- Helen Cheng, Catherine Nash. Emblems of Faithfulness: Pluralism in Meaning and Beauty in the Ordinary (2015). Memorials of the Faithful is notable for the diversity of personalities described, and the sheer ordinariness of many of those remembered lives. These two aspects of the text highlight some of the broader questions raised by the Bahá'í Faith.
- 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.
- Wendi Momen. Making of Portraits of Some Bahá'í Women by O.Z. Whitehead, The (2003). Recollections by the editor/publisher of stories behind the writing of O.Z. 'Zebby' Whitehead's books, and some biographical information about Whitehead himself. Includes brief review by Edwin McCloughan from The Irish Times.
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Marzieh Gail, trans. Memorials of the Faithful (1971 [1924]). 'Abdu'l-Bahá's volume of short biographies of Bábí and Bahá'í figures and heroes, translated from the original Persian text and annotated by Marzieh Gail.
- Lil Osborn. Men and the Baha'i Faith: The role of indigenous men in the early Baha'i community in the British Isles (2016). Includes slide-show included when presenting the paper at the Bahá'í Studies Seminar, Kellogg College, Oxford (July 2016).
- Hussein Ahdieh. Nayriz Heroes: 22 Biographies of Bábís and Bahá'ís from Nayriz, Calligraphy of Ahmad Nayrizi, and Poetry of Vafá (2013). Bios of Muhammad Shafi, Nayrizi Vahidi, Abu Turab, Imam Jumih Shirazi, Ahmad Khoshnevis Nayrizi, Muhammad Nayrizi, Pari Jan Khanum, Shaykh Bahá'í, Jalal Misaghi, Rooha Ahdieh Misaghi, Muhammad Husayn, Shafi Rouhani, Ja'fari Yazdi, Ibrahim Khoshnevis, etc.
- Robert Weinberg. O. Z. Whitehead (1911-1998): Actor and writer (1998). Oothout Zabriskie 'Zebby' Whitehead (1911–1998) was an American stage and film character actor who later became a Bahá'í pioneer in the Republic of Ireland, and authored three books of Bahá'í biographies.
- Picture Gallery of Early British Bahá'ís (1998). Published in honor of the UK Bahá'í Centenary, 1998/99.
- Graham Hassall. Self and Society: Biography and Autobiography in Baha'i Literature (1999). On some of the 'moral implications' in writing biography in a Bahá'í perspective; the modes, intentions, and problems of Bahá'í biography.
- Denis MacEoin. Still Lives (1993). The nature of private lives and biography in Middle Eastern culture, with brief discussion of Rushdie's Satanic Verses and the lives of Tahirih and Shoghi Effendi.
- Adib Taherzadeh. Kiser Barnes, comp. Stories of Baha'u'llah and Some Notable Believers (2003). Extracts compiled by Kiser Barnes from Adib Taherzadeh’s The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh, Volumes 1-4.
- Kathryn Brown, Sharon Davis, Karen Johnson. Timeline to the Baghdad Period: Themes of Early Tablets and Historical Personages Related to them (2000). History and themes of and personages related to Bahá'u'lláh's Tablets of the Baghdad period (1853-63), including a graphical chronology.
- Sidney Edward Morrison, Frank Lewis. When the Saints Come Marching In: The Art of Bahá'í Biography (1986). Comments on hagiography, including reviews of nine popular Bahá'í biographies. Includes response "In Praise of Saints" by Frank Lewis (from dialogue 1:3).
- Hussein Ahdieh. طاهره پیشتار آزادی زنان شرق (Táhirih Písh-tár Ázádí-yi Zanán-i Sharq): Tahirih: Forerunner of Women's Liberation in the East (2019). A biographical work on the life of Tahirih detailing significant moments including her early years, marriage, the murder of her uncle, the events at Badasht, and final years leading to her martyrdom. Features appendices including excerpts of her writings.
- Azizu'llah Sulaymani. مصابیح هدایت (Masabih-i-Hidayat): "Lights of Guidance" (1948-1976). Biographies of 99 prominent Bahá'ís from the formative years of the Faith, published between 1948 and 1976.
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