- Iraj Ghanooni. Naeem Nabiliakbar, trans. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the World Stage (2022). — A contrast of the spiritual purpose of ‘Abdu'l-Baha's first visit to Paris with the secular aims o...
- Bahá'u'lláh Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh (2018/2023). — 80 selections, updated August 2023.
- Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018/2023). — 167 selections, updated August 2023.
- Christopher Buck. Anatomy of Figuration, The: Maimonides' Exegesis of Natural Convulsions in Apocalyptic Texts (Guide II.29) (2020). — Insights of medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides on figurative language and symbolic exegesis in h...
- Julio Savi and 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...
- Ross Woodman. Arc of Ascent: The Purpose of Physical Reality II, by John S. Hatcher: Review (1994).
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Artist, Seeker and Seer: A vocabulary and a perspective for the appreciation and creation of art inspired by the Bahá'í Writings (1982). — Imagery and metaphors from the Baha'i Writings guide the appreciation and creation of art. They demo...
- Don Dainty. As It Was in the Days of Noah: So Unfolds the Surprising Fulfilment of Biblical Foresights of the 'Return' (2009). — Booklet exploring the biblical and Baha'i concept that rejection of the Manifestation results in cal...
- Zackery Mirza Heern. Báb and 'Alí Muhammad, Islamic and Post-Islamic, The: Multiple Meanings in the Writings of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad Shírází (1819-1850) (2023). — Writings of the Bab can be understood as a commentary on the Qur'an, the original Qur'an, and divine...
- Christopher Buck. Bahá'í "Pupil of the Eye" Metaphor, The: Promoting Ideal Race Relations in Jim Crow America (2018). — On the notable contribution to promoting ideal race relations in Jim Crow America by the Baha'i Fait...
- Michael W. Sours. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique (1995). — Constituents of Baha'i cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist ar...
- Rodney H. Clarken. Baha'i Principles of Education: Categorization of and Commentary on Extracts from Baha'i Education (1998-04-13). — Compilation and categorization of, and commentary on, extracts from the Writings on the topic of edu...
- Todd Lawson. Bahá'í Tradition, The: The Return of Joseph and the Peaceable Imagination (2012). — Overview of the status of violence in the Baha'i tradition, and the historical/social conditions in ...
- Universal House of Justice, comp. Bahá'í World, The: Volume 18 (1979-1983) (1986). — Periodic volumes that survey the global activities and major achievements of the Faith.
- Chowghi Rouhani. Ulfet Bouchoucha Mustapha, trans. Bahá'u'lláh et le Carmel (2017). — Baha’u’llah honore la terre sainte; la révélation de la Tablette du Carmel; la grande resurrec...
- John S. Hatcher and Amrollah Hemmat et al. Bahá'u'lláh's Symbolic Use of the Veiled Ḥúríyyih (2019). — Analyzing some of the meanings behind the appearance of the Veiled Maiden, as alluded to by Baha'u'l...
- 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 and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Bible, The: Extracts on the Old and New Testaments (n.d.).
- Ted Brownstein. Black and Beautiful: Skin Color in the Biblical Song of Songs (2023). — Racial biases can be found in several translations of the biblical Song of Solomon; a look at the or...
- Tom Lysaght. Body of God: A Reader's Guide to Bahá'u'lláh's Surih of the Temple, by John Hatcher: Review (2023-08). — Review of John Hatcher's book about Baha'u'llah's Súriy-i-Haykal (Súrih of the Temple).
- Necati Alkan. "By the Fig and the Olive": `Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the Qur'ánic Sura 95 (2001). — A translation and discussion of an Ottoman-Turkish Tablet by `Abdu'l-Baha: his commentary on the Qu...
- Dana Paxson. Camphor and Metaphor (2023). — The single word ‘camphor’ appears once in the holy Qur’an. It also appears in the Writings of ...
