Periodical
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						A Periodical is a publication which is released at regular intervals, for example magazines or newspapers. Several Bahá'í institutions and individuals have published periodicals for the Bahá'í community and wider community on the local, national, and international scale. Below is a partial list of Bahá'í periodicals.
Partial List of National and International Periodicals[edit]
Current Periodicals[edit]
| Name | Date Began | City | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Bahá'í | 1970 | Wilmette | National Spiritual Assembly of the United States | 
| Bahá'í Canada | 1976 | ???? | National Spiritual Assembly of Canada[1] | 
| Payám-i-Bahá’í[2] | 1979 | ???? | National Spiritual Assembly of France | 
| Brilliant Star | 1983 | Hixson | National Spiritual Assembly of the United States | 
| The Journal of Bahá'í Studies[3] | 1988 | ???? | Association for Bahá'í Studies, North America | 
| Dayspring: Bahá'í Magazine for Children[4] | 1996 | ???? | ???? | 
| Lights of Irfán[5] | 2000 | ???? | ???? | 
| e*lix*ir[6] | 2015 | ???? | ???? | 
| Tokens[7] | 2015 | ???? | ???? | 
| Szygy: A Journal of Bábí-Bahá’í Studies[8] | 2021 | ???? | ???? | 
Former Periodicals[edit]
1900's - 1930's[edit]
| Name | Date Began | Date Ended | City | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old and New | 1905 | 1905 | Seattle | Nathan Ward Fitzgerald | 
| The Bahai Bulletin | 1908 | 1909 | New York | Bahai Publishing Society | 
| Star of the West | 1910 | 1935 | ???? | ???? | 
| National Baha'i Bulletin | 1919 | 1924 | Washington, D.C. | Teaching Committee of the National Assembly, United States | 
| Sonne der Wahrheit | 1921 | 1953 | ????, Germany | ???? | 
| Wirklichkeit | 1921 | 1922 | ????, Germany | ???? | 
| Akhbár-i-Amrí | 1922 | 1978 | Tehran | National Spiritual Assembly of Iran | 
| The Dawn | 1923 | 1929 | Rangoon | M.S. Desai | 
| Bahá'í News | 1924 | 1990 | ???? | ???? | 
| The Bahá'í Teacher | 1924 | ???? | Montclair | Published for Baha'i Study Classes of World Fellowship Gardens | 
| Herald of the South, series 1 | 1925 | 1960 | Australia | National Spiritual Assembly of Australia | 
| The Bahá'í World | 1926 | 2006 | ???? | World Center | 
| Bahai News | 1928 | ???? | Cairo | National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt | 
| The Bahai Fortnightly | 1931 | ???? | Lahore | Pritam Singh | 
| Bahá'í Journal | 1936 | 1979 | London | National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom | 
| Bahá'í Quarterly | 1936 | 1948 | Adelaide | National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and N.Z. | 
| Baha'i News-Letter | 1938 | ???? | Baghdad | National Spiritual Assembly of Iraq | 
1940's - 1950's[edit]
| Name | Date Began | Date Ended | City | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Child's Way | 1943[9] | 1983 | Wilmette | Child's Way Editorial Committee/Baha'i Subscriber Service | 
| Alaska Teaching Committee Bulletin | 1945 | 1957 | Anchorage | Alaska Teaching Committee | 
| Bahá'í Youth Bulletin | 1946 | ???? | London | British Isles National Youth Committee | 
| Bahá'í Youth Letter | 1946 | 1961 | Semaphore | National Youth Committee of Australia | 
| Bahá'í News and Reviews | 1947 | ???? | Tihran | National Spiritual Assembly of Iran | 
| Bahá'í Bulletin | 1948 | 1953 | Sydney | National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and N.Z. | 
| Bahá'í Temple News Bulletin | 1948 | ???? | Evanston | Baha'i Temple Program Committee | 
| Bahá'í News Canada | 1948 | 1975 | Thornhill | National Spiritual Assembly of Canada | 
| Africa News | 1950 | ???? | London | Africa Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles | 
| Bahá'í Youth Bulletin | 1950 | 1957 | Wilmette | United States Baha'i Youth Committee | 
| The Hawaii Bulletin | 1951 | 1958 | Honolulu | Hawaii Teaching Committee | 
