- Eileen Maddocks. 1844: Convergence in Prophecy for Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá'í Faith (2018). — Parallels between the Millerite expectations of Christ's return in the West, expectations of the ret...
- Michael W. Sours. 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahá'í Secondary Literature, The (1998). — This edict, issued the year the Baha'i era began, permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return ...
- 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970-1995). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995.
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- Abdu'l-Bahá. Adib Masumian, trans. A Tablet from 'Abduʼl-Bahá regarding the Twelfth Imám (2016). — On apparently-conflicting hadiths (sayings ascribed to the prophet Muhammad) regarding the Hidden Im...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada. A-de-rih-wa-nie-ton On-kwe-on-we Neh-ha: A Message to the Iroquois Indians (1956). — Three items: 2021 cover letter from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada, the 19...
- Michael W. Sours. Arjen Bolhuis, trans. Aantekeningen: Kitáb-i-Íqán (Boek van Zekerheid) (2023). — Uitleg over een van de hoofdthema's in Baha'u'llah's Boek van Zekerheid.
- Ahang Rabbani. `Abdu'l-Baha in Abu-Sinan: September 1914 (2005). — The story of Abdu'l-Baha's relocating the Haifa/Akka Baha'i community of some 140 people to a nearby...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and Christianity: An interview with Pasteur Monnier on the relationship between the Bahá'í Faith and Christianity, Paris (1993-12). — Revised translation of an interview with Pasteur Monnier, from chapter 5 of 'Abdu'l-Baha on Divine P...
- Seena Fazel. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and Christianity: Introduction (1993). — 'Abdu'l-Baha's answers to questions posed by Pastor Monnier in Paris in 1913 on Christian subjects, ...
- Necati Alkan. 'Abdu'l-Baha's commentary on the Islamic tradition 'God doth give victory to this religion by means of a wicked man': Provisional translation and notes (2003). — Background and translation of a Turkish tablet by Abdu'l-Baha commenting on a hadith.
- Moojan Momen. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary on the Qur'ánic Verses Concerning the Overthrow of the Byzantines: The Stages of the Soul (2001). — Commentary on the first few verses of the Quranic Sura of Rum; nine esoteric or mystical interpretat...
- Christopher Buck and Kevin Locke. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Prophecy (2019). — Slide-show overview of ‘Abdu’l-Baha's prophecy "these Indians will enlighten the whole world."
- Combiz Nuri. 'Abdu'l-Baha: A Biblical Figure? (2009). — Biblical prophecies that could relate to Abdu'l-Baha and the Seventh Angel of the Apocalypse, and th...
- Marion Weinstein. ['Abdu'l-Bahá] Declares Zionists Must Work with Other Races: From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York, July 17, 1919) (1919-09-08). — An interview with 'Abdu'l-Baha on the League of Nations, Baha'i ideas for peace, and the Holy Land. ...
- Iraj Ghanooni. Naeem Nabiliakbar, trans. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the World Stage (2022). — A contrast of the spiritual purpose of ‘Abdu'l-Baha's first visit to Paris with the secular aims o...
- Alex Gottdank. Abraham: One God Three Wives Five Religions by Frances Worthington: Review (2012).
- Ray Estes and Miles Lane. Abrahamic Covenant as the Pathway to the Glory of God, The: Exploring the Mysteries of Divine Unity (2006/2011). — 77 audio files of talks and interviews by a born-again Christian who became a Baha'i, and related ma...
- Rodney H. Clarken. Absolute Poverty and Utter Nothingness (1997). — Baha’u’llah’s ideas of poverty as detachment, and nothingness as selflessness. Cites some comm...
- Bahá'u'lláh Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh (2018/2023). — 80 selections, updated August 2023.
- Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018/2023). — 167 selections, updated August 2023.
- Michael Cook and William F. McCants. Affairs of the Heart: Early Theophanic Interpretations of Muhammad's Relationship with the Divine (2001). — The relationship between God and humanity is one of the principal motifs of the Qur’an; the human ...
- H. A. Walter. Ahmadiya Movement, The (1918). — Old commentary on similarities and difference between the Ahmadiya and Babi-Baha'i movements.
- Denis MacEoin. Ahsá'í, Shaykh Ahmad (1985). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá'í Faith (2018). — Locke was cynical about the prospect of real progress in race relations within Christianity itself, ...
- Chelsea Horton. All is One: Becoming Indigenous and Bahá'í in Global North America (2013-08). — Native-American identity, conversion, and community, as viewed through the lens of the Baha'i Faith....
- Suheil Badi Bushrui. Ameen Rihani and the Unity of Religion: The Politics of Time and the Politics of Eternity (2014). — Overview of the life and thought of a Lebanese-American writer, intellectual, and political activist...
- Jose Luis Marques Utrillas. Análisis comparativo de la ética del trabajo en cuatro tradiciones religiosas y su impacto sobre la organización económica y social: del judaísmo a la Fe bahá'í (2022). — Cómo la escritura y estudio entre los judios los llevó a su alto nivel intelectual en la Edad Medi...
- Foad Seddigh. Analysis of the Salient Features of Risáliy-i-Ja'faríyyih, An (2019). — This treatise, one of the major writings of the Báb, was written before He had disclosed His compl...
- Christopher Buck. Anatomy of Figuration, The: Maimonides' Exegesis of Natural Convulsions in Apocalyptic Texts (Guide II.29) (2020). — Insights of medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides on figurative language and symbolic exegesis in h...
- Christopher Buck. "And universal peace — in what Book is this written?": How and Why 'Abdu'l-Bahá Identified "New" and Distinctive Bahá'í Principles (2022-09). — Reflections on ‘Abdu’l-Baha's answer to the question "What has Baha’u’llah brought that we h...
- Vahid Brown. Andalusí Theosophy: A Recontextualization (2006). — The role of interconfessionalism in the emergence of Islamic and Jewish theosophical movements in ...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Answered Questions, Some (2014). — 'Table talks' given by ‘Abdu’l‑Baha in ‘Akka between 1904 and 1906 in response to questions ...
- Universal House of Justice. Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, References in the Bahá'í Writings to (1998-09-24).
- Robert Riggs. Apocalypse Unsealed (1981). — Early draft of the later book Apocalypse - An Exegesis.
- Sen McGlinn. Apocalypse Unsealed, The: Some thoughts on the use of Christian Scripture in the Bahá'í community, by Robert Riggs: Review and Commentary (2002). — On Baha'i use of Biblical literature, especially interpretations of end-time symbolism and the Book ...
- Robert Riggs. Apocalypse, The: An Exegesis (1998-12). — Detailed study of astrology, numerology, and other esoterica, in an attempt to understand The Revela...
- Universal House of Justice. Apostle Paul, a (1998/2012). — Whether Baha'i Writings state that Paul was a "false teacher," the relationship between apostles Pau...
- Rauf Murtuzov. Apparent Contradictory Dates in Bahá'í Texts Regarding the Public Announcement of the Prophet Muhammad (2023). — Short discussion of quotes showing an apparent discrepancy between writings of the Bab and Abdu'l-Ba...
- William Sears. Applying Christian Prophecy to Baha'u'llah (2010). — An audio-only version of a 6-part video discussion of the Baha'i interpretation of Biblical propheci...
- Jordi Vallverdu Segura and Josuke Nakano. Architectures of Thinking, The (2022). — Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships betw...
- David Friedman. Are there indications of a Second Coming of a Messiah in the Old Testament? (1999). — Some claim that the New Testament teaching of a "Second Coming" is not found in the Old Testament; h...
- Universal House of Justice. Armageddon and Megiddo / Mt. Carmel (2018-09-02). — One-paragraph note saying that no reference has been found in the Baha'i Writings tying "armageddon"...
- Brian A. Miller. Art of Translation, The (2017 Autumn). — Translation is a form of art — an act of transposition, transformation, and interpretation. Illust...
- Don Dainty. As It Was in the Days of Noah: So Unfolds the Surprising Fulfilment of Biblical Foresights of the 'Return' (2009). — Booklet exploring the biblical and Baha'i concept that rejection of the Manifestation results in cal...
- Christopher Buck and et al.. As Others See Him: Jesus asks all people 'Who do people say that I am?': Replies from several non-Christians (1997-03-30). — A short collection of non-Christian perspectives on Jesus, published in commemoration of Easter.
- John S. Hatcher. Ascent of Mount Carmel, The: Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Báb (2019). — "From the Editor's Desk": Symbolism of the terraces on the shrine of the Bab; St. John's poem "Ascen...
- Stephen Lambden. Aspects of Isrá'íliyyát and the Emergence of the Bábí-Bahá'í Interpretation of the Bible, Some (2002). — Islamic "Israelitica" literary traditions, the Bible, and their relationship to the Babi and Baha'i ...
- Todd Lawson. Authority of the Feminine and Fatima's Place in an Early Work by the Bab, The (2007). — While Tahirih inspired many in Europe and eventually America, she is very much a daughter of her own...
- Universal House of Justice Cortesia, trans. Autoridades religiosas del mundo, A las (2002-04). — Spanish translation of "Letter to the World's Religious Leaders, April 2002."
- Zackery Mirza Heern. Báb and 'Alí Muhammad, Islamic and Post-Islamic, The: Multiple Meanings in the Writings of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad Shírází (1819-1850) (2023). — Writings of the Bab can be understood as a commentary on the Qur'an, the original Qur'an, and divine...
- Todd Lawson. Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God, The (2002). — A preliminary translation and discussion of the Bab's Risala fi's-Sulúk, one of his earliest extant...
- Báb, The and Nabil-i-A'zam. Báb's Farewell Address to the Letters of the Living, The (1844). — The Bab's farewell speech to the Letters of the Living, extracted from Nabil-i-A'zam's <a href="h...
- Denis MacEoin. Babi Concept of Holy War, The (1982). — An influential and controversial article, one of the first modern academic examinations of Babi hist...
- W. A. Rice. Babi Pamphlet, A (1902). — Review of an unnamed booklet sent to E.G. Browne, a "little manuscript book of 118 small pages, writ...
- Stephen Lambden. Background and Centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture, The (1997). — History of the theological position of the incomprehensibility-unknowability of God in past major Ab...
- Marcus Bach. Bahá'i: A Second Look (1957-04-10). — A positive assessment of the Baha'i faith by an outsider.
- Christopher Buck. Bahá'í: History, Beliefs, Practices, Theological Exchanges, and Current Issues (2014). — Brief overviews of Baha'i history and thought.
- Zaid Lundberg. Bahá'í Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation (1996-05). — Progressive revelation is part of a coherent system of apocalypticism. Paper includes discussion of ...
- Seena Fazel and Khazeh Fananapazir. Bahá'í Approach to the Claim of Finality in Islam, A (1993). — Survey of the terms "prophet" and "seal," and a Baha'i reconciliation of these terms with progressiv...
- Seena Fazel and Khazeh Fananapazir. Bahá'í Approach to the Claim of Uniqueness and Exclusivity in Christianity, A (1990). — Differing interpretations of scriptural passages about exclusivity have caused conflicts between den...
- Seena Fazel. Bahá'í Approaches to Christianity and Islam: Further Thoughts on Developing an Inter-Religious Dialogue (2007-12). — The Baha'i contribution to inter-religious dialogue is based on developing intellectual bridges betw...
- William Garlington. Bahá'í Bhajans: An example of the Bahá'í Use of Hindu Symbols (1998-01). — The appearance of Baha'i bhajans is indicative of both the approaches taken by the Indian Baha'i com...
- Ismael Velasco. Baha'i Conceptual Framework for Interfaith Discourse and Action (2010). — Overview of challenges to interfaith work, a Baha'i appraisal of current activities, and the culture...
- Christopher Buck. Bahá'í Contributions to Interfaith Relations (2019). — A close look at the House's "Letter to the World’s Religious Leaders" as a contribution to interfa...
- Michael W. Sours. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique (1995). — Constituents of Baha'i cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist ar...
- Dianne Bradford and Fiona Missaghian et al. Jonah Winters, comp. Bahá'í Ethics: Answers to 55 Questions Submitted by Arthur Dobrin (2004). — Answers to questions submitted in preparation for a source book in religious ethics for a college co...
- Brian J. Mistler. Bahá'í Faith: Prophecy and Conversion (2001-02). — Results of a field study of Baha'is in the United States and Australia which demonstrate that family...
- Bahá'í Faith and Buddhism Dialogue (1995). — Eleven email postings from Bruce Burrill, Juan Cole, Moojan Momen, and Dann May, from the listserver...
- Seena Fazel and Marcus Braybrooke. Baha'i Faith and Christianity (2010). — Two short entries on the theological relationship between these two Faiths.
- Farnaz Ma'sumian, comp. Bahá'í Faith and Christianity, The (2008). — Lecture notes compiled by Ma'sumian for teaching at a community college and a university, partly fro...
- Bahá'í Faith and Islam (2013). — Overview of connections and contrasts between the Baha'i Faith and its parent religion.
- Adam Berry. Bahá'í Faith and Its Relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, The: A Brief History (2004-09-22). — Baha'i history in Iran and America; relationship with Christian missionaries in Iran and Christian c...
- Phillip Smith. Bahá'í Faith and Religious Diversity (1991). — The Baha'i principal of unity in diversity as applied to religious pluralism.
- Robert Stockman. Baha'i Faith and Syncretism, The (1997). — Addresses the common misunderstanding that the Baha'i Faith is syncretistic.
- Moojan Momen, ed. Bahá'í Faith and the World's Religions (2005). — Papers presented at 'Irfan Colloquia.
- William Garlington. Bahá'í Faith in India, The: A Developmental Stage Approach (1997-06). — 5 distinct stages of development of Baha'i history in India, each with its own unique personalities ...
- William Garlington. Bahá'í Faith in Malwa, The: A Study of a Contemporary Religious Movement (1975). — A broad overview of Baha'i history in general and in India in particular. Examination of present-day...
- Marcus Bach. Baha'i Faith, The (1946). — An outsider's view of the Baha'i community from a "faith-based" perspective.
- Bahá'í Faith, The: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations (2023). — Twelve articles in a special issue "The Baha'i Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations" of the ...
- Douglas Martin. Bahá'í Faith: Its History and Teachings, The by William Miller: "Missionary as Historian: William Miller and the Bahá'í Faith" (1978-12). — Lengthy review of Miller's book, and a broad discussion of anti-Baha'i polemic and historiography.
- Reginald L. Priestley. Bahá'í Fireside Notebook, The (2012). — A believer's personal fireside notebook, compiled for his study and deepening: notes, timelines, and...
- Robert Stockman. Bahá'í holy days and commonalities among different religious traditions (2005). — Audio presentation with background music, prepared for an audio series from the US Baha'i National C...
- Universal House of Justice. Bahá'í Perspective on the Concept of "Karma" (2006-09-05). — Summary of the meaning of karma in Hinduism and Buddhism; Baha'i views on karma and reincarnation as...
- Dann J. May. Baha'i Principle of Religious Unity and the Challenge of Radical Pluralism (1993/1997). — A shorter version of this thesis is published as "The Baha'i Principle of Religious Unity: A Dynamic...
- Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani. Ali-Kuli Khan, trans. Bahá'í Proofs, The (1902). — A book of history and theology composed in America, in which Gulpaygani gives an exposition of the F...
- William Garlington. Bahá'í Proselytization in Malwa, India (1984/2001). — The establishment of the Baha'i Faith in Malwa amongst poor rural villagers; elements of appeal, inc...
- Todd Lawson. Bahá'í Reception of the Qur'an, The (2016-03-10). — Quranic themes inform much of the Baha'i proclamation. One theme is unity: there is one god, one hum...
- Christopher Buck. Baha'i Reflections on the "Seal of the Prophets" (2013-2017). — Three blog entries of personal reflections: Unsealing the “Seal of the Prophets” (2013); The Sea...
- Thornton Chase. Bahá'í Revelation, The (1933). — Introduction to the Baha'i Faith, emphasizes the Baha’i teachings as a vehicle for personal spirit...
- Soli Shahvar. Bahá'í Sources for the Study of Iranian Jewry during the Qajar Period (2005-12-13). — Lecture delivered in Hebrew.
- Reed M. Breneman. Bahá'í Students and American University of Beirut in the Early 20th Century (2008-02). — The influential activities of the campus Baha'i association in Beirut, 1900-1920 and during the firs...
- Robert Stauffer, comp. Bahá'í Studies Bulletin: Index by volume (1998). — List of articles in all issues of Bahai Studies Bulletin, 1982-1992.
- Bahá'í Teachings Concerning Christ: List of References (n.d.). — Five-page index to the Baha'i Writings on various topics of Christian history and teachings.
- Todd Lawson. Bahá'í Tradition, The: The Return of Joseph and the Peaceable Imagination (2012). — Overview of the status of violence in the Baha'i tradition, and the historical/social conditions in ...
- Sateh Bayat and Vafa Bayat. Bahá'í Understanding of Reincarnation in Relation to the World's Faiths, A (2005). — Concepts of reincarnation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; the Baha'i religi...
- Christopher Buck. Bahá'í Universalism and Native Prophets (2002). — Explores the possibility of including other great religious figures in the Baha'i category of "Manif...
- Colin Dibdin. Bahá'í View of the Bible, A (1996). — From a Baha'i viewpoint, the Bible is a reliable source of divine guidance and salvation, but is not...
- James J. Keene. Bahá'í World Faith: Redefinition of Religion (1967 Autumn). — Baha'is consistently differ from Jews and Christians in the structure of their religious behavior an...
- Jena Khadem Khodadad. Bahá'í Worldview on Unity of Religions: Progressive Revelation, The: Principles and Insights from the History of Science (2009). — Examination of the Baha’i belief in the unity of religions and the doctrine of "progressive revela...
- Ian Kluge. Bahá'í Writings and the Buddhist Doctrine of Emptiness, The: An Initial Survey (2019). — Agreements and convergence of the Buddhist concept of sunyata with the Baha'i Writings.
- Francis Beckwith. Bahá'í-Christian Dialogue: Some Key Issues Considered (1989 Winter/Spring ). — An antagonistic and polemical overview of the Baha'i Faith by a Christian.
