1. 2026-03. Tablet of the Báb Addressed to Shaykh `Alíy-i-Turshízí (`Azím), A. The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. . A brief tablet on the memory of Abraham and Moses; the verity of God’s decrees; patience amidst adversity; and mention of a "book." Translations.
2. 2023. Three Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh to Áqá Yahúdá, an Early Jewish Convert to the Bahá'í Faith from Hamadán. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans, Adib Masumian, ed. English side-by-side with Persian or Arabic of three short Tablets to the father of 'Abdu'l-Missagh Missaghieh, founder of the Missaghieh hospital in Tehran. Translations.
3. 2022-08-27. Joseph in Religious History and the Bahá'í Writings. Christopher Buck. Just as the story of Joseph is the "best of stories," the metaphor of Joseph is the "best of metaphors": it is the most comprehensive, pervasive symbol and allegory of the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in the Bahá’í Writings. Presentations.
4. 2022. Key Passages from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude) in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'u'lláh, Shoghi Effendi, comp, A. Bolhuis, ed. . Cross-reference compilation of 40 passages from the Kitáb-i-Íqán selected by Shoghi Effendi for inclusion in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, adapted from Hooper Dunbar's Companion to the Study of the Kitáb-i-Íqán. Compilations-personal.
5. 2021. Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism, The. Todd Lawson. On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths: the Oneness of God, the Oneness of Religion, and the Oneness of Humanity. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith. Articles.
6. 2021. Bible Stories and Themes in the Bahá'í Writings and Guidance. Anonymous, comp. Bahá'í interpretation of Biblical stories and topics. Compilations-personal.
7. 2021. Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Abdu'l-Bahá. Tablets of ‘Abdul-Bahá describing aspects of the life of Bahá’u’lláh including the tribulations He suffered, events in His homeland, the purpose and greatness of His Cause, and the nature and significance of His Covenant. Writings.
8. 2019. Writings of the Báb: Lecture Series at the Norwegian Summer School. Nader Saiedi. On topics including the concept of God; Manifestations of God; Day of Resurrection, heaven and hell; the Imamate, the Hidden Imam; divine justice and free will; reason, independence; human rights, equality, women. Links to audio files, offsite. Audio.
9. 2019. Ten Commandments, The: A Baha'i Perspective. Marco Oliveira. Overview of the history and theology of the Ten Commandments. Like Christianity and Islam, the Bahá’í Faith inherited and expanded the moral values exposed in the Ten Commandments. Presentations.
10. 2018/2025. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks. Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. . 216 selections, last updated 2025. Writings.
11. 2018. Bahá'u'lláh and Peace: A Series of Four Talks. Nader Saiedi. Talks at the Santa Monica Baha’i Center in California on four areas within the context of Baha'u'llah's Revelation that relate to peace, and how Baha'u'llah reconstructs the concepts of victory, mystical poetry, interpretation, and the temple. Audio.
12. 2018. List of Bahá'í Studies and Translations. Stephen Lambden, A. Bolhuis, comp. . A list of content available at Lambden's personal website, Hurqalya Publications, with select links to manuscripts, texts, introductions. Includes Shaykhi and Bábí studies, bibliographies, genealogies, provisional translations. Resources.
13. 2015. Ten Plagues of the Exodus in Light of the Bahá'í Writings, The. JoAnn M. Borovicka. The historical accuracy of Exodus is not essential to an appreciation of it; scholarship regarding the historicity of the Exodus story in general and the ten plagues specifically; contemporary significance of the metaphor of the plagues. Articles.
14. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Bahá'í history, key writings, and the need for scholarly study, translation, and contextual analysis of Bahá'í texts. Audio.
15. 2013. Story of the Prophets. Farnaz Ma'sumian. Biographies of nine Manifestations, from Abraham to Bahá'u'lláh. Designed for junior youth by a retired professor of world religions, it provides a compact source of information on the founders of the world's major religions in readable language. Introductory.
