1. 2025. Reason in the Orbit of Revelation: Constructing a Bahá'í Philosophical Paradigm. Iman Motlagh Arani. A book-length systematic proposal for a Bahá'í philosophical framework across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, engaging phenomenology and contemporary theory while emphasizing praxis grounded in Revelation. (Some chapters already posted separately.) Books.
2. 2025. Bahá'í Epistemology and the Modern Landscape of Knowledge: From Scientific Realism to Discourse Theory and Virtue Epistemology. Iman Motlagh Arani. On the relationship between Bahá’í epistemology and philosophical theories of knowledge including Wittgenstein, Popper, Kuhn, Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, Fairclough, Williamson, Sosa, and Zagzebski; a teleological alternative to constructivist models. Articles-unpublished.
3. 2017. Bahá'í Faith and the Construction of Social Reality: How do Bahá'ís Translate the Word of God into Practice?. Shahla Mehrgani. This project takes a constructionist approach, using a case study of the Bahá'ís of Sheffield U.K. and Peter Berger’s conceptual framework of interpreting Baha’i scriptures, to understand how Bahá'ís construct their social reality. Theses.
4. 2016. Intellectual Life of the Bahá'í Community, The. Farzam Arbab. The 34th Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lecture at the ABS conference in Montreal, on the need for us to have intellectual courage, a lack of elitism, and the harmony of science and religion. Includes video, published version, and an outline of the talk. Talks.
5. 2007. Relativity of Religious Truth, The: Relating to the Absolute. Jack McLean. History of the relativistic approach to truth, a response to Momen's "Relativism: A Basis for Bahá'í Metaphysics," and inter-faith dialogue. Articles-unpublished.
6. 1995. Interpretation in the Bahá'í Faith. Juan Cole. The Bahá'í writings contain a complex and nuanced set of prescriptions for the interpretation of scripture. Before examining them, the very idea of "interpretation" must be clarified. Articles.
7. 1991. Study of Religion, The: Some Comments on Methodology of Studying Religion. Moojan Momen. Reasons for the broad variety of different theoretical frameworks from which to view religious phenomena and the lack of a unified model. Articles.
8. 1978 Spring. Knowledge of God, The: An Essay on Bahá'í Epistemology. Jack McLean. Knowledge of the divine is the beginning of all things. This can come through the investigative faculty, the path of reason, or through intuition and mysticism, the path of the heart. Articles.

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