- David Friedman. Bahá'í-Christian Dialogue: Some Key Issues Considered, by Francis Beckwith: A Bahá'í Response (1998). — Lengthy theological apologia.
- Christopher Buck. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed. Baha'is (2016). — The Baha'i Faith's continuities and discontinuities with Islam. This is the only Baha'i-related arti...
- Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield. Bahá'ís, The (1928). — A "comprehensive account of the inspiration and ideals upon which Baha’ism is built up" — overvi...
- Samuel Graham Wilson. Bahá'ísm: An Anti-Christian System (1915-01). — A Christian missionary's perspective on the Baha'i Faith's claim to supersede Christianity.
- Denis MacEoin. Bahá'ísm: Some Uncertainties about its Role as a Globalizing Religion (2005). — On Baha'i self-understanding as the religion to unite all faiths in the culmination of globalisation...
- Francis Henry Skrine. Bahá'ísm, the religion of brotherhood and its place in the evolution of creeds (1912). — An outsider's sympathetic portrayal of the Baha'i history and teachings, written with "express appro...
- Muhammad Mustafa. Rowshan Mustapha, trans. Baha'u'llah: The Great Announcement of the Qur'an (1993). — Meanings of some of the verses of the Qur'an, as viewed from the perspective of the Writings of the ...
- Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology (1997). — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
- Joshua Hall. Bahá'u'lláh and the God of Avicenna (2022-03). — Comparison of the teachings of Baha’u’llah on the nature of God with the philosophy of Avicenna;...
- John E. Esslemont. Baha'u'llah and the New Era (1980). — The classic introductory text on the Baha'i Faith focusing on Baha'i teachings and the lives of the ...
- Universal House of Justice. Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era Regarding the Explanation of Daniel 12:12: Beckwith's Allegations (1990-11-06). — Responses to allegations Francis Beckwith makes in his booklet "Baha'i" about changes to this book.
- Peter Terry. Baha'u'llah and the Reconciliation of Religions (2014). — The reconciliation of religions is one of the principal themes of Baha'u'llah's writings, yet one ra...
- Christopher Buck. Baha'u'llah as 'World Reformer' (1991). — This article places Baha'u'llah in the context of Islamic reform by comparing him to several contemp...
- Khazeh Fananapazir. 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 (2007). — Translations of Tutunjiyya "Sermon of the Gulf," Iftikhar "Sermon of Iftikhar," and Ma'rifat bin-Nur...
- Christopher Buck. Baha'u'llah as Zoroastrian saviour (1998). — Examines the Baha'i view of Zoroastrianism to understand tensions between scholarship and "messiahsh...
- Chowghi Rouhani. Ulfet Bouchoucha Mustapha, trans. Bahá'u'lláh et le Carmel (2017). — Baha’u’llah honore la terre sainte; la révélation de la Tablette du Carmel; la grande resurrec...
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Bahá'u'lláh's (2008). — Examines the question: What philosophical viewpoints are necessary to understand what Baha’u’lla...
- Daniel Azim Pschaida. Bahá'u'lláh's 'Long Healing Prayer' ("Lawḥ-i-Anta'l-Káfí") in Light of a Metaphysics of Unity (2022-03). — On the originality and deep coherence of this prayer as expressed by its rhyme, alliterations, and s...
- George Townshend. Baha'u'llah's Ground Plan of World Fellowship (1936). — This talk, proposing a practical scheme for addressing the problem of world-fellowship, was delivere...
- JoAnn M. Borovicka. Bahá'u'lláh's Life and Mission: "This is the One Who Hath Glorified the Son" (2018). — Ways in which Baha’u’llah glorifies Jesus Christ and His Cause: He quotes, explains, and defends...
- Moojan Momen. Baha'u'llah's Prophetology: Archetypal patterns in the lives of the founders of the world religions (1995). — Explores the theory that the lives of the prophet-founders of the world religions have in some ways ...
- Donald Addison and Christopher Buck. Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Badi'u'llah: Parallels to Bahá'í Teachings by Native American Messengers of God (2007). — Compilation of writings from Native American traditions and analogous texts from Baha'i scripture.
- Ramin Neshati. Ramin Neshati, trans. Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Mánikchí Sáhib: Introduction and provisional translation (2002).
- Udo Schaefer. Baha'u'llah's Unity Paradigm: A Contribution to Interfaith Dialogue on a Global Ethic? (1996). — The mystic unity of religions and the concept of progressive revelation.
- Leyla Melikova. Bahaism and Ecumenism in the Context of Recent Sociocultural Trends (2008). — Some of the current sociocultural specifics of two religious phenomena — the Baha'i Faith and ecum...
- Roland Faber. Bahá'u'lláh and the Luminous Mind: Bahá'í Gloss on a Buddhist Puzzle (2017). — Non-duality is of central importance to Buddhist thought and experience; on monism and non-dualism a...
- Zaid Lundberg. Bedrock of Bahá'í Belief, The: The Doctrine of Progressive Revelation (2000). — The importance of doctrine and systematic theology in understanding the Baha' Faith, and the process...
- Thornton Chase. Before Abraham Was, I am (1902-09-27). — Open letter to a new Baha'i summarizing the Baha'i revelation through a Christian perspective.
- Vahid Brown. Beginning That Hath No Beginning, The: Bahá'í Cosmogony (2002). — The dimensions of myth in the Baha'i Faith focussing on the religion's narratives of creation, relig...
- Juan Cole. Behold the Man: Baha'u'llah on the Life of Jesus (1997). — Baha'u'llah's lessons from the Judeo-Christian experience for founding a new, post-Islamic religion;...
- Christopher Buck. Behold the Man: Baha'u'llah on the Life of Jesus, by Juan Cole: Review (1997).
- Christopher Buck. Being Human: Bahá'í Perspectives on Islam, Modernity, and Peace, by Todd Lawson: Review (2021-11-30).
- Moojan Momen. Beyond Pluralism (1995-04). — Brief thoughts on the Baha'i Faith as a "metareligion."
- Chelsea Horton. Beyond Red Power: The Alternative Activism of Dorothy Maquabeak Francis (2004). — Aboriginal activism of the 1960s-1970s, which promoted native spirituality and culture, fostered cro...
- Christopher Buck. Beyond the "Seal of the Prophets": Bahá'u'lláh's Book of Certitude (2007). — The Babi background of the Iqan, the nature of interpretation and exegesis, and the place of Muhamma...
- Udo Schaefer. Geraldine Schuckelt, trans. Beyond the Clash of Religions: The Emergence of a New Paradigm (1998). — Religious pluralism and associated issues: diversity and unity of religions, absoluteness, relativit...
- Anil Sarwal and M. M. Sreenivasan (Dr. Sreeni). Bhagavad-Gita and the Bahá'í Faith (2008-05-28). — A discussion on the most important aspects of human life in Srimad Bhagawat Gita and the Baha'i Fait...
- Anonymous, comp. Bible Stories and Themes in the Bahá'í Writings and Guidance (2021). — Baha'i interpretation of Biblical stories and topics.
- Universal House of Justice. Bible, Preferred English Translation of (1996-11-03). — While Shoghi Effendi recommended the use of the King James translation of the Bible, Baha'is are yet...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Bible, The: Extracts on the Old and New Testaments (n.d.).
- Brett Zamir, comp. Bible, The: King James version in Multilinear Format with Bahá'í References by Verse (n.d.).
- Universal House of Justice. Biblical Questions, Interpretation of: Ezekiel 10:19, Jeremiah 49:38 and Micah 7:12 (1998-05-12). — Can certain passages from the Hebrew Bible be taken as prophetic references to the Babi or Baha'i Fa...
- JoAnn M. Borovicka. Biblical References in Tablets of the Divine Plan (2017). — Knowledge of the Bible is now at an all-time low; a study of the contexts of four biblical reference...
- Marian Lippitt. Peter Terry, ed. Biblical References in Baha'i Writings (1955/2016). — Correlation between verses of the Bible and references to these verses in Baha'i literature, includi...
- Universal House of Justice. Biblical Verses, Interpretation of (1986-01-07). — Interpretation of Biblical verses. Includes chart showing all references in the Baha'i writings to v...
- Daya Ram Malviya. William Garlington, trans. Biographical letter from a Hindu villager (1974). — A glimpse into the life of an Indian convert to the Faith.
- Biography of Pope Pius IX: Tablet to Pope Pius IX (Lawh-i-Páp) (1999). — Biography of Pope Pius IX, to whom Baha'u'llah wrote a Tablet.
- David Merrick. Birth and Call of Jesus Christ: A Bahá'í-inspired retelling (2010-12). — The story of the birth of Jesus and his call to the world of humanity.
- Sasha Dehghani. Birth of a Monotheistic Religion in Modernity, The: On Jihad and Martyrdom in the Baha'i Faith (2014). — The Baha'i Faith responds to major questions of modernity such as the claims of science, world peace...
- Ted Brownstein. Black and Beautiful: Skin Color in the Biblical Song of Songs (2023). — Racial biases can be found in several translations of the biblical Song of Solomon; a look at the or...
- Hooper Dunbar. Naysan Sahba, ed. Book of Certitude, The: An Interview with Hooper Dunbar (1998(?)). — Significance and themes of the Kitab-i-Íqan; its Islamic context; meaning of "certitude"; the impor...
- William Ridgers. Book of Revelation Revealed in Glory, The: A Summary of Glorious Revelation (2000). — Baha'i interpretation of St. John's Book of Revelation.
- Book of Revelation, The: Explanations from the Letters of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Mirza Abul Fazl (1933). — Discussion of the content and symbolism of the biblical Book of Revelation.
- E. S. Campbell. Books of God Are Open, The (1950/1969). — Two editions of a compilation prepared by a former Baptist minister, presenting the Faith to those f...
- Mary L. Lucas. Brief Account of My Visit to Acca, A (1905). — Detailed notes of a visit to Haifa, January-February 1905, and Abdu'l-Baha's interpretations of seve...
- Chris Manvell and Carolyn Sparey-Gillies. Brief Introduction to Millennial Zeal in the Nineteenth Century, A (1997). — Joseph Wolff, William Miller, and millennial zeal in early 19th-century America; biblical proofs of ...
- Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. Brothers and Sisters: Buddhism in the Family of Chinese Religion (2000). — The endurance of Confucianism for 2,000 years is partly because Buddhism and Taoism were content to ...
- Donald R. Witzel. Carmelo Perez Toledo, trans. Buda: Profeta de Dios (1957). — Una de las primeras contribuciones baha'is al estudio del Budismo.
- Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster and Related Subjects (1991). — A compilation on the status of Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster and other figures.
- Moojan Momen. Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith (1995).
- Daniel Conner. Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith (1971-72 Winter). — Brief summary of the history and thought of Buddhism; commonalities with Western concepts; different...
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith: Warwick Leaflets (2002). — An overview of similar Baha'i and Buddhist teachings.
- Jonah Winters. Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith, by Moojan Momen: Review (1994). — Issues raised by Momen's attempt to show that both religions are compatible, that the manifestation ...
- Ian Kluge. Pierre Spierckel, trans. Buddhism and the Bahá'í Writings: An Ontological Rapprochement (2007). — The Baha'i Faith and Buddhism are two different and apparently incompatible religions, but they shar...
- Nozomu Sonda. Bushido (Chivalry) and the Traditional Japanese Moral Education (2007). — Japanese virtues explained by Nitobe in 1900 in comparison with the Baha'i perspective on moral educ...
- Necati Alkan. "By the Fig and the Olive": `Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the Qur'ánic Sura 95 (2001). — A translation and discussion of an Ottoman-Turkish Tablet by `Abdu'l-Baha: his commentary on the Qu...
- Dana Paxson. Camphor and Metaphor (2023). — The single word ‘camphor’ appears once in the holy Qur’an. It also appears in the Writings of ...
- Frank Lewis. Camphor and the Camphor Fountain (1999-04). — What is the meaning of the camphor fount — a symbol common in the writings of Baha'u'llah, Abdu'l-...
- Mark A. Foster. Camphor Fountain: Compilation and Commentary (2003).
- Stephen Lambden. Catastrophe, Armageddon and Millennium: Some aspects of the Bábí-Bahá'í exegesis of apocalyptic symbolism (1999). — Preliminary consideration of selected Babi-Baha'i doctrines expository of apocalyptic symbolism asso...
- William P. Collins. Catastrophe, Armageddon and Millennium: Some Aspects of the Bábí-Bahá'í Exegesis of Apocalyptic Symbolism, by Stephen Lambden: Commentary, "The Apocalyptic Upheaval Completed?" (2001). — Commentary on earlier article by Stephen Lambden.
- Ruhaniyyih Ruth Moffett. Cause of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, The (1954). — A chart correlating the growth of maturity of humanity and the evolution of religions with major eve...
- Farshid Kazemi. Celestial Fire: Bahá'u'lláh as the Messianic Theophany of the Divine Fire in Zoroastrianism (2013). — Heat is used as a symbol of the dynamic nature of motion and existence, and in a tablet to the Zoroa...
- Yin Hong Shuen. Challenge of Change for the Chinese in Southeast Asia, The (2000). — Chinese Baha'is in some Asian countries are a microcosm of Chinese people in this region. An email s...
- Vernon Elvin Johnson. Challenge of the Bahá'í Faith: A Non-Bahá'í Assessment of Reasons for Studying the Bahá'í Religion (1976 Spring). — Though small and young, the Bahá’í Faith is a subject of central importance not only for the s...
- Jan Karel van Baalen. Chaos of Cults, The: A Study in Present-Day Isms (1956). — Fourteen-page chapter on the Faith from a critical yet somewhat sympathetic Christian perspective ("...
- George Townshend. Christ and Baha'u'llah (1957). — The Kingdom of God, as foretold in the Bible, has come and Baha'u'llah is the Return of Christ.
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Christ, Return of: Warwick Leaflets (1994/2012). — Some Christian prophecies and their fulfillment in the Baha'i Faith.
- Kamran Ekbal. Christian Faith and the Formation of the Principles of Ideas and its Church Organizations, The (2011). — On the Christian religion and the process of formulating principles, concepts, and organizational st...
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith: Warwick Leaflets (2005).
- Robert Stockman. Christianity from a Bahá'í Perspective (1998). — Includes two topics: "A Baha'i approach to the Bible" and "Baha'i Writings on Jesus Christ."
- Nosratollah Rassekh. Christianity, A.D. 138 (1980 Spring/Summer). — Detailed description of what life might have been like for a Roman or a Christian in the year 138, c...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Christians, Muhammadans, and Jews (1940). — An address delivered at Temple Emmanu-El, San Francisco, October 12, 1912.
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Christmas and Bahá'ís: Warwick Leaflets (2002).
- 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 Baha'i views on theocracy and democracy; the t...
- Julie Cruikshank. Claiming legitimacy: Prophecy narratives from northern aboriginal women (1994-03-22). — Includes a discussion of Angela Sidney, a Tagish elder who was very active in the Baha'i Faith, and...
- Todd Lawson. Coherent Chaos and Chaotic Cosmos: The Qur'ān and the Symmetry of Truth (2010). — While at first glance the Qur'an appears to be chaotic in form and structure, on closer examination ...
- Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their milita...
- Eileen Maddocks. Coming of the Glory, The: How the Hebrew Scriptures Reveal the Plan of God (2020/2022/2023). — Prophecies dating back to the book of Genesis about the future time of glory, when their descendents...
- Moojan Momen. Commentary on a Passage in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (2013). — Short biography of the Son of the Wolf, Aqa Najafi; summary of persecutions from 1874-1903; and the ...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Commentary on a Verse of Sa'di (Tafsir-i Bayti az Sa'di) (1996).
- Mohsen Enayat. Commentary on the Azhar's Statement regarding Bahá'ís and Bahá'ísm (1992). — Response to an official 1986 pronouncement on the Faith by this prominent Egyptian university.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Commentary on the Surah of the Sun (1994). — Baha'u'llah's explanation of a passage from the Qur'an.
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Commentary on Verses of John (Tafsír-i-Áyát-i-Yuhanná) (2001). — Excerpt from a longer Tablet on Jesus' prophecy "It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do...
- Bahá'í International Community. Common Goal of Universal Peace in Buddhism and the Baha'i Faith, The: A Paper delivered to the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (1990-09-16). — Statement on the launching of "The Promise of World Peace" initiative, shared principles of Buddhism...
- Jack Coleman. Common Grounds between Buddhism, Quantum Physics, and the Bahá'í Faith (1997-05). — Some parallels and similarities between the Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, and physics.
- Albert Cheung. Common Teachings from Chinese Culture and the Bahá'í Faith: From Material Civilization to Spiritual Civilization (2000). — An examination of the similarities in belief between the Baha'i Faith and traditional Chinese cultur...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India. Communal Harmony: India's Greatest Challenge (1993(?)/2015). — A formal statement from the NSA of the Baha'is of India on the need to overcome religious, linguisti...
- Peter Terry. Companion to Proofs of the Prophets (2008). — Compilation of texts related to nomenclature of proof; reasons for opposition to the Prophets of God...
- Moojan Momen. Comparative Lives of the Founders of the World Religions (1995). — Table comparing the lives of the Founders of the world's religions.
- Geoffrey Parrinder. Comparative Religion (1962). — Three passing mentions.
- Compare: Bahá'í Faith, Islam, Christianity, Judaism (2009-08-09). — Comparison charts of statistics, basic beliefs, origins, and history.
- Moojan Momen. Comparison between the Commentary and Interpretation of an Islamic Tradition by 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Ayatu'llah Khomeini, A (2017). — On different interpretations of the hadith regarding taqlid, "to follow (legal interpretations)," as...
- Diane Robinson Kerr. Comparison of God and Soul Concepts from a Bahá'í and Hindu Point of View: Conceptions and Experiences of the Afterlife (2014). — Common ground between Hinduism’s Brahman and the Baha'i conception of God, and the complex underst...
- Dianne Bradford. Comparison of Islamic Religious Modes with the Four Valleys of Bahá'u'lláh (1998-01). — Comparison of stages in The Four Valleys with three approaches from Islam: Theologians, Muslim Philo...
- Richard Ater. Comparison of the concepts of Prophet and Messenger in Islam and Manifestation in the Baha'i Faith (1997). — Analytical overview of the theology of prophethood in both religions.
