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referring tags: Alfred North Whitehead; Aristotle; Avicenna (Ibn Sina); Balinus (Apollonius of Tyana); Confucius; Empedocles; Farabi; Friedrich Nietzsche; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Ibn Arabi; Idris (Prophet); Immanuel Kant; Laozi (Lao-Tse); Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Ludwig Wittgenstein; Maimonides; Mulla Sadra; Plato; Pythagoras; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Socrates; Suhrawardi (Sohravardi); Teilhard de Jardin; Thomas Aquinas

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  1. Absolute Poverty and Utter Nothingness, by Rodney H. Clarken. (1997) Bahá’u’lláh’s ideas of poverty as detachment, and nothingness as selflessness. Cites some commonalities in concepts of detachment and nothingness from Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad and Socrates as five of the greatest philosophers or prophets.
  2. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks, by Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. (2018/2024) 209 selections, last updated August 2024.
  3. Answered Questions, Some: A Philosophical Perspective, by Ian Kluge. (2009) Philosophical foundations of the Bahá’í teachings, including ontology, theology, epistemology, philosophical anthropology and psychology, and personal and social ethics.
  4. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The, by Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. (2015) Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the Greek to Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought, contrasted with the theosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, and hermeneutics of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
  5. Arguments for the Existence of God in 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Writings, by Mikhail Sergeev. (2014) On the basic typology of philosophical arguments for the existence of God; classical vs contemporary views; Abdu'l-Bahá's arguments from nature and from history.
  6. Aristotelian Substratum of the Bahá'í Writings, The, by Ian Kluge. (2003) There is a pervasive and far-reaching congruence of Aristotle and the Bahá’í Writings. This Aristotelian substratum makes it is possible to resolve many apparent paradoxes in the Writings.
  7. Chronological Issues in the Lawh-i-Hikmat of Bahá'u'lláh, Some, by Peter Terry. (2000) An attempt to discover the antecedents of Bahá’u’lláh's distinctive chronology of ancient associations between Greek philosophers and Judean kings. Do Bahá’í historians have to critically re-examine the accepted Western accounts?
  8. Development of Metaphysics in Persia, The: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy, by Muhammad Iqbal. (1908) Short philosophical observations on the theology of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.
  9. Further Comments on a Passage of the Lawh-i-Hikmat, by Amin E. Egea. (2009) A study of Pre-Islamic sources on the relation of Greek Philosophers and Jewish sages.
  10. Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius of Tyana in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Keven Brown. (1997) History of alchemy, magic, and the hermetic arts, and their reflection in the later teachings of Bahá'u'lláh.
  11. Invisible Occidentalism: Eighteenth-Century Indo-Persian Constructions of the West, by Juan Cole. (1992 Summer-Fall) Iranian attitudes toward Western culture, science, and philosophers in the colonial era. (No mention of Babis or Bahá'ís.)
  12. Letter to Dr J. W. Freudenberg, Auckland, New Zealand, by Shoghi Effendi. (1946-06-07) Letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi about philosophy, body, mind, soul, evolution, and about not taking many of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's statements as dogmatic finalities.
  13. Letters Written on Behalf of the Guardian, by Universal House of Justice. (2007) Three questions: Letters Written on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi; Status of Research Department Memoranda; Bahá'í Writings Based in Fact? Includes clarification on the authenticity of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's published talks.
  14. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org, by John S. Hatcher. (2021) List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher.
  15. Meeting a Prophet, by Archie Bell. (1915) Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Sea of Galilee.
  16. Miscellaneous philosophy topics, by John Walbridge. (2002) Islamic vs. Bahá'í philosophy; Greek philosophers and the Jews; other topics of philosophy.
  17. Nietzsche and the Bahá'í Writings: A First Look, by Ian Kluge. (2016) First version, missing footnotes. See update.
  18. Nietzsche and the Bahá'í Writings: A First Look (reprint, with footnotes), by Ian Kluge. (2017) Bahá'í Writings and Nietzsche’s philosophy share a surprising number of features in common that allow us to re-vision Nietzsche from a new perspective. Both analyze reality in Aristotelian terms: actuality/potential; essence/attribute, matter/form, etc.
  19. Nietzsche et les écrits bahá'ís: Une première approche, by Ian Kluge. Pierre Spierckel, trans. (2017) Translation of "Nietzsche and the Bahá'í Writings: A First Look."
  20. Oneness of Reality, The: A Response to Moojan Momen's "Relativism as a Basis for Baha'i Metaphysics", by Peter Terry. (2018) Dialogue on epistemology and ontology as presented in the core literature of the Baha’i religion.
  21. Origins of the Bahá'í Concept of Unity and Causality: A Brief Survey of Greek, Neoplatonic, and Islamic Underpinnings, by Babak Rod Khadem. (2006) The Bahá’í conception of unity has historical and intellectual precedents. On the history of this concept (and the concept of causality) as it developed in ancient Greek thought, Neoplatonism, and, subsequently, in Islamic philosophy and mysticism.
  22. Philosophical Statements by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Some Answered Questions, by Abdu'l-Bahá. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. (2019-12-08) Quotations extracted from Ian Kluge's article "Some Answered Questions: A Philosophical Perspective" (2009), using the 2014 revised edition of "Some Answered Questions".
  23. Possibilities of Existential Theism for Bahá'í Theology, The, by Jack McLean. (1997) The perspective of existential theology can benefit Bahá'í studies of religion, as applied to issues such as scholarship, spiritual transformation, and sacred history.
  24. Problems of Chronology in Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Wisdom, by Juan Cole. (1979 Spring) On the biographical section of the Lawh-i-Hikmat and its background in Islamic models.
  25. Revelation, Interpretation, and Elucidation in the Baha'i Writings, by Robert Stockman. (1997) The complexities of the Bahá'í concepts of revelation, interpretation, infallibility, and elucidation
  26. Socrates, by Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. (n.d.)
  27. Socrates in History and the Bahá'í Writings, by Universal House of Justice. (1995-10-22) Historical facts known about Socrates, some of the difficulties inherent in endeavouring to unravel the historical Socrates, and quotations from the Bahá'í Writings.
  28. Socrates'/Plato's Use of Rhetoric: A Bahá'í Perspective, by Bret Breneman. (1991) Classical rhetoric continues to increase our understanding of human utterance and expression; the figure of Socrates in Plato’s dialogues models a rhetorical mutuality, a 'pedagogical' rhetoric which demonstrates how refined speech is morally nurturing.
  29. Tablet of Wisdom Questions and Answers, by Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. (1995) Authorized translation of unpublished Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá to Ethel Rosenberg in 1906 in reply to her questions about historical statements in the Lawh-i-Hikmat.
  30. Tablet to Auguste Forel, by Abdu'l-Bahá. Shoghi Effendi, trans. (1976) A letter of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, in reply to questions asked by the Swiss scientist Auguste-Henri Forel, dated 21 September 1921.
 
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