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Bahaikipedia's contents: Overviews

The following is a list of overviews of Bahaikipedia's content organized by topic.

Articles

Divine Plans

1st Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) • 2nd Seven Year Plan (1946-1953) • African Campaign (1950-1953) • Australian Six Year Plan (1947-1953) • British Six Year Plan (1944-1950) • British Two Year Plan (1951-1953) • Canadian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) • Central American One Year Plan (1952-1953) • Egyptian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) • Egyptian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) • Indian Six Year Plan (1938-1944) • Indian Four Year Plan (1946-1950) • Indian Nineteen Month Plan (1951-1953) • Iraqi Three Year Plan (1950-1953) • Persian Four Year Plan (1946-1950) • Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963) • Nine Year Plan (1964-1973) • Five Year Plan (1974-1979) • Seven Year Plan (1979-1986) • Six Year Plan (1986-1992) • Three Year Plan (1993-1996) • Four Year Plan (1996-2000) • Twelve Month Plan (2000-2001) • Five Year Plan (2001-2006) • Five Year Plan (2006-2011)

Holy days and events

Ayyám-i-Há • Garden of Riḍván • Naw-Rúz • Riḍván • Martyrdom of the Báb • Conference of Badasht

Institutions

Auxiliary Board • Centre for the Study of the Texts • Continental Board of Counsellors • Institution of the Custodians • Hazíratu'l-Quds • International Bahá'í Council • International Teaching Centre • Local Spiritual Assembly • Mashriqu'l-Adhkár • National Spiritual Assembly • Office of Public Information • Publishing Trusts • Regional Bahá'í Council • Regional Spiritual Assembly • Universal House of Justice • World Centre

Educational institutions

Bahá'í run

Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education • Bosch • Green Acre • Louhelen • Nur University • Ruhi Institute

Bahá'í inspired

Banani International Secondary School • Barli Vocational Institute for Rural Women in Indore • FUNDAEC • Forel International School • Ocean of Light International School • One Planet International School • School of the Nations

Laws

Alcohol • Alláh-u-Abhá • Chastity • Education • Greatest Name • Homosexuality • Huqúqu'lláh • Fast • Obligatory Prayer • Pilgrimage

Persecution

Egyptian identification card controversy • Martyrdom of the Báb • Statements about the persecution of Bahá'ís

Pilgrimage

Pilgrim House • Shrine of the Báb • Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh • Terraces • World Centre

Practices

Alláh-u-Abhá • Consultation • Marriage • Fast • Nineteen Day Feast • Obligatory Prayer • Pilgrimage • Pioneering • Study circle • Qiblih

Prophecies

Prophecies from the Bible

Revelation 1:7

Publishing Trusts

Australia • India • United States

Religions

Bahá'í Faith • Buddhism • Bábí religion • Christianity • Judaism • Hinduism • Islám • Zoroastrianism

Statistics

Number of Baha'is in the world • Statistics on National Spiritual Assemblies

Teachings

Auxiliary language • Clergy • Consultation • Covenant • Education • Family • Gender equality • God • Lesser Peace • Loyalty to government • Manifestation of God • Marriage • Military Service • Oneness • Politics • Progressive revelation • Science • Unity in diversity • Unity of humanity • Unity of religion

Terminology

Afnán • Aghsán • Anna's Presentation • Bahá'í Era • Bahá'í International Community • Bahá'í inspired school • Bahá'í school • Cluster • Concourse on high • Core activities • Entry by troops • Fireside • Formative Age • Greatest Name • Haykal • Holy Land • Individual Initiative • Lesser Peace • Nine Pointed Star • Pioneer • Qiblih • Ringstone Symbol • Spiritual Assembly • Tablet

Chronology

Articles

Ages and Cycles • Formative Age • Timeline

Chronology

Births • Deaths • Declarations • Establishments • Publications

Timeline

Months • Years • Decades • Centuries

Geography and places

Africa

Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • The Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo • Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • Tunisia • Western Sahara • Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe • Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe • Botswana • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa • Swaziland

Dependencies British Indian Ocean Territory • Mayotte • Réunion • Saint Helena • Canary Islands • Ceuta • Madeira • Melilla • Socotra • Puntland • Somaliland • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Americas

Caribbean

Bahamas • Barbados • Cuba • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Leeward Islands • Martinique • Virgin Islands

Central America

Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama

North America

Antigua and Barbuda • Bahamas • Barbados • Belize • Canada • Costa Rica • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • El Salvador • Grenada • Guatemala • Haiti • Honduras • Jamaica • Mexico • Nicaragua • Panama • Saint Kitts and Neviss • Saint Lucia • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • United States

Dependencies Greenland • Guadeloupe • Martinique • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Martin • Saint Pierre and Miquelon • Clipperton • Aruba • Netherlands Antilles • Anguilla • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Montserrat • Turks and Caicos Islands • Puerto Rico • U.S. Virgin Islands • Navassa • Serranilla Bank • Petrel Islands