- Nina Bailey. Comparison of the Seven Valleys and the American Indian Peace Shield (1999-03). — Comparison study between the spiritual teachings of the ancient Native American Indian Peace Shield ...
- Ali K. Merchant. Compassion or Karuna as Understood in the Bahá'í Religion (2001-07). — A brief overview of the meaning of ethics and the divine origin of compassion.
- Research Department of the Universal House of Justice and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Compilation of Extracts Regarding Arius (1991/1996). — Collection of materials regarding an early Christian theologian who, in expounding that Christ was s...
- Moojan Momen. Concept of 'Light' in Iranian Religion, The (2003-03-25).
- Juan Cole. Concept of Manifestation in the Bahá'í Writings, The (1982). — Lengthy overview of Baha'i theology and prophetology and their Islamic roots.
- Gary Selchert. Concept of Sacred Justice in Hebrew Eschatology (2000). — The concepts of Justice and Judgment in the Hebrew Bible; centuries before Christ, the social order ...
- Ali K. Merchant. Concept of Sin in the Bahá'í Faith, The (2000-10). — Just as Baha'is don't believe in the existence of evil as a real entity, likewise sin is but the abs...
- William S. Hatcher. Concept of Spirituality, The (1986). — Widely-read ABS monograph, re-published in the Baha'i World. Includes chapters "The Nature of Man," ...
- Youli A. Ioannesyan. Concept of the "Perfect Man" (Pole) in Sufism and the Bahá'í Notion of the Manifestation of God, The (2001). — While there is an obvious similarity between the Sufi concept of the "Perfect Man" and the Baha'i co...
- Amrollah Hemmat. Concept of the Manifestation of God in Chinese Symbolism: An Inter-civilizational Hermeneutic Study (2016). — Seemingly incompatible symbols can point to a common underlying meaning, connecting worldviews and p...
- Said Amir Arjomand. Consolation of Theology, The: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism (1996). — Overview of the Shi'i doctrine of occultation, or the "Hidden Imam," and how this idea evolved into ...
- Christopher Buck. Constitutionality of Teaching Islam, The: The University of North Carolina Qur'an Controversy (2012-07). — Legal commentary on the lawsuit Yacovelli v. Moeser, filed in 2002 against UNC Chapel Hill over its ...
- Universal House of Justice. Consultation, Portraits, Rakahs, Murtus, and Unknown Language (2009/2010/2018). — Three replies from the Research Department to an individual, dated 2009, 2010 and 2018, on a variety...
- Julio Savi. Continuing Contest between Exclusivism and Pluralism, The: Thoughts on the 2002 Day of Prayer for Peace (2002). — Origins and purpose of the Catholic "Day of Prayer in Assisi," and interfaith dialogue.
- Susan Maneck. Conversion Movements within Hindu Village Culture (1997). — Hindu, Christian, and Baha'i conversion patterns in India.
- Susan Maneck. Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran: Some Preliminary Observations (1990). — Conversion patterns of Zoroastrians and Jews in the period 1877-1921.
- Foad Katirai. "Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran," by Susan Stiles Maneck: Commentary (1992).
- Ahang Rabbani. Conversion of the Great-Uncle of the Báb, The (1999 Spring). — The history of Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad (1798-1876), maternal uncle of the Bab.
- Todd Lawson. Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism, The (2021). — On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths:...
- Dianne Bradford. Course on Teaching Christians about the Bahá'í Faith (1999). — Compilation of quotes from the Baha'i Writings to aid in the teaching of the Faith to Christians, in...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the British Isles, comp. Covenant of Baha'u'llah, The: A Compilation (1963). — Lengthy compilation published as a book, first put together in 1950, of quotations from Scripture ...
- George Townshend. Covenant, The: An Analysis (1950). — A study guide in outline form on the idea of a covenant, Messengers and their missions, the covenant...
- Peter Terry. Covenant, The: Brit Olam (1997). — The concept of covenant is found in the Bible, the Qur'an, and Baha'i writings. Using the form of an...
- Phyllis K. Peterson. Creating Intimacy: In the Community and With the Seeker (1998). — On how intimacy in the Baha'i community can be created, using Baha’i scriptures as guideline. We h...
- Lasse Thoresen. Creation (2002). — Contributing to the creation of a new civilization as a researcher or an artist means participating ...
- Said Amir Arjomand. Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism, The: A Sociohistorical Perspective (1996-11). — Background of the history and theology of concepts like Qa'im, Mahdi, ghayba, and the hidden twelfth...
- Anjam Khursheed. Crossing Religious Boundaries: Interfaith Challenges for the Future (1999). — Baha'i approach to inter-religious harmony: coming together with other faiths in the search for trut...
- Barbara Jarvik. Crucial Heart, The (1988). — Short story about religious tolerance in Israel.
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Cultural Diversity in the Age of Maturity (2000).
- Todd Lawson. Dangers of Reading, The: Inlibration Communion and Transference in the Qur'an Commentary of The Bab (1997). — Tafsir (traditional Qur'an commentary) and the writings of the Bab.
- Universal House of Justice. Daniel's Prophecies (2007). — Regarding the fulfilment of the Biblical prophecy of Daniel concerning 1,335 days, and modifications...
- Anupam Premanand. Dashavatara and Progressive Revelation (2010). — The phenomenon of Divine Revelation from the Hindu and Baha'i points of view is studied in terms of ...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Dates in Baha'u'llah and the New Era: A response to Francis Beckwith (1992-09-24). — Response to certain allegations Beckwith makes in his booklet Baha'i.
- Marzieh Gail. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays (1976). — A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Baha'i studies and history. Most of these we...
- Khazeh Fananapazir. Day of God (Yawmu'llah) and the Days of God (Ayyamu'llah) (1997). — Comparison of Biblical and Islamic antecedents of the symbol of the "Day of God."
- Boris Handal. De la Córdoba Mora a los Bahá'ís de Irán (2010). — Contrast between the contemporary Iranian Baha'i community and the treatment of religious minorities...
- Dianne Coin. Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation, by Jennifer Harvey: Review (2017).
- Annemarie Schimmel. Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam (1994). — This book is a classic, groundbreaking survey of Islamic practices and beliefs. While the book conta...
- Julio Savi. Declaration Dominus Iesus, The: A Brake on Ecumenism and Interfaith Dialogue? (2001). — Contents of a Declaration by Cardinal Ratzinger in 2000 on the "unicity and the salvific universalit...
- Denis MacEoin. Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Shari'a: Babi and Baha'i Solutions to the Problem of Immutability (1997). — Ways in which the Bab and Baha'u'llah adopted and changed the Islamic shari`a in their own, new code...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Deepening and Compilation for Bahá'í Youth Teaching Projects (2004-07). — This deepening includes 10 sessions especially designed for youth on teaching projects.
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Deepening Our Knowledge and Understanding of the Faith, The Importance of (1991).
- Marco Oliveira. Dei Verbum: A Bahá'í Perspective on the Roman Catholic Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (2019). — On some basic Christian Catholic beliefs on divine revelation, how the Baha'i Faith views Christiani...
- Marco Oliveira. Giuseppe Castello, trans. Dei Verbum: Un punto di vista bahá'í della Costituzione Dogmatica Cattolica Romana sulla Rivelazione Divina (1999). — Lo scopo di questa presentazione è quello di discutere alcune basilari credenze cristiane cattolich...
- Jack McLean. Pierre Spierckel, trans. Deification of Jesus, The (1980 Spring/Summer). — The apotheosis of Christ is a common factor to all branches of Christianity. This paper examines the...
- Universal House of Justice. Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan (2022-11-01). — Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis...
- Johanna Pink. Deriding Revealed Religions?: Bahá'ís in Egypt (2002 October). — Shift in Egyptian public perception of the Baha'i Faith from an Islamic reform movement to an indepe...
- Muhammad Iqbal. Development of Metaphysics in Persia, The: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy (1908). — Short philosophical observations on the theology of the Bab and Baha'u'llah.
- Vahid Rafati. Development of Shaykhi Thought in Shi'i Islam, The (1979).
- William Garlington. Development of the Bahá'í Faith in Malwa, The: 1941-1974 (1999-02). — A socio-cultural examination of Baha'i mass teaching as experienced in Central India.
- Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. Dialogue between Yin-Yang Concepts and the Bahá'í Faith, The (2001). — Yin-yang, a pivotal theory in Chinese thought influencing government, architecture, relationships, a...
- Michael Sabet. Discerning a Framework for the Treatment of Animals in the Bahá'í Writings: Ethics, Ontology, and Discourse (2023-01). — Baha'i exegesis can discern a framework governing the treatment of animals and our relationship to t...
- Robert T. Cameron. Disconnected Letters of the Qur'an and the Significance of the Number 19 (1982). — Critique of Rashad Khalifa's (disputed) study purporting to find a "deep structure" of 19 in the Qur...
- Christopher Buck. Discovering [The Qur'an] (2006). — Academic study of the Qur'an, its themes, and how to begin interpreting it.
- Dispensations of Time: Scriptural References (n.d.). — Short chronology and graph of biblical passages visualizing human history through seven stages of in...
- Piya Tan. Divine Qualities of Spiritual Dialogue (2001). — The Buddhist basis for dialogue is found in its four virtues: love (the world as an extended family)...
- WellSpring International Educational Foundation for the Study and Application of the Sacred Texts. Divine Virtues and Spiritual Qualities: A Compilation from Sacred Texts (2003). — Comprehensive exploration of 77 virtues and qualities drawn from the texts of various religions.
- David Friedman. Does Corinthians 1:15 Teach a Physical or a Spiritual Resurrection? (1999). — While literalists claim that this verse supports a physical resurrection, the evidence seems to show...
- Necati Alkan. Dreams and their Interpretation in the Bahá'í Religion: Some Preliminary Remarks (2007). — Outline of the importance of dreams and their interpretation in the Baha'i Religion; dream
interpr...
- Jonah Winters. Dying for God: Martyrdom in the Shii and Babi Religions (1997). — Religious and cultural meanings of martyrdom/witnessing, and their role in Shi'i and Babi history.
- Rachel Woodlock. Dying for Our Sins (1998). — Examination of the Christian doctrine of the substitutionary atonement and whether such a doctrine h...
- Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani. Elucidation of the Meaning of The Greatest Name (1945?). — Explanation of "The Greatest Name," with words of Abdu'l-Baha, as copied by May Maxwell. Source and ...
- Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. Emergence and Organization of Chinese Religions, The (2014). — The nature of leadership and succession in Chinese religious organisations and society, home temples...
- Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
- Encyclopaedia of Islam: Bahá'í Selections (1986-2004). — 40 articles about, mentioning, or relevant to the Babi or Baha'i Faiths.
- Moshe Sharon. End of Days (2018). — On the word “messiah”, the anointed, which describes the redeemer like a priest, consecrated by ...
- Don Dainty. Entrancing Biblical Journey to meet the Promised Christ Returned, An: Bahá'u'lláh - The 'Glory of God' (2011). — On biblical prophecies and Baha'u'llah as their fulfilment.
- Stephen Lambden. Episode in the Childhood of the Bab, An (1986). — Parallels legends of the Bab's early childhood with those of Jesus.
- Michael W. Sours and Iraj Ayman. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib): Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999).
- Ann Boyles. Epistolary Style of Shoghi Effendi, The (2022-09). — The purposes of this paper are to investigate the new style of the epistle and the roots of its deve...
- Edwin Graham. Equality and Baha'i Principles in Northern Ireland (2001). — A paper in two parts: (1) the development of equality legislation in Northern Ireland, and (2) the B...
- Christopher Buck. Eschatology of Globalization, The: The Multiple Messiahship of Bahá'u'lláh Revisited (2004). — This paper argues that Baha'u'llah's signal contribution to globalization was to ethicize and sacral...
- Peter Terry. Essays on Jesus and the New Testament (2015). — Scripture and progressive revelation, canonization of the Bible, teachings of the New Testament, Bah...
- Annemarie Schimmel. Excerpt (1994). — Three passing mentions.
- Kamran Ekbal. Execution of the Jews of Banu Quraida and the Conquest of Persia, The: The Dilemma of Early Islam (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha's views on the mass execution of the Banu Qurayza Jews in Medina in 627 A.D. [article in...
- Todd Lawson. Exegesis (tafsír) (1999). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Mirza Asad'Ullah. Ameen Ullah Fareed, trans. Explanations Concerning Sacred Mysteries (1902). — Essays on the book of Daniel, and on the mysteries of: daily sacrifice, the kingdom, death, prayers ...
- James B. Thomas. Exposition on the Fire Tablet by Bahá'u'lláh, An (2002). — A description of Baha'u'llah's Fire Tablet, a dialogue between himself and God on suffering and sacr...
- Shoghi Effendi. Extracts from Letters Written by or on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi Regarding the Absence of Clergy in the Baha'i Faith (1998). — Compilation included with a memorandum from the House of Justice from 1998/02/11 regarding the aboli...
- Aline Shane-Devin. Extracts from Notes Taken at Acca (1907-10). — [needs abstract]
- Ted Brownstein. Facilitating Spiritual Joy: Workshop on Christianity (1999-05). — Introduction to the history and philosophy of Christianity from a Baha'i perspective, and deepening ...
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination (2000). — On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjecti...
- Jamsheed K. Choksy. Fasting among Zoroastrians, Manicheans, and Bahá'ís (1999). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Lil Osborn. Female Representations of the Holy Spirit in Bahá'í and Christian writings and their implications for gender roles (1994). — A response to feminist theologian Mary Daly's argument that a male representation of God reinforces ...
- Christopher Buck. Fifty Bahá'í Principles of Unity: A Paradigm of Social Salvation (2014). — World religions are systems of salvation, liberation, or harmony, in direct response to the perceive...
- Boris Handal. Finding the Lamp: My Bahá'í Experience (2012). — A personal adventure of faith, influenced by a background where faith and reason talked to each othe...
- Betsy Omidvaran. First Four Caliphs of Islam, The (2001). — Many Baha’is know little about Islam, and most of what they do know is based on minority Shi’ism...
- Diane Robinson Kerr. Five Pillars of Islam, The (2014). — Summary of the essential precepts of Islam — belief, prayer, zakat, fasting, and pilgrimage — wi...
- Christopher Buck and Juan Cole et al. Forum Concerning St. Paul (1979 Summer). — Responses to Hatcher's review (World Order, 1978) of Schaefer's Light Shineth in Darkness, by Buck, ...
- Christopher Buck. Fourth Candle, The: The Unity of Religion and Interfaith Dialogue (1986). — What does "Unity in Religion" mean, and how does it apply for Baha'is' interactions with other relig...
- Bahá'í International Community. Freedom of Religion on Trial in Morocco: The Nador Case (1963). — A formal response to a court case in Morocco from the previous month in which three Baha'is were con...
- Zaid Lundberg. From Adam to Bahá'u'lláh: The Idea of a Chain of Prophecy (2002). — Whilst the modern period has seen a series of scientific paradigm shifts which have radically altere...
- Juan Cole, ed. From Iran East and West (1984). — Essays on Baha'i history in the Middle East, the United States, and India.
- Amin E. Egea. Further Comments on a Passage of the Lawh-i-Hikmat (2009). — A study of Pre-Islamic sources on the relation of Greek Philosophers and Jewish sages.
- Yeo Yew Hock. Future of Confucianism, The (2000). — The history of Confucianism, its teachings, a critique of its place in the modern world, its future,...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Gems of Divine Mysteries (2002). — A lengthy tablet in Arabic on how the Mahdi was Ali Muhammad, The Bab, the Primal Point. Written dur...
- Boris Handal. Genealogía de los Profetas de Dios (2010). — A chart connecting the major Messengers of God through historical, prophetic, and interpretative inf...
- Grover Gonzales. Genealogy of Shoghi Effendi (1957/1992). — A hand-drawn chart of Shoghi Effendi's family history.
- Kay Zinky. Genealogy of The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (1950?). — Chart showing the Semitic line of prophets, including source citations.
- Patricia De Luna Garcia and Rodrigo Vazquez Canales. Género y catolicismo: Concepciones y realidades de practicantes del catolicismo referente a la pluralidad del género (2022). — Relaciónes entre el ser un practicante del catolicismo y la apertura a la pluralidad de género. La...
- Tom Lysaght. Genesis in King Lear: Joseph's Many-Colored Coat Suits Shakespeare (2019). — Creative comparison of the biblical figure of Joseph and the character of Edgar in Shakespeare's Kin...
- Stephen A. Fuqua. Global Interfaith Movement, The (2003-04). — Summary of examples of interfaith dialogue from 1993-2003.
- Glossary and Index of Terms (2004). — Comprehensive glossary of Islam. (Extracted from the final volume, #13. Encyclopedia index not inclu...
- Christopher Buck. Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam, by Todd Lawson: Review (2012).
- Christopher Buck. God and Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America (2015). — The nation and the notion of America, as viewed through the lenses of Native American religions, Pro...
- Moojan Momen. God of Bahá'u'lláh, The (2005). — A close look at the view of God presented in the Writings of Baha’u’llah and analysis of the con...
- Geza Farkas. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, by Adam Nicolson: Review (2005-12/2015-06).
- Universal House of Justice. Goddess Religion, Ancient (1992-02-23). — Ancient goddess religions and the role of the feminine in theology.
- Christopher Buck. Golden Age of Jewish/Christian Relations Revisited, The: The Contribution of H.J. Schoeps to Interfaith Dialogue (1984). — On Bavarian historian Hans Joachim Schoeps, considered a foremost authority on early Jewish Christia...
- Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. Great Tao, The (1991). — On a philosophy of the ancient Chinese people, a Tao whose eternal spirit has seeped into the very h...
- Anna Josephine Ingersoll. Greenacre on the Piscataqua (1900). — An early history of Greenacre and some of its notable visitors and presentations.
- William Stell. Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice (2023-12). — Exploring "Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday" initiated by Robert S. Abbott (1922) and "Race Relations Sun...
- Iscander Micael Tinto. Hagiography: The Art of Setting Inspirational Examples for a Religious Community (2016). — The life of Jesus was the example against which saints were measured, and the lives of saints were t...
