Moojan Momen
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British-Iranian Baháʼí scholar
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Moojan Momen's Degrees
- Masters Religious Studies University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Moojan Momen is a retired physician and historian specializing in Baháʼí studies who has published numerous books and articles about the Baháʼí Faith and Islam, especially Shia Islam, including for Encyclopædia Iranica the British Library, and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Moojan Momen's Published Works
Published Works
- An Introduction to Shi`i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism (1988) (94)
- MAFIA, MOB AND SHIISM IN IRAQ: THE REBELLION OF OTTOMAN KARBALA 1824-1843 (1986) (46)
- The Babi and Baha'i Religions 1844-1944. Some Contemporary Western Accounts (1985) (46)
- Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East (2000) (19)
- An Introduction to Shi'i Islam (2017) (18)
- The Baha'i faith 1957–1988: A survey of contemporary developments (1989) (15)
- 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. (1996) (14)
- The Babi and Baha'i community of Iran: A case of “suspended genocide”? (2005) (13)
- The Social Basis of the Bābī Upheavals in Iran (1848–53): A Preliminary Analysis (1983) (12)
- Marginality and apostasy in the Baha'i community (2007) (8)
- The Baha'i Faith (2000) (7)
- Gate of the Heart: Understanding the Writings of the Bāb (2010) (5)
- Fundamentalism and Liberalism: Towards an Understanding of the Dichotom y (1992) (5)
- The Baha'is and the Constitutional Revolution: The Case of Sari, Mazandaran, 1906–1913 (2008) (5)
- 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). (1995) (4)
- Revolutionary Ideology and Islamic Militancy: The Iranian Revolution and Interpretations of the Quran (2012) (3)
- 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). (1997) (3)
- 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. (1993) (3)
- WITHDRAWN: Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha'i Community’ (2008) (2)
- Messianic Concealment and Theophanic Disclosure (2014) (2)
- Usuli, Akhbari, Shaykhi, Babi: the tribulations of a Qazvin family (2003) (2)
- Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha’i Community’ (2008) (2)
- Studies in Bábí and Baháʹí history (1982) (2)
- A Chronicle of the Babi-Baha'i Communities in Sangsar and Shahmirzad (2007) (1)
- Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852 (2008) (1)
- 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) (2012) (1)
- The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi‘i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran, Kamran Scot Aghaie, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2004, ISBN 0-295-98448-1 (hardback), 0-295-98455-4 (paperback), xvi + 200 pp., 30 pages of color photographs, index. (2006) (1)
- The family and early life of Tahirih (2004) (1)
- Studies in honor of the late Hasan M. Balyuzi (1988) (1)
- The Baha’i Faith in Africa: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952–62 (2013) (1)
- An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith. By Peter Smith . Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxvi + 229 pages. $81.00 cloth; $29.99 paper. (2010) (0)
- 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) (2017) (0)
- The Struggle for the Soul of Twelver Shiʿism in Qajar Iran (2020) (0)
- Book reviews (2010) (0)
- Memorials of the Faithful : The Democratization of Sainthood (2016) (0)
- Shi′ism, Heinz Halm, 2nd edition (trans. Janet Watson and Marian Hill), New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 0–231–13587–4, 216 pp., index. (2006) (0)
- Who Was a Bahā’ī in the Upper Echelons of Qājār Iran? (2023) (0)
- 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) (2014) (0)
- Millennialist Narrative and Apocalyptic Violence (2018) (0)
- In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History (2022) (0)
- The Shi'is of Iraq . By Yitzhak Nakash. pp. xvii, 312. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1994. £25.00. (1995) (0)
- International Journal of Shiì Studies, vol. 1, no.1, 2003, Global Scholarly Publications, ISSN 1544–1326, 224 pp. (2005) (0)
- Persecution and Resilience: A History of the Baha'i Religion in Qajar Isfahan (2012) (0)
- Some Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History: A Survey, Denis MacEoin, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992, ix + 274 pp., 7 reproductions of manuscript pages, $71.50. (1995) (0)
- Persecution and Development: The History of the Baha’i Community of Māhfurūzak in Mazandaran, Iran (2012) (0)
- Reviews (2002) (0)
- Learning from History (1989) (0)
- The Baha’i community of Iran (2019) (0)
- Review : An Introduction to Shia Islam : The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shiism , by (2019) (0)
- Negotiating Survival: A History of the Babi and Baha’i Faith in Shiraz (1844–1921) (2013) (0)
- Review: Baha’i Faith: The Basics, by Christopher Buck (2022) (0)
- Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam (2022) (0)
- Shi‘i Jurisprudence and Constitution: Revolution in Iran (2013) (0)
- Between Karbalāʾ and Tabrīz. Contested Martyrdom Narratives (2014) (0)
- Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Baha’is from a Globalisation Perspective (2010) (0)
- 175 years of persecution: a history of the Babis and Baha’is of Iran (2020) (0)
- Millennialist Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares (2004) (0)
- Book reviews (2010) (0)
- Two Early Accounts of the British Baha'i Community (2009) (0)
- The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismaᶜilis, Farhad Daftary, London: I. B. Tauris, 1995, 213 pp. (1999) (0)
- Bahá'u'lláh (2007) (0)
- Roland Faber: The Ocean of God. On the Transreligious Future of Religions, London: Anthem Press 2019, 250 pp. (2020) (0)
- The Most Learned of the Shi‘a: The Institution of the Marja‘ Taqlid, Linda S. Walbridge, (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-513799-X, xii + 264pp and index. (2004) (0)
- parallel circuits, or political lobbies could have been developed at greater depth, this book, an exhaustive source of documents on contemporary Iran, is essential reading and food for thought about Iran at the dawn of the twenty-first century (2010) (0)
- Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī: Ismaᶜili Thought in the Age of al-Ḥakīm, Paul E. Walker, London: I.B Tauris and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1999, ISBN 1 85043 321 3, xiv + 168pp., £25.00. (2002) (0)
- CHANGING REALITY : THE BAHÁ ’ Í COMMUNITY AND THE CREATION OF A NEW REALITY (2007) (0)
- Scholarship and the Bahá’í Community (1988) (0)
- Social and Economic Development in an Iranian Village: The Baha'i Community of Saysan (2009) (0)
- Review: The Bahá’ís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement by Mike McMullen (2017) (0)
- Fundamentalism and the Baha’i Community: Definitions and Social Dynamics (2011) (0)
- Power and the Bahá’í community (2018) (0)
- The reading of Scripture (2017) (0)
- Quránic Verses Concerning the Overthrow of the Byzantines : The Stages of the Soul by Moojan Momen (2010) (0)
- The Constitutional Movement and the Baha'is of Iran: The Creation of an ‘Enemy Within’ (2012) (0)
- A STUDY OF THE MEANING OF THE WORD “AL-AMR” IN THE QUR’ÁN AND IN THE WRITINGS OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH (2010) (0)
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