- Layli Maparyan. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections (2020). — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
- Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology (1997). — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
- Mohammad Norozi, comp. and ed. Bahá'u'lláh, The Liberator of the Oppressed (2024). — Brief compilation of accounts of two Ethiopian slaves in Iran; African servants in Baha'u'llah's hou...
- Moojan Momen, Abu'l-Qasim Afnan, Anthony Lee. Black Pearls: Notes on Slavery (1988/1999). — Editor's note, foreword, preface, and introduction to two editions of Black Pearls; brief overview o...
- Abu'l-Qasim Afnan. Black Pearls: Servants in the Households of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (1988). — Biographies of Haji Mubarak, Fiddih, Isfandiyar, Mas'ud, and Salih Aqa; slavery and Islamic history....
- R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. Black Pearls: The African Household Slaves of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Merchant Family (2003-10). — The African slave trade to Iran in the 1800s, and the lives of household slaves of one specific merc...
- 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...
- Anthony Lee. Enslaved African Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life of Fezzeh Khanom of Shiraz (2012-02). — Through an examination of the life of this servant of The Bab, this paper addresses the enormous gap...
- 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...
- Anthony Lee. Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two African Slaves in Iran (2015). — Biographies of two enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, the servants of The Ba...
- Anonymous, comp. Laws Abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh (2018/2020). — Laws abolished from previous religions and from the Bayan.
- Anthony Lee. Recovering the Lives of Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A First Attempt (2016). — Reconstructing the lives of four slaves in the Middle East, including Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum...
- Universal House of Justice. Servants in the Households of Baha'u'llah and the Bab (2000-02-02). — Whether or not the servants of the Bab and Baha'u'llah were slaves, and a list of relevant sources f...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue (1991). — A formal statement from the US NSA on "the most challenging issue confronting America."
- Anthony Lee. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2017). — Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th a...
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