- Harvard Pluralism Project: Baha'i (2023). — Six overview essays on Baha'i history, beliefs, and practices. (Offsite)
- Dergham Aqiqi and Todd Lawson. Haykal or "Star Tablet" Written in the Báb's Own Hand: Form, Content, and Provisional Translation (2021-11). — Detailed analysis of the content and translation of an undated haykal; the relation between the Bab...
- Bahá'u'lláh Shoghi Effendi, trans. He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man ‘arafa nafsahú faqad ‘arafa Rabbahú): Commentary (1996). — Translation by Shoghi Effendi, completed by Cole. Themes include Islamic mysticism and the meaning o...
- Grover Gonzales. He Whom God Shall Make Manifest: Notes on Gematria, Tetractys, The Báb's identification of Him, and Opposition to Bahá'u'lláh (2020). — On the Bab's use of numerology and cabalistic interpretation of scripture, and his use of amulets an...
- George Townshend. Heart of the Gospel: The Bible and the Bahá'í Faith (1939). — Using only the text of the Bible, Townshend provides a new reading of Scripture as a guidebook for t...
- Theo A. Cope. Heaven in China without "Religion" and Manifestation (2000). — Some believe there never was a time when humanity was without a Prophet to guide it, but as none is ...
- Keven Brown. Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius of Tyana in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1997). — History of alchemy, magic, and the hermetic arts, and their reflection in the later teachings of Bah...
- Bahá'u'lláh Shoghi Effendi, trans. Hidden Words (1985). — Baha'u'llah's review of the most important themes of prior scriptures and religions, written in 1858...
- Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Hidden Words: References of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi (1998).
- Anjam Khursheed. Hindu Concept of God, The: Unity in Diversity (1997). — The fundamental unity behind Hindu concepts of God and those found in the Semitic traditions, and th...
- Moojan Momen. Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith (1990). — An attempt to explore the relationship between Hinduism and the Baha'i Faith and to explain the Baha...
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith: Warwick Leaflets (2000).
- William Garlington. Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith, by Moojan Momen: Review (1998).
- Stephen D. Dighton. His New Name: A Biblical Examination of the Claims of Bahá'u'lláh (1994). — Summary of Baha'i concepts, including quotes from both the Bible and the Baha'i Writings, answering ...
- Alessandro Bausani. Miguel Gil Santesteban, trans. Historia de la Religión desde la Perspectiva Bahá'í (2003?).
- John William Draper. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1864). — A selection of excerpts from the book. Contains no mention of the Baha'i Faith, but is of interest p...
- Christopher Buck and Nahzy Abadi Buck. Homosexuality in the Baha'i Faith and in World Religions (2004-08-01). — Slides of two presentations: Christopher Buck's "Homosexuality in World Religions" and Nahzy Buck's ...
- Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity. Hope and Resilience: The Application of Spiritual Principles to Community Life (2021). — On how communities use concepts and principles such as the oneness of humankind and interconnectedne...
- Ted Brownstein. How Bahá'u'lláh Taught Christians: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Bahá'u'lláh's Writings to Followers of Jesus Christ (1998). — How Baha'u'llah prepared his message to attract Christians; poetic and rhetorical devices he used in...
- Universal House of Justice. Humanitarian Responses to Global Conflicts (2015-01-13). — A letter to and response from the House about why Baha'is do not condemn the 2014 attacks on Gaza, a...
- Juan Cole. I am all the Prophets": The Poetics of Pluralism in Bahá'í Texts (1993 Fall). — Literary analysis of a passage from Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm) in which Baha'u'llah identifies ...
- Bruce Limber. I Daniel: Index (1999). — An index to the contents of Robert Riggs' book I, Daniel.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. I know Not How to Sing Thy Praise: Reflections on a Prayer of Bahá'u'llah (2012). — Theology and the language of revelation vs. atheism and scientific discourse, and apophatic "not-kno...
- Robert Riggs. I, Daniel (1998). — Spiritual, metaphorical, and esoteric teachings from the Bible's book of Daniel.
- Juliet Thompson. I, Mary Magdalene (1940). — Semi-autobiographical account of Juliet Thompson's contact with 'Abdu'l-Baha.
- Todd Lawson. Ibn 'Arabi's Joseph: Imagination as Holy Communion (2010-10).
- Christopher Buck. Identity of the Sabi'un, The: An Historical Quest (1984-07). — This article solves two problems that have long puzzled Islamicists: (1) How can the conflicting ide...
- Christopher Buck. Illuminator vs. Redeemer: A Trajectory of Ebionite Christology from Prophet Messianism to Bahá'í Theophanology (1983). — A continuity may be drawn by plotting a trajectory of prophetological concepts from Prophet Messiani...
- Christopher Buck. Illuminator vs. Redeemer: Was Ebionite Adam/Christ Prophetology "Original," Anti-Pauline, or "Gnostic"? (1982/2012). — Contains no mention of the Baha'i Faith, but is of interest because of the phenomenological resonanc...
- Maryam Afshar. Images of Christ in the writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, The (2004). — 'Abdu'l-Baha addressed Christian subjects in his talks with Baha'is of Christian background and his ...
- Said Amir Arjomand. Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation: Imami Shiʿism Circa 280-290 A. H./900 A. D. (1997). — Examination of the end of the 9th century and events following the death of the eleventh Imam, and t...
- Michael W. Sours. Immanence and Transcendence in Theophanic Symbolism (1992). — Baha'u'llah uses symbols to depict theophanies — the appearance of God and the divine in the real...
- Saul Palacios. Importancia de las Escrituras en la Ética Laboral Protestante (2022). — La ética laboral protestante (PWE) se fundamentaba en un fuerte componente. La PWE ya no esta únic...
- Ross Woodman. "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul (1993). — Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. T...
- Sandra Lynn Hutchison. In the Noble, Sacred Place: One Rainy Day in a Holy City (2021 Spring). — A memoir of visiting Jerusalem — a contemporary pilgrim's note written as a literary piece — wit...
- Nima Rafiei. In the Presence of the Beloved: Bahá'u'lláh's Lawh-i-Liqá': A Revised Provisional Translation and Notes (2017). — In Arabic, liqa’ indicates the promise of meeting the Lord. Baha’u’llah has transformed the co...
- Inayat Khan. Inayat Khan's meeting with 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris (1913). — One-paragraph recounting of Khan, the founder of "Universal Sufism," meeting with Abdu'l-Baha in 191...
- Charles Nolley and William Garlington. India, Notes on Bahá'í Population (1997-03). — Indian membership numbers, and how "enrollment" there has a different meaning than in developed coun...
- Christopher Buck and Kevin Locke. Indigenous Messengers of God (2014-2020). — 68 essays on Native American theology and history from the perspective of Baha'i teachings.
- Ismael Velasco. Ineffability in Scripture: A Conversation with 6 Medieval Mystics (2006). — On how the experience of six 13th- and 14th-century Christian mystics was shaped by their language, ...
- Udo Schaefer. Infallible Institutions? (2002). — Historical and Baha'i interpretations of infallibility.
- Jianping Wang. Influence of Bábí Teachings on Ling Ming Tang and Nineteenth-century China, The (2002). — A possible historical linkage between the followers of Babi and Baha'i Movements in Iran and the bel...
- Peter J. Khan. Institute on Islam (1971). — Transcription of tape #7 which deals with prophecies in the Qur'an, and recordings of a one-weekend ...
- Universal House of Justice and Horace Holley et al. Institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, The (1986). — Five documents from Baha'i World 18 part four section 5: Institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, its s...
- Mirza Asad'Ullah. Ali-Kuli Khan, trans. Instructions Concerning Genesis and the Mystery of Baptism (n.d. (1902?)). — A short treatise on Biblical verses and symbology viewed in light of the Hidden Words and other Writ...
- Duane Troxel. Intelligent Life in the Universe and Exotheology in Christianity and the Bahá'í Writings (1996). — Theological statements on extraterrestrial life in Christian and Baha'i texts, and in the work of Gi...
- Zena Sorabjee and National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India. Inter-religious gathering in New Delhi, and Address to Pope John Paul II (1999-12-12). — Brief address by Counsellor Sorabjee to an inter-religious gathering organised by the Roman Catholic...
- Gad Gilbar. Interest (riba) in Islam and the Bahá'í Faith (2004-01-20). — Baha'i scripture permits charging interest (riba) on loans, in contrast to Islamic law which forbids...
- John Hick. Interfaith and the Future (1994). — The development of the interfaith movement over the past 100 years and its possible futures.
- Roshan Danesh. Internationalism and Divine Law: A Baha'i Perspective (2004). — On the internationalism motif in Baha'i political and legal thought; the place of divine legal clai...
- Bahá'í International Community. Interreligious and Intercultural Cooperation (2007-10). — Statement to the United Nations on best practices and strategies for interreligious and intercultura...
- Seena Fazel. Interreligious Dialogue and the Bahá'í Faith: Some Preliminary Observations (1997). — An overview of pluralistic approaches and their relevance to Baha'i studies.
- Mary Hanford Ford. Interview with 'Abdu'l-Bahá, An (1933-07).
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Introduction to a Study of the Qur'án: With Additional References from Several Bahá'í Texts (1941). — A study guide to the Qur'an, consisting of lists of topics and verses by the "Study Outline Committe...
- Ignaz Goldziher. Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law (1981). — An early academic overview of Babi and Baha'i history and theology. From translation of a 1910 book ...
- Adib Masumian. Introduction to the Bahá'í Religiolect, An (2015). — Religious dialects are cultural crossover phenomena, like "Judeo-Arabic" and "Christianese". A relig...
- Yeo Yew Hock. Introduction to the Doctrines of Soul and Enlightenment in Mahayana Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith, An (1998). — The development of Mahayana and how the Chinese people adopted and adapted it; non-self/enlightenmen...
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Introduction to the Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas, An (2007). — Summary of the tablet Lawh-i Haqqu’n-Nas, Tablet of the "Right of the People," on the metaphorical...
- Mohamad Ghasem Bayat. Introduction to the Súratu'l-Haykal (Discourse of The Temple), An (2001). — One of Baha’u’llah's major writings. It includes references to the manifold stations of the Mani...
- Sandra S. Fotos and Lynne Hansen. Investigating Spiritualization: Noticing, Processing and the Function of Time (1995-10). — Survey and analysis of the personal adoption of virtues among Mormons and Baha'is.
- Annemarie Schimmel. Iqbál and the Bábí-Bahá'í Faith (1990). — One of the more influential Muslim thinkers of the first half of the 20th century, Iqbal expressed v...
- Eric Hooglund. Iran: Religious Life (1991-01-01). — Descriptions of the principal religious communities in Iran.
- Robert W. McGee. Is It Unethical to Evade Taxes in an Evil or Corrupt State?: A Look at Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Mormon and Bahá'í Perspectives (1999 Winter). — The ethics of tax evasion has been a neglected topic in both the accounting and ethical literature. ...
- Nosratollah Rassekh. Islám: The First 138 Years (1980 Fall/Winter). — Overview of the start of Islam, the life of Muhammad, the Qur'an, succession, early splits and philo...
- Christopher Buck. Islam and Minorities: The Case of the Baha'is (2003-06). — "The Baha'i question" is really a test case for whether Islam can legitimately claim to respect huma...
- Abir Majid. Islam and the Bahá'í Faith (2004). — Comprehensive overview of the relationship between the Baha'i Faith and Islam, and background on Isl...
- Diane Robinson Kerr. Islam and the Bahá'í Faith (2014). — Overview of the core tenets of Islam — belief, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage — with s...
- Duane Troxel. Islam and the Bahá'í Faith: A Brief Guide (1994). — An overview of some facts and resources about Islam Baha'is should know when conversing with Muslims...
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Islam and the Bahá'í Faith: Warwick Leaflets (2002).
- Denis MacEoin. Islam and the Baha'i Faith: A comparative study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-Baha ‘Abbas: Review (2010).
- Todd Lawson. Islam and the Life of the Mind (2005-06-11). — History of Islamic philosophy and how it connects to individual Muslims.
- Alessandro Bausani. Islam in the History of Religions (1972). — Methodological reflection on the question: how much does the study of so-called "superior" religions...
- Stephen Lambden. Islam, Muhammad, and the Qur'an: Some Introductory Notes (1991). — Islamic contributions to Western culture and science and discusses the place of Islamic Studies in t...
- Susan Maneck. Islam, the Baha'i Faith and the Eternal Covenant of Alast (2009-02-09).
- Rowshan Mustapha. Islám: The Road Ahead: Reflections of a Bahá'í on Islamic Topics (2014). — Questions about the finality of religion, the Day of Judgment, the role of Jesus and the Mihdi, and ...
- John L. Esposito. Islam: The Straight Path (1988). — Passing mention of political persecutions.
- Stanwood Cobb. Islamic Contributions to Civilization (1963). — Overview of the many inventions and sciences which were developed by or transmitted by Islamic peopl...
- Kamran Ekbal. Islamische Grundlagen des Kitáb-i Aqdas: Mit neuen Erkenntnissen zu seiner Datierung (1998).
- Yifan Zhang. Jainism and the Bahá'í Faith: Non-Violence and Plurality Across Time and Space (2022 April-June). — Comparison of similarities in Baha'i and Jain teachings, especially in non-violence and plurality ac...
- Christopher Buck. Jesus and Early Christianity in the Gospels: A New Dialogue, by Daniel Grolin: Review (2003).
- Robert Stockman. Jesus Christ in the Bahá'í Writings (1992). — While Christians traditionally believe the Gospels to be substantially accurate, little is known abo...
- Michael W. Sours. Jesus Christ in the Bahá'í Writings, by Robert Stockman: Review: Commentary concerning the differences between Christian and Bahá'í terminology (1993). — Discusses the station and titles of Christ in an attempt to find common ground with Christians.
- Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Jesus Christ, Resurrection of (n.d.).
- William S. Hatcher. Jesus et Muhammad (2008). — Fireside talk.
- Antonella Khursheed and Anjam Khursheed. Jesus the Son of God and the Incarnation Doctrine (1996). — The Baha'i approach to the sonship and divinity of Christ is consistent with Old and New Testament u...
- William S. Hatcher. Jésus, Fils de Dieu et Fils de l'homme (2002-12-18). — Fireside talk.
- Moshe Sharon. Jewish Conversion to the Bahá'í Faith (2011). — On the conversion of Jews in Iran, where they were among the early converts to the new religion, fir...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Jews and the Crucifixion (1980-11-21).
- Jack McLean. John the Baptist and Baha'i Prophetic Categories: An Atypical Paradigm (2013). — Comparative Jewish-Christian-Islamic-Baha’i study of the prophetic station of the prophet John the...
- Research Department of the Universal House of Justice. John the Baptist and Interpretation (1989-08-25). — Various questions about the the Baha’i position on John the Baptist, his station and teaching, and...
- Christopher Buck. Joseph in Religious History and the Bahá'í Writings (2022-08-27). — Just as the story of Joseph is the "best of stories," the metaphor of Joseph is the "best of metapho...
- Todd Lawson. Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses (2015). — Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their r...
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Judaism and the Bahá'í Faith: Warwick Leaflets (2004).
- Mehrdad Amanat. Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran in the Qajar Period: Conversion to the Bahá'í Faith (2009). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Bahá'u'lláh Shoghi Effendi, comp. Key Passages from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude) in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (2022). — Cross-reference compilation of 40 passages from the Kitab-i-Íqan selected by Shoghi Effendi for inc...
- Brian Wittman. Keys to the Proper Understanding of Islam in "The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah" (2001). — Some references to Islam in Shoghi Effendi's English-language writings.
- Christopher Buck. Kitab-i Iqan, The: An Introduction to Baha'u'llah's Book of Certitude with Two Digital Reprints of Early Lithographs (1998-06). — Overview of the history and themes of the preeminent doctrinal work of the Baha'i Faith.
- Suheil Badi Bushrui. Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book): Notes on the Style of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (1995). — The near-similarity between the style of the Qur'an and that of the Aqdas.
- Brent Poirier. Kitab-i-Iqan: Key to Unsealing the Mysteries of the Holy Bible (1998). — Examination of the Bible in light of interpretations of its symbolism offered by Baha'u'llah's Kitab...
- Bahá'u'lláh Shoghi Effendi, trans. Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude (1931). — Major theological work by Bahaʼu'llah, written prior to his declaration of mission.
- Sohrab Kourosh. Kitáb-i-Iqán, The: Revolutionizing the Concepts of Religion, Eschatology and Theology (2018). — The Kitab-i-Íqan resolves and removes eschatological barriers and establishes the fundamentals of a...
- Michael W. Sours and Brent Poirier et al. Kitáb-i-Íqán, The Book of Certitude: Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999). — Notes on various topics related to Baha'u'llah's Book of Certitude.
- Duane Troxel, comp. Kitáb-i-Íqán and the Qur'an: Quotations from the Iqan Compared with their Counterparts in Rodwell's Translation of the Qur'an (2001). — Includes table of Qur'anic quotations from the Íqan compared with their counterparts in the Qur'an,...
- Udo Schaefer. L'histoire de Salut et Changement de Paradigme: Deux Contributions à la Théologie Bahá'íe (1993). — French translation of <a href="/schaefer_beyond_clash_religions">Beyond the Clash of Religions...
- Seena Fazel and Khazeh Fananapazir. Pierre Spierckel, trans. L'islam, religion éternelle?: une approche bahá'íe de la revendication à la complétude (1993). — French translation of "A Baha'i Approach to the Claim of Finality in Islam."
- Boris Handal. La Cultura Hispano Árabe en Latino América (2004). — The influence of the Hispano-Arab culture in Latin American history, from a linguistic point of view...
- Boris Handal, comp. La Moral del Corán (2013-05). — Compilation of passages from the Qur'an, with reference to some Baha'i writings.
- Roland Faber. Laozi: A Lost Prophet? (2018). — On the Tao Te Ching, or Dao De Jing; the uniqueness of Toaism/Daoism; resonances with and difference...
- Christopher Buck and Youli A. Ioannesyan. Last Prophet and Last Day: Shaykhí, Bábí and Bahá'í Exegesis of the 'Seal of the Prophets' (Q. 33:40) (2023). — Survey and analysis of viewpoints on the meaning of "Seal of the Prophets"; the prophetic cycle and ...
