- Michael Cook, 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 ...
- Julio Savi, Faezeh Mardani. Ancient Poems as Means of Revelation, in an Early Tablet by Bahá'u'lláh (2018). — On the importance of poetry in the history of the Faith and in its Writings, and absolute detachment...
- Adib Masumian. Arabic and Persian Originals of Metaphysical Terms in the Bahá'í Writings (2024-09). — Transliteration with Arabic and Persian script of the words soul, spirit, self, mind, heart, and spi...
- Paul Lample, comp. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality (1996). — The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the ...
- Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi. Ehsan Bayat, comp. City of the Heart (2004). — Literal and metaphorical references to "heart."
- Aline Shane-Devin. Extracts from Notes Taken at Acca (1907-10). — [needs abstract]
- 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...
- Brian Kurzius. Hidden Gifts: Finding Blessings in the Struggles of Life (2007). — Compilation of Baha'i texts on the purpose of problems and tests in our lives.
- Abdu'l-Bahá, 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...
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. In the Heart of All That Is: "Heart" in Bahá'í Writings and Science (2009). — The “Heart,” and the “City of the Heart,” are central concepts in the Baha’i Writings. The...
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. In the Pure Soil of Thy Heart: "Heart" in Bahá'í Writings and Neurocardiology (2009). — How the physical heart in its new discovered properties can actually be the seat of knowledge and ri...
- Jack McLean. Knowledge of God, The: An Essay on Bahá'í Epistemology (1978 Spring). — Knowledge of the divine is the beginning of all things. This can come through the investigative facu...
- LeRoy Jones. Knowledge, Certitude and the Mystical Heart: The Hidden Essence of God's Word (2002). — Baha'u'llah equates Truth with divine knowledge and requires that we must first be cleansed of world...
- Ian Kluge. Pierre Spierckel, trans. La Raison dans les Ecrits baha'is: Son importance, sa fonction, son usage (2013). — French translation of "Reason and the Baha'i Writings."
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Language of the Heart, The: From Dream Language towards Understanding the Language of the Heart (2016). — On the form and style of the language of the heart; ways this language differs from our normal langu...
- Sim Tze Hong. Language of the Heart, The: Parallels between Chinese and Bahá'í Approaches to the Spiritual Self (1999). — Parallels between Chinese and Confucian thought vs. Baha'i teachings about the spiritual self, the n...
- Sahba Shayani. Literary Imitation in Three Poems Attributed to Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn (2023-12). — The poetry of Tahirih has largely been ignored by historians, partly from politico-religious intoler...
- LeRoy Jones. Mystic Cup, The: Essential Mystical Nature of the Bahá'í Faith (2001). — Although the Baha’i Faith is fundamentally mystic in character, American Baha’is often do not e...
- David Langness. Mystical content and symbology of Bahá'u'lláh's Four Valleys (1997). — Symbology of the Four Valleys, and a brief overview of a four-stage spiritual growth model.
- Universal House of Justice. Obligatory Prayer, Ablutions, and Repetition of the Greatest Name (2004-06-06). — On recitation of the specific verses associated with the performance of ablutions for the medium Obl...
- 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...
- Ian Kluge. Reason and the Bahá'í Writings (2013). — The Baha'i Faith has much to say on the importance of reason, logic, and a "rational God," but the m...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. William F. McCants, trans, Steven Phelps, trans. Tablet on the Inmost Heart (2001). — On the four balances (scales) with which people weigh reality, significance, and the divine question...
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