- Michael W. Sours. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique (1995). Constituents of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist arguments; eschatological character of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; Bahá'í eschatology provides answers to many feminist and ecological objections.
- Daryl Lowery. Hidden Words: Allusion to Progressive Revelation in Persian HW #77 (1999). Student paper, exploring one of the longest and more mystical Hidden Words.
- 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).
- Moojan Momen. Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith (1990). An attempt to explore the relationship between Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith and to explain the Bahá'í Faith to those who are from a Hindu background.
- Rajwantee Lakshiman-Lepain. Life of Thomas Breakwell, The (1998). Breakwell (1872–1902) was a religious seeker who became a Bahá'í in Paris in 1901, the first Englishman to become a Bahá'í as well as the first westerner to contribute to the Huqúqu'lláh.
- 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 to manuscripts, texts, introductions. Includes Shaykhi and Bábí studies, bibliographies, genealogies, provisional translations.
- Christopher Buck. Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith (1999). Study of Bahá'í and Christian symbology, the "first academic monograph comparing Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith."
- Báb, The, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá. Ehsan Bayat, comp. Sadratu'l-Muntahá (2003). Compilation on "The Tree beyond which there is no passing," including quotations from the Qur'án.
- 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 Bahá'í understanding of the divine Lote Tree, the Sadratu'l-Muntaha. There are also images of the physical lote tree which grows in Palestine.
- 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 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.
- Christopher Buck. Symbolic Profile of the Bahá'í Faith, A (1998). A “symbolic profile” of Bahá’í consciousness as shaped by the writings of Bahá’u’lláh and ancillary texts: Ninian Smart’s dimensional model of religion is used to order and classify the symbols, together with insights from Sherry Ortner & John Wansbrough.
- Jack McLean. Under the Divine Lote Tree: Essays and Reflections (1999). 85 literary and theological existential essays on topics such as poetry, scripture, philosophy, spirituality, love, detachment, mysticism, joy, death, and theology.
- 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 Bahá'í theology; includes a brief compilation of Bahá'í Writings about the Lote Tree.
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