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Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies

Editor: John Walbridge.

Current Editorial Board: Juan Cole, Sholeh Quinn, Peter Smith, Margit Warburg.

Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies is a Digital Publication Series of H-Bahai. Authors publishing here grant H-Net the right to maintain this draft of their papers in electronic form on this site in perpetuity. The authors retain print publication rights as long as further publication in print form does not prevent H-Net from continuing to display this draft in digital form on this site.


Volume 7, 2003

Editor: Juan Cole

Editorial Board: R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, Sholeh Quinn, Peter Smith

Anthony A. Lee. "Reconciling the Other: The Baha'i Faith in America as a Successful Synthesis of Christianity and Islam".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 7, no. 2 (March, 2003).

Seena Fazel."Contemporary developments in Baha’i studies: an examination using citation analysis". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (January, 2003).





Volume 6, 2002

Editor: Juan Cole

Editorial Board: R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, Sholeh Quinn, Peter Smith, John Walbridge.

John Walbridge. "Essays and Notes on Babi and Baha'i History". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 6, no.1 (March, 2002).Special Monograph Edition. For Adobe Acrobat pdf edition, click here (677 k).





Volume 5, 2001


Editor: John Walbridge

Editorial Board: Abbas Amanat, R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, Juan R. I. Cole, Sholeh Quinn.

Todd Lawson. "Coincidentia Oppositorum in the Qayyum al-Asma: the terms "Point" (nuqta), "Pole" (qutb), "Center" (markaz) and the Khutbat al-tatanjiya". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (January, 2001).


William Garlington. "Baha’i Proselytization in Malwa, India". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 5, no.2 (July, 2001).




Volume 4, 2000


Editor: John Walbridge

Editorial Board: Abbas Amanat, R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, Juan R. I. Cole, Sholeh Quinn.

Graham Hassall. "The Baha'i Faith in Hong Kong". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 4, no. 1 (April, 2000).




Volume 3, 1999


Editor: John Walbridge

Editorial Board: Abbas Amanat, R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, Juan R. I. Cole, Sholeh Quinn

William Garlington. "The Development of the Baha'i Faith in Malwa: 1941-1974".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 3, no. 1 (February, 1999).


Juan R. I. Cole. "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Baha'i Scriptures".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (April, 1999).





Volume 2, 1998

Editor: Juan R.I. Cole

Editorial Board: Abbas Amanat, R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, K. Paul Johnson, Sholeh Quinn, John Walbridge.


William Garlington. "Baha'i Bhajans: An example of the Baha'i Use of Hindu Symbols".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (January, 1998).


Negar Mottahedeh. "Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-`Ayn- Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (February, 1998).


R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. The Use of Generative Imagery in Shoghi Effendi's The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 2, no. 3 (March, 1998).


John Walbridge. "Document and Narrative Sources for the History of the Battle of Zanjan".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 2, no. 4 (May, 1998).


Christopher Buck. "The Kitab-i Iqan: An Introduction to Baha'u'llah's Book of Certitude with Two Digital Reprints of Early Lithographs".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 2, no. 5 (June, 1998).


Peter Smith. "The Routinization of Charisma? Some Comments on Motif Messianique et Processus Social dans le Bahaisme".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, (Special Reprint Edition) vol. 2, no. 6 (November, 1998).







Volume 1, 1997:


Editors: Juan R.I. Cole and Susan Maneck.

Editorial Board: Abbas Amanat, R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram, K. Paul Johnson, Sholeh Quinn, John Walbridge



Denis MacEoin. "The Trial of the Bab: Shi'ite Orthodoxy Confronts its Mirror Image." With four appendices. Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (May, 1997).

William Garlington. "The Baha'i Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (June, 1997).

Thomas Linard. "Bibliographie des ouvrages de langue française mentionnant les religions bâbîe ou bahâ’îe (1844-1944)".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 1, no. 3 (June, 1997).

Juan R. I. Cole. "Individualism and the Spiritual Path in Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i".Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 1, no. 4 (September, 1997).

Todd Lawson. "Reading Reading Itself: The Bab's `Sura of the Bees,' A Commentary on Qur'an 12:93 from the Sura of JosephText, Translation and Commentary". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 1, no. 5 (November, 1997).

Anthony A. Lee. "The Baha'i Church of Calabar, West Africa: The Problem of Levels in Religious History". Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, vol. 1, no. 6 (November, 1997).




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