Updated Bibliographies on Babism and the Persecution, Repression and Diaspora of the Iranian, Egyptian and other Baha’i communities.
The Antipodean Baha’i Studies site has made available an updated bibliography on Babism. Despite being more or less a religion which has come and gone historically it still continues to generate and attrract a great deal of scholalrly interest. The Bibliography originally posted here in 2007 has been substantially expanded and updated. The bibliography now includes European language sources for the Babi religion and as a result has tripled in size to 500 individual items. The bibliography focusses on scholalry publications but also includes polemical material from key witnesses to the Babi movement such as Christian missionaries in Iran. The Bibliography continues to be developed and it is therefore known to be incomplete, however it does include an excellent starting point for someone wanting to research Babism. There is an ongoing need to make available in English the research of 19th century French and Russian researchers.
The thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the inauguration of the revolutionary state this year signals also the 30 year persecution repression and subsequent world-wide diaspora of the Iranian Baha’i community. In recent years the Egyptian Baha’i community has experienced persecution, adverse psychological propaganda, arson and legal entanglements as they too have batted the persecutor’s and conspirator’s mindset. The Bibliography on the Persecution, Repression and Diaspora of the Baha’i community is designed to be selective but broad in its range: documenting persecution, human rights issues, studies of diasporic individuals and communities, parliamentary transactions and resolutions, legal challenges, historical sociological medical and anthropological perspectives and dimensions of persecution, diaspora and martyrdom. It is designed to give the researcher a broad overview of the range and type of material available on this topic and to bootstrap new analysis scholarship and research. Material is selected from European language sources.