier, (Zanesville, Ohio), 18 June 1853 • Page 2
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/344126/babibahai_history/ (untitled)] The Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, Louisiana), 20 June 1853 • Page 1
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/344136/babibahai_history/ (untitled)], The Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, Louisiana), 21 June 1853, p. 4
• Henry Aaron Stern (1820–1885) wrote a book that mentions "Baba, the Persian socialist" for a couple pages in 1854.{{cite book|author=Henry Aaron Stern|title=Dawnings of light in the East|url=https://archive.org/details/dawningsoflighti00steruoft|year=1854|publisher=Purday|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dawningsoflighti00steruoft/page/261 261]–262}}
• Glimpses of Life and Manners in Modern Persia was published in London in 1856 by Mary Sheil and Sir Justin Sheil and on pp. 176–81, 273-82 made mention of events in 1849–1852.{{cite book|author1=lady Mary Leonora Woulfe Sheil|author2-link=Sir Justin Sheil|author2=Sir Justin Sheil|title=Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia|url=https://archive.org/details/glimpseslifeand00sheigoog|year=1856|publisher=J. Murray|pages=[https://archive.org/details/glimpseslifeand00sheigoog/page/n204 176]–81, 273–82}}
• :De:Julius Heinrich Petermann was in Baghdad 1854–55 and was a professor of oriental literature in Berlin. In 1861 his work Reisen im Orient published an article "Achtzehntes Kapital/Aufenthalt in Bagdad" − which mentions Bábís briefly in one paragraph.[https://books.google.com/books?id=0mxCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA282 ""Bagdad. Babi's. Strassen. Häuser"], Reisen I'm Orient, Volume 2, by Julius Heinrich Petermann, published by Veit, 1861, p. 282
• In 1865 the Dr. Jakob Eduard Polak published his first hand account of the attempted assassination of Shah in Das Land und seine Bewohner. It includes a significant witnessing of the death of Tahirih.[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_WBBOAAAAcAAJ Das Land und seine Bewohner] which has been translated [http://www.paintdrawer.co.uk/david/folders/Research/Bahai/Tahirih/Martyrdom%20of%20Tahirih%20(Dr%20Jakob%20Eduard%20Polak).htm here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000259/http://www.paintdrawer.co.uk/david/folders/Research/Bahai/Tahirih/Martyrdom%20of%20Tahirih%20(Dr%20Jakob%20Eduard%20Polak).htm |date=2016-03-04 }} In 1865 two more significant works are produced. First, Frenchman Arthur de Gobineau wrote the first widely published and relatively extensive history of the religion. A third edition was printed in 1900 covering approximate pages 141-358 (217 pages) on the Bábí Faith.[https://archive.org/details/lesreligionsetle03gobiuoft Les religions et les philosophies dans l'Asie centrale], by Comte de Arthur Gobineau, 3rd edition It was the basis of much follow-up interest and accounts followed by others.{{cite journal | last = Dean-Deibert | first = Margaret | title =Early Journalistic Reactions to the Baháʼí Faith: 1845–1912 | journal = World Order | issue = Summer 1978 | pages =17–27 | date =1978 }} The work, while not very good did serve to get other scholars to follow along in their interests.[http://bahai-library.com/bab_nicolas_terry_proofs Preface], The Work of A.L.M. Nicholas (1864–1937), from The Seven Proofs, by The Báb, translated by A.L.M. Nicolas and Peter Terry.[http://bahai-library.com/momen_encyclopedia_browne Browne, Edward Granville] by Moojan Momen The second was by Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek who published the first book as such under the pseudonym "Mirza Kazem-Beg" albeit in Russian.[http://bahai-library.com/momen_encyclopedia_scholarship_survey Baha'i Faith, Scholarship on], by Moojan Momen, 1999? He joined the American Oriental Society (see above) in 1851.[http://unesco.mfa.gov.az/content/38 The list of anniversaries of historic events and of eminent personalities celebrated by the Republic of Azerbaijan with which UNESCO is associated], Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan to UNESCO In 1866 a version of his work was then published in French by him − Bab et les Babis − as 219 pages across several editions of the Journal Asiatique.Momen notes them in April–May, June, August–September and October–November. See:
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=D_01AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA329 Bab et les Babis], Journal asiatique, Publisher Société asiatique, April–May 1866, pp. 329–384.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=D_01AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA457 Bab et les Babis], Journal asiatique, Publisher Société asiatique, June 1866, pp. 457–522.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=aWZ_fgU8GlQC&pg=PA196 Bab et les Babis], Journal asiatique, Publisher Société asiatique, August–September 1866, pp. 196–252.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=aWZ_fgU8GlQC&pg=PA357 Bab et les Babis], Journal asiatique, Publisher Société asiatique, October–November 1866, pp. 357–400. Abbas Amanat notes a correction of Kazembek attempt at a biographical workup of the Báb{{cite book | last =Amanat | first = Abbas | author-link =Abbas Amanat | title =Resurrection and renewal: the making of the Babi movement in Iran, 1844-1850 | publisher =Cornell University Press | series =G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year = 1989 | url =https://archive.org/details/resurrectionrene00aman | url-access =registration | isbn = 978-0-8014-2098-6 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/resurrectionrene00aman/page/110 110] }} Additionally the 1865 edition of the American Annual Cyclopedia had an entry on "Persia" and on p. 696 includes a paragraph on Bábís.[https://books.google.com/books?id=SCUNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA696 "Persia"] (latter part of), The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events …: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry, published by D. Appleton, 1866, p. 696 And Adolphe Francksee [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6273-franck-adolphe Adolphe Franck], Jewish Encyclopedia wrote two papers in French printed in back to back issues of Journal des Savants − Nov[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54673t/f666.image.langEN "Premie article" as a review of Gobineau], by Adolphe Franch, in Journal des Savants, Nov, 1865, pp. 665–681. and Dec[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54673t/f768.image "Deuxième et Dernier Article" as a review of Gobineau], by Adolphe Franch, in Journal des Savants, Dec, 1865, pp. 767–787. 1865 − which reviewed Gobineau's works on "Babysm". Lastly, John Ussher published a memoir in 1865 based on notes of his travels in 1861 named A Journey from London to Persepolis with a few pages mentioning Bábí/Baháʼí events.{{cite book|author1=John Ussher|title=A Journey from London to Persepolis|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40681|year=1865|publisher=Hurst and Blackett|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40681/page/n711 627]–629}}
• In 1866 British diplomat Robert Grant Watson published a history of the first 58 years of the 19th century of Persia and included 16 pages on Bábí/Baháʼí events.[http://bahai-library.com/watson_history_persia_1858 A History of Persia from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1858] by Robert Grant Watson, pages 347-352, 385-393, 407-410, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1866[https://archive.org/stream/ahistorypersiaf00grangoog#page/n363/mode/2up A History of Persia from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1858] by Robert Grant Watson, 1866. Frenchman Ernst Renan wrote The Origins of Christianity: The apostles in 1866 of which pages 299–301, 353 examines the Bábís through Gobineau and Kazembek and an attempt a first hand contact in Constantiniople.[https://books.google.com/books?id=V7MLR8OBo_YC&pg=PA299 The Origins of Christianity: The apostles], Volume 2 of The Origins of Christianity, by Ernest Renan, Publisher Carleton, 1866,
  see also [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1898-09-11/ed-1/seq-22.pdf Under "Some New Books", "vi"], The Sun, New York New York, September 11, 1898, p. 22, 5th column near bottom to 6th column top The Nation published an article "A New Religion" in June.[https://books.google.com/books?id=GRMcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA793 A New Religion], The Nation, June 22, 1866, vol 2, no 59, pp. 793–795 It starts by mention of Renan's work and then focuses on Gobineau's account. A review of Gobineau in The Methodist Quarterly Review was published in July.[https://books.google.com/books?id=-7YRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467 "Foreign Intelligence… France"], The Methodist Quarterly Review, 3rd paragraph, p. 467, July, 1866
• William Hepworth Dixon published a travel book with a history with commentary which mentions the Báb and "Babees" on several pages in 1867.[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acp3126.0001.001 New America], By William Hepworth Dixon. With illustrations from original photographs, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & co., 1867, pp. 188, 191 Adolphe Franck wrote Philosophie et Religion in 1867, a chapter of which − chapter vi, "Une Nouvelle Religion en Perse" − significantly reviews "Babysm", mostly based on Gobineau.[https://archive.org/stream/philosophieetre01frangoog#page/n303/mode/2up "Une Nouvelle Religion en Perse"], by Adolphe Franck, in Philosophie et Religion, pp. 281–340, 1867, published by Didier et Co., Libraires–Editeurs. Oriental Mysticism, by Edward Henry Palmer, mentioned the Báb in a footnote on page 44, following Kazembek.{{cite book|author=E. H. Palmer|title=Oriental Mysticism 1867|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/omy/omy16.htm#fr_27 |date=1 February 2003|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|isbn=978-0-7661-4456-9|pages=43–44}}
• In 1868 "'Le Babysme'" by Michel Nicolas in Le Temps* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k223594v/f3.image "'Le Babysme'."] by Michel Nicolas, Le Temps (Paris) (14 August 1868), p.3, col.2
• [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k223598c/f3.image "'Le Babysme'."] by Michel Nicolas, Le Temps (Paris) (19 August 1868), p.3, col.3
• [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k223599r/f3.image "'Le Babysme'."] by Michel Nicolas, Le Temps (Paris) (20 August 1868), p.3, col.2{{cite web | last = MacEoin | first = Denis | title = Babi history| work = The Babi and Baha'i Religions: An Annotated Bibliography | publisher = Greenwood Press's ongoing series of Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies | url =http://bahai-library.com/books/biblio/babi.history.html | accessdate = Oct 2, 2016 }} Other mentions that year include "BABYSME" in l'Annuaire encyclopédique of some 15 pages by "Al Bonneau",[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57385563/f136.image "BABYSME"] in l'Annuaire encyclopédique, 1868, p. 256–271 and in the Universal History of Catholicism an article on Islam mentions Bábís.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5819690g/f34.image.langEN "L'Islamisme"], of the "Annales Ecclesiastiques", by the Histoire Universaelle de L'Eglise Catholique ed by Abbe Rohrbacher, 1867/1868, pp. 18–20. On page 19-20 there is some discussion of the Bab, etc.
• In 1869 Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch published followed the work of Renan.Studies in the evidences of Christianity (1869) by Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch out of Boston, pp. 129 – 140.[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924031235546#page/n141/mode/2up/search/babism Babism], Studies in the evidences of Christianity, 1869, pp. 129 – 140 Then Edward Payson Evans wrote "Bab and Babism" for the magazine Hours at Home[https://books.google.com/books?id=buERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA210 "Bab and Babism"] (with gap(s)), Evans, E.P., Hours at Home, Jan 1869, Vol 8 (Nov 1868 to April 1869), published by Charles Scribner & Company, pp. 210–222 Then Rev. Edwin Blisssee [http://www.usgennet.org/family/bliss/bios/vt/edwin.htm Edwin Bliss] wrote "Bab and Babism" in the Missionary Herald.* {{cite journal|title=Bab and Babism|journal= The Missionary Herald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AJEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA146|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1869|pages=145–148}} Leo de Colange's 1869 Zell's Popular Encyclopedia included a 2-page entry on the religion named "Babism".[https://books.google.com/books?id=VwFQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA190 "Babism"], Zell's Popular Encyclopedia: A Universal Dictionary of English Language, Science, Literature, and Art, Volume 1, p. 190–192 It was published in the June 23 Daily Evening Telegraph, of Philadelphia, p. 6[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025925/1869-06-23/ed-1/seq-6.pdf Daily Evening Telegraph], June 23, 1869, in Philadelphia, p. 6 Another repeat appeared July 17 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5730632/zells_new_encyclopedia_article_on/ Babism], Green Bay Weekly Gazette (Green Bay, Wisconsin)17 Jul 1869, Sat • Main Edition • Page 1 "A New Religion" was published in All the Year Round, anonymously,{{cite journal