| Baha'i Jubilee: Spiritual Preparation, Readings for Nineteen-Day Feasts | 1952 | ???? | Wilmette | Jubilee Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly, US & Canada. | 
| Bahá'í Youth Broadsheet: Youth Community of the British Isles | 1952 | ???? | Bournemouth | British Isles Youth Committee | 
| Bahá'í Geppo | 1955 | 1972 | Tokyo | National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia | 
| Alaska Bahá'í News | 1957 | ???? | Anchorage | National Teaching Committee | 
| Bahá'í Bulletin of North East Asia | 1957 | ???? | Tokyo | National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia | 
| Bahá'í Gazette | 1957 | ???? | Kampala | National Spiritual Assembly of Uganda | 
| Baha'i News | 1957 | ???? | Djakarta | National Spiritual Assembly of South East Asia | 
| Baha'i Africa Newsletter | 1958 | ???? | Rhodesia | National Spiritual Assembly of South and West Africa | 
| Baha'i News | 1958 | ???? | Karachi | National Spiritual Assembly of Pakistan | 
| Bahá'í News from South and West Africa | 1958 | ???? | Johannesberg | National Spiritual Assembly of South and West Africa | 
| Bahá'í News of the Greater Antilles | 1958 | ???? | Kingston | National Spiritual Assembly of the Greater Antilles | 
| Bahá'í News U.S. Supplement | 1958 | 1967 | Wilmette | National Spiritual Assembly of the United States of America | 
| Bahá'í Youth Magazine | 1958 | ???? | Auckland | Co-ordinating Committee of New Zealand | 
| South Sea Island News | 1959 | 1960 | Suva | National Spiritual Assembly of the South Pacific Ocean | 
1960's[edit]
| Name | Date Began | Date Ended | City | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahá'í News | 1961 | ???? | Kingston | National Spiritual Assembly of Jamaica | 
| The Baha'i News of Panama | 1961 | ???? | Panama | National Spiritual Assembly of Panama | 
| Benelux Bahá'í Bulletin | 1961 | ???? | Esch-sur-Alzette | National Spiritual Assembly of the Benelux Countries | 
| Children's Chapter: Supplement to New Zealand Bahá'í Newsletter | 1962 | 1976 | Auckland | National Spiritual Assembly of New Zealand | 
| Baha'i Bulletin | 1964 | ???? | Honiara | National Spiritual Assembly of the South Pacific Ocean | 
| Bahá'í News of South Central Africa | 1964 | 1970 | Salisbury (now Harare) | National Spiritual Assembly of South Central Africa | 
| Baha'i Newsletter of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of West Central Africa | 1964 | ???? | Lagos | National Spiritual Assembly of West Central Africa | 
| Herald of the South, series 2 | 1964 | 1970 | Australia | National Spiritual Assembly of Australia | 
| Baha'i Echos | 1965 | ???? | Monrovia | National Spiritual Assembly of West Africa | 
| The Baha'i Islander: A News-Letter for the Baha'is of Trinidad, Tobago, Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire | 1965 | ???? | Caracas | National Spiritual Assembly of Venezuela | 
| Bahá'í News | 1965 | ???? | Dar es Salaam | National Spiritual Assembly of Tanzania | 
| Baha'i Newsletter of the South Pacific | 1966 | ???? | Honiara | National Spiritual Assembly of South West Pacific Ocean | 
| Bahá'í International News Service | 1967 | ???? | Haifa | Bahá'í World Centre | 
| Bahá'í News Letter of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands | 1967 | ???? | Tarawa | National Spiritual Assembly of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands | 
| Bahá'í News of the Lesser Antilles | 1967 | ???? | Grenada | National Spiritual Assembly of the Leeward, Winward, and Virgin Islands | 
| Baha'i News Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique | 1967 | 1970 | Mbabane | National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland, Lesotho, and Mozambique | 
| Bahá'í Yng Nghymru | 1968 | ???? | Pontypridd | Welsh Goals Committee | 
| National Bahá'í Review | 1968 | 1983 | Wilmette | National Spiritual Assembly of the United States | 