South America

Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Guyana • Panama • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Trinidad and Tobago • Uruguay • Venezuela

Dependencies Aruba • Falkland Islands • French Guiana • Netherlands Antilles • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Asia

Afghanistan • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan • Russia • Siberia • China • Taiwan • Japan • Mongolia • North Korea • South Korea • Bangladesh • Bhutan • India • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka • Brunei • Cambodia • Indonesia • Laos • Malaysia • Myanmar • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand • East Timor • Vietnam

Europe

Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Italy • Kazakhstan • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Republic of Macedonia • Malta • Moldova • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine • United Kingdom • Vatican City

Dependencies Adjara • Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Azores • Canary Islands • Ceuta • Crimea • Faroe Islands • Gagauzia • Gibraltar • Greenland • Guernsey • Jersey • Madeira • Man, Isle of • Melilla • Mount Athos • Nakhchivan • Abkhazia • Nagorno-Karabakh • South Ossetia • Transnistria • Northern Cyprus • Kosovo

Oceania

Australia • Christmas Island • Cocos (Keeling) Islands • New Zealand • Norfolk Island • East Timor • Fiji • Indonesia (Maluku Islands) • New Caledonia • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu • Federated States of Micronesia • Guam • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands • Palau • American Samoa • Cook Islands • French Polynesia • Niue • Pitcairn • Samoa • Tokelau • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna

National Spiritual Assemblies

Current

Alaska • Albania • Andaman and Nicobar • Angola • Arabian Peninsula • Argentina • Armenia • Australia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Bahamas • Bangladesh • Barbados • Belarus • Belgium • Belize • Benin • Bermuda • Bolivia • Botswana • Brazil • Bulgaria • Burkina • Cambodia • Cameroon • Canada • Canary Islands • Cape Verde • Ceylon • Chile • Colombia • Costa Rica • Cuba • Czechoslovakia • Democratic Republic of the Congo • Denmark • Dominican Republic • East Leeward Islands • Ecuador • Egypt • El Salvador • Equatorial Guinea • Eritrea • French Guiana • Finland • France • Gabon • Grenada • Greenland • Georgia • Germany • Greece • Guatemala • Guyana • Haiti • Honduras • Hungary • Ireland • India • Italy • Jamaica • Japan • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Kenya • Korea • Laos • Latvia • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Martinique • Mongolia • Moldova • Macedonia • Malaysia • Mexico • Myanmar • Nicaragua • Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Pakistan • Paraguay • Peru • Papua New Guinea • Panama • Philippines • Poland • Portugal • Russia • Switzerland • Sicily • Slovenia and Croatia • Samoa • Sarawak • Singapore • South Africa • Spain • Sweden • Tajikistan • Taiwan • Tanzania • Thailand • Turkey • Uruguay • Ukraine • Uzbekistan • United Kingdom • United States • Vietnam • Vanuatu • Venezuela • Yemen • Zimbabwe

Former

Arabia • Baltic States • British Isles • South Pacific • United States and Canada

Notable Bahá'ís

Central Figures

The Báb

Writings of the Báb • Martyrdom of the Báb

Bahá'u'lláh

Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Notable Bahá'ís

Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh

Mírzá Músá • Badí‘ • Sultánu'sh-Shuhada' (King of Martyrs) • Hájí Amín • Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl • Varqá • Mírzá Mahmúd • Hají Ákhúnd • Nabíl-i-Akbar • Vakílu'd-Dawlih • Ibn-i-Abhar • Nabíl-i-A'zam • Samandar • Mírzá Mustafá • Mishkín-Qalam • Adíb • Shaykh Muhammad-'Alí • Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín • Ibn-i-Asdaq

Continental Counsellors

Custodians

Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khanum • Charles Mason Remey • Amelia Collins • Leroy Ioas • Hasan Balyuzi • 'Alí-Akbar Furútan • Jalal Khazeh • Paul Haney • Adelbert Muhlschlegel • John Ferraby • Horace Holley • William Sears

Disciples of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

John Esslemont • Thornton Chase • Howard MacNutt • Sarah Farmer • Hippolyte Dreyfuss-Barney • Lillian Kappes • Robert Turner • Arthur Brauns • Lua Getsinger • Joseph Hannan • Chester I. Thatcher • Charles Greenleaf • Isabella D. Brittingham • Mrs. Thornburgh • Helen S. Goodall • Arthur P. Dodge • William H. Hoar • J.G. Augur

Hands of the Cause of God

Appointed by Bahá'u'lláh

Hají Mullá `Alí-Akbar • Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqí • Mírzá Muhammad-Hasan • Mírzá `Ali-Muhammad