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| accessdate = April 29, 2013}} which was echoed in the Brooklyn Eagle, August 3, 1869, page 1.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2077084/babibahai_profile_originally_from/ A New Religion], Brooklyn Eagle, August 03, 1869, Page: 1 The Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu Oahu, Hawaii, Sept 8, 1869, p. 4, had a 3 paragraph summary on the religion.[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1869-09-08/ed-1/seq-4.pdf "A New Religion"], The Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu Oahu, Hawaii, Sept 8, 1869, p. 4, 4th column, from middle Robert Arbuthnot wrote an article for the Contemporary Review.{{cite book|title=Contemporary Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXtKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA581|accessdate=4 April 2013|year=1869|publisher=Review|pages=581–601}} Meanwhile, Annee Philosophique − Études Critiques Sur Le Mouvement Des Idées Génénerales, published in 1869, by F. Pillon (other parts by Ch. Renouvier) included "Une Nouvelle Religion en Asia" across 35 pages.[https://archive.org/stream/anneephilosophi01pillgoog#page/n230/mode/2up "Une Nouvelle Religion en Asia"], Annee Philosophique - Études Critiques Sur Le Mouvement Des Idées Génénerales, published in 1869, by F. Pillon, pp. 181–216 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, August 21, 1869, carried a story "Reviews: The Philosophical Year and the Bábys"[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIk_AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA254 "Reviews: The Philosophical Year and the Bábys"], by anonymous, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, August 21, 1869, pp. 254–256 looks at another journal, M. F. Pillon's Philosophical Annual.