- Jack McLean. Celestial Burning, A: A Selective Study of the Writings of Shoghi Effendi (2012). — Style, content, and context of the major writings of the Guardian; providential history; critique of...
- Farshid Kazemi. Celestial Fire: Bahá'u'lláh as the Messianic Theophany of the Divine Fire in Zoroastrianism (2013). — Heat is used as a symbol of the dynamic nature of motion and existence, and in a tablet to the Zoroa...
- Derik Smith. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh (2019). — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Ehsan Bayat, comp. City of the Heart (2004). — Literal and metaphorical references to "heart."
- Moshe Sharon. Clouds and the Hiding God: Observations on some Terms in the Early Writing of Bahá'u'lláh (2012). — Metaphorical usage of clouds and rain in the mystical Tablets Rashh-i-Ama, Lawh Kullu't-Ta'am, and Q...
- Todd Lawson. Coherent Chaos and Chaotic Cosmos: The Qur'ān and the Symmetry of Truth (2010). — While at first glance the Qur'an appears to be chaotic in form and structure, on closer examination ...
- Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their milita...
- Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum. Dawn Fasting Prayer (1982). — Essay from ‘Amatu’l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum's book <a href="https://bahai-library.com/khanum_bah...
- Annemarie Schimmel. Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam (1994). — This book is a classic, groundbreaking survey of Islamic practices and beliefs. While the book conta...
- Jack McLean. Dimensions of Spirituality: Reflections on the Meaning of Spiritual Life and Transformation in Light of the Bahá'í Faith (1994). — The search for truth; models and profiles of spiritual transformation; the mystical sense — prayer...
- Julio Savi. Dimensions of Spirituality, by Jack McLean: Review (1995).
- Michael Sabet. Discerning a Framework for the Treatment of Animals in the Bahá'í Writings: Ethics, Ontology, and Discourse (2023-01). — Baha'i exegesis can discern a framework governing the treatment of animals and our relationship to t...
- Frank Lewis. Discourses of Knowledge (2004). — Many statements in the Writings are couched in terms of a particular discourse, or intellectual trad...
- Abdu'l-Bahá and Mary Basil Hall. Drama of the Kingdom (1933). — A play written in 1912 by ‘Abdu’l-Baha while he was in London and adopted with permission by Mar...
- Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
- Ismael Velasco. Entering into Obligatory Prayer: Introduction and Commentary (2006). — Overview of Baha'i prayer, its historical background, and a detailed commentary on the preamble to t...
- Mirza Asad'Ullah. Ameen Ullah Fareed, trans. Explanations Concerning Sacred Mysteries (1902). — Essays on the book of Daniel, and on the mysteries of: daily sacrifice, the kingdom, death, prayers ...
- Aline Shane-Devin. Extracts from Notes Taken at Acca (1907-10). — [needs abstract]
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination (2000). — On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjecti...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Gems of Divine Mysteries (2002). — A lengthy tablet in Arabic on how the Mahdi was Ali Muhammad, The Bab, the Primal Point. Written dur...
- Harry Liedtke. Greenland Promise, The (2012). — Commentary on the misunderstood prediction of Abdu'l-Baha that Greenland would one day become green ...
- 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.
- 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 and Shoghi Effendi Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Hidden Words: References of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi (1998).
- Duane L. Herrmann. I Found You! (2014-11). — Allegory of a little boy's new adventures in a new country with his mother, who had been lost.
- Julie Badiee. Image of the Mystic Flower, The: Exploring the Lotus Symbolism in the Bahá'í House of Worship (2000). — The design of the temple in India creates the visual effect of a large, white lotus blossom emerging...
- Michael W. Sours. Immanence and Transcendence in Theophanic Symbolism (1992). — Baha'u'llah uses symbols to depict theophanies — the appearance of God and the divine in the real...
- Hooper Dunbar. Immortality and the Human Soul: Lecture Series (1989/1990).
- Ross Woodman. "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul (1993). — Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. T...