Appointed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Aqa Muhammad-i-Qa'ini • Mirza 'Alí-Muhammad Varqá • Mulla Sadiq-i-Muqaddas • Shaykh Muhammad-Riday-i-Yazdi

Shoghi Effendi

Appointed posthumously

John Ebenezer Esslemont • Hájí Amín • Keith Ransom-Kehler • Martha Root • Hyde Dunn • Siyyid Mustafá Rúmí • Abdu'l-Jalil Bey Sa'd • Muhammed Taqiy-i-Isfahani • Roy C. Wilhelm • Louis Gregory

First contingent, appointed 24 December 1951

Dorothy Baker • Amelia Collins • 'Alí-Akbar Furútan • Ugo Giachery • Hermann Grossmann • Horace Hotchkiss Holley • Leroy C. Ioas • William Sutherland Maxwell • Taráz'u'lláh Samandarí • Valíyu'lláh Varqá • George Townshend • Charles Mason Remey

Second contingent, appointed 29 February 1952

Siegfried Schopflocher • Shu'á'u'lláh 'Alá'í • Músá Banání • Clara Dunn • Dhikru'lláh Khádim • Adelbert Mühlschlegel • Corinne Knight True

Appointed by Shoghi Effendi

Amatu'l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum • Jalál Kháḍih • Paul Edmond Haney • ‘Alí-Muhammad Varqá • Agnes Alexander

Last contingent, appointed 2 October 1957

Hasan Muvaqqar Balyúzí • Abu'l-Qásim Faizi • John Graham Ferraby • Harold Collis Featherstone • Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir • Enoch Olinga • John Aldham Robarts • William Sears

Holy family

Knights of Bahá'u'lláh

Elsie Austin • Gertrude Blum • Mildred Clark • Charles Dunning • Roy Fernie • Mabel Grace Geary • Elizabeth Hopper • Catherine Huxtable • Alyce Janssen • Malcolm King • Violet McKinley • Ruth Katharine Meyer • Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir • Richard Nolen • Enoch Olinga • Ola Pawlowska • 'Alí Akbar Rafí'í Rafsanjání • Marcia Steward de Matamores

Martyrs

Notable individuals

Pioneers

Universal House of Justice members

Farzam Arbab • Kiser Barnes • Hugh Chance • Gustavo Correa • Hooper Dunbar • Hushmand Fatheazam • Amoz Gibson • Hartmut Grossmann • Lutfu'lláh Hakím • David Hofman • Firaydoun Javaheri • Borrah Kavelin • Peter Khan • Paul Lample • Douglas Martin • Glenford E. Mitchell • Payman Mohajer • Alí Nakhjavání • Shahriar Razavi • David Ruhe • Ian Semple • Adib Taherzadeh • Charles Wolcott

Notable Bábís

Letters of the Living

Mullá Ḥusayn • Muḥammad-Ḥasan Bushrú'í • Muḥammad-Báqir Bushrú'í • Mullá 'Alí Basṭámí • Mullá Khudá-Bakhsh Qúchání • Mullá Ḥasan Bajistání • Siyyid Ḥusayn Yazdí • Mullá Muḥammad Rawḍih-Khán Yazdí • Sa`íd Hindí • Mullá Maḥmud Khu'í • Mullá (`Abdu'l-)Jalíl Urúmí (Urdúbádí) • Mullá Aḥmad-i-Ibdál Marághi'í • Mullá Báqir Tabrízí • Mullá Yúsuf Ardibílí • Mullá Hádí Qazvíní • Mullá Muḥammad-`Alí Qazvíní • Ṭáhirih • Quddús

Authors

Publications

Books

A: Academic • Arts • Authoritative and Sacred B: Biography C: Central Figures • Children's • Christianity • Comparison Studies • Compilations E: Education F: Family G: Global H: Heritage • Hinduism • History I: Inspirational • Introduction • Islam J: Judaism L: Life and Death M: Marriage N: Novels P: Persian • Personal Transformation • Philosophy • Poetry • Prayer R: Racism • Reference S: Self Help • Social and Economic Development • Spirituality • Studies T: Teaching U: Uncategorized W: Women • World Religions Y: Youth

Periodicals

Discontinued Periodicals

Berita Bahá'í • Light of the Age • Malaysian Bahá'í News • Star of the West

Publishers

Bahá'í Publishing Trust, India • Bahá'í Publishing Trust, India • Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Johannesburg • Bahá'í Publishing Trust, United States • George Ronald • Juxta Publishing Limited • Splendour Publications • Kalimat Press

Schools

Schools

Bosch • Desert Rose Baha'i InstituteGreen Acre • Louhelen • School of the Nations

Bahá'í inspired schools

Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education • Banani International Secondary School • Barli Vocational Institute for Rural Women in Indore • Forel International School • Maxwell International School • Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute • New Era High School • Nur University