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CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF SELECTED BĀBĪ-BAHĀ'Ī

AND RELATED PUBLICATIONS

OF

 Dr. STEPHEN N. LAMBDEN

  SELECT FORTHCOMING publications

   2007-8

   Stephen Lambden,

  • Islamo-biblica and beyond : some aspects of  the Isrā’īliyyāt (Israelitica) phenomenon and the Islamo-biblical tradition. Oxford: Oneworld (to be announced)

  • A Short History of the Writings of Sayyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bāb

  • A Short History of  the Writings of Mirza Husayn `Ali Bahā'u'llah (d.1892) and Babi-Baha'i Scripture'  (forthcoming, Oxford: Oneworld)

  • Tafsīr and Ta`wīl, a Survey and Bibliographical Handbook of Qur'ānic Exegesis:

  • See http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BIBLIOGRAPHY-HYP/tafsir_works.htm

Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

  • "ISLAM [The Bible and Isrā'īliyyāt in Islamic Literatures]" chapter  9 in the  Blackwell Companion to The Bible and Culture (ed.  by John F. A Sawyer, 2006). Now Available:  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405101363&site=1
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    • 'The heavens prostrate before Joseph: Some notes on the Islamic and post-Islamic exegesis-eisegesis of a Biblical and Qur'ānic dream-vision of Joseph'. 

 

    PAPERSAND BOOKS IN PROGRESS

  • The treatise of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī (d. 1259/1843) upon the graphical form of the ism Allāh al-a`ẓam (The Mightiest Name of God).

  • The emergence and development of the Babi-Baha'i Interpretation of the Bible: Mirza Husayn `Ali Nuri, Bahā'-Allāh (1817-1892), his Baha'i successors and the Baha'i interpretation of the Bible.

  • Babi-Baha'i exegetical and eisegetical interpretations of the al-ḥurufāt al-muqaṭṭa`ah (The Isolated Letters of the Qur'an).

  • Mary Magdalene and the Resurrection of Jesus in Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī literatures.

  • Shi`i Islam, the Bible and Isrā'iliyyāt : some aspects of the Bible  and Islamo-biblical exegesis from Muhammad and Imam `Ali (6th cent. CE) until al-Shaykhiyya and the Babi-Baha'i religions.

  • Beyond taḥrīf (biblical "falsification"): the Biblical exegesis of Mirza Ḥusayn `Ali Nuri, Bahā'-Allāh (d. 1892 CE) and `Abbās Effendī, `Abd al-Baha' (d. 1921).

  • Some neglected aspects of Qajar Shi`ism and Missionary dialogue: al-Shaykhiyya (Shaykhism), the Bible and biblical exegesis.

  •  The Voice of God and the Supreme Pen: Some Aspects of the `Letters to Kings and Rulers' of  the prophet Muhammad, Sayyid `Ali Muhammad the Bab (d. 1850) and Mirza Husayn `Ali Baha'-Allah (d. 1892).

  • The Baha'i religion and Zionism

  •  Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā' (Stories of the Prophets) motifs and their Babi-Baha'i interpretations.

  • The Safavid Shaykh Bahā'ī and the Bahā'ī religion : Some Notes on Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Āmilī (d. 1030/ 1621) and Bahā'ī perspectives about him and his writings'.

  • Doxophany: The Bahā'ī before Bahā'u'llāh and the Mightiest Name before the Greatest Name.

 

  2005

  
  • "The Messianic roots of  Bābī-Bahā'ī Globalism" in proceedings of the Conference, `Baha'i and Globalisation' held by RENNER (Research Network on New Religions) and University of Copenhagen, Dept. of the History of Religions. Held at Tune Landboskole, Grevevej 20, DK 2670 Greve.
  • `Baha'i and Globalisation' eds.  Warburg, Margit, Annika Hvithamar & Morten Warmind,  is now (Sept. 2005)  published, Aarhus Universitetsforlag...  ISBN: 8779341098,  309 pp.  $48,5 [USD].   http://www.unipress.dk/da-dk/List.aspx?l=new.

 2004

  • `The Bābī and Bahā'ī Religions' by Stephen Lambden in  Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez (ed.), the Encyclopedia of Religion and War (No.5 in the Religion and Society Encyclopedias)  New York & London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 33-36.  (ISBN 0-415-94246-2).

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  •  `The Babi and Baha'i religions' by Stephen Lambden in  the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, ed.  William H. McNeill (University of Chicago, Emeritus) 5 vols., 2004.  (ISBN: 0-9743091-0-9- 2,500 pp.) Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004. (Price: $575). http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/

 

 2001-2

DOCTORAL THESIS

Some Aspects of Isrā'īliyyāt and the Emergence of the Bābī-Bahā'ī Interpretation of the Bible.  

