Sample Compilation of Readings

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas:

A Compilation of
Descriptions and Commentaries


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       Table of Contents

       Notes to this compilation
       Section 1: Introduction to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas
       Section 2: The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh
       Section 3: A New World Order
       Section 4: The Law of God
       Section 5: Worship and Daily Life
       Section 6: Kings Addressed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas
       Section 7: Divine Education
       Endnotes

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Notes:
These materials are arranged first by key texts, then supplementary ones. The specific order is as follows: (1) Basic Bahá'í Dictionary; (2) writings of Bahá'u'lláh; (3) writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá; (4) writings of Shoghi Effendi; (5) letters from the Universal House of Justice; (6) descriptive books by Adib Taherzadeh and official histories by H. M. Balyuzi; (7) other secondary texts. Extracts from the Kitáb-i-Aqdas itself have not been re-printed here, as all students should own a copy (if you don't have a copy, it can be downloaded from http://bahai-library.org/writings). Only a few secondary texts have been included. A full list, giving citations on dozens of more books and articles mentioning the Tablets being studied for each week, can be found in the Resource Bibliography.

As these texts were either scanned or manually formatted from ASCII files, they will have a different appearance than the original books: specifically, not all italicizing was retained, underdot diacritics could not be inserted, and most underlining (e.g. "Shaykhí") was not included. Most endnotes and footnotes were not included; please consult the actual books. Any errors were accidentally introduced and did not exist in the originals; please notify Jonah Winters, winters@bahai-library.org, if you find any.

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