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'Abdu'l-Bahá — Bahá'u'lláh510 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — J. E. Esslemont176 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — the Báb167 stories
Bahíyyih Khánum — Bahíyyih Khánum and others167 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — the Báb133 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Shoghi Effendi109 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — J. E. Esslemont102 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Shoghi Effendi94 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Bahíyyih Khánum89 stories
Shoghi Effendi — the Báb78 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Bahíyyih Khánum and others71 stories
Bahíyyih Khánum — Shoghi Effendi65 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Bahíyyih Khánum63 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — William Sears58 stories
Bahíyyih Khánum and others — Shoghi Effendi52 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Bahíyyih Khánum and others49 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Lady Blomfield48 stories
William Sears — the Báb48 stories
J. E. Esslemont — the Báb39 stories
Rúḥíyyih Khánum — Shoghi Effendi36 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání36 stories
Adib Taherzadeh — Bahá'u'lláh35 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Juliet Thompson35 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — William Sears35 stories
Mullá Ḥusayn — the Báb32 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Howard Colby Ives28 stories
Quddús — the Báb23 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Hasan Balyuzi20 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Rúḥíyyih Khánum19 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Lua Getsinger19 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Lady Blomfield19 stories
Shoghi Effendi — William Sears18 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — May Maxwell17 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Adib Taherzadeh16 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Quddús16 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Hasan Balyuzi15 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Mírzá Mihdí15 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Ali-Kuli Khan13 stories
Mullá Ḥusayn — Shoghi Effendi13 stories
Adib Taherzadeh — the Báb12 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Mírzá Mihdí12 stories
Quddús — Shoghi Effendi12 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Louis Gregory11 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Mullá Ḥusayn11 stories
Mírzá Mihdí — the Báb10 stories
Bahíyyih Khánum — the Báb10 stories
Mullá Ḥusayn — Quddús10 stories
Rúhíyyih Khánum — Rúḥíyyih Khánum9 stories
Bahá'u'lláh — Ásíyih Khánum9 stories
'Abdu'l-Bahá — Ásíyih Khánum9 stories

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‘Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas1 'Abdu'l-Bahá2180 'Abdu'l-Kháliq-i-Iṣfahání1 'Alí Khán1 'Alí Khán of Máh-Kú2 Abraham1 Abu'l-Qásim Faizí1 Abu’l-Qásim of Sulṭán-Ábád1 Adib Taherzadeh40 Admiral Robert E. Peary1 Agnes Alexander1 Agnes B. Alexander2 Ahmad Sohrab4 Alain Locke1 Albert Hall1 Albert Schwarz1 Ali Nakhjavání1 Ali-Kuli Khan15 Alma Knobloch1 Alí-Akbar Furútán4 Amatu’l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum1 Amelia Collins1 Amír-Nizám1 Anís4 Aqa Husayn-i-Ashchi2 Aqa Mirza Ali-Muhammad (Ibn-i-Asdaq)1 Aqa Mirza Muhammad-Taqi Abhari (Ibn-i-Abhar)1 Archdeacon Wilberforce1 