Publishing
Anthony A. Lee has been involved in independent publishing for more than four decades. In 1978, he co-founded Kalimát Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to Bahá’í and Bahá’í-inspired literature. He has served as the general editor of the Studies in the Bábí and Bahá’í Religions series since its inception in 1982, overseeing a scholarly collection that has grown to 29 volumes. His publishing work spans history, religious studies, poetry, and literary translation, reflecting his commitment to bringing important scholarship and literature to a wider readership.
About Kalimat Press
Kalimát Press was founded in 1978 by Anthony A. Lee and Payam Afsharian, Bahá’ís in the Los Angeles area, during the Bahá’í month of Kalimát (words). It is a small, privately owned publishing company which is exclusively oriented towards the publication of books and other materials on the Bahá’í Faith.
From its inception, Kalimát Press has sought to encourage the publication of new ideas and new approaches to the Bahá’í Teachings. The company has been especially interested in the publication of books for Bahá’í children, materials on Bahá’í history, translations from Persian, original Bahá’í scholarship, and essays on the relevance of Bahá’í teachings to contemporary social issues.
Recommended Titles
This Noble Destiny
Explore the racial division and bigotry ‘Abdu’l-Baha encountered when he first arrived in the United States in 1912, and the ways in which the members of the community of Washington, D.C. stepped up to meet the challenge of addressing it.
The Master in ‘Akka
Unique contemporary tellings of the life and history of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá shed seldom seen light on the Perfect Exemplar. Included are the first six chapter of Myron Phelps’s Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi, originally published in 1903, and a series of interviews with Abdu’l-Baha’s sister, the Greatest Holy Leaf.
Prayers of Ecstasy
This is a prayer book for the sheer ecstasy of communion with God and the pure pleasure of intoxication with the Word. Collected in this little book are powerful and rapturous prayers from the Bahá’í sacred writings of Baha’u’llah, the Bab, and Abdu’l-Baha.
