- 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity during His Western Travels, by Wendi Momen (2012). — Abdu'l-Baha's responses to the West's technology and innovations on the one hand, vs. its archaic ra...
- Academic Irrelevance or Disciplinary Blind-Spot?: Middle Eastern Studies and the Baha'i Faith Today, by Ismael Velasco (2001 Winter). — Possible reasons for the lack of attention to the Baha'i religion in Middle Eastern academic studies...
- Báb on the Rights of Women, The, by Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam (2023-06). — Statements of the Bab on issues such as mutʿah and tahlil marriages, polygyny, bridal consent, divo...
- Bahá'í Faith in Africa, The: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962, by Anthony Lee (2011). — African presence in early Babi and Baha'i history; Baha'i response to crises in Middle East and West...
- Bahá'í Faith in the Arabic Speaking Middle East, The: Part 1 (1753-1863), by Ramsey Zeine (2006). — Babi and early Baha'i links to the Arab world and the Arabic language; the identity of the Faith is ...
- Bahá'í Influence on the Reform Movements of the Islamic World in the 1860s and 1870s, by Moojan Momen (1983-09). — Baha'i influences on the Middle Eastern reform movement in the 1860s and 1870s.
- Bahá'í Studies Bulletin: Index by volume, Robert Stauffer, comp. (1998). — List of articles in all issues of Bahai Studies Bulletin, 1982-1992.
- Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology, by Juan Cole (1997). — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
- Baha'u'llah as 'World Reformer', by Christopher Buck (1991). — This article places Baha'u'llah in the context of Islamic reform by comparing him to several contemp...
- Der Messianismus des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts und die Entstehung der Baha'i Religion, by Kamran Ekbal (1998). — On the resurgence of a millenarianistic climate in the 19th century from China through the Middle-Ea...
- Divide and Rule: The Creation of the Alawi State after World War I, by Necati Alkan (2013-11). — Summary of 20th-century history of the Nusayri/Alawi Shi'i movement in Syria and Turkey. (No mention...
- Fighting for the Nuṣayrī Soul: State, Protestant Missionaries and the ʿAlawīs in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Necati Alkan (2012). — Overview of the Alawites/Nusayris (Syrian Shi'is) in the start of the 19th century, political attitu...
- Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Middle Eastern Modernity, The, by Juan Cole (1999-03). — Middle Eastern religion is seldom mentioned in the same breath with modernism. The Baha'i faith, whi...
- Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two African Slaves in Iran, by Anthony Lee (2015). — Biographies of two enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, the servants of The Ba...
- Ideology, Ethics, and Philosophical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Iran, by Juan Cole (1989 Winter). — Intellectual biography as a discipline assumes that the life and thought of an individual can shed l...
- Introduction to Abdu'l-Baha's The Secret of Divine Civilization, An, by Nader Saiedi (2000). — 'Abdu'l-Baha's The Secret of Divine Civilization in the context of the Iranian social and political ...
- Migrants and Refugees in Europe, by Universal House of Justice (2015-10-01). — Principles to guide the response of the Bahá’í community to the dramatic social changes concer...
- Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in the Nineteenth-century Middle East [introduction only], by Juan Cole (1998). — Introduction and first 4 pages of Chapter One.
- Muhammad `Abduh and Rashid Rida: A Dialogue on the Bahá'í Faith, by Juan Cole (1981 Spring). — Translation of a dialogue between two influential Sunni thinkers of the early Twentieth Century; con...
- Places Where the Manifestations of God Have Appeared; Equality of Men and Women, by Universal House of Justice (1986-10-27). — The consistent portrayal of all known Manifestations of God as male and their historical emergence e...
- Secret of Divine Civilization, The, by Fariba Moghadam (2021-05). — Overview of the history Abdu'l-Baha's treatise, and its themes presented through a compilation of qu...
- Still Lives, by Denis MacEoin (1993). — The nature of private lives and biography in Middle Eastern culture, with brief discussion of Rushdi...
- Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East, by Oliver Scharbrodt (2002). — With their theologies, Baha'u'llah and Muhammad 'Abduh both responded to the challenge of modernity ...
- Treasures of the East: The Life of Nine Oriental Countries, by Zia M. Bagdadi (1930). — Descriptions of nine "Treasures" — Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jijaz (Arabia), Transjordania (A...
- What is Bahá'í Orientalism?, by Geoffrey Nash (2021). — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri...
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