Since all books and publications are required by the Baha'i
administration to undergo the censorship inherent in the process of
"review," a supposedly "temporary" measure now more than eighty-five
years in effect, there are very few independent sources of information
and knowledge available about the history and teachings of the Baha'i
Faith. Those that any serious student should be aware of are given
below.
Review of Sen McGlinn, Church and State. Leiden, 2005. By Frederick
Glaysher.
http://fglaysher.com/Reviews/2007/12/15/sen-mcglinn-church-and-state-leiden-2005/
William Garlington. The Bahai Faith in America. Praeger. 2005. c.221p.
bibliog. index. ISBN 0-275-98413-3. $39.95.
REVIEW by Frederick Glaysher
In the only book worth reading on the Bahai Faith
since 1987, Professor Juan Cole emphasizes the fundamentalism
that has overtaken the religion during the 20th Century:
Modernity and the Millennium : The Genesis of
the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East Columbia University Press, 1998.
Reviews of Cole's Modernity and the
Millennium
Mirza Ahmad Sohrab's Broken Silence: The Story of Today's
Struggle
for Religious Freedom. New York: Universal Publishing, 1942.
Reprinted. H-Bahai:
Lansing, Michigan, 2004.
Sohrab presents a view of Bahai life
in America during the early 20th Century very different from what the usual
sanitized public version suggests. The version on H-Bahai is a sanitized one,
leaving out some very important pages.
Excerpts:
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/SohrabEx.htm
Sohrab's entire book may be downloaded in one click. 21 megabytes.
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/SohrabBrokenSilence.pdf
The Baha'i Faith: Its History and Teachings. William McElwee Miller.
William Cary Library, 1974.
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