- Rodney H. Clarken. Absolute Poverty and Utter Nothingness (1997). Bahá’u’lláh’s ideas of poverty as detachment, and nothingness as selflessness. Cites some commonalities in concepts of detachment and nothingness from Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad and Socrates as five of the greatest philosophers or prophets.
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018/2023). 167 selections, updated August 2023.
- Ian Kluge. Answered Questions, Some: A Philosophical Perspective (2009). Philosophical foundations of the Bahá’í teachings, including ontology, theology, epistemology, philosophical anthropology and psychology, and personal and social ethics.
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The (2015). Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the Greek to Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought, contrasted with the theosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, and hermeneutics of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
- Ian Kluge. Aristotelian Substratum of the Bahá'í Writings, The (2003). There is a pervasive and far-reaching congruence of Aristotle and the Bahá’í Writings. This Aristotelian substratum makes it is possible to resolve many apparent paradoxes in the Writings.
- Peter Terry. Chronological Issues in the Lawh-i-Hikmat of Bahá'u'lláh, Some (2000). An attempt to discover the antecedents of Bahá’u’lláh's distinctive chronology of ancient associations between Greek philosophers and Judean kings. Do Bahá’í historians have to critically re-examine the accepted Western accounts?
- Muhammad Iqbal. Development of Metaphysics in Persia, The: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy (1908). Short philosophical observations on the theology of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.
- Amin E. Egea. Further Comments on a Passage of the Lawh-i-Hikmat (2009). A study of Pre-Islamic sources on the relation of Greek Philosophers and Jewish sages.
- Keven Brown. Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius of Tyana in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1997). History of alchemy, magic, and the hermetic arts, and their reflection in the later teachings of Bahá'u'lláh.
- Juan Cole. Invisible Occidentalism: Eighteenth-Century Indo-Persian Constructions of the West (1992 Summer-Fall). Iranian attitudes toward Western culture, science, and philosophers in the colonial era. (No mention of Babis or Bahá'ís.)
- Shoghi Effendi. Letter to Dr J. W. Freudenberg, Auckland, New Zealand (1946-06-07). Letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi about philosophy, body, mind, soul, evolution, and about not taking many of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's statements as dogmatic finalities.
- Universal House of Justice. Letters Written on Behalf of the Guardian (2007). Three questions: Letters Written on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi; Status of Research Department Memoranda; Bahá'í Writings Based in Fact? Includes clarification on the authenticity of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's published talks.
- John S. Hatcher. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2021). List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher.
- Archie Bell. Meeting a Prophet (1915). Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Sea of Galilee.
- John Walbridge. Miscellaneous philosophy topics (2002). Islamic vs. Bahá'í philosophy; Greek philosophers and the Jews; other topics of philosophy.
- Ian Kluge. Nietzsche and the Bahá'í Writings: A First Look (2016). First version, missing footnotes. See update.
- Ian Kluge. Nietzsche and the Bahá'í Writings: A First Look (reprint, with footnotes) (2017). Bahá'í Writings and Nietzsche’s philosophy share a surprising number of features in common that allow us to re-vision Nietzsche from a new perspective. Both analyze reality in Aristotelian terms: actuality/potential; essence/attribute, matter/form, etc.
- Ian Kluge. Pierre Spierckel, trans. Nietzsche et les écrits bahá'ís: Une première approche (2017). Translation of "Nietzsche and the Bahá'í Writings: A First Look."
- Peter Terry. Oneness of Reality, The: A Response to Moojan Momen's "Relativism as a Basis for Baha'i Metaphysics" (2018). Dialogue on epistemology and ontology as presented in the core literature of the Baha’i religion.
- Babak Rod Khadem. Origins of the Bahá'í Concept of Unity and Causality: A Brief Survey of Greek, Neoplatonic, and Islamic Underpinnings (2006). The Bahá’í conception of unity has historical and intellectual precedents. On the history of this concept (and the concept of causality) as it developed in ancient Greek thought, Neoplatonism, and, subsequently, in Islamic philosophy and mysticism.
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Philosophical Statements by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Some Answered Questions (2019-12-08). Quotations extracted from Ian Kluge's article "Some Answered Questions: A Philosophical Perspective" (2009), using the 2014 revised edition of "Some Answered Questions".
- Jack McLean. Possibilities of Existential Theism for Bahá'í Theology, The (1997). The perspective of existential theology can benefit Bahá'í studies of religion, as applied to issues such as scholarship, spiritual transformation, and sacred history.
- Juan Cole. Problems of Chronology in Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Wisdom (1979 Spring). On the biographical section of the Lawh-i-Hikmat and its background in Islamic models.
- Robert Stockman. Revelation, Interpretation, and Elucidation in the Baha'i Writings (1997). The complexities of the Bahá'í concepts of revelation, interpretation, infallibility, and elucidation
- Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Socrates (n.d.).
- Universal House of Justice. Socrates in History and the Bahá'í Writings (1995-10-22). Historical facts known about Socrates, some of the difficulties inherent in endeavouring to unravel the historical Socrates, and quotations from the Bahá'í Writings.
- Bret Breneman. Socrates'/Plato's Use of Rhetoric: A Bahá'í Perspective (1991). Classical rhetoric continues to increase our understanding of human utterance and expression; the figure of Socrates in Plato’s dialogues models a rhetorical mutuality, a 'pedagogical' rhetoric which demonstrates how refined speech is morally nurturing.
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Tablet of Wisdom Questions and Answers (1995). Authorized translation of unpublished Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá to Ethel Rosenberg in 1906 in reply to her questions about historical statements in the Lawh-i-Hikmat.
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Shoghi Effendi, trans. Tablet to Auguste Forel (1976). A letter of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, in reply to questions asked by the Swiss scientist Auguste-Henri Forel, dated 21 September 1921.
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