ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS - DR MOOJAN MOMEN
Books
The Babi and Baha'i Religions 1844-1944: some contemporary western accounts. Oxford: George Ronald, 1981
An Introduction to Shi`i Islam: the history and doctrines of Twelver Shi`ism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; Oxford: George Ronald; New Delhi and Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1985
The Works of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i: a Bibliography. Baha'i Studies Monograph, no. 1, Newcastle, 1991
The Phenomenon of Religion: A Thematic Approach. Oxford: Oneworld, 1999
(Editor) Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 1. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982
(Editor with Juan R. Cole) From Iran East and West. Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 2. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984
(Editor) Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne on the Babi and Baha'i Religions. Oxford: George Ronald, 1987
(Editor) Studies in Honor of the late Hasan M. Balyuzi. Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, vol. 5. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1988
(Editor) Scripture and Revelation. Oxford: George Ronald, 1998
(Editor) The Baha'i Faith and the World's Religions. Oxford: George Ronald, 2003
Papers, etc.
"The Trial of Mulla `Ali Bastami: a combined Sunni-Shi`i fatwa against the Bab." Iran vol. 20 (1982) pp. 113-43
"Early Relations between Christian Missionaries and the Babi and Baha'i Communities." Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 1 (ed. M. Momen), Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982
"The Social Basis of the Babi Upheavals in Iran (1848-53): a preliminary analysis." International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 15 (1983) pp. 157-183
(with Juan R. Cole) "Mafia, Mob and Shi`ism: the rebellion of Ottoman Karbala 1823-43." Past and Present no. 112 (Aug 1986) pp. 112-143
(with Peter Smith) "The Babi Movement: a resource mobilisation perspective." In Iran (Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 3, ed. Peter Smith). Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1986
(with Peter Smith) "The Baha'i Faith 1957-1988: a survey of contemporary developments." Religion vol. 19 (1989) pp. 63-91
"Authority and Opposition in Twelver Shi`ism." Islamic Fundamentalism (ed. R. M. Burrell). Royal Asiatic Seminar Papers No. 1. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1989, pp. 48-66
"Relativism: a basis for Baha'i Metaphysics." Studies in Honor of the late Hasan M. Balyuzi (ed. M. Momen). Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, vol. 5, Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1988, pp. 185-217
"The Baha'i Community of Ashkhabad: its social basis and importance in Baha'i history." Central Asia: Tradition and Change (ed. S. Akiner) London: Kegan Paul International, 1991, pp. 278-305
"The Baha'i Community of Iran: Patterns of Exile and Problems of Communication." Iranian Refugees and Exiles since Khomeini (ed. Asghar Fathi) London: Mazda Publications, 1991, pp. 21-36
"A Preliminary Survey of the Baha'i Community of Iran during the Nineteenth Century." Iran im 19.Jahrhundert und die Enstehung der Baha'i Religion (ed. Christoph Burgel and Isabel Schayani) Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1998, pp. 33-51
"The Religious Background of the 1979 Revolution in Iran." Islam in the Contemporary World, (ed. Theodore Gabriel), New Delhi: Vikas, 2000, pp. 200-217
"Jamal Effendi and the early spread of the Baha'i Faith in South Asia", Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 9, 1999/2000, 47-80
"Usuli, Akhbari, Shaykhi, Babi: The Tribulations of a Qazvin Family", Iranian Studies 36/3 (Sept. 2003) 313-337
"The Family and Early Life of Tahirih Qurrat al-`Ayn" Baha'i Studies Review 11 (2003) 35-52
"Millennialist Dreams and Apocalpytic Nightmares" in Moshe Sharon (ed.), Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Babi-Baha'i Faiths. Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions. vol. 104. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. 97-116
"The Role of Women in the Iranian Baha'i Community during the Qajar Period" in Religion and Society in Qajar Iran (Ed. Robert M. Gleave), London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp. 346-69
"The Babi and Baha'i community of Iran: a case of 'suspended genocide'?" Journal of Genocide Research, 7(2), (June 2005), 221–241
"The Globalization of the Baha'i Community, 1892-1921" in Baha'i and Globalization (ed. Margit Warburg, Annika Hvithamar and Morten Warmind), RENNER Studies on New Religion. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2005, pp. 77-93
"Changing Reality: the Baha'i Community and the Creation of a New Reality", História, Questões & Debates, vol. 22, no. 43, (Jul-Dec 2005), pp. 13-32; also available on-line at: http://calvados.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/historia/article/view/7860/5541
"Baha'i Schools in Iran" in The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-historical studies (ed. Dominic P Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel), London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 94-121
"Marginality and apostasy in the Baha’i community," Religion 37 (2007), pp. 187-209
“Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure,” Online Journal of Bahá’í Studies
Volume 1 (2007), pp. 71-88
Encyclopaedia Articles
Articles in Encyclopedia Iranica:
"Abu'l-Fazl Golpaygānī", vol. 2, pp. 289-90
"Adīb Tālaqānī", vol. 2, p.461
"Afnān", vol. 2, pp. 567-8
"`Alī Akbar Shahmīrzādī", vol. 2, p. 857
"Amīn, Hājjī", vol. 2, 938-9
"Badast", vol. 3, p. 364
"Badī`, Āqā Buzurg", vol. 3, pp. 376-7
"Bahai Faith: Bahai Conventions", vol. 3, p. 470
"Bahā'iya Kānum", vol. 3, p. 475
"Balyuzi, Hasan Mowaqqar", vol. 3, 649
"Bayt-al-`Adl", vol. 4, pp. 12-14
"Cormick, William", vol. 6, pp. 275-7
"Cosmogony and Cosmology. vii. In the Bahai Faith", vol. 6, pp. 328-9
"Dekr. ii In the Babi and Bahai Religions", vol. 7, p. 233
"Divorce. vi. Among Babis and Bahais", vol. 7, pp. 450-51
"Dolgorugov Memoirs", vol. 7, pp. 471-2
"Faydi, Abu'l-Qāsem", vol. 9, pp. 459
"Fāzel Māzandarānī, vol. 9, pp. 460-1
"Festivals. vi. Bahai", vol. 9, pp. 555-6
"Lawh" (with Todd Lawson) - published in on-line edition
"Martyrs, Babi" (with Peter Smith) - published in on-line edition
"Zuhur al-Haqq" - published in on-line edition
Articles in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
"Taghut" vol. 4, p. 176
"Wakalah al-`Ammah, Al-", vol. 4, pp. 308-9
"Wakalah al-Khassah, Al-", vol. 4, pp. 309-10
"Zulm", vol. 4, pp. 376-8
Book Reviews
Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies,
American Historical Review,
Middle East Journal,
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,
Iranian Studies,
Journal of Semitic Studies,
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations