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Abdu'l-Bahá

The writings and recorded talks of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (1844–1921), son of Bahá'u'lláh and the authorized interpreter of his writings, in their authorized English texts.

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A Traveler's Narrative — Abdu'l-BaháʻAbdu'l-Bahá's history of the Báb and his followers, told in the voice of an unnamed traveller and first published in English in 1891, including the text of Bahá'u'lláh's letter to Náṣiri'd-Dín Sháh, in the Bahá'í Reference Library edition with its notes.Abdu'l-Bahá in LondonAddresses and notes of conversations from ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's visit to London in September 1911, among them his address from the pulpit of the City Temple and his discourse at St John's, Westminster, with greetings sent to the London Bahá'ís that autumn, in the Bahá'í Reference Library edition.Foundations of World Unity — Abdu'l-BaháTwenty-nine talks and letters of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (1844–1921), head of the Bahá'í Faith after Bahá'u'lláh, on universal peace, the renewal and unity of religion, racial harmony, economic justice, science, education and the spiritual life, many of them addresses given in the United States in 1912, reproduced whole from the Bahá'í Reference Library edition.Memorials of the Faithful — Abdu'l-BaháʻAbdu'l-Bahá's sixty-four memorial portraits of early Bábí and Bahá'í believers, emigrants, fellow exiles, prisoners and martyrs, among them the poet Táhirih, from his Persian Tadhkiratu'l-Vafá, reproduced whole from the Bahá'í Reference Library edition.Paris Talks — Abdu'l-BaháTalks given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in Paris between October and December 1911, among them his explanation of eleven principles of Bahá'u'lláh's teaching, with later addresses in London and a tablet of 1913, in the Bahá'í Reference Library edition.Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-BaháTwo hundred and thirty-seven numbered selections from the letters and prayers of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (1844–1921), head of the Bahá'í Faith after Bahá'u'lláh, on unity, the Covenant, consultation, marriage, the education of children, healing, the life after death and teaching, reproduced whole from the Bahá'í Reference Library edition.Some Answered Questions — Abdu'l-Bahá‘Abdu'l-Bahá's table talks given in ‘Akká between 1904 and 1906, answering questions on the existence of God, the Prophets, Christian doctrine, the powers of the Manifestations of God, the origin and immortality of the soul, free will and other subjects, in eighty-four chapters and five parts, in the Bahá'í Reference Library's English edition.Tablet to Dr. Forel — Abdu'l-Bahá‘Abdu'l-Bahá's letter of 21 September 1921 to the Swiss psychiatrist and scientist Auguste Forel, on materialism and philosophy, the soul and the mind, the evidence of a Reality behind nature, and the Bahá'í social teachings, in the Bahá'í Reference Library's English edition.Tablets of the Divine Plan — Abdu'l-BaháThe fourteen tablets ʻAbdu'l-Bahá addressed to the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada in 1916 and 1917, calling on them to carry their faith to every region of the world, in the Bahá'í Reference Library edition.The Promulgation of Universal Peace — Abdu'l-BaháThe 139 talks ʻAbdu'l-Bahá gave on his 1912 journey through the United States and Canada, from New York and Washington to Chicago, Montreal, Denver and San Francisco, in churches, synagogues, universities, peace meetings and Bahá'í homes, in the Bahá'í Reference Library edition.The Secret of Divine Civilization — Abdu'l-BaháʻAbdu'l-Bahá's treatise of 1875 urging the reform of Persia through consultative government, education, an upright learned class and the sciences, issued without its author's name, in the Bahá'í Reference Library English edition with its notes.The Will and Testament of Abdu'l-BaháThe Will and Testament of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá (1844–1921), the three-part document in which he appointed his grandson Shoghi Effendi Guardian of the Cause of God and set out the institutions of the Bahá'í administrative order, in the Bahá'í Reference Library's English edition.