- 2018. The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel, by Bahíyyih Nakhjavani: Review. Mary A. Sobhani. Reviews.
- 2015. Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses. Todd Lawson. Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their resolution; relation between form and content; prominence of epiphany; manifestation, advent and apocalypse; and the theme of heroism, reading and identity. Articles.
- 2015. Postsecular Look at the Reading Motif in Bahiyyih Nakhjavani's The Woman Who Read Too Much, A. Mary A. Sobhani. Nakhjavani’s historical novel includes metaphors that underscore a link between the secular and the sacred through the material and metaphysical act of reading; cf. McClure’s Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison. Articles.
- 2008. Text, Author, Reader and the Relationship with the Sacred. Iscander Micael Tinto. A preliminary survey of how the relationship between sacred scripture, its reader, and the author — the Manifestation of God — originates and develops, in the light of critical theory. Articles-unpublished.
- 2006. Art of Sacred Reading, The: In Search of a Bahá'í Approach. Ismael Velasco. Embracing paradox: the experience of contradiction and the logic of reconciliation; "Loving sympathy": the example of Montaigne; sacred text and sacred reading: a journey into the Book of Certitude. Articles-unpublished.
- 2006. Doing Scholarship from a Faith Perspective: Reading the Sacred as Sacred Encounter. Ismael Velasco. Problems with faith perspectives, and the dichotomy between faith and objectivity. Articles-unpublished.
- 2005. Seeing Double: The Covenant and the Tablet of Ahmad. Todd Lawson. The Tablet of Ahmad is believed to have special potency. "Seeing double" means both looking at the words of Scripture, and looking in the direction beyond the words, as indicated by the context. This paper also discusses the meaning of Covenant in Islam. Articles.
- 2000. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination. Bahíyyih Nakhjavání. On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjective stories, between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. We inherited a responsibility to resolve this tension. Articles.
- 1989-07-10. Regarding the Importance of Reading Revelation and the Elimination of Illiteracy. Universal House of Justice. UHJ-letters.
- 1970-06-21. Shoghi Effendi: The Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith. Rúhíyyih Khánum. Audio.
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