- Peter Terry. Last Words of Jesus, The: What Were They and What Did They Mean? (2015). — The words of Christ according to the gospels of Mark and Matthew in Syriac and Greek; comparisons of...
- Vahid Rafati. Keven Brown, trans. Lawh-i-Hikmat: The Two Agents and the Two Patients (2002). — Discussion of the two terms fa`ilayn (the active force / "the generating influence") and munfa`ilayn...
- Anonymous, comp. Laws Abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh (2018/2020). — Laws abolished from previous religions and from the Bayan.
- Todd Lawson. Gabrielle Rivier, trans. Le Coran et l'imaginaire apocalyptique (2010-09).
- Moojan Momen. Learning from History (1989). — The challenges caused by the influx of Third World villagers into the Baha’i world community. The ...
- Universal House of Justice. Legislating on Morality (1988-06-05). — Areas in which the Universal House of Justice is refraining from legislating on, e.g. abortion and h...
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Les Paradigmes cachés de l'histoire: Comparaison de l'histoire des premiers siècles du christianisme et de la foi bahà'ie (1994). — Exploration of some lessons from history relevant to our era and our near future, from the perspecti...
- Josephina Fallscheer. Steven Phelps, ed. Letter to Mrs. A. Schwarz, Stuttgart (1910-01). — Philosophic conversations of the Master with a French consular official. The nineteenth letter from ...
- Universal House of Justice. Letter to the World's Religious Leaders (2002-04). — On historic challenges that leaders of religion must respond to, if spiritual leadership is to have ...
- Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani. Juan Cole, trans. Letters and Essays, 1886-1913 (1985). — Treatises of "the greatest and most learned of all Baha'i scholars" about Alexander Tumansky; on mee...
- Universal House of Justice. Letters of the Quranic Dispensation and Letters of the Living (huruf) (2003). — Some meanings of the term huruf ("letters") in Baha'i texts, including Letters of the Bayan, Letters...
- Jose Luis Marques Utrillas. Julien Hagelstein, trans. Lettres à un bon catholique (1987). — Translation of "Letters to a Good Catholic," in which Spanish Baha'i Utrillas narrates his personal ...
- Fleur Fallon. Liberation Theology and its Potential for Guidance Towards Peace on Earth: A Bahá'í Perspective (1996). — Baha'u'llah prescribed both a moral code for individuals based on knowing God and a design for a sys...
- Jack McLean. Life after Death: A Study of the Afterlife in Religions, by Farnaz Ma'sumian: Review (1998).
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2021). — Tablets of ‘Abdul-Baha describing aspects of the life of Baha’u’llah including the tribulation...
- Michael L. Penn. Light Was in the Darkness, The: Reflections on the Growth that Hides in the Pain of Suffering (2020-07). — Existential stress and its relationship to individual growth and development, drawing on the rich sp...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File (1988). — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
- John S. Hatcher. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2021). — List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher.
- Stephen Lambden. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. List of Baha'i Studies and Translations. — A list of content available at Lambden's personal website, Hurqalya Publications, with select links ...
- Brent Poirier. Lists of Articles (2009-2019). — Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites.
- Glenford Mitchell. Literature of Interpretation, The: Notes on the English Writings of Shoghi Effendi (1972-73 Winter). — The influence of the writings of Shoghi Effendi on the Baha'i Faith is analogous to that of St. Augu...
- Lesley Shams. Little Book of Comfort / Librito Reconfortante (2015). — The reason for suffering and tools to transform it; words of comfort and prayers. La razón del sufr...
- Ismael Velasco. Logos, Mythos and Kerygma: The Logic of Reconciliation and the Occultation of the Promised Qá'im in Bábí-Bahá'í Scripture (2004). — Theological background of the Twelfth Imam in Shi'i Islam, comprehensive interpretation of Baha'u'll...
- Benjamin Olshin. Look at Harmony and Unity as Common Principles in the Confucian System and the Bahá'í Faith, A (2014). — Confucianism and the Baha'i Faith represent complex and multi-faceted systems of philosophy, practic...
- Steven Phelps, comp. Loom of Reality: A Partial Inventory of the Works of the Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith (2020/2023). — A website with thematic compilations of quotations from the Baha’i Writings and beyond, and a cat...
- Universal House of Justice. Lot and His Daughters (2015-03-29). — Discussion of two Baha'i references on the Biblical story of Lot; an interpretation of a Bible verse...
- M. V. Gandhimohan. Mahatma Gandhi and the Bahá'ís: Striving towards a Nonviolent Civilization (2000). — Review of Ghandi's comments about the Faith as well as relationships between his ideas and those of ...
- Boris Handal. Mahoma, Profeta de Dios (2005/2020). — Overview of the life of Muhammad and the teachings of the Qur'an, and world Islamic culture.
- Michael W. Sours. Maid of Heaven, the Image of Sophia, and the Logos, The: Personification of the Spirit of God in Scripture and Sacred Literature (1991). — The Logos in Christianity and the Maiden for Baha'u'llah can be equated as one and the same eternal ...
- Fuad Izadinia. Major Opus, The: A Study of the German Templers Movement and Its Relationship with the Bahá'í Faith (2014). — The story of the journey of two parallel movements to the Holy Land in 1868: the Baha'is from Iran a...
- Udo Schaefer and Nicola Towfigh et al. Geraldine Schuckelt, trans. Making the Crooked Straight: A Contribution to Baha'i Apologetics [excerpt] (2000). — Front- and back-matter of the book only: Contents, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, Bibliography, ...
- Seena Fazel. Making the Crooked Straight, by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer: Review (2004-01-20).
- Paula Bidwell. Many Messengers of God, A Native American Perspective: Deganawidah The Peacemaker (2011-07). — Collection and analysis of proofs from the Baha'i Writings about prophets from indigenous cultures. ...
- Lil Osborn. Mary Magdalene: Lioness of God in the Bahá'í Faith (2013). — On the symbolic role of Mary Magdalene in the Baha’i tradition as a female archetype in the contex...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Frank Lewis, trans. Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak (1999). — Provisional translation
- Denis MacEoin. Mazhar [Manifestation] (1960-2004). — Definition of a type of theophany in which the divinity or its attributes are made visible in human ...
- Moshe Sharon. Meaning of Baha'i History, The (1999-12). — Disregarding personal belief, a neutral historian uses tools of objective research to deal with the ...
- Anjam Khursheed. Medieval Islam: The Influence of Islam on Judaism and Christianity (1997). — Prior to the Renaissance, Islam inspired revivals in the cultural traditions of Christianity and Jud...
- Archie Bell. Meeting a Prophet (1915). — Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Baha at the Sea of Galilee.
- World Almanac and Book of Facts. Membership of Religious Groups in the U.S., 1996 (1996-11-15). — Numbers of adherents, holy days, and headquarters of religious groups in the U.S. and Canada in 1998...
- Moojan Momen. Memorials of the Faithful: The Democratization of Sainthood (2016). — Hagiography in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the precedent of Faridu'd-Din's "Memorials of the Sa...
- Muhammad Asad. Message of The Quran, The: Appendices (1980). — Symbolism and allegory in the Qur'an; al-Muqatta'at (opening letters); the term and concept of Jinn;...
- Jack McLean. Message of the Universal House of Justice to the World's Religious Leaders: Panel Discussion Comments (2002). — Overview of some prominent global theologians and historians of religion, and issues facing interfai...
- Christopher Buck and Donald Addison. Messengers of God in North America, Revisited: An Exegesis of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Amír Khán (2007). — The indigenous peoples of the Americas have their own claim to wisdom tradition, which derive from M...
- Ahang Rabbani. Messianic Expectations in Nineteenth Century Christian and Islamic Communities (2006-02). — The phenomenon of messianism and its manifestations in early-modern American Christianity and in Ira...
- Stephen Lambden. Messianic Roots of Babi-Bahá'í Globalism, The (2005). — Contrast of the continuity between the globalism of the Bab’s Qayyum al-asma’ and Baha’u’lla...
- Amanah Nurish. Meta-Narrative of Peasant Religious Conversion, The: A Case Study of the Baha'i Community In Thailand (2015). — A study of why the peasant peoples of Yasothon, Thailand have turned to the Baha'i Faith instead of ...
- Sholeh A. Quinn. Mi'ráj in Select Shaykhí, Bábí, and Bahá'í Texts, The (2023). — The ascension of the Prophet Muhammad to heaven, and commentary on its meanings by religious leaders...
- Brian A. Miller. Mid-East History during the Islamic Period: Chronology and Commentary (2000). — Brief overview of Islamic history.
- Benjamin Olshin. Mikhail Sergeev, Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith: Review (2015).
- Universal House of Justice. Millennium Forum (2000-09-24).
- Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani. Juan Cole, trans. Miracles and Metaphors (1981). — Collection of essays on metaphysical topics and Baha'i answers to old religious controversies: are t...
- John Walbridge. Miscellaneous philosophy topics (2002). — Islamic vs. Baha'i philosophy; Greek philosophers and the Jews; other topics of philosophy.
- Ignaz Goldziher. Mohammed and Islam (1917). — Twelve pages on the Babi and Baha'i Faiths — described as a modern movement within Islam which rec...
- Margaret Pemberton-Pigott and Crispin Pemberton-Pigott. Monotheistic Religion in Africa: The Example of the Swazi People (2005). — Similarities between the Baha'i Faith and the ancient traditional beliefs of the Swazi people of Sou...
- William P. Collins. Mormonism and the Bahá'í Faith (1990). — Historical contacts between Baha’is and Mormons; Mormon views of the Baha’i Faith; Baha’i view...
- Louis E. Venters. "Most Great Reconstruction": The Bahá'í Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 (2010). — The Faith enjoyed a period of growth from the 1960s-1980s that was largely inspired by interracial t...
- L. P. Elwell-Sutton. Muhammad and the Course of Islam, by H.M. Balyuzi: Review (1977).
- Todd Lawson. Muhammad as Educator, Islam as Enlightenment, and the Quran as Sacred Epic (2020). — To Islam, civilization in prosperity and harmony is sacred; education is pivotal in the journey from...
- Vahid Houston Ranjbar. Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab and Shaykh Ahmad (2016-12-23). — Brief comparison of two opposing ideologies: fundamentalist Wahhabism vs. the less literalistic teac...
- Robert L. Gulick. Muhammad the Educator (1953). — On the life of Muhammad from the standpoint of influence on world culture. What methods did he use t...
- Juan Cole. Muhammad `Abduh and Rashid Rida: A Dialogue on the Bahá'í Faith (1981 Spring). — Translation of a dialogue between two influential Sunni thinkers of the early Twentieth Century; con...
- Farshid Kazemi. Mysteries of Alast: The Realm of Subtle Entities and the Primordial Covenant in the Babi-Bahá'í Writings (2009). — One of the more esoteric concepts in Shi'i and Shaykhi thought is the "realm of subtle entities," '...
- Christopher Buck. Mystery of the Sworded Warrior in Hindu Apocalypse, The: Was Kalki Visnuyas Bahá'u'lláh? (1980). — Does Baha'u'llah fulfill messianic expectations associated with Kalki Vishnuyasas, the tenth incarna...
- Gul Afroz Zaman. Mystic Journey of the Soul, The (1998). — On the journey a soul must make to attain union with the Eternal from the confines of material life ...
- Annemarie Schimmel. Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975). — Detailed history of Sufism and its thought, Islamic theosophy, and Persian and Turkish mystical poet...
- Farnaz Ma'sumian. Mysticism and the Bahá'í Faith (1995 Spring). — An examination of the Baha'i Faith's relation to mysticism and mystic themes and ideas present in th...
- Fargang Jahanpour. Mysticism East and West (2007). — The meaning and nature of mysticism and some of the leading ideas in Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christ...
- Moojan Momen. Robert Stockman, comp. Names of the Bahá'í Months, The: Separating Fact from Fiction (2012-11). — A blog post, compiled for the Wilmette Institute, on the original source of the names of the months ...
- Patricia Locke. Native American and Other Indigenous Messengers of God (1993). — God did not neglect the millions of indigenous peoples of the Western hemisphere; over the centuries...
- Paula Bidwell. Native American Vision and the Teachings of 'Abdu'l-Baha (2011). — Presentation addressing issues of concern to Native Americans, cast in the light of statements of Ab...
- Paula Bidwell, comp. Native Bahá'ís: Bios of past and contemporary Bahá'ís of native ancestry (2014). — Links to photographs and information from the 1910s to the present about Native Baha'is, both from t...
- Christopher Buck. Native Messengers of God in Canada?: A Test Case for Bahá'í Universalism (1996). — Explores the possibility of including other great religious figures in the Baha'i category of "Manif...
- William P. Collins. Native Messengers of God in Canada? A test case for Bahá'í universalism, by Christopher Buck: Commentary (1998).
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Nature of God, The: Some Extracts from the Bahá'í Writings (1992). — Brief compilation on nature of God.
- Linda S. Covey. Navajo Tradition, The: Transition to the Bahá'í Faith (2010). — Examines three reasons behind the conversion of some Navajo to Baha'i in the early 1960s: fulfillmen...
- Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla. Gool Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans. Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai, The: (Chapter 68) (1975). — Overview of the Faith, and the author's interactions with Baha'is in the early 1900s. (Navjote is th...
- Zaid Lundberg. New Age Movement and the Bahá'í Faith (2000). — How to define the New Age Movement, its similarities to and differences from the Baha'i Faith, and h...
- Universal House of Justice. New Religious Movements, Tolkien, Marriage (1994-07-06). — Various questions: new religious movements; Indian Letter of the Living; J.R.R. Tolkien; eternality...
- Peter Beyer. New Religious System for Contemporary Society (2001-04). — On scholarship and categories of religions in the global society, religion as a function system, and...
- Lynn Echevarria-Howe. New Skin For An Old Drum, A: Changing Contexts of Yukon Aboriginal Bahá'í Storytelling (2008 Fall). — On the construction of the religious self through the storytelling processes of Yukon Aboriginal Bah...
- Christopher Buck and Necati Alkan. No More Jihad: Muhammad's Message in Baha'u'llah's Dream (2017-01-23). — Essay about a Tablet of Baha’u’llah in which He describes a dream in which He "associated" with ...
- Bani Dugal. Morten Bergsmo, ed. Non-Governmental Perspective on the Relative Effectiveness of Multilateral and Bilateral Measures to Combat Hate Speech, A: An Analysis of Tools Deployed in Response to Religious Hate Speech in Iran (2023-07). — International Human Rights framework; Iran's obligations under international law; history of Baha'i ...
- Lee Brown. North American Indian Prophecies (1986). — Talked delivered at the 1986 Continental Indigenous Council, Tanana Valley Fairgrounds, Fairbanks, A...
- Deborah Clark Vance. Not Just for Consumers: An Argument for Depicting Diverse Beliefs on U.S. Television (2007). — Globally, with few exceptions, television is a conduit for reaffirming hegemonic beliefs. How can ...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Central and East Africa, comp. Notes on Bahá'í Proofs Based on the Bible, Some (1963). — Compilation by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central and East Africa
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Central and East Africa, comp. Notes on Bahá'í Proofs Based on the Qur'an, Some (2000-08). — Compilation by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central and East Africa
- Robert Stockman. Notes on Islam from a Bahá'í Perspective (1998). — Overview of Islamic history and teachings and brief notes on Islam and the Baha'i Faith.
- Robert Stockman. Notes on Judaism from a Bahá'í Perspective (1998). — Overview of Judaism with many comments on Baha'i teachings on Jewish history and prophets; includes ...
- Dann J. May. Notes on the Christian "Antichrist" and Titles of Christ (1997). — Intro for a Baha'i-Christian dialogue on the meaning of the antichrist, titles of Jesus in the Baha'...
- Virginia Orbison. Notes on Words of the Guardian (1956). — Ten pages of notes, preserved as an appendix to Orbison's lengthy manuscript "Diary of a Pilgrimage ...
- Abdulrahman Lomax. Number 19 in the Qur'an, The (1995-06). — Discussion of a study by a Muslim which purports to demonstrate that the Qur'an is comprised of myst...
- Muhammad and Imam Ali ibn 'Abu-Talib. Anton Haddad, trans. Oath of the Prophet Mohammed to the Followers of the Nazarene, The (1902). — Promise of fair-treatment from Muhammad to the Christians, with commentary by Imam Ali, given in the...
- Heshmat Moayyad. Obituary: Alessandro Bausani (1921-1988) (2001). — The life and work of Bausani (1921-1988), a leading Italian scholar of Islam, Middle Eastern studies...
- Chad Jones, comp. Ocean 2.0 Interfaith Reader: Bahá'í Writings search engine (1998–). — Complete search engine for Baha'i texts and books from other religions (offsite).
- Susan Maneck. Old Charges for a New Religion, Some (2009-01-24). — The background and significance of the fantastic charges made against Baha’is in Iran and elsewher...
- George Townshend. Old Churches and the New World-Faith, The (1949). — Pamphlet publication of Townshend's letter of renunciation of the Anglican Church and proclamation o...
- Christopher Buck. On Jesus' Cry from the Cross (1983-03). — Comments on an article by Stephen Lambden on "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Adib Masumian, trans. On the Meanings of the Terms 'Angels' and 'Jinn': Provisional translation (2019). — Translation of passages from Tablets of ʻAbduʼl-Baha on the symbolism of jinn and angels in the Qu...
- Universal House of Justice. One Common Faith (2005). — Review of relevant passages from both the writings of Baha'u'llah and the scriptures of other faiths...
- Burl Barer. One Father, Many Children: Judaism and the Bahá'í Faith (2010). — Judaic teachings on religious inclusivism and relativism, and the Baha'i acceptance of Judaism.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Adib Masumian, trans. One Who Related the Existence of the Qáʼim, The (2015). — One-paragraph passage related to the coming of the Mahdi.
- Peter Terry. Oneness of Reality, The: A Response to Moojan Momen's "Relativism as a Basis for Baha'i Metaphysics" (2018). — Dialogue on epistemology and ontology as presented in the core literature of the Baha’i religion.
- Alain Locke. Orientation of Hope and Lessons in World Crisis, The (1936/1945). — Two essays meditating on the relevance of Baha'i principles to the period preceding and during the S...