| Bahá'í Bulletin: Territory of Papua and New Guinea | 1969 | 1969 | Lae | National Spiritual Assembly of Papua New Guinea | 
| Baha'i Kundu: Niusipepa Bilong ol Baha'i | 1969 | ???? | Lae | National Spiritual Assembly of Papua New Guinea | 
| Bahá'í Newsletter | 1969 | ???? | Georgetown | National Spiritual Assembly of Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana | 
1970's[edit]
| Name | Date Began | Date Ended | City | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahá'í News of Rhodesia | 1970 | ???? | Harare | National Spiritual Assembly of Zimbabwe | 
| Bahá'í Bulletin | 1971 | ???? | Port of Spain | National Spiritual Assembly of Trinidad and Tobago | 
| Bahá'í News of Swaziland and Mozambique | 1971 | 1974 | Mbabane | National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland and Mozambique | 
| Bahá'í-Uutiset | 1971 | ???? | Helsinki | Suomen Baha'ien Kansallinen Henkisen Hallineuvoston Julkaisu | 
| Bahá'í Tidhindi | 1972 | ???? | Reykjavik | National Spiritual Assembly of Iceland | 
| Bahá'í News India | 1972 | ???? | New Delhi | National Spiritual Assembly of India | 
| Bahá'í News of Barbados and the Windward Islands | 1972 | 1981 | St Michael | National Spiritual Assembly of Barbados and Windward Islands | 
| Bahá'í Youth Activities | 1972 | ???? | Lushoto | Tanzania National Youth Centre | 
| Bahá'í Digest | 1973 | ???? | Wilmette | National Spiritual Assembly of the United States | 
| Baha'i Jeevan | 1973 | ???? | Kanpur | State Teaching Committee of Uttar Pradesh | 
| Baha'i News - Sri Lanka | 1973 | 1975 | Colombo | National Spiritual Assembly of Sri Lanka | 
| Bahá'í Youth | 1973 | ???? | Kingston | National Youth and Education Committee of Jamaica | 
| The Arctic Quarterly: A Bulletin for the Bahá'í Circumpolar Community | 1974 | ???? | Wakefield | National Arctic Teaching Committee | 
| Incwadi Yesidlo Samabaha'i | 1974 | ???? | Mbabane | National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland | 
| Baha'i fisto letah | 1974 | ???? | Tokyo | National Spiritual Assembly of Japan | 
| Izindaba Zamabaha'i | 1974 | ???? | Mbabane | National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland | 
| The Bedrock | 1974 | ???? | Thornhill | National Spiritual Assembly of Canada | 
| Bomake Nebantfwana | 1974 | ???? | Mbabane | National Woman's and Children's Committee of Swaziland | 
| Children's New Dawn | 1974 | ???? | Nuku'alofa | National Spiritual Assembly of Tonga and Cook Islands | 
| Herald of the South, series 3 | 1974 | 1976 | Australia | National Spiritual Assembly of Australia | 
| Association for Bahá'í Studies Bulletin | 1975 | ???? | Ottawa | Association for Bahá'í Studies, Canada | 
| Bahá'í Canada | 1975 | 1978 | Thornhill | National Spiritual Assembly of Canada | 
| Bahá'í Infro-Expo 75 | 1975 | 1975 | Honolulu | Public Information Office | 
| Baha'i Lesotho Litaba Newsletter | 1975 | ???? | Maseru | National Spiritual Assembly of Lesotho | 
| Baha'i Newsfront | 1975 | 1979 | Lae | National Spiritual Assembly of Papua New Guinea | 
| Boletin Bahá'í | 1975 | ???? | Panama | National Spiritual Assembly of Panama | 
| Bahá'í News Cameroon | 1975 | ???? | Yaounde | National Spiritual Assembly of Cameroon | 
| The Aesthete: A Quarterly Arts Publication | 1976 | 1977 | Ottawa | A. Ouimet & R. Landau | 
| Bahá'í Administrative Committee for Thailand Bulletin | 1976 | ???? | Bangkok | Bahá'í Administrative Committee for Thailand | 
| Bahá'í Family Life | 1976 | ???? | Auckland | Family Life Committee, New Zealand | 
| Bahá'í Studies | 1976 | ???? | Ottawa | Canada Association for Bahá'í Studies | 
| Belize Bahá'í News | 1976 | ???? | Belize | National Spiritual Assembly of Belize | 
| Arise for Victory | 1977 | ???? | Kumasi | National Teaching Committee of Ghana | 
| Bahá'í Bulletin of the French Antilles | 1977 | 1981 | Point-a-Pitre | National Spiritual Assembly of the French Antilles | 
