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Towards a Complete List of the Writings of Stephen N. Lambden, 1970s-2020s

Lambden, Stephen Nigel (b. Reading, Berks, UK 3rd Nov. 1951).

  • 1980s/2002. Lambden Pd.D = `Some Aspects of Isrā’īliyyāt and the Emergence of the Bābī-Bahā’’ī Interpretation of the Bible’ (Unpublished, 1980s / 2002 Ph.D thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK..
  • [1982. Lambden ed.] BSB = Bahá'í Studies Bulletin. Newcastle upon Tyne: Hūrqalyā  Publications, 1982>. Web version here :  http://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/journals/bsb
  • H* = Hurqalya Publications – Personal Website hosted at the University of California, Merced (USA). See especially `Haykal -The Writings of the Bāb’ :  https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/scholarship/haykal-writings-b%C4%81b ‘
  •  Qayyūm al-asma’ Lambden translation: `Towards a Complete Translation of Qayyūm al-asmā of the Bab (I-CXI)’ posted on H*.
  • 1983. ‘The Islāmo-Bahā'ī Interpretation of Deuteronomy 33:2.'  BSB 2/2 (Sept. 1983):  22-46.
  • 1984. ‘An Early Poem of Mīrzā .Husayn `Alī Bahā' Allāh: The Sprinkling of the Cloud of Unknowing (Rashḥ-i `Amā'), BSB 3/2 (Sept. 1984): 4-114 (Revised and expanded on H* website).
  • 1986. ‘An Episode in the Childhood of the Báb.’ In Peter Smith (ed.), Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í History Vol. 3 Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1986, 1- 31.
  • 1988. ‘The Sinaitic Mysteries: Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in Bābī and Bahā'ī Scripture,’ In Moojan Momen (ed.), Studies in the Bábí & Bahá'í Religions Vol.5 [= Studies in Honour of the Late Hasan M. Balyuzi]. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1988, 64-183.
  • 1997. `The Background and Centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bābī and Bahā’ī Scripture.’ In Revisioning the Sacred: New Perspectives on a Bahā’ī Theology. ed. Jack McLean, 37-78. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press.
  • 1997a `The word Bahā’: The Quintessence of the Greatest Name of God’ JBS 8/2, 13-45
  • 1998 “Eschatology: Bābī-Bahā'ī”, EIr. VIII: 581-2
  • 2000 [ MESA paper]: `The Isolated Letters of the Qayyūm al-asma, Tabulated and Introduced’ Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association 2006 (Boston, MA). Now on H* Website.  URL: http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/03-THE%20BAB/QA-ISOLATED%20LETTERS.htm
  • XXXX. “Emergent Islamic theology and the al-ism al-a`zam, the Mightiest Name of God” on H* website:  https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/2071/
  • 1997. `The Background and Centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bābī and Bahā’ī Scripture.’ In Revisioning the Sacred: New Perspectives on a Bahā’ī Theology. ed. Jack McLean, pp. 37-78. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press.
  • 1998. `Eschatology: Bābī-Bahā'ī' E.Ir VIII: 581-2.
  • 2004 “The Babi and Baha’i Religions,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion and War, ed. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez (Routledge: New York and London, 2004), 33-36.
  • 2005a. `The Messianic Roots of Babi-Baha’i Globalism,’ in Baha'i and Globalisation, eds. Margit Warburg, Annika Hvithamar, and Morten Warmind (Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2005), 17-34.
  • 2005b. (rev. 2007) [2011] = `The Khuṭba al-Jidda (The Sermon nigh Jeddah) of the Bāb Translation Stephen Lambden (Ohio University), 2005 revised December 2007 from the Ms. in the hand of Mullā Ḥusayn Bushrū'ī eventually privately published in INBMC vol. 91: 60-73. Selectively revised and published version in Lawson ed. 2011, pp. XX-XXX.
  • 2006. The Du` ā' al-Simāt ("Prayer of the Signs”) with some Notes on the Commentary of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī and Bābī-Bahā'ī lntertextualities. Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association 2006 (Boston, MA).
  • 2008. `The Sūrah Titles of the Qayyūm al-asmā’ of Sayyid `Alī Muḥammad Shīrāzī (1819-1850 CE): Gateways to the Earliest Thought of the Bāb.’ On H* Website   https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/401.
  • 2008 [rev. 2022]. `From Cosmic Firmament to Celestial Interworld: Some notes on the Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic-Syriac or Mandaic roots and Shī`ī-Shaykhī developments of the realm commonly designated هورقليا Hūrqalyā’ (forthcoming).
  • 2010 [2018] “Kitab-e iqan.”  (with Sholeh Quinn), in EIr. 2010 (online) and 2018 (in print).
  • 2011a “The Khaṣā'il-i sab`a (The Treatise of the Seven Directives) of Sayyid `Alī Muhammad Shīrāzī, the Bāb (d. 1850)”, The Third International Conference on Modern Religions and Religious Movements and the Bábí-Bahá’í Faiths, March 21-23, 2011. Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Forthcoming).
  • 2011b. Review of MacEoin, `The Messiah of Shiraz: Studies in Early and Middle Babism (Iran Studies; Leiden : Brill Academic Pub, 2009) in Religion (Lancaster. UK) 41/3 (2011): 514-518.
  • 2012a `The Tafsir Sūrat Yūsuf-Qayyūm al-asmā' of the Bāb as the Kitāb al-Ḥusayniyya’ unpublished paper.
  • 2012. `The Khuṭba al-Jidda (The Literary Sermon at Jeddah) of the Bāb’ in Lawson and Ghaemmaghani ed. `A Most Noble Pattern’, pp. 146-159.
  • 2012a `The Tafsir Sūrat Yūsuf-Qayyūm al-asmā' of the Bāb as the Kitāb al-Ḥusayniyya’ unpublished Iranian Studies paper.
  • 2018. "Apophatic Horizon or Theophanic Cloud? Some thoughts on the term `Ama' in Abrahamic-Islamic Literatures and Babi-Baha'i Intertextualities". Paper delivered at the annual Babi-Baha'i Studies Seminar at Oxford University (UK).
  • 2018a `Khatamiyya (Q. 33:40b) and the Liqa' Allah (the Divine Theophany). Hurqalya website : https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/3141/ 
  • 2019a `Joseph as Ḥusayn and the Qayyūm (Deity Self-Subsisting): A Provisional translation of the 5th Sūrah of the Qayyūm al-asmā'. In BSR (forthcoming).
  • 2019b Hurqalya Website `The Bābī-Bahā’ī transcendence of khātam al-nabiyyīn (Qur’ān 33: 40) as the `finality of prophethood’ PDf here: https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/biblical-and-islamic-studies.
  • 2019.  Tablet of the Bab to Mullā Shaykh AIī Turshīzī entitled `Aẓīm (d. Tehran 1852) printed in Mazandarani, KZH III:164-6; 2nd ed. III: 132-3. Trans. on H* website.
  • 2020. "From a Primal Point to an Archetypal Book: Literary Trajectories through Select Writings of the Bāb (1819-1850): in Vahman ed. Oxford: Oneworld, 2020.
  • 2021. “The Tablets of the Bab to the eighteen Haykal (or Letters of the Living) and to the Bab himself as the Majma` al-hayākil (the “Pleroma of the Temples”), the nineteenth Letter and to Man Yuzhiru-hu Allah (Him whom God shall make manifest)”, on H* Website : see Haykal - Writings of the Bāb | Hurqalya Publications: Center for Shaykhī and Bābī-Bahā’ī Studies (ucmerced.edu)