Aḥmad of Yazd1 Aḥmad-i-Yazdí1 Aẓím-i-Tafríshí1 Baha’i Chronicles Launched1 Bahá'u'lláh826 Bahíyyih Khánum198 Bahíyyih Khánum and others167 Bábí prisoners of the Síyáh-Chál1 Charles Mason Remey2 Christ6 Clara Dunn1 Collis Featherstone1 Corinne True1 Darvísh Ṣidq-‘Alí1 David Starr Jordan1 Dr. and Mrs. Florian Krug1 E. G. Browne1 Edward Getsinger1 Edward Granville Browne1 Effie Baker1 Elizabeth H. Stewart1 Esfandayár1 Fareeza Khanum1 Firuz Kazemzadeh1 Florence Breed Khán2 Florence Khan2 Footnotes1 Fáṭimih Begum1 G. Stanley Hall1 Galen1 Genevieve Coy1 George Washington1 Haji ‘Abdu’l-Vahhab1 Haji Mahmud Qassabchi1 Haji Mirza Abu’l-Hasan Ardikani aka Haji Amin1 Haji Mirza Hasan-i-Adib1 Haji Mirza Musay-i-Javahari1 Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali, Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad and Haji Mirza Hassan Ali1 Haji Muhammad Rida Isfahani1 Haji Muhammad Tihir Malmiri1 Haji Muhammad-Taqiy-i-Kirmani and Siyyid Murtada1 Haji Mulla Isma’il-i-Qumi1 Harriet Cline1 Hasan Balyuzi32 Helen Goodall1 Hippolyte Dreyfus1 His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá)1 Horace Holley6 Howard Colby Ives33 Howard MacNutt2 Husayn Effendi Tabrízí1 Husayn-Áqáy-i-Tabrízí1 Hushmand Fatheazam2 Hyde Dunn1 Hyde and Lillian Dunn2 Hájí Ja‘far-i-Tabrízí, Hájí Hasan-i-Tabrízí and Hájí Taqí-i-Tabrízí1 Hájí Muhammad-Ridáy-i-Shírází1 Hájí Áqáy-i-Tabrízí1 Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí1 Imám-Jum'ih of Iṣfáhán1 Isabel Grinevskaya1 Ismu’lláhu’l-Asdaq (Mullá Ṣádiq Khurasani)1 J. E. Esslemont180 Jamshíd-i-Gurjí1 Jamál Effendi1 Jane Addams1 Jesus Christ2 Jináb-i-Muníb2 John Esslemont1 John Ferraby1 John Robarts9 Joseph1 Julia M. Grundy4 Juliet Thompson39 Keith Ransom-Kehler2 King of Martyrs2 Lady Blomfield57 Laura Clifford Barney6 Leo Tolstoy1 Leopold Stark1 Leslie Armstrong1 Letters of the Living1 Louis G. Gregory4 Louis George Gregory1 Louis Gregory13 Lua Getsinger22 Major Tudor Pole1 Manúchihr Khán2 Marjorie Morten1 Martha Root5 Mary Hanford Ford1 Marzieh Gail1 Mashhadí Faṭṭáḥ1 Mashhadí Muḥammad-i-Ádhirbáyjání1 Mashhadí Ḥusayn1 Mashhadí Ḥusayn and Mashhadí Muḥammad-I-Ádhirbáyjání1 May Maxwell19 Mirza Abu’l-Fadl1 Mirza Aqay-i-Rikab-Saz1 Mirza Asadu’llah Fadil Mazandarani (Jinab-i-Fadil)1 Mirza Mahmud-i-Zargání1 Mirza Muhammad-Husayn and Mirza Muhammad-Hasan1 Mirza Qurban-‘Ali1 Mirza Yusuf Vahid Kashfi1 Mirzá ‘Abd’u’lláh Faráháni, ‘The Divine Musician’1 Mishkín-Qalam5 Moses4 Mountfort Mills3 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons2 Mrs. Buckton1 Mrs. Fraser1 Mrs. Thornburgh-Cropper1 Muhammad-Husayn-i-Maraghi’i1 Mulla Jafar Isfahani1 Mulla Muhammad-Riday-i-Manshadi (Rada’r-Ruh)1 Mulla`Ali-Akbar Shahmirzadi1 Mullá Ahmad-i-Ibdál-i-Marághi’í1 Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí1 Mullá Hasan Bajistání1 Mullá Husayn Bushrú’í1 Mullá Jalíl-i-Urúmí1 Mullá Khudá-Bakhsh Qúchání1 Mullá Mahmúd-i-Khú’í1 Mullá Muḥammad-'Alí-i-Zanjání (Ḥujjat)2 Mullá Muḥammad-i-Mamaqání1 Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí1 Mullá Ḥusayn37 Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas-i-Khurásání1 Mullá ‘Alíy-i-Bastamí1 Munírih Khánum6 Musa Banání1 Muḥammad2 Muḥammad Labíb1 Muḥammad Sháh1 Muḥammad Yazdí1 Muḥammad Ḥaná-Sáb1 Muḥammad ‘Alí Ṣabbáq of Yazd1 Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf1 Muḥammad-Ibráhím-i-Tabrízí1 Muḥammad-Muṣṭafá Baghdádí1 Muḥammad-‘Alí-i-Isfahání1 Muḥammad-‘Alíy-i-Ardikání1 Mírzá 'Abbás (Bahá'u'lláh's father)1 Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl1 Mírzá Buzurg4 Mírzá Hádí-i-Qazvíní1 