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  1. Who Was a Bahā’ī in the Upper Echelons of Qājār Iran?

    Article • Religions, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Moojan Momen

  2. Tahirih and the Religious World of Nineteenth-century Qazvin

    Article • Hawwa, January 2023, Brill

    Dr Moojan Momen

  3. In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History

    Article • Religion, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  4. Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam

    Article • Religion, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  5. The Struggle for the Soul of Twelver Shiʿi Islam - legalistic or more mystical and devotional?

    Article • Die Welt des Islams, March 2020, Brill

    Dr Moojan Momen

  6. The Baha'i community of Iran

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  7. The Bahá‘í Faith

    Article • April 2018, JSTOR

    Dr Moojan Momen

  8. Religion and Relevance: The Baha’is in Britain 1899–1930, by Lil Osborn, Studies in the Babi and Baha’i Religion, vol. 24., Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2014, xi + 289 pp., ISBN 978-1-890688-51-6, $79.00 (paperback)

    Article • Religion, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  9. Book Review

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, June 2015, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  10. The Bahā’ī Faith

    Article • April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Moojan Momen

  11. Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, June 2014, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  12. Between Karbalāʾ and Tabrīz. Contested Martyrdom Narratives

    Article • January 2014, Nomos Verlag

    Dr Moojan Momen

  13. The Shi'a of Samarra: The Heritage and Politics of a Community in Iraq, edited by Imranali Panjwani, I.B. Tauris: London, 2012, xvii + 273 pp. ISBN 9781848857797, US$100.00 (hardback)

    Article • Religion, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  14. The Merging of the Sacred and the Profane

    Article • Implicit Religion, August 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Moojan Momen

  15. Negotiating Survival: A History of the Babi and Baha’i Faith in Shiraz (1844–1921)

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, June 2013, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  16. The Baha’i Faith in Africa: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952–62

    Article • Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, February 2013, University of California Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  17. Shi‘i Jurisprudence and Constitution: Revolution in Iran, Amirhassan Boozari, Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-11073-1, xii + 252pp.

    Article • Iranian Studies, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  18. Persecution and Resilience: A History of the Baha'i Religion in Qajar Isfahan

    Article • Journal of Religious History, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Moojan Momen

  19. The Constitutional Movement and the Baha'is of Iran: The Creation of an ‘Enemy Within’

    Article • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  20. Revolutionary Ideology and Islamic Militancy: The Iranian Revolution and Interpretations of the Quran, Najibullah Lafraie, International Library of Iranian Studies, vol. 13, London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2009, ISBN 978-1-8451-1063-5, 185 pp.

    Article • Iranian Studies, September 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  21. Persecution and Development: The History of the Baha’i Community of Māhfurūzak in Mazandaran, Iran

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, June 2012, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  22. Eternal Performance: Tàziyeh and Other Shiite Rituals, edited by Peter J. Chelkowski, Seagull Books: London, 2010, xi + 425 pp. ISBN 978 1 9064 9751 4, £24.00/US$35.00 (cloth)

    Article • Religion, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  23. Bab, Sayyid ‘ali Muhammad (1819–1850)

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  24. Babi

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  25. Baha'i

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  26. Baha'u'llah (1817–1892)

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  27. ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib

    Article • May 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Moojan Momen

  28. Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Baha’is from a Globalisation Perspective

    Article • Religion, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  29. Review: An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith, by Peter Smith

    Article • Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, May 2010, University of California Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  30. Reviews

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, April 2010, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  31. Gate of the Heart: Understanding the Writings of the Bāb

    Article • Religion, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  32. Book reviews

    Article • Religion, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  33. Reviews

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, May 2009, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  34. Social and Economic Development in an Iranian Village: The Baha'i Community of Saysan

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, May 2009, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  35. Two Early Accounts of the British Baha'i Community

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, May 2009, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  36. Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha’i Community’

    Article • Religion, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  37. Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852

    Article • Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, August 2008, University of California Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  38. The Baha'is and the Constitutional Revolution: The Case of Sari, Mazandaran, 1906–1913

    Article • Iranian Studies, July 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  39. A Chronicle of the Babi-Baha'i Communities in Sangsar and Shahmirzad

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, December 2007, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  40. Marginality and apostasy in the Baha'i community

    Article • Religion, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  41. Mudando a realidade: a comunidade Bahá’í e a criação de uma nova realidade

    Article • História Questões & Debates, December 2005, Universidade Federal do Parana

    Dr Moojan Momen

  42. The Babi and Baha'i community of Iran: A case of “suspended genocide”?

    Article • Journal of Genocide Research, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  43. Usuli, Akhbari, Shaykhi, Babi: The Tribulations of a Qazvin Family

    Article • Iranian Studies, September 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  44. Selected Onomastic Writings, Rüdiger Schmitt, edited by Winfried Breidbach and Philip Huyse, New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000, ISBN: 0–933273–42–8, 303pp., $48.00 (Mostly in German).

    Article • Iranian Studies, January 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  45. Book reviews

    Article • Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, July 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  46. Symbol and secret: Qur’an commentary in Bahā’U’llah'S Kitāb-i Ïqān. By Christopher Buck. (Studies in die Babi and Bahā’ī Religions, Vol. 7.) pp. xliv, 326, 5 illus. Los Angeles, Kalimāt Press, 1995. US$42.50 (cloth), US$32.50 (paperback).

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  47. The divine guide in early Shi'Ism: the sources of esotericism in Islam. By Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, translated by David Streight. pp. x, 279. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1994. $17.95.

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1996, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  48. The Shi'is of Iraq. By Yitzhak Nakash. pp. xvii, 312. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1994. £25.00.

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, November 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  49. Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices. Vol. 2. The contemporary period. By Andrew Rippin. (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) pp. xii, 171. London and New York, Routledge, 1993. £3500 (cloth), £16.00 (paperback).

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  50. Reviews

    Article • Iranian Studies, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  51. REVIEWS

    Article • Journal of Semitic Studies, January 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Moojan Momen

  52. The sources for early Bābī doctrine and history: a survey. By Denis MacEoin. pp. ix, 274, 7 reproductions of manuscript pages. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1992. Dfl. 125, US $71.50.

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  53. Moojan Momen Replies

    Article • The American Historical Review, October 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Moojan Momen

  54. Moojan Momen (ed.). Selections from the Writings of E. G. Browne on the Bábí and Báhá'í Religions, Pp. 499. (Oxford; George Ronald, 1987). £9.95.

    Article • Religious Studies, December 1989, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  55. Learning from History

    Article • The Journal of Bahá’í Studies, June 1989, Association for Bahai Studies

    Dr Moojan Momen

  56. The Baha'i faith 1957–1988: A survey of contemporary developments

    Article • Religion, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  57. MAFIA, MOB AND SHIISM IN IRAQ: THE REBELLION OF OTTOMAN KARBALA 1824-1843

    Article • Past & Present, January 1986, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Moojan Momen

  58. My Memories of Bahāʾu'llāh by Ustād Muḥammad-ʿAlīy-i Salmānī, the Barber, with a Selection of His Poems

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, April 1985, JSTOR

    Dr Moojan Momen

  59. The Social Basis of the Bābī Upheavals in Iran (1848–53): A Preliminary Analysis

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 1983, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  60. The Trial of Mullā 'Alī Basṭāmī: A Combined Sunnī-Shī'ī Fatwā against the Bāb

    Article • Iran, January 1982, JSTOR

    Dr Moojan Momen

  61. Intermittent positive-pressure breathing.

    Article • BMJ, May 1978, BMJ

    Dr Moojan Momen