• In about 1870 Michele Lessona wrote a book I Babi which was published in 1881 by Vincenzo Bona in Turin, Italy. Lessona had been a physician serving in Persia circa 1862 for a number of years where he learned of the Babis from a "Dávud Khán" as well as Gobineau. Polish writer :pl:Aleksander Walerian Jablonowski had met Baháʼís in Baghdad. Later in the 1870s he wrote several articles covering its early history in Persia{{cite web | title = History in Poland | work = Official Webpage of the Baháʼís of Poland | publisher = National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Poland | year = 2008 | url = http://www.bahai.org.pl/?page_id=5 | accessdate = 2009-03-20 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090124040759/http://www.bahai.org.pl/?page_id=5 | archive-date = 2009-01-24 | url-status = dead}} − one of these was to defend the Baháʼí Faith against an erroneous article in another publication.{{Cite news|last=Jasion |first=Jan T. |title=The Polish Response to Soviet Anti-Baháʼí Polemics |periodical=Associate |publisher=Association for Baháʼí Studies (English-Speaking Europe) |volume=Winter 1999 |issue=29 |year=1999 |url=http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/associate/a29/page4.htm |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215202703/http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/associate/a29/page4.htm |archive-date=2012-02-15 }}{{cite encyclopedia | last = Momen | first = Moojan | title = Russia | encyclopedia = Draft for "A Short Encyclopedia of the Baháʼí Faith" | publisher = Baháʼí Library Online | url =http://bahai-library.com/momen_encyclopedia_russia | accessdate = 2008-04-14}}
• In the rest of the 1870s more scattered mentions are made. In 1871 Thomas Chaplin intended to visit Baháʼu'lláh and had a couple-hour interview with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and sent a letter to the editor printed in The Times.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21161/the_times/ "The Babs of Persia"], The Times, London, 5 Oct, 1871, p. 8, 3rd column down from top Momen comments this seems to be the first extended commentary on Baháʼu'lláh in western newspapers. In 1872 "The Bâbys", The Church Missionary Intelligencer was published anonymously.[https://archive.org/details/churchmissionar01varigoog/page/n179 "The Bábys"], The Church Missionary Intelligencer, June 1872, pp. 161–175 Augustus Henry Mounsey published A journey through the Caucasus and the interior of Persia which reviews events related to the Báb and Bábís.{{cite book|author=Augustus Henry Mounsey|title=A journey through the Caucasus and the interior of Persia|url=https://archive.org/details/ajourneythrough01moungoog|accessdate=31 May 2013|year=1872|publisher=Smith, Elder & co.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ajourneythrough01moungoog/page/n123 103]–107}} In 1873 a couple of Christian missionary journals printed articles:The Colonial Church chronicle, and missionary journal[https://books.google.com/books?id=CigEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA207 "The Church of England in Persia"], by anonymous, in The Colonial Church chronicle, and missionary journal, June 1873, pp. 206–208 and Sunday at Home.{{cite book|title=The Sunday at Home|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLARAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Babys%22|accessdate=1 June 2013|year=1873|publisher=Religious Tract Society|pages= circa p. 439}} A General Sketch of the History of Persia by Clements Markham mentioned Bábí events in 1874.[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XWIVAAAAQAAJ/page/n535 A General Sketch of the History of Persia] by Clements Robert Markham, published by Longmans, Green, and Company, 1874, pp. 495–6. A Babism entry was in The World's Progress; a Dictionary of Dates.[https://archive.org/details/worldsprogressdi01putn/page/8 "Babism"] in The World's Progress; a Dictionary of Dates, 21st edition, by George Palmer Putnam, Frederic Beecher Perkins, published by G. P. Putnam, 1877, p. 8 The Dublin University Magazine, March 1878, noted of Bábí events contextualizing work by Percy Bysshe Shelley.{{cite book|title=The Dublin University Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3EswAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA264|accessdate=1 June 2013|year=1878|publisher=William Curry, Jun., and Company|pages=264–}}
• Comparative sparse mentions continued in the 1880s though for the first time there is an academic conference called. First Adolfo Rivadeneyra traveled through Persia and in 1880 and published Viaje al Interior de Persiasee [https://archive.org/details/viajealinterior00rivagoog Viaje al interior de Persia], by Adolfo Rivadneyra, 1880. Then on 5 and 12 December 1880 two conferences on the Bábí movement were given in Torino Italy by Michele Lessona.[http://bahai-library.com/savi_encyclopedia_italy Italy: History of the Baha'i Faith] by Julio Savi, 1992 Carla Serena traveled in Persia in 1877–78. She published several books and the one was Hommes et Choses en Perse which was published in 1883.See [https://books.google.com/books?id=fT5FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19 Formation de la Secte des babi] in Hommes et choses en Perse, by Carla Serena, published by Charpentier, 1883 An article "Babysm" was then published in the Oxford National Encyclopedia for 1884.{{cite book|author=National cyclopaedia|title=The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZubM33k0lygC&pg=PA142|accessdate=1 June 2013|year=1884|pages=142–}} Mary F Wilson (Jan 12, 1861 − June 1895?){{cite book|title=Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the State of Maine|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket00newe|year=1903|publisher=New England Historical Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket00newe/page/54 54]}} wrote a 21-page article "Story of the Bab" which was published in several magazines − Contemporary Review, Dec 1885,{{cite book|title=The Contemporary Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJPQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA808|accessdate=21 May 2013|year=1885|publisher=A. Strahan|pages=808–829}} and repeated in Littell's Living Age,[https://books.google.com/books?id=F3NRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA151 "Story of the Bab"], by Mary Wilson, The Living Age (Jan–March, 1886) Volume 53; Volume 168, pp. 151–163 The Library Magazine,[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fs0kAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA137 "Story of the Bab"], by Mary Wilson, Library Magazine, 1886, pp. 137–148 and Eclectic Magazine.{{cite book|title=The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n64mAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA264|accessdate=21 May 2013|year=1886|publisher=Leavitt, Trow, & Company|pages=264–278}} Echoes and summaries were also printed in Australia,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page273658?zoomLevel=1 "December Magazines"], The Argus, Melbourne, Vic., Saturday 30 January 1886, p. 4 4th col, below middle as part of summary of Contemporary Review and other places.[http://tech.mit.edu/V5/PDF/N7.pdf "Noticeable Articles"], The Tech, Jan 14, 1886, vol V, No. 7, p. 105, MIT, left col, below middle "Woman in the Ministry: An Appeal to Fact", by John Tunis, was published in Unity, May 9, 1885.[https://books.google.com/books?id=f0IrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92 "Woman in the Ministry: An Appeal to Fact"], by John Tunis, in Unity, Vol XV, No 6, May 9, 1885, pp. 92–94 Persia: the land of the imams. A narrative of travel and residence, 1871–1885, published 1886, by American Presbyterian missionary James Bassett[https://books.google.com/books?id=S2jhVDyef5EC Persia the Land of the Imams: A Narrative of Travel And Residence 1871 to 1885], Author James Bassett, published 1886[https://archive.org/details/persialandimams00bassgoog Persia the Land of the Imams: A Narrative of Travel And Residence 1871 to 1885], Author James Bassett, published 1886 which was also reviewed in The New York Times, 9 May 1886"A Residence in Persia", The New York Times, 9 May 1886, p. 12, 5th column, down from top and The Inter Ocean in Chicago, Illinois.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6860812/review_of_james_bassett_article_on/ "Literary; Triumphant Democracy - Persia, by James Bassett - The Country Banker…"], The Inter Ocean, 15 May 1886, p. 9 Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin published Persia and the Persians in 1886[https://books.google.com/books?id=xrQyAQAAMAAJ Persia and the Persians], by Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin, first edition, (1886) in America after being stationed in Persia from 1882 representing the US government. It was reprinted in London in 1887.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4bmamAEACAAJ Persia and the Persians], by Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin, second edition, (1887) Reviews were published in various newspapers. Jane Dieulafoy traveled in Persia with her husband in 1880–81 and publishes an account visiting Baháʼís in 1887.Not sure what page the particular story takes place on but see [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62128841/f91.tableDesMatieres La Perse, la Chaldée et la Susiane], by Jane Dieulafoy, 1887, p. 77...? A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles has an article where "Babism" as here is the second definition.[https://books.google.com/books?id=r2pXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA606 "Babism"], A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles Vol 1, Part 2 by the Philological Society (Great Britain), ed by James Augustus Henry Murray, published by Clarendon Press, 1887, p. 606 "The Babis of Persia" was published the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July − Oct, 1889.See [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5677728&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0035869X00165803 The Bábís of Persia. I. Sketch of their History, and Personal Experiences amongst them], Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) / Volume 21 / Issue 03 / July 1889, pp 485-526. The first entry by The Encyclopædia Britannica on Babi/Baha'i history occurred in 1889see [https://books.google.com/books?id=D7LNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA39 the index to the 1889 edition], p. 39, middle column near top. which was repeated into 1893[https://books.google.com/books?id=7zlKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180 "Babi"], by "RG" - RG Watson? - The Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition, ed by William Harrison De Puy, published by Werner Company, 1893, vol III, pp. 180–181 and appears to be identical to the one in 1902.[http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/B/BAB/babi.html Babi], Encyclopædia Britannica, 10th Edition (1902)
• Mentions begin to become more common in the 1890s. The first was by Robert Bruce called "News of the Month: In a Letter from Dr. Bruce of Persia…" by The Jewish Intelligence in August 1890. A "Babism" entry in Blackie's modern cyclopedia of universal information also appeared that year.[https://books.google.com/books?id=DOpTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA329 "Babism"] entry in Blackie's modern cyclopedia of universal information, Vol 1, published 1890, p. 329–330 However the main development was the interest of Edward Granville Browne who investigated the Babis in Persia and then the prisoners sent west and began to publish about 1891 many times ultimately through about the 1920s. Among these were A Traveller's Narrative: Written to illustrate the episode of the Bab (1891),[http://bahai-library.com/browne_abdulbaha_travellers_narrative A Traveller's Narrative: Written to illustrate the episode of the Bab] (1891) A Year Among the Persians (1893).{{cite book|author=Edward Granville Browne|title=A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character, & Thought of the People of Persia, Received During Twelve Months' Residence in that Country in the Years 1887-1888|url=http://bahai-library.com/browne_year_amongst_persians |year=1893|publisher=A. and C. Black}} Newspapers and magazines began to widely cover his work.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/327945/browne_on_sufism_and_babiism_noted_in/ Religious Systems of the World], Guardian, (London, Greater London, England), 22 March 1893 • Page 26* Browne, Edward G, "The Assassination of Násiru'd-Dín Shah", New Review, June 1896
• "Mr. Browne in Persia", The Spectator, Dec 28, 1893[https://books.google.com/books?id=wL82AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA486 "Notes"], The Nation, Dec 28, 1893, p. 486, second column, middle
• But other writers still were independently addressing Bábí and Baháʼí history as well. Isabella Bird briefly describes Bábís being attacked and taking refuge in a book Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan printed in 1891,[http://bahai-library.com/bird_journeys_persia_kurdistan Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan], by Isabella Bird, London: John Murray, 1891 (excerpt) and Theodore Bent published "Village life in Persia" in Review.
• Thomas Henry Huxley mentions Bábism in Essays upon some Controverted Questions in 1892.[http://www.general-books.net/book.cfm?id=262296 Essays upon some Controverted Questions], by Thomas Henry Huxley, in 1892 George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston in his Persia and the Persian Question comments on Bábí-"Behai" presence in Persia.{{cite book|author=Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston|title=Persia and the Persian Question|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gM0oAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=31 May 2013|year=1892|publisher=Longmans, Green & Company|pages=496–504}} A posthumous work of [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Thomas_Bettany George Thomas Bettany] was published in 1892. It includes alittle more than a page on "Babism".[https://archive.org/stream/MN41892ucmf_0#page/n185/mode/2up Mohammedanism and other religions of Mediterranean countries], by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), Publisher: London : Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co., 1892, pp. 167–169 Anonymously "The Bab" was published in The Oxford Magazine 1892, and a "Catalogue and Descriptions of 27 Bábí Manuscripts" was published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1892.(actually appeared in two segments - see [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5604352&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0035869X00067198 Catalogue and Description of 27 Bábí Manuscripts], Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) / Volume 24 / Issue 03 / July 1892, pp 433-499 and [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5716452&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0035869X00021985 Catalogue and Description of 27 Bábí Manuscripts], Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) / Volume 24 / Issue 04 / October 1892, pp 637-710 Baron Roman Rosen published some articles based on his collection of materials first in "Some Remarks on the Bábí Texts Edited by Baron Victor Rosen" in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1892.[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5716620&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0035869X00021717 Some Remarks on the Bábí Texts edited by Baron Victor Rosen in Vols. I and VI of the Collections Scientifiques de l'Institut des Langues Orientales de Saint-Pétersbourg], Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) / Volume 24 / Issue 02 / April 1892, pp 259-335[https://books.google.com/books?id=-7grAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA644 Review of Reviews and World's Work], Volume 5, by Albert Shaw, Publisher, Review of Reviews Corporation, 1892, p. 644 This article was also reviewed in The New York Times, 5 June 1892, which names the author as Coutts Trotter.see [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Coutts_Trotter Coutts Trotter].[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20855/extended_unsourced_discussion_of_babi/ "A New Religion"], The New York Times, 5 June 1892, p. 4, bottom of 4th column, top of 5th.
• In 1893 Rev. Henry Harris Jessup delivered a talk at the Chicago Parliament of the World's Religions held at World's Columbian Exposition and quoted Browne's meeting with Baháʼu'lláh.[http://bahai-library.com/jessup_neelys_history_religions The Religious Mission of the English-Speaking Nations], by Rev Henry H. Jessup, published in History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses of the World's Columbian Exposition, pages 637-641, Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, 1894 The Inter Ocean also published a survey of presentations at the Parliament with Rev. Jessup's presentation is included.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/309755/1st_newspaper_mention_bahaullahs/ Henry H. Jessup, D.D., Makes an Eloquent and Instructive Address] The Inter Ocean, (Chicago, Illinois), 24 September 1893 • Page 2 A few notable Baháʼís are noted to have been present for or heard of the presentation: Sarah Farmer (see Green Acre Baháʼí School) and Thornton Chase. The Right Rev Charles Stileman, Anglican clergyman, also published an article in 1893.Stileman, Charles, "A Week with the Babis", The Church Missionary Intelligencer, July 1893 Meanwhile, the first Baháʼí to enter the United States was briefly noted in the New York Tribune.{{cite news

