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Extensive collection of history and notes about transliteration in general and the unique Bahá'í system in particular, including sources such as Shoghi Effendi's notebooks, the Royal Asiatic Society, International Congress of Orientalists, and the UHJ.
Notes:
Also available in Microsoft Word format, prepared by M. Thomas (2025). See also author's encyclopedia article.

The Bahá'í System of Transliteration

Moojan Momen

published in Bahá'í Studies Bulletin

5:1-2, pp. 13-55

1991

PDF includes 3 sections and 9 addenda:
  1. Source of the Bahá’ı́ transliteration system
  2. Some problems of the Bahá’ı́ transliteration system
  3. Some peculiarities of the Bahá’ı́ transliteration system
  4. Addenda:
  1. Transliteration system outlined in Bahá’í Year Book 1925-1926
  2. Transliteration system outlined in Bahá’í World, vol. 2, 1926-1928
  3. Report of Committee on transliteration of 10th International Congress of Orientalists held at Geneva in 1894
  4. Universal House of Justice: Letter and memorandum of Research Department, 22 October 1987
  5. Universal House of Justice: Enclosing a copy of a page from Shoghi Effendi’s notebook
  6. The Geneva Congress system as amended by the Royal Asiatic Society
  7. First interchange of correspondence with the Universal House of Justice on transliteration
  8. Second interchange of correspondence with the Universal House of Justice on transliteration
  9. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on transliteration

1. PDF (generated from Microsoft Word document; see also image scan)

Download: momen_bahai_system_transliteration.pdf.

2. Image scan PDF (from BSB archive)

Download: momen_lambden_bahai_system_transliteration_scan.pdf.
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