- Abdu'l-Bahá. Adib Masumian, trans. A Tablet from 'Abduʼl-Bahá regarding the Twelfth Imám (2016). — On apparently-conflicting hadiths (sayings ascribed to the prophet Muhammad) regarding the Hidden Im...
- Foad Seddigh. Analysis of the Salient Features of Risáliy-i-Ja'faríyyih, An (2019). — This treatise, one of the major writings of the Báb, was written before He had disclosed His compl...
- 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...
- Said Amir Arjomand. Consolation of Theology, The: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism (1996). — Overview of the Shi'i doctrine of occultation, or the "Hidden Imam," and how this idea evolved into ...
- Ahang Rabbani. Conversion of the Great-Uncle of the Báb, The (1999 Spring). — The history of Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad (1798-1876), maternal uncle of the Bab.
- Said Amir Arjomand. Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism, The: A Sociohistorical Perspective (1996-11). — Background of the history and theology of concepts like Qa'im, Mahdi, ghayba, and the hidden twelfth...
- 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.
- Said Amir Arjomand. Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation: Imami Shiʿism Circa 280-290 A. H./900 A. D. (1997). — Examination of the end of the 9th century and events following the death of the eleventh Imam, and t...
- Sohrab Kourosh. Kitáb-i-Iqán, The: Revolutionizing the Concepts of Religion, Eschatology and Theology (2018). — The Kitab-i-Íqan resolves and removes eschatological barriers and establishes the fundamentals of a...
- Ismael Velasco. Logos, Mythos and Kerygma: The Logic of Reconciliation and the Occultation of the Promised Qá'im in Bábí-Bahá'í Scripture (2004). — Theological background of the Twelfth Imam in Shi'i Islam, comprehensive interpretation of Baha'u'll...
- Stephen Lambden. Messianic Roots of Babi-Bahá'í Globalism, The (2005). — Contrast of the continuity between the globalism of the Bab’s Qayyum al-asma’ and Baha’u’lla...
- Todd Lawson, ed, Omid Ghaemmaghami, ed. Most Noble Pattern, A: Collected Essays on the Writings of the Báb, `Alí Muhammad Shirazi (1819-1850) (2012). — Sixteen essays by many of the leading specialists on the sometimes very difficult and challenging wr...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Adib Masumian, trans. One Who Related the Existence of the Qáʼim, The (2015). — One-paragraph passage related to the coming of the Mahdi.
- Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad. Denis MacEoin, trans. Questions of Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad occasioning the Revelation of the Kitab-i-Iqan (1997-06). — Translation of the questions submitted to Baha'u'llah by Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad, the maternal un...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Adib Masumian, trans. Regarding Jaʻfar-i-Kadhdháb ('Jaʻfar the Liar') (2016). — One-paragraph passage about the mystical cities Jabulqa and Jabulsa and the truthfulness of a figure...
- Todd Lawson. Role of Wonder in Creating Identity, The (2023). — The term badi', "wondrous" or "new," is used dozens of times by the Bab in his proclamatory work the...
- Moojan Momen. Shi`i Islam (1995). — Overview of Shi'a Islam, including a section on its relations to the Baha'i Faith.
- 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...
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