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• Some newspapers lead of coverage of the Faith in 1894 start noting persecution of "Bahis".* [http://fultonhistory.com/Process%20Small/Newspapers/Newspapers%20%20Out%20of%20NY/Honesdale%20PA%20Wayne%20County%20Herald/Honesdale%20PA%20Wayne%20County%20Herald%201892-1895/Honesdale%20PA%20Wayne%20County%20Herald%201892-1895%20-%200422.pdf The Bahis of Persia], The Wayne County Herald, March 8, 1894, p. 8, 5th col down from top
• [http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Red%20Hook%20NY%20Journal/Red%20Hook%20NY%20Journal%201889-1895/Red%20Hook%20NY%20Journal%201889-1895%20-%201017.pdf The Bahis of Persia], The Red Hook Journal, March 16, 1894, p. 1, 4th col down from top An account of Frederic John Goldsmid reading at the Missionary conference of the Anglican Communion in the UK including quoting a translation by Browne from "Behá" was published in the Guardian.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21302/review_of_islam_with_browne_quoted/ "Religions to be Dealt With"], Guardian of 30 May 1894, p. 37, bottom of 2nd column and most of 3rd "The Babis of Persia" article by M. Y. De Goeze, in The Missionary Review of the World followed.[https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=CGUhAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-CGUhAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1 Vol 17 is available as a free ebook], the google book preview limits what pages you can see, specifically this one page, but the free ebook lets you get them all. "The Babis of Persia" by Rev P Z Easton, in The Missionary Review of the World appeared in the summer of 1894[https://books.google.com/books?id=CGUhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA451 "The Babis of Persia"] by Rev P Z Easton, The Missionary Review of the World, Volume 17, Published by Missionary Review Publishing Company, Incorporated, June 1894, pp. 451–458 along with "Wahabiism and Babism − Bibliography" in July.[https://books.google.com/books?id=CGUhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA529 "Wahabiism and Babism - Bibliography"] by Rev P Z Easton, The Missionary Review of the World, Vol 17, publisher Missionary Review Publishing Company, Incorporated, July, 1894 pp. 529–530 A brief summary in the Sacramento Daily Union of religion in Persia mentions the Babis and the punishment they suffer under no protection of rank or standing.[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18940714.2.45&cl=search&srpos=36&dliv=none Religion of the Persians], Sacramento Daily Union of 14 July 1894, p. 6, bottom of second column, top of third. JH Shedd also published "Babism: Its Doctrine and Relation to Mission Work" late in 1894.[https://books.google.com/books?id=CGUhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA894 "Babism - Its Doctrines and Relation to Mission Work"], by Ref J H Shedd, pp. 894–904, The Missionary Review of the World, Vol 17, Dec 1894, published by Missionary Review Publishing Company, Incorporated
• James Strong, of Concordance fame, had been continuing work on a Cyclopedia begun in 1853. The 1895 edition of Vol 1 had an entry on "Babist".{{cite book| editor-last =McClintock | editor-first = John | editor2-last =Strong | editor2-first = James|title=Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bak8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA593|accessdate=23 May 2013|year=1895|publisher=Harper|pages=593–594| isbn = 9780405000201 }} Henry Edward Plantagenet[http://www.browningscorrespondence.com/biographical-sketches/?id=1584 Sophia Augusta Cottrell (1823–1909) & Henry Cottrell (1811–71)], The Brownings' Correspondence, 15, 354–357. wrote a brief piece of his encounter with Baháʼí's in Haifa in the article "'Babism' in a UK journal The Academy.note several source point to a Syracuse version - it is believed this is an error.
• {{Cite journal

|author=Henry Edward Plantagenet

| title = Babism

| journal =The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art

| volume =47

| issue =1192

| page =220

| date =March 9, 1895

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=8F08AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA220

| accessdate =February 9, 2015 }}

mentioned in {{cite journal

| author1=Christopher Buck |author2=Youli A. Ioannesyan

|s2cid=143217964

| title =Baha'u'llah's Bisharat (Glad-Tidings): A Proclamation to Scholars and Statesmen

