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  1. The Bābī-Bahā’ī Revolution in Iran

    Article • Iranian Studies, March 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  2. special issue of religions with articles about the Baha'i Faith

    Article • March 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Moojan Momen

  3. Who Was a Baha’i in the Upper Echelons of Qajar Iran?

    Article • Religions, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Moojan Momen

  4. A female figure who asserted agency at the dawn of modernity in Iran

    Article • Hawwa, January 2023, Brill

    Dr Moojan Momen

  5. Book Review

    Article • Religion, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  6. Book Review

    Article • Religion, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  7. Book chapter about the Baha'i Faith in Iran

    Article • November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  8. Bahá'u'lláh

    Article • November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  9. Scholarship and the Bahá’í Community

    Article • The Journal of Bahá’í Studies, February 2021, Association for Bahai Studies

    Dr Moojan Momen

  10. 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

  11. The persecution of the Baha'i community of Iran seen as an example of cultural genocide

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  12. An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith

    Article • April 2018, JSTOR

    Dr Moojan Momen

  13. 6. Shi'i Islam in Modern Times AD i$oo-igoo

    Article • December 2017, Yale University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  14. 5. Shi'i Islam in the Medieval Period AD 1000-1500

    Article • December 2017, Yale University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  15. Appendix II. Shi'i Dynasties

    Article • December 2017, Yale University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  16. The reading of Scripture

    Article • July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  17. Book Review

    Article • Religion, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  18. Book Review

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, June 2015, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  19. The Baha'i Faith

    Article • April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Moojan Momen

  20. Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, June 2014, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  21. Between Karbalāʾ and Tabrīz. Contested Martyrdom Narratives

    Article • January 2014, Nomos Verlag

    Dr Moojan Momen

  22. 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

  23. The Merging of the Sacred and the Profane

    Article • Implicit Religion, August 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Moojan Momen

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

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

    Article • Journal of Religious History, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Moojan Momen

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

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

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  33. Babi

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  34. Baha'i

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  35. Baha'u'llah (1817–1892)

    Article • January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Moojan Momen

  36. ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib

    Article • May 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Moojan Momen

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. Reviews

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, April 2010, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

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

    Article • Religion, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  41. Book reviews

    Article • Religion, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  42. Book review

    Article • American Journal of Islam and Society, October 2009, International Institute of Islamic Thought

    Dr Moojan Momen

  43. Reviews

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, May 2009, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  44. 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

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

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, May 2009, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

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

    Article • Religion, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  47. 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

  48. 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

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

    Article • Baha i Studies Review, December 2007, Intellect

    Dr Moojan Momen

  50. Marginality and apostasy in the Baha'i community

    Article • Religion, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. Expectations of a violent end to the world and of a golden age in the evolution of a religion

    Article • January 2004, Brill

    Dr Moojan Momen

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

    Article • Iranian Studies, September 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Moojan Momen

  55. 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

  56. Book reviews

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

    Dr Moojan Momen

  57. 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

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. 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

  61. Reviews

    Article • Iranian Studies, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  62. REVIEWS

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

    Dr Moojan Momen

  63. 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

  64. Moojan Momen Replies

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

    Dr Moojan Momen

  65. 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

  66. Learning from History

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

    Dr Moojan Momen

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

    Article • Religion, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Moojan Momen

  68. 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

  69. 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

  70. 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

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

    Article • Iran, January 1982, JSTOR

    Dr Moojan Momen

  72. Intermittent positive-pressure breathing.

    Article • BMJ, May 1978, BMJ

    Dr Moojan Momen