16. 2009-2025. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Texts. Adib Masumian, trans. Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masumian; listed here for the sake of search engines and tagging. Bibliographies.
17. 2009-2019. Lists of Articles. Brent Poirier. Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites. Essays.
18. 2009-02-09. Islam, the Baha'i Faith and the Eternal Covenant of Alast. Susan Maneck. Essays.
19. 2008. Prophets and Mountains. Moshe Sharon. Metaphors of mountains and actual mountains in the history of religion; Mount Carmel. Essays.
20. 2007. Bahá'u'lláh as fulfilment of the theophanic promise in the Sermons of Imam 'Alí ibn Abí Ṭálib: Translation of al Tutunjiyya, Iftikhár and Ma'rifat bin-Nurániyyat. Khazeh Fananapazir. Translations of Tutunjiyya "Sermon of the Gulf," Iftikhár "Sermon of Iftikhár," and Ma'rifat bin-Nurániyyat "Sermon of Ma'rifat bin-Nurániyyat." Articles.
21. 2001. "By the Fig and the Olive": `Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the Qur'ánic Sura 95. Necati Alkan. A translation and discussion of an Ottoman-Turkish Tablet by `Abdu'l-Bahá: his commentary on the Quaranic Sura of the Fig (#95).  Articles.
22. 2000. Sermon of the Gulf (Khutbih Tutunjiyyih): Introduction. Khazeh Fananapazir. Essay on Imám `Alí's sermon, which is also the source of Bahá'u'lláh's quote in Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, "Anticipate ye the Revelation of Him Who conversed with Moses from the Burning Bush on Sinai." Study.
23. 2000. Concept of Sacred Justice in Hebrew Eschatology. Gary Selchert. The concepts of Justice and Judgment in the Hebrew Bible; centuries before Christ, the social order of the Israelite tribes was legislated and enforced in accordance with the Covenant and Law of Moses; the formation of social ethics. Articles.
24. 1999. Commentary on a Verse of Rumi. Bahá'u'lláh, Juan Cole, trans. . Addresses theological concepts of divine unity through interpretation of Rumi's poetry, exploring relationships between Creator and creation while warning followers against false claims to authority. Translations.
25. 1999. Commentary on a Verse of Rumi. Juan Cole. Summary and paraphrase of a tablet about a debate over the unity of being (wahdat al-wujud) in Sufi thought. Essays.
26. 1999. Teaching Christians More Effectively: Handbook and Seminar. David F. Young. Bahá'í views of Christianity; questions Christians might ask; interpretation of the Bible; theology of miracles, baptism, sin, Armageddon, and heaven and hell; social issues. Presentations.
27. 1998. Bahá'í Studies Bulletin: Index by volume. Robert Stauffer, comp. List of articles in all issues of Bahai Studies Bulletin, 1982-1992. Bibliographies.
28. 1998. Notes on Judaism from a Bahá'í Perspective. Robert Stockman. Overview of Judaism with many comments on Bahá'í teachings on Jewish history and prophets; includes chronology of Judaism. Articles-unpublished.
29. 1997. Hindu Concept of God, The: Unity in Diversity. Anjam Khursheed. The fundamental unity behind Hindu concepts of God and those found in the Semitic traditions, and the principle of unity in diversity, allow Hindu and Bahá'í beliefs to come together and further their common goal of uniting the world's religions. Articles.
30. 1995. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique. Michael W. Sours. Constituents of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist arguments; eschatological character of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; Bahá'í eschatology provides answers to many feminist and ecological objections. Articles.
31. 1995. Comparative Lives of the Founders of the World Religions. Moojan Momen. Table comparing the lives of the Founders of the world's religions. Resources.
32. 1995. Baha'u'llah's Prophetology: Archetypal patterns in the lives of the founders of the world religions. Moojan Momen. Explores the theory that the lives of the prophet-founders of the world religions have in some ways re-capitulated each other. Articles.