| journal = Baháʼí Studies Review

| volume =16

| issue =1

| pages =3–28

| date =1 April 2010

| doi =10.1386/bsr.16.3/1 }} Rev Samuel Graham Wilson mentioned the Bab and Babis on a few pages in his Persian life and customs in 1895.{{cite book|author=Samuel Graham Wilson|title=Persian life and customs: with scenes and incidents of residence and travel in the land of the lion and the sun|url=https://archive.org/details/persianlifeandc01wilsgoog|accessdate=31 May 2013|year=1895|publisher=F.H. Revell Co.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/persianlifeandc01wilsgoog/page/n20 12], 62, 146, 174, 185–6, 221, 259, 260, 291}} A more general review but with more modern terminology appeared in the Delphos Daily Herald in Ohio.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22012/muslims_and_babis_noted/ "Religion of the Persians"], Delphos Daily Herald, Delphos, Ohio, January 3, 1895, p. 3, 6th column, middle This was followed in 1896 in the October edition of The Missionary Review of the World in "The Gospel Work in Persia".{{cite journal|journal=The Missionary Review of the World|title=The Gospel in Persia| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HmYhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA730| author=Samuel G. Wilson|date=October 1896|pages=730–731}} Scotsman Thomas Edward Gordon published Persia Revisited which mentions the Bab and Bábís.{{cite book|author=Sir Thomas Edward Gordon|title=Persia Revisited (1895)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDhFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81|accessdate=31 May 2013|year=1896|publisher=E. Arnold|pages=81–92|isbn=978-1-4142-4198-2 }}

• The pace of scholarly work expanded in 1896 with several further writers; Lepel Griffin, Friedrich Carl Andreas,[https://books.google.com/books?id=9RgIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP3 Die babi's in Persien], by Friedrich Carl Andreas, Published by Verlag der Akademischen Buchhandlung (W. Faber), 1896. J. D. Rees,{{cite book|title=The Nineteenth Century| volume = 40 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RtwaAAAAYAAJ| chapter ="The Bab and Babism" | chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=RtwaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56 |year=1896|publisher=Henry S. King & Company|pages=56–66| editor = James Knowles|author1= JD Rees}} Gaston Dujarric,[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55053261/f111.image Notes sur le Bâbysme], by Gaston Dujarric, chief editor, Revue de L'Islam, {{ISSN|2021-3832}}, pp. 105-108 Canon Edward Sell,[http://bahai-library.com/sell_the_babis The Babis], by Edward Sell, published in The Church Missionary Intelligencer, 47:21, pages 324-335, London: Church Missionary Society, 1896–05 Hugh Reginald Haweis,{{cite book|title=The Contemporary Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5PQAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 April 2013|year=1896|publisher=A. Strahan|pages=73–77 | chapter = Talk with a Persian Statesman | chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=h5PQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73}} The last was also summarized in a newspaper account 16 December 1896 in the Indiana Democrat.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/242814/the_babis/ The Mohammedan Messiah], The Indiana Democrat, (Indiana, Pennsylvania), 16 December 1896 • Page 5
• Reverend James Thompson Bixby wrote a number of articles related to the Faith with the first being "Babism and the Bab" in the New World, December 1897,{{cite journal

| author=James T. Bixby

| author-link =James Thompson Bixby

| title =Babism and the Bab

| journal =The New World; A Quarterly Review of Religion, Ethics, and Theology

| volume =6

| issue =24

| pages =722–750

| date =December 1897

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=s6svAAAAYAAJ&q=editions%3Asv5VcvGUqgcC&pg=PA722

| accessdate =May 22, 2015 }} Charles William Heckethorn,[https://books.google.com/books?id=mGhCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA263 "The Babis"] in The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries, Volume 2 by Charles William Heckethorn, published by G. Redway, 1897, pp. 263–269 and Áqá ʻAbdu'l-Ahad Zanjání wrote in "Personal Reminiscences of the Bábí Insurrection at Zanjân in 1850" for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5734464&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0035869X00025004 Personal Reminiscences of the Bābī Insurrection at Zanjān in 1850], Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) / Volume 29 / Issue 04 / October 1897, pp 761-827. Then "Some Notes on the Literature and Doctrines of the Hurufi Sect" mentioned Bábísm.[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5696344&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0035869X00146209 Some Notes on the Literature and Doctrines of the Ḥurūfī Sect], Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) / Volume 30 / Issue 01 / January 1898, pp 61-94 entry "Báb-ed-Din" in a dictionary closes out 1898.[https://books.google.com/books?id=93gOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 "Báb-ed-Din"], Chambers's biographical dictionary: the great of all times and nations ed by Francis Hindes Groome, reprint, published by W. & R. Chambers, 1898, p. 55

• 1900 Opens with Russian scholar H. Arakelian from his 1900 paper/lecture in French, "Le Bêbisme en Perse", at the September 5, 1900 meeting of the "International Congress of the History of Religions" held in Paris.{{cite conference

| first =H.

| last =Arakélian

| title =Le Bêbisme en Perse

| book-title = International Congress for the History of Religions; Actes du premier Congrès international d'histoire des religions, réuni à Paris, du 3 au 8 septembre 1900 à l'occasion de l'Exposition universelle

| volume = 1

| pages =93–104

| date =September 5, 1900

| location = Paris, FR

| url =https://archive.org/stream/actesdupremierc00parigoog#page/n107/mode/2up

| accessdate = October 12, 2016}}

• 1901 Has Edward Denison Ross writing an article for The North American Review called "Babism".[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/25105157 "Babism"], by E. Denison Ross,The North American Review, Vol. 172, No. 533, April 1901, pp. 606–622 It appeared again in 1912 in Great Religions of the World in 1912 with a preface about ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's travels.[http://bahai-library.com/ross_babism Babism], by E. Denison Ross, Great Religions of the World, New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1901/1912, pp. 189-217
• A.L.M. Nicholas, noted as "No European scholar has contributed so much to our knowledge of the life and teaching of the Báb as Nicolas. His study of the life of the Báb and his translations of several of the most important books of the Báb remain of unsurpassed value."[http://bahai-library.com/momen_work_alm_nicolas The Work of A.L.M. Nicolas (1864–1937)], by Moojan Momen, published in The Bábí and Baháʼí Religions: Some Contemporary Western Accounts, pages 36-40, Oxford: George Ronald, 1981
• Stoyan Krystoff Vatralsky made some news circa 1899/1900* [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21760/the_weekly_wisconsin/ Mystery of a sect], The Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 18 November 1899, Sat • Page 8
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/603160/early_babibahai_history_commentary/ Church of Mahomet in Wisconsin], The Allentown Leader (Allentown, Pennsylvania) 11 April 1900, Wed • Page 7 and wrote a paper in 1902 in the American Journal of Theology.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3154030.pdf?acceptTC=true Mohammedan Gnosticism in America], by Stoyan Krystoff Vatralsky, American Journal of Theology, V6n1, January 1902, pp. 57-78. Baha'is have reviewed his work.{{cite book|editor=Moojan Momen|title=Studies in Bábí and Baháʹí History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1kivilg954C&pg=PA232|year=1982|publisher=Kalimat Press|isbn=978-1-890688-45-5|pages=95–96, 136, 203, 213, 225–255}}
• "The Missionary Outlook" by Rev. Courtenay H. Penn, followed in The Missionary Review August 1902[https://books.google.com/books?id=lMtWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA586 "The Missionary Outlook"] by Rev. Courtenay H. Penn, pp. 586–591, The Missionary Review, Vol 25, published, Princeton Press, 1902
• "Babism and the Babites", by Rev. Henry Harris Jessup was published in The Missionary Review October.[https://books.google.com/books?id=lMtWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA771 "Babism and the Babites"], by Rev Henry Harris Jessup, The Missionary Review, Vol 25, published by Princeton Press, October 1902, pp. 771–775
• "A visit to the Prophet of Persia" by Philip Sidersky and Rev. S.K. Braun was published in The Missionary Review also in October.[https://books.google.com/books?id=lMtWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA775 "A visit to the Prophet of Persia"] by Philip Sidersky and Rev. S.K. Braun, The Missionary Review, Vol 25, published by Princeton Press, October 1902, pp.775-776
• In 1904 in Missions and Modern History: a study of the missionary aspects of some great movements of the nineteenth century, by Presbyterian minister Robert Elliott Speer was published.[http://www.general-books.net/book.cfm?id=223727 Missions and Modern History: a study of the missionary aspects of some great movements of the nineteenth century], Vol 1, by Robert Elliott Speer, 1904 Another couple articles totaling 139 pages by Dr. Paul Carus came out in the summer in the journal Open Court,*{{cite journal

