1. 2025-12-06. Interview with Joshua Hall on Bahá'í Philosophy of Religion. Joshua Hall, Amos Wollen. — In-depth interview exploring Baha’i philosophy, theology, metaphysics, and spirituality. Includes ...
2. 2025-10-10. Developmental Model for Religion, A: A Bahá'í Philosophy and Social Theory. Behrooz Sabet, Filip Boicu. — A review of Baha’i scholarship and philosophy within the historical evolution of religion, accompa...
3. 2025-09. Unfolding Reality: Hegel, Mulla Sadra, and the Progressive Revelation of Truth. Behrooz Sabet. — Comparison of the philosophers representing a culmination of Western and Eastern philosophical tradi...
4. 2025-07. In the Beginning was Metaphor: Henry Corbin and the Quran. Todd Lawson. — Iranian Islam; the Day of the Covenant, Mundus Imaginalis, and metahistory; metaphor and ta'wil. No ...
5. 2025. Spectrum of Knowledge in the Bahá'í Faith, The: Material, Conceptual, Existential, Moral, and Divine Forms of Knowing. Iman Motlagh Arani. — Seven categories identified within the Baha’i typology of knowledge: material, conceptual, existen...
6. 2025. Wisdom and Philosophy in the Bahá'í Faith: On the Divine Horizon of Ḥikmat and the Boundaries of Speculative Reason. Iman Motlagh Arani. — On a Baha'i philosophical paradigm that reconfigures the nature of philosophy itself: a prophetic on...
7. 2025. Survey of the Cardinal Maxims of Islamic Philosophy in the Bahá'í Writings, A. Vargha Taefi (published as Vargha Bolodo-Taefi). — The influence of Islamic thought and intellectual tradition on the Baha’i Writings; 34 cardinal ma...
8. 2025. Primordial Covenant and Joseph: Metaphoricity in the Quran. Todd Lawson. — On metaphors of emotion as a mode of cognition in the Quran; emotions of God, represented by the Qur...
9. 2021. Persianization of Shaykhīsm: The Doctrine of Rukn-i Rābiʿ from Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī to Karīm Khān Kirmānī. Leila Chamankhah. — On the concepts of authority, leadership, and the doctrine of the Fourth Pillar in Shaykhism; the th...
10. 2019-12-08. Philosophical Statements by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Some Answered Questions. Abdu'l-Bahá, A. Bolhuis, comp. . — Quotations extracted from Ian Kluge's article "Some Answered Questions: A Philosophical Perspective"...
11. 2019. Exploring the Concept of the Soul in Some Answered Questions: Implications and Insights. Behrooz Sabet. — Abdu'l-Baha's view of the soul in Some Answered Questions is both emergent and transcendent, bridgin...
12. 2018. Oneness of Reality, The: A Response to Moojan Momen's "Relativism as a Basis for Baha'i Metaphysics". Peter Terry. — Dialogue on epistemology and ontology as presented in the core literature of the Baha’i religion.
13. 2015. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The. Jean-Marc Lepain, Peter Terry, trans. . — Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the ...
14. 2012. Human Nature and World Religion: Toward a Bahá'í-Inspired Philosophical Anthropology. Harold Rosen. — On how the major religions depict human nature, philosophical anthropology, the shared metaphysical ...
15. 2009. Answered Questions, Some: A Philosophical Perspective. Ian Kluge. — Philosophical foundations of the Baha’i teachings, including ontology, theology, epistemology, phi...
16. 2009. Further Comments on a Passage of the Lawh-i-Hikmat. Amin E. Egea. — A study of Pre-Islamic sources on the relation of Greek Philosophers and Jewish sages.
17. 2007. 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. Vahid Behmardi, William F. McCants. — English translation by McCants of Behmardi's Persian article "Stylistic Analysis of the Bab’s Writ...
18. 2007. مقالات داودی (Davudi's Articles). Alí Murád Dávúdí, Ibrahim Ashk Shirin, ed. . — Seven articles on philosophy.
19. 2006. Origins of the Bahá'í Concept of Unity and Causality: A Brief Survey of Greek, Neoplatonic, and Islamic Underpinnings. Babak Rod Khadem. — The Baha’i conception of unity has historical and intellectual precedents. On the history of this ...
20. 2006. Andalusí Theosophy: A Recontextualization. Vahid Brown. — The role of interconfessionalism in the emergence of Islamic and Jewish theosophical movements in ...
