- After Shoghi Effendi: Guardianship, Lineage, and the Limits of Claim. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Theological-legal analysis of the Bahá’í Covenant as it pertains to the institution of the Guardianship, and the claims advanced by Mason Remey and the "Orthodox Bahá’ís"; the nature of the Covenant, the Guardianship, and the Aghsan. Essays.
- Bahá'í Epistemology and the Modern Landscape of Knowledge: From Scientific Realism to Discourse Theory and Virtue Epistemology. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). On the relationship between Bahá’í epistemology and philosophical theories of knowledge including Wittgenstein, Popper, Kuhn, Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, Fairclough, Williamson, Sosa, and Zagzebski; a teleological alternative to constructivist models. Articles-unpublished.
- Bahá'í Praxis, The: Translating Theology into Social Action. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Bahá’í theology marks a transition from classical metaphysics to an embodied, praxis-centered framework, not in doctrinal systematization but in the ethical transformation of individuals and societies. Revelation is actualized through justice and unity. Articles-unpublished.
- Beyond Totality: Bahá'í Ethics and the Prophetic Epistemology of the Other. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Bahá'í ethics are grounded in clear and manifest action, where divine command and civilizational responsibility converge. The ethical
self emerges through participation in a teleological process guided by love, justice, and transformative responsibility. Articles-unpublished.
- End of Theology, part 2, The: The Metaphysical Status of Cosmos and the Resolution of Kant's Antinomies in Bahá'í Metaphysics. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). On the ontological and epistemological status of the cosmos through the lens of Bahá'í metaphysics. The hierarchy of worlds, the progressive nature of revelation, and the Manifestation of God — a cosmological axis — reveal a teleological order. Articles-unpublished.
- End of Theology, The: Bahá'í Metaphysics and the Limits of Speculative Reason. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). On the end of speculative theology, due to divine unknowability, the functions of the Primal Will, the theophanic reality of the Manifestation, and the eternal progression of the soul. Bahá’í theology clarifies the epistemological limits of metaphysics. Articles-unpublished.
- Managing the Fold: Punishment, Marginality, and Apostasy as Tools of Communal Governance. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). How religious communities draw and maintain their boundaries; substance vs. rhetoric; guidance for scholars and reformers: a proposed research agenda of anonymized administrative data, digital counterpublics, and the law of voluntary associations. Articles-unpublished.
- Presupposition of Revealed Truth: On First Principles, Revelation, and the Ground of Rationality. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). On the philosophical necessity of divine Revelation as the foundational axiom of thought. Every philosophical system depends on unprovable first principles. The Manifestations are not only the source of revelation but also the ontological axis of truth. Articles-unpublished.
- Reason in the Orbit of Revelation: Constructing a Bahá'í Philosophical Paradigm. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). A book-length systematic proposal for a Bahá'í philosophical framework across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, engaging phenomenology and contemporary theory while emphasizing praxis grounded in Revelation. (Some chapters already posted separately.) Books.
- Spectrum of Knowledge in the Bahá'í Faith, The: Material, Conceptual, Existential, Moral, and Divine Forms of Knowing. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Seven categories identified within the Bahá’í typology of knowledge: material, conceptual, existential, moral, divine, intrinsic divine, and true knowledge in conformity with reality; this view integrates scientific, moral, and spiritual dimensions. Articles-unpublished.
- Superstition and the Structure of True Knowledge: A Bahá'í Critique of Khurāfāt and Epistemic Deviation. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Superstitions — numerology, astrology, psychic powers, esoteric myths — are an epistemic and spiritual deviation from true knowledge, incompatible with the divine purpose of human understanding; superstition's psychological, cultural, and ethical effects. Articles-unpublished.
- Thresholds of Just-Being: Deficiency, Demise, and the Ontology of Belonging. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Belonging is not a binary condition — believer or unbeliever — but a continuum shaped by varying degrees of care, orientation, and world-formation. One could self-identify as Bahá’í, participating in a shared civilizational goal but not in the community. Articles-unpublished.
- Timeless Principles of Religion, The: A Comparative Study across Christian, Islamic, and Bahá'í Thought. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Theological map of nine principles in Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá'í Faith: oneness of God, unknowability of the divine essence, creation by God's sovereign act, office of prophethood, authority of revealed law, cardinal virtues, judgment and death. Articles-unpublished.
- Toward a Bahá'í Political Philosophy: Manifestation, Authority, and the Form of Civilizational Unity. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). On a systematic political philosophy of the Bahá’í Faith, which unites metaphysical origins with a political consummation. The Manifestation serves as the legislator and architect of a global civilization; unity is the central teleological concept. Articles-unpublished.
- Toward a Unified Bahá'í Paradigm of Science: Integrating the Seven Modes of Knowledge. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Typology of seven interrelated forms of knowledge: material, conceptual, existential, moral, divine, intrinsic divine, and knowledge in conformity with reality. This integrates epistemological plurality, ontological humility, and a moral teleology. Articles-unpublished.
- Wisdom and Philosophy in the Bahá'í Faith: On the Divine Horizon of Ḥikmat and the Boundaries of Speculative Reason. Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). On a Bahá'í philosophical paradigm that reconfigures the nature of philosophy itself: a prophetic ontology in which wisdom is divinely sourced and civilizational in purpose; being, causality, and knowledge in classical, Islamic, and modern philosophies. Articles-unpublished.
- آفاق برهان، انفس معنا: تأملی در دلائل سبعه حضرت باب (The Horizons of Proof, the Souls of Meaning: A Reflection on the Seven Proofs of the Báb). Iman Motlagh Arani (2025-05). A critical reconstruction of the Dalā’il-i-Sab‘ih, presenting formalized arguments and assessing their logical coherence and hermeneutic depth. Articles-unpublished.
- بررسی تفسیر سوره توحید حضرت نقطه اولی (Studying the Interpretation of the Surah at-Tawhid). Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). Articles-unpublished.
- تاملاتی در باب مقولاتی بزرگ: جلد دوم (Reflections on Great Categories, vol. 2). Iman Motlagh Arani. (2023). Books.
- تاملاتی در باب مقولاتی بزرگ (Reflections on Great Categories, vol. 1). Iman Motlagh Arani (2023). Books.
- تاویل و هرمنوتیک در آثار آئین بهائی (Interpretation and Hermeneutics in the Bahá'í Writings). Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). A methodological guide to symbolic interpretation, including case studies on "sun, moon, and stars," eschatological imagery, and principles for typological reading. Books.
- تقریرا ی ت بر کتاب ایقان (Notes on the Kitáb-i-Íqán). Iman Motlagh Arani (2025). A structured reading of key themes — return and recognition, symbolic cosmology, and the logic of spiritual testing — organized for study and teaching.
Books.
- مکاتب فلسفی (Philosophical schools). Alí Murád Dávúdí, Iman Motlagh Arani, comp. and ed. (? / 2025?). Articles-unpublished.
- گام به گام با اُم الکتاب دور بهائی کتاب اقدس (Step by Step through the Mother Book of the Bahá'í Faith, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas). Iman Motlagh Arani (2020). A topical overview of central laws and ethical teachings, arranged for accessibility and reference. Books.
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