- 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...
- 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...
- Todd Lawson. Coincidentia Oppositorum in the Qayyum al-Asma: The terms "Point" (nuqta), "Pole" (qutb), "Center" (markaz) and the Khutbat al-tatanjiya (2001). — The importance of the Khutba al-tutunjiya for a study of the Bab's writings; the presence in the Qa...
- Moojan Momen. Commentary on a Passage in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (2013). — Short biography of the Son of the Wolf, Aqa Najafi; summary of persecutions from 1874-1903; and the ...
- Tom Lysaght. Genesis in King Lear: Joseph's Many-Colored Coat Suits Shakespeare (2019). — Creative comparison of the biblical figure of Joseph and the character of Edgar in Shakespeare's Kin...
- Christopher Buck. Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam, by Todd Lawson: Review (2012).
- 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 ...
- Todd Lawson. Interpretation as Revelation: The Qur'an Commentary of the Báb (1990). — Overview and context of two of the Bab's earliest writings and their relevance to Shaykh Ahmad al-Ah...
- Christopher Buck. Joseph in Religious History and the Bahá'í Writings (2022). — Just as the story of Joseph is the "best of stories," the metaphor of Joseph is the "best of metapho...
- Todd Lawson. Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses (2015). — Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their r...
- 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 ...
- 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."
- 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...
- 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...
- Todd Lawson, 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...
- William F. McCants. Multivalent Mahdihood: Karim Khan Kirmani's Early Critique of the Multiple Claims of the Bab (2003). — Shaykhi critiques of the Qayyum al-asma; the nature of the Bab's gradually unfolding claims, first a...
- Moojan Momen. Perfection and Refinement: Towards an Aesthetics of the Bab (2011). — The writings of the Bab have implications for the "plastic" arts; significance for native traditions...
- Báb, The. Todd Lawson, trans. Qayyum al-Asma' Sura 93: Chapter of the Bees (Qayyum al-Asma 93: Surat al-nahl): A commentary on the Sura of Joseph, "The Best of Stories" (2002). — Translation, and lengthy commentary, on the Súratu’l-Na<U>h</U>l.
- Brent Poirier and Stephen Lambden. Qayyúm-al-'Asmá: Notes on Joseph (1999).
- Ismael Velasco and Todd Lawson. Qayyúm-al-'Asmá: Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999).
- Todd Lawson. Qur'an and the Bahá'í Faith, The (2019). — On how tafsir, Islam, and the Qur'an have had a great impact on the form and content of the Baha'i r...
- The Báb. Muhammad Afnan, reader. Readings from the Writings of The Báb (2012). — Link to audio recordings of a descendant of the Bab reading from two of his most important works, Qa...
- 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...
- Báb, The. Habib Taherzadeh, trans. Selections from the Writings of the Báb (1982).
- Todd Lawson. Signs: Quranic Themes in the Writings of the Báb (2017). — With the composition of the Qayyum al-asma, the Bab demonstrated the incredible breadth and depth of...
- Jim Stokes. Story of Joseph in the Babi and Baha'i Faiths, The (1997). — The story of Joseph describes the eternal process by which the most profound kind of new knowledge c...
- Frank Lewis. Studies in Honor of the Late Hasan M. Balyuzi: Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions vol. 5, ed. Moojan Momen: Review (1999). — Review of a collection of five articles about various subjects.
- 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...
- 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...
- Christopher Buck. Tafsír as Mystical Experience, by Todd Lawson: Review (2020).
- Todd Lawson. Terms Remembrance (dhikr) and Gate (bab) in the Bab's Commentary on the Sura of Joseph, The (1989). — Who is the "voice" of the Qayyum al-Asma: the person Ali-Muhammad Shirazi, the hidden Imam through T...
- Moojan Momen. Trial of Mullá 'Alí Bastámí, The: A Combined Sunní-Shí'í Fatwá against The Báb (1982). — The trial of Mulla `Ali Bastami was one of the most important episodes of 1844-45, being both the fi...
- Todd Lawson. Typological Figuration and the Meaning of "Spiritual": The Qurʾanic Story of Joseph (2012). — Meanings of the famous shirt (qamis) as a symbol of Joseph's spiritual journey and travails in the Q...
- Steven Phelps. Verge of the New, The: A Series of Talks (2017). — Introducing a way of looking at the past and future of religion in the context of the scientific rev...
- Muhammad Afnan and William S. Hatcher. Western Islamic Scholarship and Bahá'í Origins (1985). — A critique of articles by Denis MacEoin, and a defense of Baha'i interpretations of history vis-à-v...
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