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Deserving special mention, moreover, is the establishment by the British National Spiritual Assembly of a Publishing Trust, registered as "The Baha'i Publishing Co." and acting as a publisher and wholesale distributor of Baha'i literature throughout the British Isles; the compilation by various Baha'i Assemblies throughout the East of no less than forty volumes in manuscript of the authenticated and unpublished writings of the Bab, of Baha'u'llah and of Abdu'l- Baha; the translation into English of the Appendix to the Kitab- i- Aqdas, entitled "Questions and Answers," as well as the publication in Arabic and Persian by the Egyptian and Indian Baha'i National Spiritual Assemblies respectively of the Outline of Baha'i Laws on Matters of Personal Status, and of a brief outline by the latter Assembly of the laws relating to the burial of the dead; and the translation of a pamphlet into Maori undertaken by a Maori Baha'i in New Zealand. Reference should also be made to the collection and publication by the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Tihran of a considerable number of the addresses delivered by Abdu'l- Baha in the course of His Western tours; to the preparation of a detailed history of the Faith in Persian; to the printing of Baha'i certificates of marriage and divorce, in both Persian and Arabic, by a number of National Spiritual Assemblies in the East; to the issuance of birth and death certificates by the Persian Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly; to the preparation of forms of bequest available to believers wishing to make a legacy to the Faith; to the compilation of a considerable number of the unpublished Tablets of Abdu'l- Baha by the American Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly; to the translation into Esperanto, undertaken by the daughter of the famous Zamenhof, herself a convert to the Faith, of several Baha'i books, including some of the more important writings of Baha'u'llah and of Abdu'l- Baha; to the translation of a Baha'i booklet into Serbian by Prof. Bogdan Popovitch, one of the most eminent scholars attached to the University of Belgrade, and to the offer spontaneously made by Princess Ileana of Rumania (now Arch- Duchess Anton of Austria) to render into her own native language a Baha'i pamphlet written in English, and subsequently distributed in her native country.
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