ABSTRACT and table of contents

 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS OF THE 1980s AND 1990s

 

  •  1982a  `My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" or  "My God, my God, how Thou hast glorified me!"    BSB 1/1 ( June 1982), 27-43.

 

  • 1982b    `Antichrist-Dajjāl: Some Notes on the Christian and Islamic Antichrist Traditions and their Bahā'ī Interpretation'.  BSB 1/2 (Sept. 1982) 14-49 + Pt. II in BSB 1/3  (Dec. 1982), 3-44.

 

  • 1983a     `A Tablet of Bahā'-Allāh to Georg David Hardegg: The Lawḥ-i-Hirtīk '.    BSB 2:1 (June 1983), 32-63.

  • 1983b `The Islamo-Bahā'ī  Interpretation of Deuteronomy 33:2'.  BSB 2/2 (Sept. 1983),  22-46.

  •  1983c  `A Tablet of Bahā'-Allāh of the Late Baghdad Period: Lawḥ-i halih, halih, halih.. yā  bishārat '   BSB 2/3 (Dec.1983), 105-113  (Revised 1980s, 2001).

  •  1984  `Alchemical Gnosis in Bābī-Bahā'ī Scripture' : A Paper first read at a post-graduate seminar Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), 1984

     

  • 1984a `[The] Bahá'í [Faith] and Education]' in John M. Sutcliffe (ed.), A Dictionary of Religious Education.  (London: SCM Press, 1984),  34-36

     

  • 1984b `A Tablet of Mirza Ḥusayn `Alī Bahā'u'llāh of the Early Iraq Period: The Lawḥ-i kull al-ṭa`ām ("Tablet of All Food") in BSB 3/1 (June 1984), 4-67.

     

  • 1984c     `An Early Poem of Mīrzā Ḥusayn `Alī Bahā'u'llāh: The Sprinkling of the Cloud of Unknowing (Rashḥ-i `amā')    BSB 3/2 (Sept. 1984),  4-114.

 

  • 1985a `Some Thoughts on the Establishment of a Permanent Bahā'ī Studies Centre and Research Institute'      BSB 3/3 (Sept. 1985),  41-

 

  • 1985b `At the Shore of the Black Sea: The Lawḥ-i Hawdaj / Samsun of Mīrzā  Ḥusayn `Alī Bahā-Allāh.'   BSB 3/4 (Dec. 1985)  84-97.

  • 1986 a    `The Mysteries of the Call of Moses: Translation and Notes on part of a Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh addressed to Jināb-i Khalīl''     BSB 4:1 (March 1986),  33-79.

  • 1986b    `An Episode in the Childhood of the Bāb'  in  Peter Smith (ed.), Studies in Bābī and Bahā'ī  History  Vol. 3 (Los Angeles: Kalimat Press 1986) 1- 31

  •  1988 `The Sinaitic Mysteries: Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in  Bahā'ī Scripture' in Moojan Momen (ed.), Studies in the Bābī & Bahā'ī Religions Vol.5 [= Studies in Honour of the Late Hasan M. Balyuzi ]  (Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1988)  64-183.

  • 1991    Islám, Muhammad and the Qur’ān: Some Introductory Notes.  BSR 1/1 (1991)

http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/bsr01/12_lambden_islam.htm

 

  • 1992 a    `From Fig-Leaves to Fingernails: Some Notes on the Garments of Adam & Eve in the Hebrew Bible and Select early post-Biblical Jewish Writings' in P. Morris & D. Sawyer (ed.), A Walk in the Garden : Exegesis, Iconography and Literature (Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Lancaster Jan. 8-9, 1986 , JSOT Supp. 136 )  © Sheffield Academic Press [ISBN 1-85075-338-5], 1992 [WRITTEN 1985-6]

 

 

  •  1993 [1997] `Prophecy in the Johannine Farewell Discourse: The Advents of the Paraclete, Aḥmad and the Comforter (mu`azzī)' in  Scripture and Revelation (ed. Moojan Momen), Oxford: George Ronald, 1997 pp. 69-124. In the volume of papers presented at the Irfán Colloquia on themes centering on the scriptures of the world's religions. PBk. ISBN 0-85398-419-0. 368 pp.

  • 1993a  `The word Bahā': Quintessence of the Greatest Name [of God]'  in BSR 3/1 (1993), pp.19-42.

A corrected, slightly revised and expanded version of this paper was published in the Journal of Baha'i Studies  vol. 8/2 (December 1997-March, 1998), pp. 13-45. It is planned to publish a third much expanded and revised monograph version on this Website in 2005-6  entitled, `Some aspects of the Jewish and Islamic-Isrā’īliyyāt background to the Bābī-Bahā’ī  theology of اسم الله الاعظم   ism Allāh al-a`ẓam the Mightiest  Name of God.'  

