- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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. 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.
- Ismael Velasco. Prolegomenon to the Study of Babi and Baha'i Scriptures, A: The Importance of Henry Corbin to Babi and Baha'i Studies (2004). — On the foremost Western authority on the Islamic philosophy of Persia, one of the most influential I...
- 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...
- 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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