Mírzá Ja‘far-i-Yazdí1 Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Zarqání2 Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Furúghí1 Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání36 Mírzá Mihdí18 Mírzá Mihdíy-i-Káshání1 Mírzá Muhammad1 Mírzá Muhammad Báqir Bushrú’í1 Mírzá Muhammad Hasan Bushrú’í1 Mírzá Muhammad Rawdih-Khán Yazdí1 Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl1 Mírzá Muhammad-‘Alíy-i-Qazvíní1 Mírzá Mustafá Naráqí1 Mírzá Muḥammad-'Alíy-i-Zunúzí (Anís)2 Mírzá Muḥammad-Báqir1 Mírzá Muḥammad-Qulí1 Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, the Afnán1 Mírzá Muḥíṭ-i-Kirmání1 Mírzá Músá (Áqáy-i-Kalím)1 Mírzá Áqá Ján3 Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí1 Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Iṣfahání1 Nabíl of Qá’in1 Nabíl-i-A'ẓam7 Nabíl-i-Akbar1 Nabíl-i-Akbar (Áqá Muḥammad-i-Qá’iní)1 Nabíl-i-Zarandí1 Nabíl-i-Zarandí aka Nabíl-i-A’ẓam1 Napoleon III2 Navváb (Ásíyih Khánum)1 Nettie Tobin3 Náṣiri'd-Dín Mírzá1 Pahlaván Riḍá2 Paul Haney1 Phoebe Hearst4 Pidar-Ján of Qazvín1 Pope Pius IX2 Prince Mihdí-Qulí Mírzá2 Prof. Goldzieher1 Prof. Vámbéry1 Quddús32 Queen Marie of Romania1 Queen Victoria2 Roy Wilhelm1 Rúhíyyih Khánum11 Rúḥíyyih Khánum41 Saichiro Fujita1 Sakínih Sulṭán1 Sarah Ann Ridgway1 Sarah Farmer3 Shamsu’d-Ḍuḥá1 Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í3 Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí1 Shaykh Ismail1 Shaykh Maḥmúd-i-‘Arrábí1 Shaykh Muḥammad-'Alíy-i-Qá'iní1 Shaykh Salmán1 Shaykh Ḥasan-i-Zunúzí1 Shaykh Ṣádiq-i-Yazdí1 Shaykh ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Mázgání1 Sheikh Muhammad El Damirtchi1 Shoghi Effendi246 Sháh Muḥammad-Amín aka Haji Shah Muhammad Manshadi1 Sháh-Muḥammad-Amín1 Siyyid Básir-i-Hindí1 Siyyid Husayn Yazdí1 Siyyid Husayn-i-Turshizi1 Siyyid Isma’il1 Siyyid Jafar-i-Yazdi1 Siyyid Káẓim-i-Rashtí4 Siyyid Mirza Husayn-i-Mutavalli1 Siyyid Mustafa Rumi2 Siyyid Muḥammad-Taqí Manshádí1 Siyyid Yahya-i-Darabi (Vahid)1 Siyyid Yaḥyá-i-Dárábí (Vaḥíd)3 Siyyid-i-Uluvv1 Sulaymán Khán-i-Tunúkábání1 Susan I. Moody1 Sám Khán1 Tahirih Siyavushi1 Tarázu'lláh Samandarí1 The Báb – Herald of the Bahá’í Faith1 Thornton Chase9 Thornton Chase, Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá1 Táhirih1 Ugo Giachery1 Ustad ‘Ali Ashraf1 Ustad Aqa Bala1 Ustad Qulám-‘Alíy-i-Najjár1 Ustad ‘Abdu’l-Karim1 Ustád Báqir and Ustád Aḥmad1 Ustád Ismá’íl1 Ustád Nasru’lláh Raphael1 Ustád ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Najjár1 Vahíd4 Wellesley Tudor Pole1 William Sears94 William Sutherland Maxwell10 Zaynu’l-Muqarrabín1 Zaynu’l-Ábidín Yazdí1 the Báb506 the Greatest Holy Leaf1 the Síyáh-Chál executioner1 Áqá Faraj2 Áqá Ibráhím-i-Iṣfahání And His Brothers1 Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor1 Áqá Muḥammad-Báqir1 Áqá Muḥammad-Ibráhím1 Áqá Muḥammad-Ibráhím Amír1 Áqá Muḥammad-Ismá'íl1 Áqá Mírzá Maḥmúd and Áqá Riḍá1 Áqá Najafí1 Áqá Riḍá-i-Qannád2 Áqá Riḍáy-i-Shírází1 Áqá ‘Alíy-i-Qazvíní2 Ásíyih Khánum11 Ḍíyá’íyyih Khánum1 Ḥájí Abu'l-Ḥasan-i-Amín1 Ḥájí Faraju’lláh Tafríshí1 Ḥájí Mullá Mihdí-i-Yazdí aka Haji Mulla Mihdi-i-‘Atri1 Ḥájí Muḥammad Khán1 Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí1 Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan, the Afnán1 Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí1 Ḥájí ‘Abdu’lláh Najaf-Ábádí1 Ḥájí ‘Abdu’r-Raḥím-i-Yazdí1 Ṭáhirih15 ‘Abdu’l-Ghaffár of Iṣfáhán1 ‘Abdu’lláh Baghdádí1 ‘Abdu’r-Rahmán, the Coppersmith1 ‘Abdu’s-Ṣáliḥ, the Gardener1 ‘Alavíyyih Khánum and Mullá ‘Alí Ján1 ‘Alí Najaf-Ábádí1