- Keven Brown. Origin of the Bahá'í Principle of the Harmony between Science and Religion, The (2001-08). — On the origin of the principle of scientific/religious harmony in Islamic and Baha’i Writings, and...
- Jonah Winters. Origins of Shi'ism: A Consensus of Western Scholarship (1996). — Shi'ism, representing about 10% of the umma, is often regarded as illegitimate by the majority Sunni...
- Babak Rod Khadem. Origins of the Bahá'í Concept of Unity and Causality: A Brief Survey of Greek, Neoplatonic, and Islamic Underpinnings (2006). — The Baha’i conception of unity has historical and intellectual precedents. On the history of this ...
- Ted Brownstein. Out of Jewish Roots: Studies of Prayer Patterns in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Bahá'í Worship (2006). — An exploration of the development of liturgy and personal prayer patterns from its roots in Judaism ...
- Christopher Buck. Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith (1999). — Study of Baha'i and Christian symbology, the "first academic monograph comparing Christianity and th...
- Kathleen E. McVey. Paradise and Paradigm, by Christopher Buck: Review (2003).
- William P. Collins. Paradise and Paradigm, by Christopher Buck: Review (2001).
- Harold Coward. Paradise and Paradigm, by Christopher Buck: Review (1999).
- Daniel Grolin. Paradise and Paradigm, by Christopher Buck: Review (1999).
- Andrew Rippin and John Renard et al. Paradise and Paradigm, by Christopher Buck: Reviews (2000/2002). — Three short reviews from Studies in Religion, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, and Humaniti...
- Afshin A. Khavari. Parallels Between Islamic and Baha'i laws and Constitutional Principles (1998). — The roles of Sunnah, Hadith, and Ijtihad in Islamic constitutional law, and the development of the B...
- JoAnn M. Borovicka. Parallels in the Ministries of Táhirih and Paul (2016). — Stories of early believers of the Bahá’í Faith as presented in "Memorials of the Faithful" com...
- Bahá'u'lláh Shoghi Effendi, comp. Passages uit de Kitáb-i-Íqán (Boek van Zekerheid) in Bloemlezing uit de Geschriften van Bahá'u'lláh (2022). — Compilatie van 40 passages uit de Kitab-i-Íqan door Shoghi Effendi geselecteerd voor opname in Bloe...
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Path of God, The (2010). — A comparison of the 'Global Ethic' (Hans Küng) with the Baha'i Faith. The core ethical principles f...
- Dorothy Baker. Path to God, The: 1937 (1937). — Essay published as a pamphlet about the goal of life, revelation and access to heaven, self-improvem...
- Robert Sinclair Sarracino and Margery Dixon. Pathways to Equity in Addressing Climate Change: A Bahá'í Perspective (2024). — The urgency of climate change, advocating for a new relationship between science and religion, justi...
- Hoda Mahmoudi. Permanence of Change, The: Contemporary Sociological and Bahá'í Perspectives (2008). — Sociohistorical changes of the Axial Age and the Renaissance, sociological views on modernity and it...
- Universal House of Justice. Permissibility of Chinese New Year Celebrations and Cultural Prostrations (2019-06-04). — Permissibility of observing Chinese New Year; prostrating is permissible for cultures in which prost...
- Richard N. Frye. Persia (1968). — Excerpt from a book on the history of Iran. Includes mention of Baha'i schools in the early twentiet...
- Bernard Temple. Persia and the Regeneration of Islam (1910-05-27). — An argument to a British business audience that Persia is becoming more civilized and is experiencin...
- Abbas Amanat. Persian Bayan and the Shaping of the Babi Renewal, The (2007). — On the Babi Faith as a product of the religious environment of Shi'i Iran, including its esoteric cu...
- Mary Boyce. Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, A (1977). — Brief mention of Baha'i converts to Zoroastrianism in Yazd.
- Kamran Hakim. Personal Interpretation of the term 'Seal of the Prophets' (1997). — A lengthy examination of the terms khatam, "seal," and Nabi, "Prophet," and their meanings in Islam.
- Eamonn Moane. Perspectives on the Inseparable Twin Duties Prescribed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (2003). — Religions differ in the balance of faith versus good works, the grace of God versus human strivings,...
- Christopher Buck. Phenomenon of Religion, The by Moojan Momen: Review (1999). — This review of The Phenomenon of Religion utilizes Buck's DREAMS paradigm: Doctrinal, Ritual, Ethica...
- Dan Wheatley. Philosophical and Religious Contributions to the Emergence of Human Rights: The Bahá'í Perspective (2012-12). — While some forms of religious extremism are contemptuous of human rights, and human rights are somet...
- Per-Olof Akerdahl. Pilgrimage and Religious Identity in the Bahá'í Faith (2000). — Pilgrimage has been an important part in the creation of a religious identity. The meaning of pilgri...
- Romane Takkenberg. Pocketful of Meaning, A: Compilation of Terms, Phrases and Symbols as Used in the Sacred Writings of all Faiths in the World (2019). — A compilation from the Baha'i Writings explaining the meaning of terms and symbols used in the sacre...
- Frank Lewis. Poetry as Revelation: Introduction to Bahá'u'lláh's 'Mathnavíy-i Mubárak' (1999). — On Baha'u'llah and the poetic tradition, Sufism, Sufi poetry, and Rumi; rhetorical orientation; date...
- Jan T. Jasion. Polish Response to Soviet Anti-Bahá'í Polemics, The (1999 Winter). — Response of non-Baha'i scholars to Marxist-Leninist polemics and attacks on the Baha'i Faith, in par...
- Udo Schaefer. Positions of the Austrian Churches and Religious Communities regarding bio- and medico-ethical Issues, The (2002). — On the Baha'i view of bioethical and biomedical questions, and Baha'i authoritative sources, image o...
- Johanna Pink. Post-Quranic Religion Between Apostasy and Public Order, A: Egyptian Muftis and Courts on the Legal Status of the Baha'i Faith (2003). — On how Egypt has adapted and responded to the Baha'i Faith; legal issues for Muslim jurists and the ...
- Duane Troxel. Powerpoints for Deepening (2004-2014). — 26 presentations in Powerpoint format, on a variety of topics covering Baha'i history, Central Figur...
- Nobel Augusto Perdu Honeyman. Precedentes de elementos de gobernanza en religiones: Aportaciones de la Fe bahá'í para la gobernanza futura (2022). — Agunos apuntes sobre el papel desempeñado por algunas religiones del pasado en el desarrollo y cons...
- William S. Hatcher. Précis Commentary on One Common Faith (2008). — Commentary on the statement ‘One Common Faith’.
- Pierre Spierckel. Preuves bahá'íes basées sur le Coran (2015). — Expose la compréhension baha'ie des versets du Coran qui traitent de Sceau des prophètes, de Jour ...
- Abu'l-Qasim Faizi. Prince of Martyrs, The: A brief account of the Imam Husayn (1977). — The story of the Third Imam, whose death in the year 680 became a pivotal event for Shi'i Islam.
- Hossein Avaregan. Profezie con Valore Scientifico (1981). — L’autore illustra le quattro condizioni necessarie affinché a una profezia si possa dare valore s...
- Mehdi Wolf. Progressive Revelation: A Brief Circumstantial/Historical Contextualization (2022-05-16). — Progressive revelation must be understood in the context of the twin purposes of a divine Manifestat...
- David F. Young, comp. Progressive Revelation: The Bible and Bahá'u'lláh (2010). — A facilitator and a participant guide on studying The Bible and Baha’u’llah, prepared for the Co...
- William Sears. Progressive Revelation and Oneness of Religion (1972 (?) / 2018). — A videotaped talk (possibly from 1972), along with a shorter animated 2018 presentation prepared by ...
- Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Teaneck NJ. Progressive Revelation Poster (n.d.). — One-page poster giving a visual representation of the Manifestations that have come to nine countrie...
- Jack McLean. Prolegomena to a Bahá'í Theology (1992). — Groundbreaking and thorough essay on the basic concerns of scholarly Baha'i theology.
- Ismael Velasco. Prolegomenon to the Study of Babi and Baha'i Scriptures, A: The Importance of Henry Corbin to Babi and Baha'i Studies (2004). — On the foremost Western authority on the Islamic philosophy of Persia, one of the most influential I...
- Gloria A. Faizi. Promise of Lord Krishna, The (1975). — Baha'i fulfillment of Krishna's prophecy of return: "Whenever there is decay of righteousness and ex...
- Kavian Sadeghzade Milani and Leila Rassekh Milani. Proof Based on Establishment (Dalíl-i-taqrír) and the Proof Based on Verses (Hujjiyyat-i-ayát), The: An Introduction to the Bahá'í-Muslim Polemics (1997). — Study of Baha'i apologetics based largely on the work of Mirza Abu'l-Fadl.
- Sabir Afaqi. Proofs from the Holy Qur'án Regarding the Advent of Bahá'u'lláh (1993). — Collection of prophecies and symbols from the Qur'an that foretell Baha'u'llah. Prepared for the dee...
- Peter Terry. Proofs of the Prophets (2008). — Compilation of texts related to proofs of prophethood, as found in the writings of Baha'u'llah, the ...
- Peter Terry. Proofs of the Prophets: Contents (2008-2020). — Links to a series-in-progress of compilations and commentary.
- Peter Terry, comp. Proofs of the Prophets: The Case for Baha'u'llah (2008). — Forty proofs of prophethood set forth in the writings of Baha’u’llah, the Bab, ‘Abdu’l-Baha,...
- Peter Terry, comp. Proofs of the Prophets: The Case for Lord Krishna (2008). — Compilation of texts related to Lord Krishna; forty proofs of prophethood set forth in the Bhagavad-...
- William Sears. Prophecies Fullfilled by Baha'u'llah (n.d.).
- Michael W. Sours and Christopher Buck. Prophecies of Jesus, by Michael Sours: Commentary and Responses (1994). — Editorial statement about the nature of Baha'i scholarship and academic debate, followed by response...
- Stephen Lambden. Prophecy in the Johannine Farewell Discourse: The Advents of the Paraclete, Ahmad and Comforter (1997). —
The exegetical history of sayings ascribed to Jesus which mention the Paraclete. Christian, Muslim...
- Universal House of Justice. Prophecy of Daniel; Modifications of Baha'u'llah and the New Era (1996-06-02). — Regarding the fulfilment of the Biblical prophecy of Daniel concerning 1,335 days, and modifications...
- Moshe Sharon. Prophets and Mountains (2008). — Metaphors of mountains and actual mountains in the history of religion; Mount Carmel.
- Susan Maneck. Prophets of Mahabad, and Nature of Creation: The Two Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria (2011). — Discussion of Baha’u’llah’s letters to Manakji Hataria as found in the Tabernacle of Unity, co...
- Peyman Sazedj. Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (2009-2011). — Twenty-four translations from 2009, 2010, and 2011 copied from the defunct website peyman.sazedj.org...
- Moojan Momen. Psychology of Mysticism and its Relationship to the Bahá'í Faith (1984-03). — Contrast of theories of mysticism and its physiological components from the perspective of 20th-cent...
- Hossein Avaregan. Punti Razionali Comuni fra Corano e Vangelo (1990). — Ricerca personale della verità, origine divina di tutte le religioni, analogia delle profezie, uso ...
- Michael Karlberg. Pursuit of Social Justice, The (2022-08-03). — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
- Jan T. Jasion. Quelques Rencontres Importantes entre les Communautés Protestante et Bahá'íe en France (2019-11). — History of the relationship between the Faith in France and the Protestant community, 1870-1913 (wit...
- George Townshend. Questions about the Second Coming (1953). — Answers by Townshend to questions asked by the Baha’is of Kampala, Uganda about the return of Chri...
- Mirra Alfassa. Questions and Answers 1950-51 (1951/1972). — Recollections of Abdu'l-Baha speaking about sacrifice and suffering by a leading spiritual collabora...
- Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad. Denis MacEoin, trans. Questions of Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad occasioning the Revelation of the Kitab-i-Iqan (1997-06). — Translation of the questions submitted to Baha'u'llah by Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad, the maternal un...
- Todd Lawson. Qur'an and the Apocalyptic Imagination, The (2010). — The Qur'an is regarded as a revelation of a divine message, unveiling truth to humankind at a time o...
- Todd Lawson. Qur'an and the Bahá'í Faith, The (2019). — On how tafsir, Islam, and the Qur'an have had a great impact on the form and content of the Baha'i r...
- Ted Brownstein. Qur'an and Violence against Non-believers, The (2017). — An examination of two sections of The Qur'an that supposedly authorize the slaughter of innocent non...
- Todd Lawson. Qur'an Commentary as Sacred Performance: The Bab's tafsirs of Qur'an 103 and 108, the Declining Day and the Abundance (1998). — Quranic commentary played a major role in the formation of the Babi movement. Early Babis were impre...
- Todd Lawson. Qur'an Commentary of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, The: Doctoral dissertation (1987-07). — A study of the Bab's two earliest works, partial commentaries on the Qur'an entitled "Tafsir súrat ...
- Brett Zamir, comp. Qur'án, The: Renderings by Rodwell & Sale and Multilinear Qur'án with Bahá'í References by Verse (2003). — Compilation on Islam and the Qur'an, and parallel translation of The Qur'an as translated by George ...
- Muhammad. Abdullah Yusufali, trans. Qur'án, The: The Meanings of the Holy Qur'an (n.d.).
- Dalton Garis, ed. Qur'anic and Biblical References in the Kitáb-i-Íqán: A Guide to Further Study (2020). — List of quotes from the Bible and the Qur'an referenced by Baha’u’llah in the Kitab-i-Iqan as sh...
- Todd Lawson. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration (2022). — Article contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Baha'i...
- Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Qur'ánic references in the Bahá'í Writings (2001). — Cross-reference list (incomplete).
- Kamran Ekbal. Quranic Roots of Some Legal and Theological Terms of the Kitáb-i Aqdas Regarding Women and Homosexual Relations, The (1995). — Interpretations and etymologies of Arabic terms for prostitution, virginity, dowry, menstruation, so...
- Sam Shamoun. Quranic Witness to Biblical Authority, The (1999). — Written for a Muslim audience, this article expounds on the Muslim view that the Bible is authentica...
- Peter Terry. Rabindranath Tagore: Some Encounters with Bahá'ís (1992/2015). — 'Abdu'l-Baha is alleged to have met India's poet laureate Tagore in Chicago in 1912. This article ex...
- Stanwood Cobb. Real Turk, The (1914). — Reflections on three years spent in Turkey during the rise of the Young Turk Party and the downfall ...
- Bijan Ma'sumian. Realms of Divine Existence as described in the Tablet of All Food (1994 Summer). — Baha'i theoretical theology in the Lawh-i-Qullu'Ta'am.
- Romuald Boubou Moyo. Recherche sur les Signes Visibles dans le Ciel de la Venue des Manifestations de Dieu (2019). — Les annonces des venues des Manifestations de Dieu dans les écrits saints ont à la fois un sens ca...
- Cetin Onder. Recognition and Identity: The case of the Baha'i Faith (2002 spring). — Baha'i Faith seen in a Hegelian model.
- Thomas Kelly Cheyne. Reconciliation of Races and Religions, The (1914). — Early history of the Babi and Baha'i movements, life stories of their participants, and their contem...
- Peter Terry. Reconciliation of Religions, The: Imperative for the 21st Century (2015). — While the 12 principles attributed to 'Abdu'l-Baha include the harmony of religion with science and ...
- Anthony Lee. Reconciling the Other: The Bahá'í Faith in America as a Successful Synthesis of Christianity and Islam (1995-04). — Although many ordinary Baha'is are unaware of their religion's Islamic roots, seeing it instead as t...
- Dianne Bradford. References to Christ in His Tablet to Pope Pius IX (1998).
- Ismael Velasco. Reflections on Baha'u'llah's Claims to Being the Return of Imam Husayn (2020-06). — On Imam Husayn in Shi'a Islam, expectations of his return, his place in Babi theology, and various r...
- Youli A. Ioannesyan. Reflections on Some Messianic Prophecies in Shaykhi Works (2010). — A Baha’i interpretation of passages of messianic prophecy in the writings of Shaykh Ahmad and Siyy...
- Roshan Danesh. Reflections on the Concept of Law in the Bahá'í Faith, Some (2014). — The concept of law in the Baha’i Faith; its early Islamic context; the nature of legal language an...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Reincarnation and the Nature and Progress of the Soul (n.d.).
- Universal House of Justice. Reincarnation, Rebirth and the Progress of the Soul (1995-04-25). — On reincarnation, the Soul and the Concept of “Return,” and The Mind and “Former Life Memories...
- Edward C. Getsinger. Reincarnation, The Return, and the "Cycle of Life" Chart (1916-04). — The concepts Reincarnation and Return in the context of pilgrims' recollections of the words of 'Abd...
- David Russell Garcia. Kees Poolman, trans. Reis naar het Hart van de Qur'án: Het Heilige Boek van de islam voor hen die nadenken (door een niet-moslim) (2022). — Een overzicht van de Koran en zijn thema's: islam versus het christendom; wetten, geestelijke en soc...
- Wanden Mathews LaFarge. Relation of the Báb to the Traditions of Islám, The (1930). — Discussion of prophecies made by Muhammad concerning his son-in-law Ali and the division which divid...
- Moojan Momen. Relativism: A Basis For Bahá'í Metaphysics (1988). — "Relativism" as a means of reconciling the often widely-divergent theologies of the world's religion...
- Moojan Momen. Relativism: A Theological and Cognitive Basis for Bahá'í Ideas about God and the Spiritual World (2011). — A response to Kluge's critiques of his earlier article on relativism.
- Ian Kluge. Relativism and the Bahá'í Writings (2008). — A strident rejection of the philosophical concept of relativism as being incompatible with a Baha’...
- Jack McLean. Relativity of Religious Truth, The: Relating to the Absolute (2007). — History of the relativistic approach to truth, a response to Momen's "Relativism: A Basis for Baha'i...
- Julio Savi. Religion and Exclusivism: A Bahá'í Perspective (2006). — Various factors have distracted the attention of religionists from the essential teachings of religi...
- Arthur J. Arberry. Religion in the Middle East: Three Religions in Concord and Conflict: Volume 1, Judaism and Christianity (1969). — Three mentions of the Babis and Baha'is.
