Peter Smith (historian)

Background

Books

• Smith, Peter. . Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2004.
• Smith, Peter. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press.

  Articles

• Motif research: Peter Berger and the Bahaʼi Faith. Religion 8: 210-34.
• Bahaʼi Studies, University of Lancaster, 7–8 April 1979. Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 6/2, pp. 119–23.
• Doctoral and Masters theses on Bahaʼi subjects. Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 6/2, pp. 129–30.
• Review of H. M. Balyuzi, Bahaʼu'lláh: The King of Glory. In International Journal of Middle East Studies, 13: 369‑70.
• Review of Mangol Bayat, Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran. In The Bulletin of the British Society for Middle East Studies.
• Millenarianism in the Babi and Bahaʼi religions. In Millennialism and Charisma, ed. Roy Wallis, pp. 231–83. Belfast: The Queen's University.
• The American Bahaʼi community, 1894-1917: A preliminary survey. In Studies in Babi and Bahaʼi History, Vol. 1, ed. Moojan Momen, pp. 85–223. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press.
• Additional doctoral and Masters' theses relating to Babi and Bahaʼi subjects. Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 9/1, pp. 89–90.
• A note on Babi and Bahaʼi numbers in Iran. Iranian Studies 17: 295-301.
• Reality magazine: Editorship and ownership of an American Bahaʼi periodical. In From Iran East and West: Studies in Babi and Bahaʼi History, Vol.2, ed. Juan Cole and Moojan Momen, pp. 135–55. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press.
• Anglo-American religion and hegemonic change in the world system, c. 1870-1980. British Journal of Sociology 37: 88-105.
• The Babi Movement: A resource mobilization perspective. In In Iran: Studies in Babi and Bahaʼi History, Vol. 3, ed. P. Smith, pp. 33–92. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press.
• 'Babism' and 'The Bahaʼi Faith'. In The Encyclopedia of World Faiths, ed. Peter Bishop and Michael Darton, pp. 173--176, 185, London, Macdonald.
• Review of Daniel E. Foss and Ralph Larkin, Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements. In British Journal of Sociology, 38: 483.
• Bahai Faith, iv. The Bahai communities. In Encyclopaedia Iranica, loc., cit.
• The Bahaʼi Faith, 1957‑1988: A survey of contemporary developments. Religion, 19: 63--91.
• Review of Sami Zubaida, Islam, the People and the State. Essays on Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East. In Sociology.
• Abdu'l‑Baha, Azali Babis, Babis, Bahaʼi Faith, Bahaʼu'lláh, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, and Universal House of Justice. In The Oxford Companion to Religions of the World, ed. John Bowker and J.F. Coakley. Oxford University Press, loc.cit.
• The Bahaʼi Faith in the West: A Survey. In Peter Smith, Bahaʼis in the West: Studies in the Babi and Bahaʼi Religions, Vol. 14, pp. 3–60. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press.
• Shoghi Effendi's letters to the Bahaʼis of India and Burma during the 1920s. Baha'i Studies Review 13: 15-40.
• Review of Robert Gleave Religion and Society in Qajar Iran. In Baha'i Studies Review 13: 130-135.
• Babi martyrs. Encyclopaedia Iranica.
• The global distribution of Bahaʼis in the 1920s. Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 14, pp. 107–20.
• Review of William Garlington. The Bahaʼi Faith in America. In Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 14, pp. 145–49.
• The global distribution of Bahaʼis in the 1930s. Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 15, pp. 115–32.
• Bahaʼis. In Graham Harvey Religions in Focus: New Approaches to Tradition and Contemporary Practices. London: Equinox.
• Review of The Equality of Women and Men: The Experience of the Bahaʼi Community of Canada, by Deborah K. van den Hoonaard and Will C. van den Hoonaard. Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 15, pp. 161–62.
• Review of The Bahaʼis of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel . Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 15, pp. 164–70.
• The global distribution of Bahaʼis in the 1940s. Baha'i Studies Review 16, pp. 135–53.
• Babi and Bahaʼi millennialism. In Catherine Wessinger Oxford Handbook on Millennialism. Oxford University Press, pp. 474–91.
• Shoghi Effendi's letters to the Bahaʼis of India and Burma during the 1930s. Baha'i Studies Review 17, pp. 47–86.
• Women in the Bahaʼi Faith. Encyclopedia Iranica.
• Ranking and the globalization of higher education. Silpakorn University Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts 12/2, pp. 35–69.
• The Bahaʼi Faith. Helmut K. Anheier and Mark Juergensmeyer Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Islam-related movements. Helmut K. Anheier and Mark Juergensmeyer Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage