1. Keven Brown. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Response to Darwinism: Its Historical and Philosophical Context (2001). Editor's foreword to the collection of articles Evolution and Bahá'í Belief.
2. Peter Smith, Moojan Momen. Babi Movement, The: A Resource Mobilization Perspective (1986). Babism from a sociological standpoint, esp. the place of the Babis in their contemporary cultural and economic classes.
3. Richard Hollinger. Bahá'í Communities in the West, 1897-1992 (1992). Sociological survey of major trends in the American Bahá'í community from the nineteenth century to the present — a broad framework in which the history of local communities can be understood.
4. Duane L. Herrmann. Bahá'í Faith in Kansas 1897-1947, The (1992). An introduction to the first half century of the Kansas Bahá'í community, with unique insight into their patterns of growth and inactivity.
5. Margaret Caton. Bahá'í Influences on Mirza 'Abdu'llah, Qajar Court Musician and Master of the Radíf (1984). The mystical milieu of musicianship and the Bahá'í Faith's approval of music (in contradistinction to the legalistic Islam of the ayatu'llahs, which forbade it) made the Faith appealing to Abdu'llah, one of the great compilers of the Persian repertoire.
6. William Garlington. Bahá'í Proselytization in Malwa, India (1984/2001). The establishment of the Bahá'í Faith in Malwa amongst poor rural villagers; elements of appeal, including the use of Hindu terminology.
7. Peter Smith, ed. Bahá'ís in the West (2004). Essays and illustrations on the beginnings of the Faith in Australia and New Zealand, Denmark, Hungary, and the United States.
8. Deborah Clark. Bahá'ís of Baltimore, 1898-1990, The (1992). The story of the Bahá'ís in the Baltimore area, who also hosted Abdul-Baha during his travels in America.
9. Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh and the Naqshbandi Sufis in Iraq, 1854-1856 (1984). The interplay of Bábí themes of messianism and the Sufi mystical emphasis on internal spirituality; analysis of an early poem by Bahá'u'lláh which hints that by the 1850s he began to see his mission of reform to carry out in the Bábí community.
10. Sen McGlinn. Church and State: Book 1 of a Postmodern Political Theology for the Bahá'í Community (2005). Religion and politics in Islamic history; Islamic and Bahá'í views on theocracy and democracy; the theology of the State and the unfoldment of world civilization; relevant contemporary Bahá'í literature in English, French, and German.
11. Community Histories (1992). Essay on the diversity of Western Bahá'í communities, followed by six histories of selected local communities in the United States, Britain, and Canada.
12. Will C. van den Hoonaard. Development and Decline of an Early Bahá'í Community: Saint John, N.B., 1910-1925 (1992). The brief early history of the Saint John Bahá'ís. Established in 1910, the Bahá'í community struggled in the hostile environment of New Brunswick. In 1925 the community disappeared, to be reestablished only in recent times.
13. Phillip Smith. Development and Influence of the Bahá'í Administrative Order in Great Britain, 1914-1950 (1992). Overview of this history: the early years; the Bahá'í councils; the guardianship of Shoghi Effendi; problems and difficulties; resurgence; establishing the Faith; spreading the Faith.
14. Susan Maneck (published as Susan Stiles). Early Zoroastrian Conversions to the Baha'i Faith in Yazd, Iran (1984). A history of the gradual process of conversion among some Zoroastrians to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran from the 1880s to 1921, based on heretofore unstudied biographical materials.
15. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon. Education of women and socio-economic development (2002). The findings of recent research on the social and the economic benefits of female education, which provides insights as to why Bahá'u'lláh stressed its importance.
16. Stephen Lambden. Episode in the Childhood of the Bab, An (1986). Parallels legends of the Bab's early childhood with those of Jesus.
17. Keven Brown, ed. Evolution and Bahá'í Belief: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Response to Nineteenth-Century Darwinism (2001). Includes Eberhard von Kitzing's "Origin of Complex Order in Biology: `Abdu'l-Bahá's concept of the originality of species compared to concepts in modern biology."
18. Juan Cole, ed, Moojan Momen, ed. From Iran East and West (1984). Essays on Bahá'í history in the Middle East, the United States, and India.
19. Denis MacEoin. Hierarchy Authority and Eschatology in Early Babi Thought (1986). Evolution of the Bab's theology and prophetology.
20. Roger M. Dahl. History of the Kenosha Bahá'í Community 1897-1980, A (1992). Overview of the long history of the Bahá'ís of Kenosha, Wisconsin, visited by Abdul-Baha in 1912.
21. Margaret Caton (published as Peggy Caton). History of the Sacramento Bahá'í Community, 1912-1991, A (1992). History of the Bahá'í community of Sacramento, including a detailed account of Abdul-Baha's visit to California, and the later rapid expansion of the community during the 1960s and 1970s.
22. Richard Hollinger. Ibrahim George Kheiralla and the Bahá'í Faith in America (1984). A study of the Lebanese Bahá'í who first spread the Faith to the United States but later renounced his allegiance to Abdu'l-Bahá, based on many primary source materials the author unearthed in public and private archives.
23. Peter Smith, ed. In Iran (1986). Essays on Bábí-Bahá'í history, sociology, and theology in Iran.
24. Juan Cole. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in the Nineteenth-century Middle East [introduction only] (1998). Introduction and first 4 pages of Chapter One.
25. R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. Music, Devotions, and Mashriqu'l-Adhkar (1987). An in-depth examination of the development of music and hymns within American Bahá'í devotional life, some history of the Chicago community, and the architecture and construction of the Wilmette temple. Includes sheet music and design plans.
26. Peter Smith. Reality Magazine: Editorship and Ownership of an American Bahá'í Periodical (1984). Development and eventual demise of an independent publication from the early years of the Faith in America.
27. Seena Fazel, ed, John Danesh, ed. Reason and Revelation: New Directions in Bahá'í Thought (2002). Selected articles published earlier in Bahá'í Studies Review.
28. Jack McLean, ed. Revisioning the Sacred: New Perspectives on a Bahá'í Theology (1997). Essays on religious unity, interreligious dialogue, apophatic and liberation theologies, the spiritual foundations of science, the hermetic tradition, and existential theism.
29. John Danesh, ed, Seena Fazel, ed. Search for Values: Ethics in Bahá'í Thought (2004-05). This book is a first attempt by several Bahá'í scholars to come to terms with the implications of a Bahá'í system of ethics in modern life, from the university to the family.
30. Christopher Buck. Unique Eschatological Interface, A: Baha'u'llah and Cross-Cultural Messianism (1986). Tracing themes of messianism through the Occidental religions.

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