Book Articles

This page lists just my articles published in (peer-reviewed) books. See also other articles and all my publications.


13. “Edward Granville Browne.” British Writers, Supplement XXI. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons/The Gale Group, 2014. (Accepted for publication. Forthcoming: September, 2014.)

12. “`Abdu’l-Baha’s 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation.” `Abdu’l-Baha’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity. Edited by Negar Mottahedeh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 111–144. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137032010.0009.

11. Chapter 13: Baha’i Faith.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice. Edited by Michael D. Palmer and Stanley M. Burgess.Malden, MA/Oxford, 2012. Pp. 210–223. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444355390.ch13.

10. The Constitutionality of Teaching Islam: The University of North Carolina Qur’an Controversy.” Essay VIII. Observing the Observer: The State of Islamic Studies in American Universities. Edited by Mumtaz Ahmad, Zahid H. Bukhari and Sulayman S. Nyang. Herndon, VA: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2012. Pp. 137–177.

9. Kahlil Gibran.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement XX. Edited by Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Scribner’s Reference/The Gale Group, 2010. Pp. 113–129.

8. Religious Minority Rights.” The Islamic World. Edited by Andrew Rippin. London/New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 638–655. [Final chapter.]

7. Beyond the `Seal of the Prophets’: Baha’u’llah’s Book of Certitude (Ketab-e Iqan).” Religious Texts in Iranian Languages. Edited by Clause Pedersen & Fereydun Vahman. Koebenhavn (Copenhagen): Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2007. Pp. 369–378.

6. Discovering” [the Qur’an]. The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an. Edited by Andrew Rippin. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. 18–35. [Lead chapter.] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470751428.ch2.

5. Alain Locke.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement XIV. Edited by Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Scribner’s Reference/The Gale Group, 2004. Pp. 195–219.

4. Alain Locke and Cultural Pluralism.” Search for Values: Ethics in Baha’i Thought. Edited by Seena Fazel and John Danesh. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2004. Pp. 94–158.

3. The Eschatology of Globalization: Baha’u’llah’s Multiple-Messiahship Revisited.” Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Babi-Baha’i Faiths. Edited by Moshe Sharon. Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions, 104. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. Pp. 143–178.

2. Baha’i Universalism and Native Prophets.” Reason and Revelation: New Directions in Baha’i Thought. Edited by Seena Fazel and John Danesh. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2002. Pp. 172–201.

1. “A Unique Eschatological Interface: Baha’u’llah and Cross-Cultural Messianism.” In Iran. Edited by Peter Smith. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1986. Pp. 157–179.