| Baha'i Flash News | 1977 | ???? | Quezon City | National Spiritual Assembly of the Philippines | 
| Bahá'í International Community and the United Nations Newsletter | 1977 | 1977 | New York | Bahá'í International Community | 
| Baha'i News | 1977 | ???? | Vila | National Spiritual Assembly of Vanuatu | 
| Bahá'í News | 1977 | ???? | Georgetown | National Spiritual Assembly of Guyana | 
| Anis: Bulletin for Baha'i Children | 1978 | ???? | Victoria | National Spiritual Assembly of Cameroon | 
| Bahá'í Youth Bulletin | 1978 | ???? | Nairobi | National Youth Committee of Kenya | 
| The Bahá'í Youth Bulletin | 1978 | ???? | Johannesburg | National Youth Committee of South Africa | 
| Alaska Baha'i Dawn Patrol Newsletter | 1979 | 1980 | Fairbanks | ???? | 
| Baha'i Berichten | 1979 | ???? | Gravenhage | Nationale Geestelijke Raad | 
| Bahá'í Mediagram: Bahá'í Radio-Television Newsletter | 1979 | ???? | Maracaibo | Centro par Intercambio Radiofonico Bahá'í de America Latina | 
| Bahá'í Monthly News Service | 1979 | 1984 | London | National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom | 
1980's - 2000's[edit]
| Name | Date Began | Date Ended | City | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Baha'i Teaching Bulletin | 1980 | ???? | Anchorage | National Teaching Committee | 
| Alaska Baha'i Youth Newsletter | 1980 | ???? | Kenai | Youth Advisory Committee | 
| Baha'i News-Letter | 1980 | ???? | Colombo | National Spiritual Assembly of Sri Lanka | 
| Bahá'í Pulse | 1980 | 1980 | Georgetown | Guyana National Youth Committee | 
| Bahá'í Studies Notebook | 1980 | ???? | Ottawa | Canada Association for Bahá'í Studies | 
| African Highlights | 1981 | ???? | Nairobi | Continental Board of Counsellors for Africa | 
| `Andalíb[10] | 1981 | 2012 | Thornhill | National Spiritual Assembly of Canada | 
| Arise: The Bahá'í News of the Windward Islands | 1981 | 1983 | Kingstown | National Spiritual Assembly of the Windward Islands | 
| Bahá'í News of Barbados | 1981 | ???? | St. Michael | National Spiritual Assembly of Barbados | 
| Bahá'í News of Southwest Africa/Namibia | 1981 | ???? | Windhoek | National Spiritual Assembly of South West Africa | 
| Bahá'í Tuvalu | 1981 | ???? | Funafuti | National Spiritual Assembly of Tuvalu | 
| The Bangladeshi Bahá'í | 1981 | ???? | Dacca | National Spiritual Assembly of Bangladesh | 
| Lokwalo Dikgang | 1981 | ???? | Mafikeng | National Spiritual Assembly of Bophuthatswana | 
| Brilliant Star: Children's School News | 1981 | ???? | Mahe | National Education Committee of the Seychelles | 
| Arise | 1982 | ???? | Nairobi | National Youth Committee of Kenya | 
| The Assistants: A Bahá'í Bulletin for the Assistants to Auxiliary Board Members in A.P. | 1982 | ???? | Secunderabad | Pirooz Fazli | 
| Bahá'í Computer User's Association Newsletter | 1982 | ???? | Navajo | Roger Coe | 
| Bahá'í News Bulletins | 1982 | ???? | Banjul | National Spiritual Assembly of Gambia | 
| Bahá'í Studies Bulletin | 1982 | ???? | Ottawa | Canada Association for Bahá'í Studies | 
| Bahá'í Youth Academy Bulletin | 1982 | ???? | Panchgani | Baha'i Youth Academy | 
| Be | 1982 | ???? | Iowa City | University of Iowa Baha'i Club | 
| Assistants Newsmagazine | 1983 | ???? | ????, Sri Lanka | K. Selowarajoo | 
| Bahá'í Bulletin for the Eastern Caroline Islands | 1983 | ???? | Ponape | National Teaching Committee | 
| Bahá'í International Health Agency Bulletin | 1983 | ???? | Ottawa | Bahá'í International Health Agency | 
| Baha'i News Dominica | 1983 | ???? | Roseau | National Spiritual Assembly of Dominica | 
| Baha'i Newsletter of the Western Caroline Islands | 1983 | ???? | Koror | Administrative Committee of the Western Caroline Islands | 
| The Bahá'í Star: The Magazine for Bahá'í Youth of Zimbabwe | 1983 | ???? | Harare | Zimbabwe Magazine Committee | 
| Billabong | 1983 | ???? | Singleton | The Billabong Team | 