| last =Carus

| first = Paul

| title = A New Religion - Babism - Behaism in Chicago (pt 1)

| journal =The Open Court

| volume =18

| issue =6

| pages =355–372

| date =June 1904

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=bMUNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA355

| accessdate = October 16, 2016}}

• {{Cite journal

| last =Carus

| first = Paul

| title = A New Religion - Babism - Behaism in Chicago (pt 2)

| journal =The Open Court

| volume =18

| issue =7

| pages =398–420

| date =July 1904

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=bMUNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA398

| accessdate = October 16, 2016}} (and also had an advertisement by Kheiralla and MacNutt.){{cite journal

| title = Beha Ullah (advertisement)

| journal =The Open Court

| volume =18

| issue =6

| date =June 1904

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=bMUNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA384-IA3

| accessdate = October 16, 2016| last1 =Carus

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}} There is a reply in the January 1905 edition of Open Court led by Carus' commentary adjusting some details and then publishing the rebuttal by Arthur Dodge.{{cite journal

| author1= Arthurd Dodge | author2 = Paul Carus

| title = The Behaist Movement

| journal =The Open Court

| volume =19

| issue =1

| pages =54–63 (download only)

| date =January 1905

| url =http://www.forgottenbooks.com/books/The_Open_Court_v19_1000607197

| accessdate = October 16, 2013}} An anonymous reprise and summary called "American; Babism in New York" followed in The Missionary Review in May 1906.[https://books.google.com/books?id=8StXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA391 "American; Babism in New York"] (no author), under "General Missionary Intelligence" (no editor), The Missionary Review, Vol 29, published by Princeton Press, May 1906, p. 391 A. V. Williams Jackson then published Persia, Past and Present which has a couple pages on the Bábí/Baháʼí Faiths including brief mention of "Behaists" near Chicago.[https://archive.org/stream/persiapastpresen01jack#page/48/mode/2up Persia, Past and Present], by A. V. Williams Jackson, esp. pages 48-50, 1906. Across Persia was then published in 1907 by Eliot Crawshay-Williams who travelled Persia in 1903 − chapter XX is about Bábí-Baháʼí history.{{cite book|author=E. Crawshay Williams|title=Across Persia|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173894|year=1907|publisher=Edward Arnold}} "Babism" had a section in the Orpheus: A General History of Religions, by Salomon Reinach in 1909.[https://archive.org/details/orpheusageneral00simmgoog/page/n186 "Chapter VI, The Musulmans"] from, Orpheus: A General History of Religions, by Salomon Reinach, translated by Florence Simmonds, revised edition, published by W. Heinemann, 1909, p. 161–169

• As early as 1909, but more often since 1911, a column named "The Awaking of the Older Nations", by William T. Ellis, copyrighted to Joseph B. Bowles, began to appear in several newspapers.* {{cite journal

| last =Ellis

| first =William T.

| title =The Awaking of the Old Nations

| journal =The Independent

| volume =LXVII

| issue =3177

| date =October 21, 1909

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=tJNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA904

| accessdate = September 25, 2014}} Ellis was a secular journalist who investigated missionary activity of Christians around the world.{{cite journal

| title =Book Review of "Men and Missions" by William T Ellis

| journal =Improvement Era

| volume =XIII

| issue =4

| pages =369–370

| date = February 1910

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=vGgwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA369

| accessdate = September 25, 2014}} Some of the articles of the series covered the Baháʼí Faith. He appears to have encountered the religion in 1910 while ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was in Egypt[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3692979/article_by_william_ellis_on_bahai/ In "Behaism" Syria offers strange new religion to the world], The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)7 May 1911, Sun • Page 42 and his interview was reported in Star of the West, (then called Baháʼí News,) of January 1911.[http://starofthewest.info/viewer.erb?vol=01&page=299 From Mr. Sydney Sprague], Star of the West, on January 19, 1911, pages 7–8 The series mention of the religion runs into 1912.

• [https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/coatesville/coatesville-herald/1911/11-09/page-2 The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Coatesville Herald, November 9, 1911, p. 2, 2nd-4th columns and picture
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/poseyville/poseyville-news/1911/11-10/page-6 The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Poseyville News, November 10, 1911, p. 6, left three cols
• [http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Mechanicville%20NY%20Saturday%20Mercury/Mechanicville%20NY%20Saturday%20Mercury%201910-1912/Mechanicville%20NY%20Saturday%20Mercury%201910-1912%20-%200541.pdf The Awaking of the Older Nations], Mechanicville Saturday Mercury, November 11, 1911, p. 3, 2nd-4th cols
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/251102/story_on_bahais_by_william_ellis/ The Awaking of the Older Nations], Escanaba Morning Press(Escanaba, Michigan)12 November 1911 • Page 7
• [http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2015/PortVille%20NY%20Review/PortVille%20NY%20Review%201912-1916/PortVille%20NY%20Review%201912-1916%20a%20-%202103.pdf The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Portville Review, Portville NY, November 14, 1911, p. 2, 2nd-4th cols
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/martinsville/martinsville-democrat/1911/11-24/page-4 The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Martinsville Democrat, November 24, 1911, p. 4, left three columns and picture
• [http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tooeletran/id/7910 The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Tooele Transcript, December 29, 1911, p. 3, left three col (manually click page 3 on the right)
• [http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/udr/id/1396 The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Duchesne County Newspapers, January 5, 1912, p. 6, left three cols (manually click on page 6 on the right)
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/poseyville/poseyville-news/1912/01-19/page-6 The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Poseyville News, January 19, 1912, p. 6, left three cols
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/us/wisconsin/sheboygan/sheboygan-press/1912/01-26/page-7 The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, Sheyboygan Press, p. 7, left three cols
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1064757/the_awaking_of_the_older_nations_by/ The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, The Checotah Times(Checotah, Oklahoma)2 February 1912 • Page 2
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3693449/echo_of_william_ellis_the_awaking_of/ The Awaking of the older nations], by William Ellis, Westmoreland Recorder (Westmoreland, Kansas) 29 February 1912, Thu • Page 7
• [http://fultonhistory.com/Process%20Small/Newspapers/Newspapers%20%20Out%20of%20NY/Mancelona%20MI%20Antrim%20County%20Herald/Mancelona%20MI%20Antrim%20County%20Herald%201911-1913/Mancelona%20MI%20Antrim%20County%20Herald%201911-1913%20-%200191.pdf The Awaking of the Older Nations], by William T. Ellis, The Mancelona Herald, published by Joseph B. Bowles, November 16, 1911, p. 6, 2nd through 4th columns with picture
• [https://newspaperarchive.com/us/wisconsin/grand-rapids/grand-rapids-tribune/1912/11-13/page-12 The Awaking of the Older Nations], Grand Rapids Tribune, November 13, 1912, p. 12, left three cols The article often included a picture of some kind. He reports visiting ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's home in Haifa and not seeing Him there − that He was away. He went to Alexandria to catch ʻAbdu'l-Bahá there and refers to an Englishman serving as translator for the interview − this was Sydney Sprague (who mentioned Mary Hanford Ford's "The Oriental Rose" as well.) There is a considerable discussion of the teachings but with various errors as well.
• The February 1910 edition of Twentieth Century Magazine had an article by Baháʼí Helen Campbell profiling the social and economic views of the religion.[https://archive.org/stream/twentiethcentur35unkngoog#page/n481/mode/2up A new economic movement and young Persia], by Helen Campbell, Twentieth Century Magazine, v1, No 5, February 1910, p. 456–463 The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge has entries on Babism and Behaism by associate editor of the encyclopedia, George W. Gilmore, with nothing newer than 1906 in the bibliography.(warning, slow download) {{cite encyclopedia

| author=George W. Gilmore

| title = Babism

| encyclopedia =The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

| editor1= Samuel MacCauley Jackson|editor2=Charles Colebrook Sherman | editor3=George William Gilmore

| volume =2

| pages = 935–939

| publisher =republished by Christian Classics Ethereal Library

| orig-year =1910–1911?

