Bahá’í Publications

Boris Handal

In addition to his professional pursuits, Dr Boris Handal has been an active member of the Bahá’í community serving as an Auxiliary Board member for Protection and Propagation, and a member of Local Spiritual Assemblies and regional and national committees. He also served as director of Radio Bahá’í of Lake Titicaca in Peru and as mathematics headteacher at the School of Nations in Macau (China). Boris is currently a faculty member of the Wilmette Institute. He became a Bahá’í at seventeen years of age. Boris speaks English and Spanish and did formal studies in Persian. He is the author and translator of several Bahá’í publications. Boris has travelled to sixty-eight countries in the world and is married with one daughter.

Books

English

2011 – Eve Nicklin: She of the Brave Heart, English translation.
2016 – Classroom Management in Action
2017 – Mírzá Mihdí: The Purest Branch
2020 – The Khamsis: A Cradle of True Gold
2020 – Varqá and Rúḥu’lláh: 101 Stories of Bravery on the Move
2020 – A Trilogy of Consecration: The Courier, the Historian and the Missionary
2023 – The Dispensation of the Báb
2023 – Quddús: The First in Rank
2025 – From North to South: The Dawn of the Bahá’í Faith in Latin America (forthcoming)

Spanish

1985 – El Concurso en Lo Alto
2002 – La Vida de Miss Eve Blanche Nicklin (45,755 views since 2003
2019 – Mirza Mihdi: La Rama Mas Pura. Miguel Gil, translator
2020 – Muhammad, Profeta de Dios

Persian

2022 – Mirza Mehdi, Ghusn-i-Athar. Ehsan Kazemi, translator

Articles

English

1981 – The Birth of Radio Bahá’í of Lake Titicaca in Peru
2007 – From Moorish Cordova to the Bahá’ís of Iran: Islamic Tolerance and Intolerance, published in IDEA, a Journal of Social Sciences 12 (1).
2007 – The Philosophy of Bahá’í Education
2008 – The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh
2010 – Teaching Bahá’í History in Schools: A Resource Material
2012 – My Bahá’í Experience: Finding the Lamp
2016 – Digital Citizenship: The New Citizenship
2017 – Global Scholars as Ambassadors of Knowledge
2020 – Centenary of the Bahá’í Faith in Australia
2021 – In Memoriam: Mercedes Sánchez (1912-1999)
2021 – In Memoriam: Isabel Camacho de Sánchez (1931-2013)
2021 – In Memoriam: Mas’úd Khamsí (1922-2013), Spiritual Father of Peru, Mentor and Counselor
2021 – A Maronite Physician’s Encounter with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in ‘Akká
2021 – Loving ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Understanding His Station
2021 – Numeracy for the Junior Youth: Addition and Subtraction
2022 – In Memoriam: Salomon Pacora Estrada (Pacora Blue Mountain) 1899-1969
2022 – Metaphors in Education
2023 – Áqá Buzurg: Entitled Badí —The Wonderful—
2023 – Ásíyih Khánum: Entitled Navváb —The Most Exalted Leaf—
2023 – The Family of Mullá Ḥusayn
2023 – Siyyid Yaḥyá-i-Dárábí: Entitled Vaḥíd —The Incomparable—

Spanish

2002 – Filosofías y Analogías en Educación
2004 – La Cultura Hispano-Arabe en Latinoamerica
2006 – Muhammad, el Paracleto de Jesús
2010 – De la Cordova Mora a los Bahá’ís of Iran
2010 – Genealogía de los Profetas de Dios
2013 – La Moral del Corán
2013 – Las Enseñanzas del Corán
2021 – In Memoriam: Mas’ud Khamsi (1922-2013)

Persian

2007 – From Moorish Cordova To The Bahá’ís Of Iran: Islamic Tolerance And Intolerance

Talks

English

2020 – Mírzá Mihdí: The Purest Branch
2021 – The Life and Martyrdom of Varqá and Rúhu’lláh

Spanish

2020 – Mírzá Mihdí” La Rama Más Pura
2020 – Historia de la Familia Khamsi: un legado de servicio
2021 – Varqá y Rúhu’lláh: vida y martirio
2021 – La Religión del Báb
2022 – Quddús: La Mañana de Guía
2023 – El Bayán. El Libro Madre de la Dispensación Babí‘

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