 

 

 

  • 1997 'The Background and centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bābī and Baha'i Sacred Scripture' in Jack MacLean ed. Revisioning the Sacred, New Perspectives on a Baha'i Theology ( = Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, Vol. 8), pp. 37-78.   Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1997. ISBN 0-933770-95-2 (HBk) ISBN 0-933770-96-0 (PBk).

 

  • 1999-2000 `Catastrophe, Armageddon and Millennium: some aspects of the Bábí-Bahá’í exegesis of apocalyptic symbolism' in BSR 9 pp. 81-99.

        http://www.breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/bsr09/9B3_lambden_armageddon.htm

Persian translation by Faruq Izadinia : [to be added in PDF]

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  • 2007  'Kitāb-i iqān  (with Sholeh Quinn), forthcoming.

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BAHĀ'Ī  ENCYCLOPÆDIA 

The articles listed here are now slightly revised and expanded versions of those originally written  for the Bahā'ī  Encyclopedia  (ed. Walbridge, Momen et. al.) in the 1990s, the publication of which remains uncertain. A few of these articles  in revised, updated format can be found on this website... 

     SELECTED unpublished materials DATING TO THE 1970s AND 1980S

       

 

1970s-   

  • 1970  `The background and significance of the Bābī-Bahā'ī doctrines respecting the human "soul", "spirit", "mind" and "intellect" (unpublished).

 

  •  1971  `Epistle to the White Shaykh'  ( an extended letter addressed to a leading Aḥmadiyya cleric of Kampala,  Uganda in 1971) (mss.)

  

  •  1976     `An Hermeneutic Odyssey : The Bābī-Bahā'ī Search for Truth and the Four Criterion of Truth'  (under revision in 2 vols.)

 
  •  1978 `Preface to the working out of an Hermeneutical Paradigm for Bahā'ī Studies' (Bahā'ī  Studies Seminar, Cambridge University, 1979 [unpublished].

 

1980s

  •  `A Note of the background and Bābī-Bahā'ī exegesis of the Name (Ar.) Mūsā (= Moses)  with reference to the Sharḥ al-qaṣīda al-lāmiyya of  Sayyid Kāzim Rashtī (d. 1260/1844)'. Bi-Annual Bahā'ī-Religious Studies Seminar [Newcastle upon Tyne] 1990.

  •  `The Background and significance of  the Interpretation of the Symbol of the Cross (shakl al-ṣalīb)  in the writings of Sayyid `Alī Muhammad the Bāb' . Bi-Annual Bahā'ī [ Inter-] National Religious Studies Seminar [Newcastle upon Tyne] 1991? 

  •  The Question of  Taḥrīf  ("scriptural falsification ") in Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī  Scripture.

  •  Thomas Kelley Cheyne (1841-1915), Biblical Scholar and Bahā'ī. 

  •  `Two Major Demonstrative Treatises of the Iraq period: The Jawāhir al-asrār and the Kitāb-i  īqān.' (unpublished).

  •   `Kaleidoscope: The Background and Significance of some Aspects of Angelology and Color Mysticism in  Bābī-Bahā'ī Scripture'.  Oxford, 1998.

  • The Primal Will (al-mashiyyah)  and the First Intellect (al-`aql al-awwal) in Islamic and  Bābī-Bahā'ī  texts' [forthcoming].  

  • `Even unto China: The Intellect, anti-intellectualism and the search for Truth' [in progress].

  • `The Background , Significance and Interrelationships of  Bābī-Bahā'ī concepts of   Immortal Soul, Rational Mind and Human Spirit'  

  •    `Some  Bābī-Bahā'ī Interpretations of the Sūrat al-kahf   ("The Surah  of the Cave")...

 

SELECT PAPERS DELIVERED AT INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS

1978-2007

 

UK AND OTHER ACADEMIC BĀBĪ-BAHĀ'Ī SEMINARS:

Select Papers delieverd by Stephen Lambden and others at UK Acadenic  Baha'i Seminars - 1977-2006  including those held at Cambridge and Lancaster Universities (1977-80) then at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1978-2007) as well as at Shaykhi and Babi-Baha'i Studies panels at MESA seminars :

URL : http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/CV-seminars/SEMINARS%202000.htm

 

`IRFĀN COLLOQUIA :

For  select abstracts and details of the more than forty papers delivered by Stephen Lambden at `Irfān Colloquia sessions in the UK, USA, Italy and elsewhere (1993>) see URL:

URL http://irfancolloquia.org/database/?author=Lambden

 

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