| year = 1952

| url =http://www.ccel.org/download.html?url=/ccel/schaff/encyc01.pdf

| accessdate = October 16, 2013 }} The second, "Behaism", was by Margaret Bloodgood Peeke, "Inspectress-General of the Martinist Order of America" with nothing newer than 1906 in the bibliography.(warning, slow download) {{cite encyclopedia

| author=Margaret Bloodgood Peeke

| title = Behaism

| encyclopedia =The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

| editor1= Samuel MacCauley Jackson|editor2=Charles Colebrook Sherman | editor3=George William Gilmore

| volume =2

| pages = 104–105

| publisher =republished by Christian Classics Ethereal Library

| orig-year =1910–1911?

| year = 1952

| url = http://www.ccel.org/download.html?url=/ccel/schaff/encyc02.pdf

| accessdate = October 17, 2016 }} Peeke had gone on to visit ʻAbdu'l-Bahá as a non-Baháʼí in 1899 and judged it to be "living the life" of the teachings of Jesus Christ.[http://bahai-library.com/margaretpeeke_1899_abbaseffendi_visit My Visit to Abbas-Effendi in 1899], by Margaret B. Peeke, page 10 and 16.

• In early 1911 unitarian minister Celia Parker Woolley advertised a meeting discussing the religion in the African newspaper The Chicago Defender."Frederick Douglass Center, 2032 Wabash Ave", The Chicago Defender, [Chicago, Ill] 29 April 1911: p. 1. In late 1911 Ethel Stefana Stevens published two articles in widely circulated magazines − Forthnightly Review,[https://books.google.com/books?id=4nzPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1067 Abbas Effendi: His personality, work, and followers], by E. S. Stevens, The Forthnightly Review, New series vol 95, no 534 June 1, 1911, pp. 1067–1084 and Everybody's Magazine.[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012320191;view=1up;seq=803 The light in the lantern], by Ethel Stefana Stevens, Everybody's Magazine, vol 24, no 6, December 1911, pp. 755–786 a variety of 1911 mentions occur in newspapers − Ghodsea Ashrof emigratig,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1083336/bahai_ghodsea_ashrof_talks_at_meeting/ Ghodsea Ashrof speaks at Bahaists meeting], The Washington Times (Washington, District of Columbia) 19 June 1911 • First Edition, p. 4 conditions in Iran,[http://fultonhistory.com/Process%20Small/Newspapers/Utica%20NY%20Saturday%20Globe/Utica%20NY%20Saturday%20Globe%201909-1911%20pdf/Utica%20NY%20Saturday%20Globe%201909-1911%20-%201105.pdf Growing Persian sect], Utica Saturday Globe, July 8, 1911, p. 10, 2nd col mid and specifically women's rights,[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%209/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201911%20a%20%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201911%20a%20%20Grayscale%20-%203630.pdf Women's rights in orient], The NY Sun, October 1, 1911, p. 8, 7th col, down from top[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24991/babibahai_history/ "Women's Rights in Orient"], The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, Kansas, October 5, 1911, p. 12, 5th column, from middle Behaists/"TruthKnowers",[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Whitesville%20NY%20News/Whitesville%20NY%20News%201911-1913/Whitesville%20NY%20News%201911-1913%20-%200075.pdf How Christmas grew to be what it is toeay - waiting for the Messiah and a New Christmas], by Henry Tyrrell, The Whitesville News, December 21, 1911, p. 3, see 3rd col near middle a large article about the coming of ʻAbdul'-Bahá to the West of his presence in Europe.[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/New%20York%20NY%20Herald/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201911/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201911%20-%205951.pdf The Coming of Abbas Effendi, Messiah of 6,000,000 Souls], New York Herald, December 31, 1911, p. 4, top[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24994/babibahai_history/ "The Coming of the Abbas Effendi, Messia go 6,000,000 Souls"], The Washington Post, December 31, 1911, p. 1, upper half. Rev. Peter Z. Easton, a Presbyterian in the Synod of the Northeast in New York who was stationed in Tabriz, Iran from 1873 to 1880, did not have an appointment to meet ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in Bristol, UK.{{cite web | title = Minutes of the ... annual session of the Synod of New York | publisher =Presbyterian in the Synod of the Northeast | date = March 29, 1914 | url = https://archive.org/stream/minutesofannuals1914pres/minutesofannuals1914pres_djvu.txt | accessdate = 2010-03-14}}{{cite journal | editor-last = Rev. Simpson | editor-first = Albert B | editor2-last = Rev. Smith | editor2-first = Eugene R. | title = Persia Mission of the Presbytrian Church, Independent Mission Work In Persia and the Caucasus | journal = The Gospel in All Lands | volume = 04 | issue = 4 | pages = 175–177 | date = October 1881 | url =http://www.cmalliance.org/resources/archives/downloads/gospel-in-all-lands/gospel-in-all-lands-1881-10.pdf | accessdate = 2010-03-14 }} Easton attempted to meet and challenge ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and in his actions made those around him uncomfortable; ʻAbdu'l-Bahá withdrew him to a private conversation and then he left. Later he printed a polemic attack on the religion, Bahaism — A Warning, in the Evangelical Christendom newspaper of London.{{cite book |author=Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání | orig-year = 1912 |year=1998 |title=The Brilliant Proof |location=Los Angeles | publisher=Kalimát Press |url= http://bahai-library.com/books/brilliant.proof/appendix.html#Heading11 | page = APPENDIX Bahaism – A Warning, by Peter Z. Easton }} and echoed.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1054970/rev_eastons_challenge_to_abdulbaha/ Warns Americans against Baha], The Hawaiian Star(Honolulu, Hawaii)11 May 1912 • First Edition The polemic was later responded to by Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl in his book The Brilliant Proof written in December 1911.Burhan-i-Lamiʻ (The Brilliant Proof): Published, along with an English translation, in Chicago in 1912, the paper responds to a Christian clergyman's questions. Republished as {{cite book |author=Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání | orig-year = 1912 |year=1998 |title=The Brilliant Proof |location=Los Angeles | publisher=Kalimát Press |url=http://bahai-library.com/gulpaygani_brilliant_proof}}
• 1912 − A significant number of articles reviewed or mention ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West; see that article for significant mentions and reviews. However, separately, some mention the Faith of Abdu'l-Bahá before he came to the US such as by Gertrude Atherton[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2655500/mention_of_bahai_faith_in_fiction/ Love and Fire], Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)20 April 1912, Sat • Page 13
• {{cite book|author=Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton|title=Julia France and Her Times: A Novel|url=https://archive.org/stream/juliafranceherti00athe#page/276/mode/2up |year=1912|publisher=John Murray}} or a few mentions were made aside from coverage about ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. Lua Getsinger gave a talk on the religion that was noted in The Pacific Unitarian.[https://archive.org/stream/pacificunitarian2019111912wilb#page/153/mode/1up "The February meetings…"], The Pacific Unitarian - Devoted to Religious Truth and Higher Life, March 1912, page 153, middle left column. Also refers to another publication mention it. - the Christian Register of Feb 18. Tahirih was noted more than once.* [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/204325/history_of_tahirih_quotes_browne_1912/ "Persian was first"], The Eufaula Republican, (Eufaula, Oklahoma), 20 September 1912 • Page 4
• [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/204341/echo_of_report_on_tahirih/ "Persian was first"], The Huntington Press, 10 September 1912 • Page 6 The "Clio Information Club" hosted a talk by Howard MacNutt gave a talk in October as noted in the African American New York Age.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/286449/the_new_york_age/ The members and a few friends of the Clio Information Club] The New York Age, 10 October 1912 • Page 8 The first mention of the religion so far found in the Pittsburgh Courier occur when a "Mrs. Davis" held a meeting at her home for a club and the topic was the religion.{{cite news

| title =The Aurora Reading club…

| newspaper =The Pittsburgh Courier

| location =Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

| page =5

| date =4 October 1912

| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/406704/aurora_reading_club_hears_lecture_on/

| access-date =October 17, 2016 }} And there was mention in Australia.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23872168 "Bahaism"], The West Australian, Perth, West Australia, May 11, 1912, p. 7, 3rd and 4th columns, or as highlighted

• In 1913 Persia, the Land of the Magi... was published by Samuel Kasha Nweeya.[http://www.general-books.net/book.cfm?id=1758709 Persia, the Land of the Magi…] by Nweeya, Samuel K. (Samuel Kasha), about 1913 Also in 1913 the article "Key to the Heaven of the Beyan or a Third Call of Attention to the Behaists or Babists of America" was published by August J. Stenstrand for the Illinois State Historical Society.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/40193933 Editorial Notes] by Jessie Palmer Weber, Edward F. Dunne and Harry Woods, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 6, No. 3 (October 1913), pp. 455-468 (p. 467)
• In the July 1914 edition of The Harvard Theological Review then Reverend Albert R. Vail published an article surveying the religion.[http://bahai-library.com/vail_bahaism_contemporary_movement Bahaism: A Study of a Contemporary Movement], by Albert R. Vail, The Harvard Theological Review, July 1914, pages 339-357 Part 1 of "Bahaism and the Woman Question", by Rev. Samuel G. Wilson, in October Missionary Review of the World.[https://books.google.com/books?id=v2QwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA739 "Bahaism and the Woman Question"], by Rev. Samuel G. Wilson, Missionary Review of the World, Vol 37, published by Funk & Wagnalls, October 1914, pp. 739–745 and was followed by part 2 in December.[https://books.google.com/books?id=v2QwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA915 "Bahaism and the Woman Question - II"], by Rev Samuel G Wilson, Missionary Review of the World, Vol 37, published by Funk & Wagnalls, December 1914 pp. 915–919 See Baháʼí Faith and gender equality.
• In 1915 Robert P. Richardson published his first article in the Open Court.{{cite journal

| last = Richardson

| first =Robert P.

| title =The Persian Revival to Jesus, and his American Disciples

| journal = The Open Court

| volume =29

| issue =8

| pages =460–483

| date=August 1915 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=_uoXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA460

| accessdate = October 17, 2016}} In 1916 Mary Bird mentioned the religion in a missionary light.[http://anglicanhistory.org/me/ir/bird1916/03.html Mary Bird in Persia], By Clara C. Rice, London: Church Missionary Society, 1916. In 1917 Albert Vail, along with his wife Emily McClellan Vail, published a two volume set of books each with a chapter about the religion: "Heroic lives" for sixth grade curriculums with student and teacher notebooks.* [https://archive.org/stream/heroiclives00vailgoog#page/n248/mode/2up Heroic lives], (Student notebook) by Albert R. Vail and Emily McClellan Vail, Pub - Boston, Beacon Press, 1917

• [https://archive.org/stream/heroiclivesinun00vailgoog#page/n316/mode/2up/ Heroic lives], (Teacher notebook) by Albert R. Vail and Emily McClellan Vail, Pub - Boston, Beacon Press, 1917
• ʻAbdu'l-Bahá died in 1921 and was a major event in the region with thousands attending the procession of the casket, and prominent local representatives of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities speaking on the occasion.{{cite book|title=Religious Bodies, 1936|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58487|year=1941|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58487/page/n91 80]}}{{cite book|author=Shoghi Effendi|title=The Passing of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá: A Compilation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeFVPBHvGh4C|year=1991|publisher=Kalimat Press|isbn=978-0-933770-82-9}} Obituaries appeared in the New York,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/444488/obit_of_abdulbaha_from_london_times/ Abdul Baha, religious leader, dies in Persia], New York Tribune (New York, New York) 1 December 1921, Thu • Page 1 Los Angeles[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6313804/obit_and_picture_of_abdulbaha/ Bahai movement leader is dead], The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) 1 December 1921, Thu • Page 1 and elsewhere, based out of reports announced in London news.
• In 1924, American Ambassador to the Qajar dynasty of Persia, Robert Imbrie was killed on suspicion of being a Baháʼí.{{cite journal

| title =Blood, Power, and Hypocrisy: The Murder of Robert Imbrie and American Relations with Pahlavi Iran, 1924

| url = http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=history_facpubs

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

| journal= International Journal of Middle East Studies

| last=Zirinsky

| first=Michael

| volume=18

| issue=3

| date=August 1986

| pages=275–292

| doi=10.1017/S0020743800030488| s2cid=145403501 }}

• Juan Cole − historian, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
• Denis MacEoin − historian, Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
• William McElwee Miller − missionary, Christian minister, and translator.
• Suheil Bushrui[http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/type,QUERYRESPONSE,,LBN,41501c2b1c,0.html Lebanon: Situation of Baha'is], Government of Canada, 2004-04-16 was a professor, author, poet, critic, translator, and peace maker as a prominent scholar in regard to the life and works of Kahlil Gibran, published more than one volume about him,{{cite book|title=Kahlil Gibran, Man and Poet: a New Biography|year=1998|publisher=Oneworld Publications|author=Bushrui, Suheil B.|author2=Jenkins, Joe|page=[https://archive.org/details/kahlilgibranmanp00suhe/page/55 55]|isbn=978-1851682676|url=https://archive.org/details/kahlilgibranmanp00suhe/page/55}}{{cite book |last=Gibran |first=Khalil |year= 1983 |title=Blue Flame: The Love Letters of Khalil Gibran to May Ziadah |others=edited and translated by Suheil Bushrui and Salma Kuzbari |location=Harlow, England |publisher=Longman|isbn=978-0-582-78078-1}} and served as the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17997163 Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: Why is it so loved?], BBC News, May 12, 2012, Retrieved May 12, 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.heritage.umd.edu/chrsweb/Gibran/Gibran_Chair_Report.htm |title=The Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the Center for Heritage Resource Studies The University of Maryland |publisher=Heritage.umd.edu |accessdate=December 22, 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730115042/http://www.heritage.umd.edu/CHRSWeb/Gibran/Gibran_Chair_Report.htm |archive-date=July 30, 2012 }} and winner of the Juliet Hollister Awards from the Temple of Understanding.{{cite web|url=http://www.steinergraphics.com/bahaichair/news001.html |title=Professor Suheil Bushrui Receives Juliet Hollister Award |publisher=Steinergraphics.com |date=August 20, 2003 |accessdate=December 22, 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130019/http://www.steinergraphics.com/bahaichair/news001.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}

• Margit Warburg published a book on the history of the Baháʼís focusing on the Danish Baháʼí community in 2006.{{cite book|author=Margit Warburg|author-link=Margit Warburg|title=Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Bahaʹis from a Globalisation Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAvXAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-14373-9}}
• Leigh Eric Schmidt devoted a chapter of his Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality published by the University of California Press on the history and impact of Green Acre Baháʼí School.{{cite book|author=Leigh Eric Schmidt|title=Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wbk80IOIgzEC|date=6 August 2012|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-95411-3}}
• The peer-reviewed Journal of Religious History issued a special edition devoted to the Baháʼí Faith in December 2012.{{cite journal

| title =Journal of Religious History, Special Issue: Baha'i History

|journal = Journal of Religious History| volume =36

| issue =4

|editor=Todd Lawson

| date =December 2012

|doi=10.1111/jorh.2012.36.issue-4

}}

• Abbas Amanat − historian, Professor of History & International Studies at Yale University.
• Todd Lawson − Associate Professor Emeritus of Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto.
• Moojan Momen − historian, author of numerous books and articles about the Bahaʼi Faith.
• Omid Ghaemmaghami − Associate Professor of Arabic and Director of Middle East Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Binghamton.
• Peter Smith − historian, currently on faculty at Mahidol University International College in Thailand.
• Moshe Sharon − historian, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he serves as Chair in Baháʼí Studies.
• Ehsan Yarshater − Persianist, Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.

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• ʻAbdu'l-Hamíd Ishráq-Khávari
• Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl
• Mírzá Asadu'llah Fádil Mázandarání
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