- Julio Savi. Inebriation of His Enrapturing Call (mast-and bulbulán), The (2014). — Translation of the early mystical Tablet "Nightingales Are Inebriated" and an analysis of its themes...
- Peter J. Khan. Institute on Islam (1971). — Transcription of tape #7 which deals with prophecies in the Qur'an, and recordings of a one-weekend ...
- Mirza Asad'Ullah. Ali-Kuli Khan, trans. Instructions Concerning Genesis and the Mystery of Baptism (n.d. (1902?)). — A short treatise on Biblical verses and symbology viewed in light of the Hidden Words and other Writ...
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Introduction to the Lawh-i Haqqu'n-Nas, An (2007). — Summary of the tablet Lawh-i Haqqu’n-Nas, Tablet of the "Right of the People," on the metaphorical...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Ios, the Shepherd Boy: Some Parables Concerning the Laws of the Spiritual Life (1922-10). — Five short stories by Abdu'l-Baha told to Lua Getzinger, as recalled by May Maxwell, illustrating th...
- Rowshan Mustapha. Islám: The Road Ahead: Reflections of a Bahá'í on Islamic Topics (2014). — Questions about the finality of religion, the Day of Judgment, the role of Jesus and the Mihdi, and ...
- Christopher Buck. Joseph in Religious History and the Bahá'í Writings (2022-08-27). — Just as the story of Joseph is the "best of stories," the metaphor of Joseph is the "best of metapho...
- Abdu'l-Bahá and Brent Poirier et al. Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book): Notes on the "choice wine" (2000).
- Suheil Badi Bushrui. Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book): Notes on the Style of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (1995). — The near-similarity between the style of the Qur'an and that of the Aqdas.
- Brent Poirier. Kitab-i-Iqan: Key to Unsealing the Mysteries of the Holy Bible (1998). — Examination of the Bible in light of interpretations of its symbolism offered by Baha'u'llah's Kitab...
- Bahá'u'lláh Shoghi Effendi, trans. Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude (1931). — Major theological work by Bahaʼu'llah, written prior to his declaration of mission.
- Christopher Buck and Youli A. Ioannesyan. Last Prophet and Last Day: Shaykhí, Bábí and Bahá'í Exegesis of the 'Seal of the Prophets' (Q. 33:40) (2023). — Survey and analysis of viewpoints on the meaning of "Seal of the Prophets"; the prophetic cycle and ...
- Josephina Fallscheer. Richard Grosser, trans. Letter to Frau Alice Schwarz-Solivo of a Talk by Abdu'l-Baha (1933-04). — On the 'freedom of will', inheritance and instinct.
- John S. Hatcher. Life as Metaphor (1986). — What is the moral rationale for physical reality? What is the proper relationship of human beings to...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File (1988). — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
- Christopher Buck. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2020). — List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
- John S. Hatcher. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2021). — List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher.
- Brent Poirier. Lists of Articles (2009-2019). — Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites.
- Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh et al Anonymous, comp. Maid of Heaven, The: A Personal Compilation (2020). — Compilation of texts related to the Maid of Heaven, a personification of the “Most Great Spirit."
- Michael W. Sours. Maid of Heaven, the Image of Sophia, and the Logos, The: Personification of the Spirit of God in Scripture and Sacred Literature (1991). — The Logos in Christianity and the Maiden for Baha'u'llah can be equated as one and the same eternal ...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Kay Lynn Morton, trans. Mathnaví-yi Mubárak (2024). — Provisional translation of a mathnavi (poem) written in Constantinople in 1863 following His initial...
- Muhammad Asad. Message of The Quran, The: Appendices (1980). — Symbolism and allegory in the Qur'an; al-Muqatta'at (opening letters); the term and concept of Jinn;...
- Ross Woodman. Metaphor and the Language of Revelation (1997). — To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the W...