| Children's Journal | 1983 | ???? | Colombo | National Baha'i Child Education Committee | 
| Ablaze!: Japan Bahá'í Youth Newsletter | 1984 | ???? | Tokyo | National Youth Committee | 
| Baha'i Feast Letter | 1984 | ???? | Limbe | National Spiritual Assembly of Malawi | 
| The Bahá'í Journal | 1984 | ???? | London | National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom | 
| Baha'i News | 1984 | ???? | St. George's | National Spiritual Assembly of Grenada | 
| Belize Bahá'í Newsletter | 1984 | ???? | Belize City | National Spiritual Assembly of Belize | 
| The Best Seller: The Bahá'í Distribution Service Newsletter | 1984 | ???? | Wilmette | Baha'i Distribution Services | 
| Botswana Bahá'í | 1984 | ???? | Gaborone | National Spiritual Assembly of Botswana | 
| Herald of the South, series 4 | 1984 | 1999 | Australia | National Spiritual Assembly of Australia | 
| Arise to Assist: The Quarterly News Bulletin of the Auxiliary Board Members in Kenya | 1985 | ???? | ????, Kenya | Auxiliary Board Members in Kenya | 
| Art of Living | 1985 | ???? | Lusaka | Social and Economic Development Committee of Zambia | 
| Asia Pioneer News | 1985 | ???? | Singapore | Continental Pioneer Committee for Asia | 
| Assistants Bulletin for the Board of Protection in Bangladesh | 1985 | ???? | Dhaka | Mr. Amjad Ali | 
| Association for Bahá'í Studies Bulletin | 1985 | ???? | Willeton | Association for Bahá'í Studies, Australia | 
| Baha'i Academy News Letter | 1985 | ???? | Panchgani | Panchgani Baha'i Academy | 
| Bahá'í Bulletin for the Western Caroline Islands | 1985 | ???? | Colonia | National Spiritual Assembly of the Western Caroline Islands | 
| Baha'i Life Better Life | 1985 | ???? | Lagos | Baha'i Women's/Children's Education Committee of Nigeria | 
| Baha'i News Letter for Taiwan | 1985 | ???? | Hsin Ying | Daniel Boone | 
| Bahá'í North | 1985 | ???? | Chandigarh | State Teaching Committee of the Bahá'ís of Punjab | 
| Bahá'í Vanuatu | 1985 | ???? | Port Vila | National Spiritual Assembly of Vanuatu | 
| Board Activity News Pakistan | 1985 | ???? | Pakistan | Auxiliary Board Members in Pakistan | 
| Brilliant Stars | 1985 | ???? | Dhaka | National Women Committee of Bangladesh | 
| Teach! Canada[11] | 1988 | 1990 | ???? | ???? | 
| Bahá'í Digest[12] | 1988 | ???? | Kuala Lumpur | National Spiritual Assembly of Malaysia | 
| One Country[13] | 1989 | 2016 | ???? | Bahá'í International Community | 
| The Bahá'í Studies Review[14] | 1991 | 2012 | London | Association for Bahá'í Studies, Europe | 
| Scriptum: Newsletter for Bahá'í Librarians, Archivists and Information Professionals[15] | 1995 | 2001 | ???? | William P. Collins | 
| Australian Bahá'í Report[16] | 1997 | 2015 | ???? | ???? | 
| Online Journal of Bahá'í Studies[17] | 2007 | 2008 | ???? | ???? | 
Notes[edit]
- ↑ https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD_Canada
- ↑ https://payam-bahai.com/
- ↑ https://bahai-studies.ca/past-issues/
- ↑ http://dayspring-magazine.org.uk/
- ↑ http://irfancolloquia.org/publications/
- ↑ http://www.elixir-journal.org/
- ↑ https://tokenspoetry.org/
- ↑ https://tokenspoetry.org/
- ↑ Canadian Bahá’í News No 249 pg 10
- ↑ http://www.afnanlibrary.org/docs/persian-arabic-publications/andalib-2/
- ↑ https://bahai.works/Teach!_Canada
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 1087. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://www.onecountry.org/
- ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/title/bahai-studies-review/oclc/225931690
- ↑ https://wilmetteinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/William-P.-Collins-CV.pdf
- ↑ https://bahai.works/Australian_Baha%E2%80%99i_Report
- ↑ http://oj.bahaistudies.net/
References[edit]
- Periodicals listed in Collins, W. P. (1990). Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths 1844-1985. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-315-1., pp 164-184