33. 1993 Fall. "I am all the Prophets": The Poetics of Pluralism in Bahá'í Texts. Juan Cole. Literary analysis of a passage from Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm) in which Bahá'u'lláh identifies Himself with all the past Prophets and their sufferings, depicting himself mortally wounded on the field of battle, like Imám Husayn. Articles.
34. 1992-10-15. Station of Bahá'u'lláh and the Significance of His Revelation, The. Universal House of Justice. As the soul is a mystery that the human mind cannot unravel, even more ineffable is the nature of the Manifestations of God, the relationships between them, and their relationship to God. UHJ-letters.
35. 1992. Immanence and Transcendence in Theophanic Symbolism. Michael W. Sours. Bahá'u'lláh uses symbols to depict theophanies — the appearance of God and the divine in the realm of creation — such as "angel," "fire," and the prophets' claims to be incarnating the "face" or "voice" of God; these convey the transcendence of God. Articles.
36. 1991-1992. Station of Baha'u'llah: Three Letters. Universal House of Justice. Three letters on the station of Bahá'u'lláh, the souls of the Manifestations, the varying intensities of their Revelations, the phrase "most precious Being," and on teaching the Faith to Christians. UHJ-letters.
37. 1988. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. . The classic Bahá'í reference book. This is its first online edition. Compilations-personal.
38. 1986/2007. Sinaitic Mysteries, The: Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture. Stephen Lambden. Writings of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh which relate to the Pentateuchal account of Moses' call (Exodus 3:1) and request to see God's glory (Exodus 33:18-23), and quranic parallels. (Link to article on author's site, plus links to related articles.) Articles.
39. 1985. Letters and Essays, 1886-1913. Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání, Juan Cole, trans. . Treatises of "the greatest and most learned of all Bahá'í scholars" about Alexander Tumansky; on meeting Abdu'l-Bahá; and on the meaning of angels, resurrection, civilization, tests, angels, holy spirit, and the saying "Knowledge is twenty-seven letters." Books.
40. 1981. Miracles and Metaphors. Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání, Juan Cole, trans. . Collection of essays on metaphysical topics and Bahá'í answers to old religious controversies: are the Scriptures to be taken literally? Do miracles occur? What is an angel? Are the stories of the Old Testament to be believed? Books.
41. 1981. Scriptures of Previous Dispensations. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. . Excerpts on what writings constitute the holy scriptures of previous Dispensations. Compilations.
42. 1979. Daily Lessons Received at Akka: January 1908. Helen S. Goodall, Ella Goodall Cooper. Includes translations of three Tablets of Abdu'l-Bahá. Books.
43. 1957 [1875]. Secret of Divine Civilization. Abdu'l-Bahá, Marzieh Gail, trans. . Treatise written anonymously by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Persian in 1875, addressed to the rulers and people of Persia. It was printed in Bombay in 1882 and widely circulated in Iran. Writings.
44. 1939-04-21. Manifestation, The. Albert P. Entzminger. Explains the role and dual identities of the Manifestations of God, who guide humanity, and reveal spiritual truth progressively across religious history. Articles.
45. 1939. Heart of the Gospel: The Bible and the Bahá'í Faith. George Townshend. Using only the text of the Bible, Townshend provides a new reading of Scripture as a guidebook for those who seek a universal view of religion and the contemporary world. Books.
46. 1912-06-24. Interview Between a Prominent Rabbi and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Abdu'l-Bahá. Interview in New York, c. April 1912, emphasizing true religion and prophetic influence over tradition, imitation, and doctrinal distractions across major faiths. Pilgrims.
47. 1904. Notes Taken in 1904: vol. 1. Ethel J. Rosenberg. Book-length collection of quotations from pilgrims' notes and other sources on many aspects of Bahá'í teachings on philosophy and interpretations of religious symbols. Pilgrims.

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