- Boris Handal. Metaphors in Education (2008). — Knowledge is associated with the development of spiritual capabilities such as justice, confidence, ...
- Jack McLean. Mystic's Flight, The: The Parable of Majnún and Laylí (2001-07). — This classic love tale of the Middle East, quoted by Baha'u'llah in the Seven Valleys, is prized by ...
- Annemarie Schimmel. Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975). — Detailed history of Sufism and its thought, Islamic theosophy, and Persian and Turkish mystical poet...
- Sen McGlinn. Ocean of His Words, by John Hatcher: Review (1999).
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Adib Masumian, trans. On the Meanings of the Terms 'Angels' and 'Jinn': Provisional translation (2019). — Translation of passages from Tablets of ʻAbduʼl-Baha on the symbolism of jinn and angels in the Qu...
- Christopher Buck. Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith (1999). — Study of Baha'i and Christian symbology, the "first academic monograph comparing Christianity and th...
- Daniel Grolin. Paradise and Paradigm, by Christopher Buck: Review (1999).
- Julio Savi and Faezeh Mardani. Poetry in 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Writings and Utterances (2017). — 'Abdu'l-Baha mentions at least seven aspects of poetry: inspiration, beauty, eloquence, versified la...
- Mary A. Sobhani. Postsecular Look at the Reading Motif in Bahiyyih Nakhjavani's The Woman Who Read Too Much, A (2015). — Nakhjavani’s historical novel includes metaphors that underscore a link between the secular and th...
- Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum. Prayers of Bahá'u'lláh, The (1945). — Essay about various prayers and meditations of Baha'u'llah.
- Dann J. May. Preliminary Survey of Hermeneutical Principles Found within the Baha'i Writings, A (1989). — The multiple meanings contained within religious texts; symbolic and mythological nature of religiou...
- Moshe Sharon. Prophets and Mountains (2008). — Metaphors of mountains and actual mountains in the history of religion; Mount Carmel.
- Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh et al. Bonnie J. Taylor, comp. Pupil of the Eye, The: African Americans in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (1998). — A compilation of references in the Baha'i writings to African-Americans and those of African descent...
- George Townshend. Questions about the Second Coming (1953). — Answers by Townshend to questions asked by the Baha’is of Kampala, Uganda about the return of Chri...
- Ian Kluge. Reason and the Bahá'í Writings: The Use and Misuse of Logic and Persuasion (2001-09-02). — How to study the Baha'i Writings through the use of logic.
- Amrollah Hemmat. Reflections on The Four Valleys of Bahá'u'lláh (2021). — Studies of this book often focus on its Sufi and mystical aspects. But when it is seen within the la...
- David Russell Garcia. Kees Poolman, trans. Reis naar het Hart van de Qur'án: Het Heilige Boek van de islam voor hen die nadenken (door een niet-moslim) (2022). — Een overzicht van de Koran en zijn thema's: islam versus het christendom; wetten, geestelijke en soc...
- Universal House of Justice. Resurrection and Return of Jesus (2008). — The body of Christ; the burial of Christ; His return; and explaining the Baha'i view to Christians.
- William P. Collins. Sacred Mythology and the Bahá'í Faith (1990). — The mythological universe created by Baha’u’llah employs three significant spiritual verities: t...
- Christopher Buck. Sapiential Theosis: A New Reading of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Paradise (1995). — Prepublication chapter from Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha...
- Moshe Sharon. Seas Not Oceans (2013). — References to "seas" and "oceans" in classical literature, Judaism, Islam, and metaphors in the Baha...
- 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 w...
- Arjen Bolhuis, ed. Sequential Outline of the Kitáb-i-Íqán: condensed version (2021). — Aid to locating main themes and various subjects in Baha'u'llah's Book of Certitude, adapted from Ho...
- Universal House of Justice. Sin-covering Gaze (2001-01-21). — Brief explanation of a possible source for a story of Christ told by Abdu'l-Baha about encountering ...