- Arthur J. Arberry. Religion in the Middle East: Three Religions in Concord and Conflict: Volume 2, Islam (1969). — Five mentions of the Babis, Baha'is, and Ahmadiyya.
- Anjam Khursheed. Religion in the Modem World (2001). — On aspects of the Western secular rebellion against theocracy and the rise of free enquiry and freed...
- Ahang Rabbani. Religion of Islam (2007). — Overview of Islam: law and doctrine, The Qur'an, Hadith, the Five Pillars, Quranic interpretation.
- Ismael Velasco. Religion, Modernity and the "Clash of Civilisations": Context and Prospects (2013). — On the broader intellectual context for the emergence of the Baha'i Faith in 19th century Iran and i...
- David A. Weintraub. Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? (2014). — 2-page excerpt from a 5-page chapter on the Faith, in a book covering what world religions believe a...
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Religions Are One: Warwick Leaflets (1993).
- Moojan Momen. Religions of the World: Divisive or Divine?: A Look at Religious Fundamentalism (2001-11). — What 'fundamentalism' means from the religious viewpoint; sociological and psychological explanation...
- Christopher Buck. Religions Share Enduring Values (2011). — Do all religions ultimately endorse the same spiritual values? Includes discussion of the "Golden Ru...
- Todd Lawson. Religious Authority and Apocalypse: Tafsír as Experience in an Early Work by The Báb (2013). — Analysis of the Bab's commentary on the Qur'an's longest chapter, Surat al-baqara, regarded as his f...
- James J. Keene. Religious Behavior and Neuroticism, Spontaneity, and Worldmindedness (1967-06). — Baha'is were included in a broad survey of religious thoughts and actions, and their attitudes stati...
- Alkhaldy Ayman and Alhrahshehr Rakan. Religious Extremism in a Multifaceted Context (2022). — Deconstruction of the word "extreme" in religious perspectives; proposal for a complete framework en...
- Christopher Buck. Religious Minority Rights (2008). — Discussion of three minority religions within Islamic states that have experienced persecution and h...
- Christopher Buck. Religious Myths and Visions of America: How Minority Faiths Redefined America's World Role (2010/2012). — Survey and comparison of ten religions that feature collective religious beliefs about America's mis...
- Richard Kyle. Religious Myths and Visions of America, by Christopher Buck: Review (2011-06).
- Iren E. Annus. Religious Myths and Visions of America, by Christopher Buck: Review (2012-02).
- Christopher Buck. Religious Myths of America (Syllabus) (2004-03). — Course syllabus; invited contribution, American Academy of Religion
- Julio Savi. Religious Pluralism: A Bahá'í Perspective (2000). — On resolving the conflicting truth claims made by different religious traditions; finding definition...
- Seena Fazel. Religious Pluralism and the Baha'i Faith (2003-07). — Provides an overview of the Baha'i poisition on religious pluralism, reviewing relevant Baha'i texts...
- Mark A. Foster. Resurrection: A Bahá'í Perspective (1993). — Personal reflections and interpretations.
- Universal House of Justice. Resurrection and Return of Jesus (2008). — The body of Christ; the burial of Christ; His return; and explaining the Baha'i view to Christians.
- Universal House of Justice. Resurrection of Christ and the Bible (1987-09-14). — Information on Baha'i concepts related to the Resurrection of Christ.
- Gene (Mrs.) Crist, comp. Return of Christ, The: Statements Relating to the Twofold Nature of Christ (n.d.). — Two-page compilation of passages from the Bible and the Baha'i Writings.
- Pym Trueman. Return of the Dreamtime (1995). — Brief history of Christianity and missionary work in Samoa and Australia, and how native Samoan cust...
- Isabella D. Brittingham, comp. Revelation of Bahaullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons, The (1902-02). — One of the earliest English-language histories of the Faith, written to prove the truth of Baha'u'll...
- Kamran Ekbal. Revelation of Islam and the Power of the Messenger, The (n.d.). — [article in Persian]
- Jamshed K. Fozdar. Revivification of the Buddha's Dharma, The (1997). — The unrivaled impact of the Buddha's teachings upon Asian spirituality, his fundamental motivations,...
- Roshan Danesh and Douglas White III. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation (2023-01-08). — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
- Ross Woodman. Role of the Feminine in the Bahá'í Faith, The (1995). — On the terms 'Masculine' and 'Feminine' as referring to 2 interdependent energies at work within the...
- Marion Woodman. Role of the Feminine in the New Era, The (1989). — The unveiled feminine, symbolized by the unveiling of the Persian poet Tahirih at the conference ...
- Todd Lawson. Role of Wonder in Creating Identity, The (2023). — The term badi', "wondrous" or "new," is used dozens of times by the Bab in his proclamatory work the...
- Kevin Brogan. Roman Catholic Priesthood and Bahá'í Administration, The (2002). — Helping Baha’is understand the theology and function of Roman Catholic Priesthood and helping Cath...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Rumi: Quotations from the Mathnáví of Rúmí in the Bahá'í Writings (2001/2015). — Rúmi’s Mathnavi is quoted in many places in the Baha'i Writings, as noted in the footnotes to the...
- Universal House of Justice. Sabaeans and African-based Religions in the Americas, The (2012). — Overview by the Research Department about the religion of the Sabaeans [aka Sabeans], and some indig...
- William P. Collins. Sacred Mythology and the Bahá'í Faith (1990). — The mythological universe created by Baha’u’llah employs three significant spiritual verities: t...
- Margaret Caton. Sacred Refrains: Arabic and Persian Dhikrs in the Bahá'í Community (2024). — introduction to dhikr (remembrances) and the use of music in Baha'i spiritual practices; 74 recordin...
- Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh et al. Ehsan Bayat, comp. Sadratu'l-Muntahá (2003). — Compilation on "The Tree beyond which there is no passing," including quotations from the Qur'an.
- Violetta Zein, comp. Sadratu'l-Muntahá, The: References to the Divine Lote Tree in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2023). — Short compilation from the writings of various Faiths, as well as the Baha'i understanding of the di...
- Jack McLean. Salvation (1993).
- Brittany D. Kusserow. Same Hesitant Rhythm, The (2008). — An outsider's perspective of Baha'i community participation in one small American city, and her resp...
- Christopher Buck. Sapiential Theosis: A New Reading of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Paradise (1995). — Prepublication chapter from Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha...
- Jonah Winters. Saying Nothing about No-Thing: Apophatic Theology in the Classical World (1994). — The apophatic (negative) theology of the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and some pre-Pseudo-Dionysius east...
- Anjam Khursheed. Science and Religion in Chinese Culture (2000). — Religion lies at the root of philosophy and civilization during the Tang (618-907) and Sung (960-127...
- Robert Stockman. Scripture (1995).
- Frank Lewis. Scripture as Literature: Sifting through the layers of the text (1997). — Literary and religious antecedents to some of the styles and genres of Baha'i scripture.
- Pritam Singh. Scriptures of Different Faiths, The (1942). — Overview of Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Islamic scriptures, emphasizing their teach...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Scriptures of Previous Dispensations (1981). — Excerpts on what writings constitute the holy scriptures of previous Dispensations.
- Moshe Sharon. Seas Not Oceans (2013). — References to "seas" and "oceans" in classical literature, Judaism, Islam, and metaphors in the Baha...
- David Yamartino. Second Coming, The: A Biblical Approach to Understanding the Evidence that Christ has Returned (2012). — Biblical principles for investigation of truth; the resurrection of Christ, prophecies fulfilled by ...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Marzieh Gail, trans. Secret of Divine Civilization (1957). — Originally issued anonymously in 1875, this was ʻAbdu'l-Baha's program for the developmental reform...
- Fariba Moghadam. Secret of Divine Civilization, The (2021-05). — Overview of the history Abdu'l-Baha's treatise, and its themes presented through a compilation of qu...
- Stanwood Cobb. Security for a Failing World (1934). — An overview of the influence of religion on the world and its relation to modern problems. Baha'i pr...
- Todd Lawson. Seeing Double: The Covenant and the Tablet of Ahmad (2005). — The Tablet of Ahmad is believed to have special potency. "Seeing double" means both looking at the w...
- Michael W. Sours. Seeing With the Eye of God: Relationships Between Theology and Interpretation (1991). — Various spheres of interpretation and how their hierarchies reflect theological truth.
- George Townshend and Swami Vivekananda et al. Anjam Khursheed, comp. Selected Talks and Statements on Interfaith Issues by Religious Leaders and Scholars (1999). — Compilation of addresses to commemorate the 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Inter-Rel...
- Peter Mazal. Selected Topics of Comparison in Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith (1999). — Comparison of Baha'i and Christian morality, archetypal events and people (e.g. the ideal woman) in ...
- Arjen Bolhuis, ed. Sequential Outline of the Kitáb-i-Íqán: condensed version (2021). — Aid to locating main themes and various subjects in Baha'u'llah's Book of Certitude, adapted from Ho...
- Imam Ali ibn 'Abu-Talib. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Sermon of Glorification (Khutbat'ul-Iftikhár) (2001). — A sermon by the first Imam of Shi'i Islam, alluded to by Baha'u'llah in the Kitab-i-Iqan.
- Imam Ali ibn 'Abu-Talib. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Sermon of Recognition with Luminousness (Khutbih-i-Ma'rifat bin-Núráníyyat) (2001). — A sermon by Imam Ali, of interest to Baha'is because (1) it was often quoted by Shaykh Ahmad Ahsa'i...
- Imam Ali ibn 'Abu-Talib. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Sermon of the Gulf (2000-07). — The source of Baha'u'llah's quotation "Anticipate ye the Revelation of Him Who conversed with Moses ...
- Khazeh Fananapazir. Sermon of the Gulf (Khutbih Tutunjiyyih): Introduction (2000). — Essay on Imam `Ali's sermon, which is also the source of Baha'u'llah's quote in Epistle to the Son o...
- Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani. Seven Cities in the Spiritual Journey to God: Gems of Divine Mystersies (Javáhiru'l-Asrár) and Seven Valleys (1923-02). — Address given to an American audience in 1923, probably translated by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, who accomp...
- Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Seven Cities of Bahá'u'lláh, The (2002). — This is a compilation of only those passages from Baha'u'llah’s Gems of Divine Mysteries that rela...
- Benjamin Schewel. Seven Narratives of Religion: A Framework for Engaging Contemporary Research (2015). — Academic discourse on religion is beginning to resonate with the broader Baha'i vision. Seven narrat...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Adib Masumian, comp. Seven Valleys and Four Valleys: Interlinear Translation Comparison (2019). — New 2019 translation, side-by-side with the 1945 translation and the Persian original.
- Sheila Banani. Seven Valleys of Bahá'u'lláh and Farid ud-Din Attar (2000). — An overview of the similarities between the Seven Valleys by Baha'u'llah and the Conference of the B...
- Glenn Curran. Sex, Drugs, HIV/AIDS and Religion (1995). — This paper provides a basic presentation of facts about HIV prevalence, transmission principles, pre...
- William Michael Rossetti. Shelly's Life and Writings (1878 March). — Brief overview of the Babi Faith and Qurratu'l-Ayn vis-a-vis themes and personages in "The Revolt of...
- Jonah Winters. Shi'i Qur'an: An Examination of Western Scholarship (1997). — In the Kitab-i-Iqan (pp. 84-89) Baha'u'llah rejects the charge that the text of the Bible has been t...
- Moojan Momen. Shi`i Islam (1995). — Overview of Shi'a Islam, including a section on its relations to the Baha'i Faith.
- Marcus Bach. Shoghi Effendi (1957). — Dr. Bach set out to meet the five people of his time whom he felt best exemplified the teachings of ...
- Nobel Augusto Perdu Honeyman and Ismael Velasco. Shoghi Effendi: An approach to his artistic contribution to style in English literature and to standards in translation (2004). — On the technical and literary features of Shoghi Effendi's translations of Baha'i scriptures: transl...
- Jack McLean. Shoghi Effendi's View of Providential History in Light of the Judaeo-Christian Tradition (2005). — The Guardian's letters reveal six feature of his historicity: palingenesis and transitional history;...
- Alan Bryson. Short Films, Music, and Prayers (2020). — Link to "Irenic Visuals," a YouTube channel with Baha'i music and prayers, and short films on Bahiyy...
- Todd Lawson. Signs: Quranic Themes in the Writings of the Báb (2017 Autumn). — With the composition of the Qayyum al-asma, the Bab demonstrated the incredible breadth and depth of...
- James B. Thomas. Signs of Prophet-Hood, The: An Exposition on a Tablet by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2005). — On the signs of a Manifestation of God as articulated by ‘Abdu'l-Baha; the type of proof utilized...
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Sikhism and the Bahá'í Faith: Warwick Leaflets (1998). — Introductory leaflet describing similarities and differences between Baha'i and Sikh teachings.
- Stanwood Cobb. Simla, a Tale of Love (1919). — A Hindu legend retold in poetic form: a story of love and devotion that reconciles flesh and spirit,...
- Marzieh Gail. Six Lessons on Islam (1953). — A brief overview of Islam, particularly Shi'a Islam, and its relevance to the Baha'i Faith.
- Bryan F. Le Beau. Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America, The (1993-06-22). — Processes of interaction between Marginal Religious Movements and their social environments; adaptiv...
- Marco Oliveira. Some Answered Questions: An Introduction to Bahá'í Teachings (2020). — Background of this book and Laura Clifford Barney, and overview of its themes.
- Amelia Danesh. Some Reflections on the Different Meanings of the Word Báb (1990). — While Baha'is associate the Arabic word bab with Sayyid ‘Ali-Muhammad, to Muslims it has several o...
- Kevin Brogan. Spiritual Footprints in the Sands of Time (2003). — The covenantal relationship between God and humankind; the lives of the founders of Judaism, Christi...
- Jack McLean. Spiritual Self in Bahá'í Studies, The (2003). — Being philosophically informed is particularly important for Baha'is who are in dialogue with person...
- Anil Sarwal. Sri Aurobindo Movement and the Bahá'í Faith (2001). — Summary historical connections between the two communities.
- Universal House of Justice. Station of Baha'u'llah: Three Letters (1991-1992). — Three letters on the station of Baha'u'llah, the souls of the Manifestations, the varying intensitie...
- Universal House of Justice. Station of Bahá'u'lláh and the Significance of His Revelation, The (1992-10-15). — As the soul is a mystery that the human mind cannot unravel, even more ineffable is the nature of th...
- Denis MacEoin. Still Lives (1993). — The nature of private lives and biography in Middle Eastern culture, with brief discussion of Rushdi...
- Jim Stokes. Story of Joseph in Five Religious Traditions (1997 Spring). — The parable of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and Islam. Prefaced by comments by Moo...
- Jim Stokes. Story of Joseph in the Babi and Baha'i Faiths, The (1997-98 Winter). — The story of Joseph describes the eternal process by which the most profound kind of new knowledge c...
- Farnaz Ma'sumian. Story of the Prophets (2013). — Biographies of nine Manifestations, from Abraham to Baha'u'llah. Designed for junior youth by a reti...
- Seena Fazel. Striving Together: A Way Forward in Christian-Muslim Relations, by Charles Kimball: A Jihad for All Seasons: Review (1994).
- Todd Lawson. Structure of Existence in the Bab's Tafsir and the Perfect Man Motif, The (1992). — The Perfect Man is the mediator between God and the World. He is the mirror in which creation sees G...
- Jack McLean. Study of Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to the Christians, by Michael Sours, A: Review (1990).
- Moojan Momen. Study of the Meaning of the Word "Al-Amr" in the Qur'án and in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, A (2000). — Examines two controversies about the Arabic-Persian term "al-amr"/"amr" regarding Quranic prophec...
- Vahid Behmardi and William F. McCants. Stylistic Analysis of the Báb's Writings, A: Abridged Translation of Vahid Behmardi's Muqaddamih-yi dar bárih-yi sabk va siyáq-i áthár-i mubárakih-yi ḥaḍrat-i rabb a`lá (2007). — English translation by McCants of Behmardi's Persian article "Stylistic Analysis of the Bab’s Writ...
- Michael McCarron. Sufi and Baha'i Spiritual Practices (2009). — Brief overview of some commonalities.
- Mark A. Foster. Suggestions for Bahá'í Hermeneutics (1999). — Four essays: "Non-Overlapping Magisteria [science, religion, and Stephen Jay Gould]," "Infallibility...
- Hossein Avaregan. Sul Valore Scientifico delle Profezie: Considerazioni di uno Studioso (1987). — Illustrazione del “calcolo della probabilità”, ramo della scienza matematica scoperto dal matem...
- Juan Cole. Surih of the Sun (Súriy-i-Vash-Shams): Introduction and Commentary (1994). — Overview of a tablet of Baha'u'llah touching on matters of interpretation and theology.
- Christopher Buck. Symbol and Secret: Qur'an Commentary in Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Iqan (1995/2012/2021/2024). — Comparative study of tafsir, exegesis, and theology in the Qur'an and the Kitab-i-Iqan. Includes Per...
- Jonah Winters. Symbol and Secret: Qur'an Commentary in Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Iqan, by Christopher Buck: Review (1999).
- Frank Lewis. Symbol and Secret: Qur'an Commentary in Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Iqan, by Christopher Buck: Review (1996).
- Enoch Tanyi. Syrian Prophet(s), The (1991). — The Qur'an says there were previous Messengers of God whose names have not been mentioned. Where do ...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Tabernacle of Unity, The: Bahá'u'lláh's Responses To Mánikchi Sáhib (2006).
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Hasan Elias, trans. Tabla de 'Abdu'l-Bahá a Amír Khan (2007).
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Ameen Ullah Fareed, trans. Tablet about Jonah and the Whale (1893). — Short Tablet for an Iranian Bahaʼi named Yúnis (Jonah), discussing the story of Jonah and the whal...
- Universal House of Justice. Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Baha Concerning Arius (1998-03-17). — Arius was an early Christian theologian whose rejection of the Trinity, Abdu'l-Baha said, destroyed ...
- Karl Weaver. Tablet of All Food and the Nature of Reality, The (2016). — Review of the Tablet's historical background, antecedents for specific phrases, English literary com...