21. 2006. Aspects of Bahá'í Ethics, Some. Udo Schaefer. — Summary of concepts from Schaefer's book Baha'i Ethics in the Light of Scripture.
22. 2005-06-11. Islam and the Life of the Mind. Todd Lawson. — History of Islamic philosophy and how it connects to individual Muslims. Includes unedited, unformat...
23. 2004. Prolegomenon to the Study of Babi and Baha'i Scriptures, A: The Importance of Henry Corbin to Babi and Baha'i Studies. Ismael Velasco. — On the foremost Western authority on the Islamic philosophy of Persia, one of the most influential I...
24. 2002. Beginning That Hath No Beginning, The: Bahá'í Cosmogony. Vahid Brown. — The dimensions of myth in the Baha'i Faith focussing on the religion's narratives of creation, relig...
25. 2002. Lawh-i-Hikmat: The Two Agents and the Two Patients. Vahid Rafati, Keven Brown, trans. . — Discussion of the two terms fa`ilayn (the active force / "the generating influence") and munfa`ilayn...
26. 2002. Miscellaneous philosophy topics. John Walbridge. — Islamic vs. Baha'i philosophy; Greek philosophers and the Jews; other topics of philosophy.
27. 2001. Firm Cord of Servitude, The. Theo A. Cope. — A call for a revisioning of mysticism's claims of "union with God" in light of the Baha'i Teachings ...
28. 2001. Human Intellect, The: A Bahá'í-Inspired Perspective. Adrian John Davis. — A Baha'i-Sufi comparative study exploring similarities and key differences between the Perfect Man a...
29. 1999. Commentary on a Verse of Rumi. Juan Cole. — Summary and paraphrase of a tablet about a debate over the unity of being (wahdat al-wujud) in Sufi ...
30. 1998. Metaphysics and Cosmology of Process According to Shaykh 'Aḥmad al-'Ahsā'ī, The: Critical Edition, Translation, and Analysis of Observations in Wisdom. Idris Samawi Hamid. — Analyzes Shaykh Ahmad's groundbreaking process metaphysics and cosmology through "The Wisdom Observa...
31. 1998. Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit. Anjam Khursheed. — The Baha'i view of human nature involves an interaction between spirit, soul and body — these thre...
32. 1997. Medieval Islam: The Influence of Islam on Judaism and Christianity. Anjam Khursheed. — Prior to the Renaissance, Islam inspired revivals in the cultural traditions of Christianity and Jud...
33. 1997. Background and Centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture, The. Stephen Lambden. — History of the theological position of the incomprehensibility-unknowability of God in past major Ab...
34. 1994. Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam. Annemarie Schimmel. — This book is a classic, groundbreaking survey of Islamic practices and beliefs. While the book conta...
35. 1988. Relativism: A Basis For Bahá'í Metaphysics. Moojan Momen. — "Relativism" as a means of reconciling the often widely-divergent theologies of the world's religion...
36. 1982-2023. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history. Encyclopaedia Iranica. — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
37. 1982. Concept of Manifestation in the Bahá'í Writings, The. Juan Cole. — Lengthy overview of Baha'i theology and prophetology and their Islamic roots.
38. 1977. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran. Henry Corbin, Nancy Pearson, trans. . — An analysis of interrelated themes in Iranian religion, including the angelology of Mazdaism and Isl...
39. 1971. عقل در حکمت مشاء: از ارسطو تا ابن سینا (Intellect in Peripatetic Philosophy: From Aristotle to Avicenna). Alí Murád Dávúdí. — Lengthy study of Islamic and Greek philosophy, on the concept of the intellect from Aristotle throug...
40. 1967-2007. Alí Murád Dávúdí, Collected Works. Alí Murád Dávúdí, Adel Shafipour, comp. . — دکتر‌علی مراد دائدی : Various published and unpublished academic works by Dr. D...
41. 1963. Islamic Contributions to Civilization. Stanwood Cobb. — Overview of the many inventions and sciences which were developed by or transmitted by Islamic peopl...
42. 1910-01. Letter to Mrs. A. Schwarz, Stuttgart. Josephina Fallscher, Steven Phelps, ed. . — Philosophic conversations of the Master with a French consular official. The nineteenth letter from ...
43. 1908. Development of Metaphysics in Persia, The: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy. Muhammad Iqbal. — Short philosophical observations on the theology of the Bab and Baha'u'llah.

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