- Arthur Lyon Dahl. Soil in the Bahá'í Faith (1998-05). — Extracts on soil in the Baha'i Writings and Baha'i attitudes to nature.
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Some Themes and Images in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1976-04-21). — Exploring the relationship between the Creative Word, particularly its expression in language, and t...
- Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum. Speaking in Edinburgh (1981-08). — Address at Edinburgh Baha'i Centre. Includes discussion of Shoghi Effendi in Scotland and the eagle ...
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Eric Hadley-Ives, comp. Springtime metaphors and spring-related imagery (1995). — Introduction and Compilation, interspersed with editorial comments. Includes discussion of "plain En...
- Jim Stokes. Story of Joseph in the Babi and Baha'i Faiths, The (1997-98 Winter). — The story of Joseph describes the eternal process by which the most profound kind of new knowledge c...
- Kavian Sadeghzade Milani and Nafeh Fananapazir. Study of the Pen Motif in the Bahá'í Writings, A (1999). — Theology and background of the "pen" metaphor — the creative force presented by the Manifestation ...
- Vahid Behmardi and William F. McCants. 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 (2007). — English translation by McCants of Behmardi's Persian article "Stylistic Analysis of the Bab’s Writ...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Ameen Ullah Fareed, trans. Tablet about Jonah and the Whale (1893). — Short Tablet for an Iranian Bahaʼi named Yúnis (Jonah), discussing the story of Jonah and the whal...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Tablet from Our Lord, Abbas Effendi, Presented by Abdel Karim Effendi, to the American Beloved, and Tablet from the Master (n.d.). — Two Tablets self-published in the early 1900s. (Date of illustration 1889.) Translator and context n...
- Foad Seddigh. Tablet of Patience (Surih Sabr): Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh and Selected Topics (2014). — This significant Tablet from Ridvan 1863 covers the Seal of the Prophets, appearance and presence of...
- Aziz Mboya. Tablet of the Holy Mariner (Lawh-i-Malláhu'l-Quds): Study Compilations (2000/2021). — Includes a provisional translation of the Persian part of this Tablet, and. two compilations on the ...
- Juan Cole, trans. Tablet of the Nightingale and the Owl (1863/1868?). — The Tablet of the Nightingale and the Owl is a short story, which reads like a fairy tale, about the...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Keven Brown, trans. Tablet on the Right of the People (Lawh-i haqq al-nas) (2016). — On some situations relating to a person’s private rights, in this case theft and debt, with a larg...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Tablets of the Hair (1938-12). — Translation of five of total eleven Tablets titled "alvaḥ-i-sha‘arat".
- Julio Savi. Towards the Summit of Reality: Table of Contents and Bibliography (2003). — Front- and back-matter only of Savi's book Towards the Summit of Reality: An Introduction to the Stu...
- Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009-2023). — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Unpublished Talks by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1928). — Four short talks given by ‘Abdu'l-Baha in London, December 1912. These talks have not been publish...
- John S. Hatcher. Unsealing the Choice Wine at the Family Reunion (1994). — Baha’i scripture portrays human progress as propelled by two inextricably related capacities: inde...
- Sally Liya. Use of Trees as Symbols in the World Religions, The (2004). — The tree is a universal symbol found in the myths of all peoples. This Jungian archetype figures in ...
- Moshe Sharon. Valleys: Real, Symbolic and Holy Sites (2013). — The nature of the metaphor of a valley; biblical references and meanings in Hebrew; comparison with ...
- David Russell Garcia. Voyage to the Heart of the Koran: The Holy Book of Islám for Thinking Minds (By a Non-Muslim) (2003-10). — A lengthy overview of the Qur'an and its themes for a Baha'i audience; holy war and fighting; reason...
- Juan Cole. World as Text, The: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (1994). — Shaykh Ahmad's creative use of mythic symbols can be seen as an escape from the limitations of the c...
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