- Adib Taherzadeh and Nabil-i-A'zam. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: Overview (1999).
- Alison Marshall. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: What on earth is a disconnected letter? Baha'u'llah's commentary (1999-07). — The meaning of the Arabic letters alif, lam, mim, as explained in Baha'u'llah's tablet Tafsir hurufa...
- Stephen Lambden. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999).
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Necati Alkan, trans. Tablet of the Fig and the Olive (2001).
- Bahá'u'lláh. Tablet of the Manifestation (Lawh-i-Zuhur) (1998).
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet of the Sacred Night (Lawh Laylat al-Quds) (1996).
- Juan Cole, trans. Tablet of the Son (Jesus) (2001). — A tablet, partly written to a Christian priest, on the effect of Christ's revelation and Baha'u'llah...
- Cynthia C. Shawamreh. Tablet of the Temple (Súratu'l-Haykal): Comparison with the Prophecies of Zechariah (1998-12). — Comparison of Baha'u'llah's symbol of the Manifestation as "temple" and its analogues from the Hebre...
- Moojan Momen. Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality: Introduction (2010). — The conflict in Islam between philosopher-mystics who adhere to the philosophy of existential onenes...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Moojan Momen, trans. Tablet of the Uncompounded Reality: Translation (2010).
- Bahá'u'lláh. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn (Lawh-i-Zíyárat-Namih-i-Imám Husayn) (2002). — Tablet in honor of Imam Husayn, the prince of martyrs, with whom Baha'u'llah identified in a mystica...
- Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Tablet of Wisdom Questions and Answers (1995). — Authorized translation of unpublished Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Baha to Ethel Rosenberg in 1906 in reply to ...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Mehran Ghasempour, trans. Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl) (2001). — An undated tablet from the Akka period on the interpretation of sacred scripture, with references to...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet on Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (Lawh-i-Ta'wíl) (n.d.). — Tablet on "the legitimacy of figurative scripture interpretation."
- Bahá'u'lláh. Keven Brown, trans. Tablet on the Right of the People (Lawh-i haqq al-nas) (2016). — On some situations relating to a person’s private rights, in this case theft and debt, with a larg...
- Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Tablet on the Unity of Existence (Sharh Wahdat al-Wujúd) (2001).
- Bahá'u'lláh. Keven Brown, trans. Tablet on Understanding the Cause of Opposition to the Manifestations of God (2016). — Summary of some themes from the Kitab-i-Iqan, concluding with a long prayer inviting the reader to s...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet to 'Ustad Husayn-i-Khayyát (Lawh-i-'Ustad Husayn-i-Khayyát) (2002). — Short one-paragraph Tablet concerning the grades or degrees of certainty.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Iskandar Hai, trans. Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Kamálu'd-Dín (Lawh-i-Hájí Mírzá Kamalu'd-Dín): Excerpt (2002). — Brief comments by Baha'u'llah on the Isaac/Ishmael controversy.
- Stephen Lambden and Kamran Ekbal. Tablet to Hardegg (Lawh-i-Hirtík): A Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to the Templer Leader Georg David Hardegg (2003). — A Tablet addressed to the German Templer/Templar leader Georg David Hardegg including the proclamati...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet to Hasan-i-Sháhábadí (Lawh-i-Hasan-i-Sháhábadí) (2002-02-14). — A tablet from the Akka period, addressed to a certain Hasan living in Shahabad of Arak in central Ir...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria: Baha'u'llah on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (1995). — Introduction to, article about, and translation of the Tablet to Maneckji.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Nosratollah Mohammad-Hosseini, trans. Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh (1986). — Raḍa’r-Rúḥ, a believer from Mashad, received this tablet shortly after Baha'u'llah arrived in...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet to the Zoroastrians (Lawh-i-Dustan-i-Yazdaní) (1997).
- Todd Lawson. Tafsir and the Meaning of the Qur'an: The Crucifixion in Muslim Thought (2010-10-23). — Using Qur'an 4:156-7 as an example, classical tafsīr, “scholastic" exegesis, has not always taken...
- Edward Price. Taking Care with Translation of Sacred Scripture (2016/2020). — Examination of the importance of using reliable translations of the Qur’an. Includes technical dis...
- David F. Young. Teaching Christians More Effectively: Handbook and Seminar (1999). — Baha'i views of Christianity; questions Christians might ask; interpretation of the Bible; theology ...
- Marco Oliveira. Ten Commandments, The: A Baha'i Perspective (2019). — Overview of the history and theology of the Ten Commandments. Like Christianity and Islam, the Baha...
- JoAnn M. Borovicka. Ten Plagues of the Exodus in Light of the Bahá'í Writings, The (2015). — The historical accuracy of Exodus is not essential to an appreciation of it; scholarship regarding t...
- Iscander Micael Tinto. Text, Author, Reader and the Relationship with the Sacred (2008). — A preliminary survey of how the relationship between sacred scripture, its reader, and the author ...
- Vahid Brown. Textual Resurrection: Book, Imám, and Cosmos in the Qur'án Commentaries of the Báb (2004). — on the notions of textuality underlying the Bab's Qur'anic commentaries; the history of Qur'anic com...
- Betty Hoff Conow. "The active force and that which is its recipient" (1988). — Metaphysics of gender and the Lawh-i-Hikmat; universal spiritualism; social indoctrination of gender...
- Sharon M. P. Harper, ed. The Lab, the Temple, and the Market: Reflections at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Development (2000). — Essays on what faith, science, and international development have to offer one another; how religion...
- Christopher Buck. The Prophecies of Jesus, by Michael Sours: Review (1992).
- Marzieh Gail. The White Silk Dress (1945). — An "intimate portrait" of Ṭahirih first published Friday April 21, 1944.
- Horace Holley. The Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1922-08). — On the creative nature of literature; the writings of Shakespeare; Baha'u'llah as author; the influe...
- Lameh Fananapazir. Themes of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of The Divine Plan Illustrated by Scriptural References to the Bible and the Qur'án (2017). — The Tablets of the Divine Plan, as well as Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament and the Tablet of Carmel...
- Jonah Winters. Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism (2017 (forthcoming)). — Mystical writing is replete with symbolism of love and eros, and it can also be found in the mystica...
- Oliver Scharbrodt. Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East (2002). — With their theologies, Baha'u'llah and Muhammad 'Abduh both responded to the challenge of modernity ...
- Kevin Brogan. Theology of the Sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church, The (2001). — Helping Baha'is understand the Catholic church's historical perspectives and spiritual significance ...
- Robert W. McLaughlin. These Perspicuous Verses: A passage from the Writings of Baha'u'llah (1982). — Detailed study of a section from Ishraqat and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.
- Mikhail Sergeev. Theses on Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith (2015). — On how new religious movements respond to modernity; cycles of religion; project of modernity; cultu...
- William Sears. Thief in the Night: The Case of the Missing Millennium (1961). — In the early 19th-century there was world-wide and fervent expectation that during the 1840s the ret...
- Jonah Winters. Thinking in Buddhism: Nagarjuna's Middle Way (1994). — Thesis and unpublished book on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, the central text of a school of thought ...
- Tova Makhani-Belkin. 'This Is a Progression, Not Conversion': Narratives of First-Generation Bahá'ís (2023). — Unlike personal transformation experiences in Christianity, religious conversion to the Baha'i Faith...
- Susan Maneck. Time and the Containment of Evil in Zoroastrianism (1997). — Basic beliefs of Zoroastrianism, the concept of time in Zoroastrianism, and Zoroastrianism in a Baha...
- Chris Jones Kavelin. Towards the Elimination of Religious Prejudice: Potential Christian Contributions From a Bahá'í Perspective (2004-10). — Religion can facilitate both war and peace; the greatest opportunity facing Christianity is to provi...
- Julio Savi. Towards the Summit of Reality: Table of Contents and Bibliography (2003). — Front- and back-matter only of Savi's book Towards the Summit of Reality: An Introduction to the Stu...
- Craig L. Volker. Translating the Bahá'í Writings (1990). — In translating the Baha’i writings, faithfulness to the original text is paramount, reflecting bot...
- Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009-2023). — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
- Stephen Lambden. Translation of the Arabic Du'á' al-Sahar (The Dawn Supplication) or Du'á' al-Bahá' (The Supplication of Splendour) with Select Expository Scriptural Writings of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, A (2023). — Translation of and commentary on the Shi'i "dawn supplication" for the Islamic month of Ramadan, and...
- Universal House of Justice. Translations of the Bible Used by Abdu'l-Baha (1996-06-12). — Which translations of the Bible were used by Abdu'l-Baha.
- Zia M. Bagdadi. Treasures of the East: The Life of Nine Oriental Countries (1930). — Descriptions of nine "Treasures" — Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jijaz (Arabia), Transjordania (A...
- Juan Cole. Treatise on Leadership: Introduction (1998-02). — Informal notes about and introduction to `Abdu'l-Baha's Risalih-i-Siyasiyyih (1893).
- Peter Terry. Truth Triumphs: A Bahá'í Response to Misrepresentations of the Bahá'í Teachings and Bahá'í History (1999-12). — Rebuttal of Francis Beckwith's thesis "Baha'i, A Christian response to Baha'ism, the religion which ...
- Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Twelve Table Talks Given by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 'Akká (2019). — Talks from 1904-1907.
- Anonymous. Two Comings of Messiah as Foretold in the Hebrew Scriptures (n.d.). — [needs abstract]
- Todd Lawson. Typological Figuration and the Meaning of "Spiritual": The Qurʾanic Story of Joseph (2012). — Meanings of the famous shirt (qamis) as a symbol of Joseph's spiritual journey and travails in the Q...
- Marco Oliveira. Um Estado Laico numa Sociedade Confessional (2005-12-18). — "A Lay State in a Religious Society": opinion article by a Portuguese Baha’i about the presence of...
- Jack McLean. Under the Divine Lote Tree: Essays and Reflections (1999). — 85 literary and theological existential essays on topics such as poetry, scripture, philosophy, spir...
- Seena Fazel. Understanding Exclusivist Texts (1997). — Contemporary religions, esp. Christianity, must examine their exclusivist claims to account for othe...
- Christopher Buck. Unique Eschatological Interface, A: Baha'u'llah and Cross-Cultural Messianism (1986). — Tracing themes of messianism through the Occidental religions.
- United States Department of State. United States Policies in Support of Religious Freedom: Focus on Christians (1997). — The US Department of State report "United States Policies in Support of Religious Freedom: Focus on ...
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Unity and Progressive Revelation: Comparing Bahá'í Principles with the Basic Concepts of Teilhard de Chardin (2004). — An attempt to correlate specific Baha'i teachings with the corresponding concepts of Teilhard de Cha...
- Robley Edward Whitson. Unity of Civilization, The (1971). — Excerpt of a chapter on unity of humankind and civilizations. No mention of the Baha'i Faith, but th...
- David Hornsby and Jane Clark. Unity of Humanity, The: An Interview with Professor Todd Lawson (2016). — Biography of Lawson and his personal interests in the Qur'an and the Baha'i Faith, discussion of con...
- Universal House of Justice. Unity of Religions in This Century, Jews and the Crucifixion, and the Sacrifice of Ishmael, The (1990-11-06).
- Abdu'l-Bahá Universal House of Justice, trans. Universal House of Justice and the Principles of Jurisprudence (2001-04). — Authorized translation of an excerpt of a tablet on "the wisdom of referring certain important laws ...
- Christopher Buck. Universality of the Church of the East, The: How Persian was Persian Christianity? (1996). — Prepublication chapter from Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha...
- Bijan Samali. Universality of the Laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The (1996). — The laws of the Aqdas focus on the individual; are applicable to everyone; facilitate the realisatio...
- David Friedman. Unknown Hour, The (1998). — Christians believe the Bible does not specify the time of Christ's return, but the Baha'i teachings ...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Unpublished Talks by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1928). — Four short talks given by ‘Abdu'l-Baha in London, December 1912. These talks have not been publish...
- John S. Hatcher. Unsealing the Choice Wine at the Family Reunion (1994). — Baha’i scripture portrays human progress as propelled by two inextricably related capacities: inde...
- James J. Keene. Unsuspected Effects of Religion on your Personality (1967). — Review of research reports in sociology and social psychology journals to analyse survey data from f...
- Sally Liya. Use of Trees as Symbols in the World Religions, The (2004). — The tree is a universal symbol found in the myths of all peoples. This Jungian archetype figures in ...
- Moojan Momen. Usuli, Akhbari, Shaykhi, Babi: The Tribulations of a Qazvin Family (2003-09). — The emergence of the Usuli school in the evolution of Shi'is jurisprudence and theology in 18th and ...
- Moshe Sharon. Valleys: Real, Symbolic and Holy Sites (2013). — The nature of the metaphor of a valley; biblical references and meanings in Hebrew; comparison with ...
- Steven Phelps. Verge of the New, The: A Series of Talks (2017-09-18). — Introducing a way of looking at the past and future of religion in the context of the scientific rev...
- Shirley Macias. Verse of Light, the Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Divine Lote Tree), and the Unfoldment of God's Plan, The (1991). — Relationship of a key mystical Quranic verse, Súrih 24:35, to Baha'i theology; includes a brief com...
- Amin Banani. View on Islam, A (1969). — This lecture gives "a few generalizations about Islam that are directly significant to Baha'is."
- David Russell Garcia. Voyage to the Heart of the Koran: The Holy Book of Islám for Thinking Minds (By a Non-Muslim) (2003-10). — A lengthy overview of the Qur'an and its themes for a Baha'i audience; holy war and fighting; reason...
- Madeleine Kapsalis. We Shouldn't Be Afraid to Talk about Religion (2022-05-13). — Excerpt from a longer talk, describing a Christian's interfaith encounter with Baha'is and being inv...
- Ismael Velasco. "What I Want to Say is Wordless": Mystical Language, Revelation and Scholarship (2001). — If the Word of God transcends words and letters, what point is there to Scripture, let alone to scho...
- Geoffrey Nash. What is Bahá'í Orientalism? (2021). — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri...
- Roberta Law. What is Baha'u'llah's Message to the Sufis? (1998-02). — Nature of Sufism and Baha'u'llah's teachings for the Sufi community, especially as contained in the ...
- Universal House of Justice. Whether Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb Met, Indications in the Writings and Historical Records Relative to the Question (1985 Winter). — Overview of sources indicating that Baha'u'llah and the Bab never met in person.
- Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Why Are We Here: Meaning of Life: Warwick Leaflets (2003).
- Grant S. Martin. Why the Bahá'í Faith Is Not Pluralist (2007). — Argues against Seena Fazel that the Baha’i Faith is not a form of religious pluralism.
- Julio Savi. Will, Knowledge, and Love as Explained in Baha'u'llah's Four Valleys (1994). — Exploration of some of the "seemingly abstruse" concepts of the Four Valleys.
- William Sears. Wine of Astonishment, The (1963). — Discussion of Christian doctrines such as the ritual of baptism, the bread and the wine, confession ...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Ali-Kuli Khan, trans. Wisdom of Burying the Dead in the Earth: Tablet of Cremation (1902/1987). — Tablet to Laura Clifford Barney regarding the wisdom of burying the dead in the Earth, also known as...
- Juan Cole. Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions (2015 Fall). — Reflections on Baha'u'llah's theology of previous religions and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of "...
- Elihu Grant. Woman and Islam (1912-01). — One-paragraph sympathetic mention.
- Miriam Dixson. Women and Religious Change: A case study in the colonial migrant experience (2000). — The story of Margaret Dixson, and one woman's growth from Anglicanism, via numerology and astrology,...
- Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Women and Wisdom in Scripture (2015). — Treatment of women in religion; influence of Baha'i teachings in raising awareness about the plight ...
- Stephen Lambden. Word Bahá', The: Quintessence of the Greatest Name of God (1998). — The Arabic word baha' — meaning beauty, excellence, goodliness, majesty, glory, splendor, brillian...
- Stephen Lambden. Word Bahá, The: Quintessence of the Greatest Name (1993). — History of the concept of the Greatest Name and its place in Baha'i theology.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Word is the Master Key for the Whole World, The: The Bahá'í Revelation and the "Teaching and Spirit of the Cause" in Dialogical and Personal Thinking (2007). — The Word of God is the master key that opens all doors; it assures the opening to the meaning of the...
- Mirra Alfassa. Words of Long Ago (1912/1978). — Transcript of a talk The Mother delivered to some Baha'is in Paris in 1912 by request of Abdu'l-Baha...
- Juan Cole. World as Text, The: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (1994). — Shaykh Ahmad's creative use of mythic symbols can be seen as an escape from the limitations of the c...
- Christopher Buck. World Religion Day (2010).
- Christopher Buck. World Religion Day (January) (2011-09).
- Iscander Micael Tinto. Worlds of God, The (2013). — Creation is an act of divine manifestation across five realms: Hahút, the unknowable Essence of God...
- Roberta Law. Wrathful God of Martin Luther and Baha'u'llah: Tablet of Ahmad-i-Farsi and Martin Luther (A comparison) (1998-04). — Comparison of the theologies of Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Ahmad (Persian) and early Protestantism.
- William F. McCants. Wronged One, The: Shí'í Narrative Structure in Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of Visitation for Mullá Husayn (2002). — On the martyrdom of Mulla Husayn, the structure of sacrificial and devotional narratives, and Shi'i ...
- Darius Shahrokh. Zoroaster: Baha'u'llah's Ancestor (1992). — Overview of Zoroastrianism, its place in the history of revelation, and its writings.
- Ali-Kuli Khan. Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran and His Book, the Zend Avesta (1945-08-30).
- Universal House of Justice. Zoroaster, Date of (1979-05-13). — Clarifications re the dates and bio information Baha'i texts give for the prophet Zoroaster.
- Universal House of Justice. Zoroastrianism, Reference to, in All Things Made New (1999-03-27). — A reference to the Zoroastrian text Dinkird, or "Acts of the Religion" (din-kird) in John Ferraby's ...
- Ilyas Fatkulov. Vladimir Chupin, ed. Религии мира о гомосексуализме: обзор учений Индуизма, Иудаизма, Буддизма, Зороастризма, Сикхизма, Христианства, Ислама, Веры бахаи (2012-05-17). — Краткий обзор точек зрения мировых религий на гомосек...
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