Shi`i Islam 

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Arjomand, Said.

  • The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order and Societal Change in Shi‘ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 1986.
     

Bayat, Mangol.

  • Mysticism and Dissent. New York: Syracuse University 1982.

Browne, Edward. G.

  • A Literary History of Persia, 4 vols. London: 1902-1924; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951.

Brunschvig, R. 

  • 'Les usul al-fiqh Imamites a leur stade ancien (Xe et XIe siècles)', in Le Shī'isme I marnate (Paris, 1970), pp. 201-13
     

Iqbal, M.

  • The Development of Metaphysics in Persia. London: Luzac, 1908.

Izutsu, T.

  • 'The Basic Structure of Metaphysical Thinking in Islam." In Collected Papers on Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, ed. M. Mohaqheqh and H. Landolt. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1971.

  • Introduction to Sharh-i manzumah, by Sabzawari, ed. M. Mohaghegh and T. Izutsu. Tehran: 1969.

  •  Metaphysical Structure of Sabzawari. New York: Caravan Books, 1977.
     

 Jafri, Syed.

  • The Origins and Early Development of Shi‘ite Islam. London: Longman. 1978.
     

Kohlberg, Etan 

  • `Some Imami-shii Views on Taqiyya ' in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1975), pp. 395-402
     

Landolt, Hermann.

  •  "Walayah." In The Encyclopedia of Religion. Edited by Mircea Eliade, 15:316-23. 16 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Madelung, Wilferd.

  • The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997.
     

Modarressi, Hossein.

  • Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi`ite Islam. Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press., 1993 (280pp.).

Moojan Momen,

  • 1985 Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi`Ism  Yale University Press 1985, ISBN 0300035314 (Pbk).

Modarressi, Hossein

  • An Introduction to Shi`i Law, a bibliographical study. London: Ithaca Press, 1984.

Modarressi, Hossein.

  • 2003 Tradition and Survival, A Bibliographical Survey of Early Shī`ite Literature. Vol.1 Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.

Moussavi, Ahmad Kazemi.

  • 1996. Religious Authority in Shi‘ite Islam: From the Office of the Mufti to the Institution of Marja‘. Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization.
     

al-Mufid, Muhammad ibn al-Nu’man.

  •  Kitab al-Irshad, translated Howard, I. London: Balagha & Muhammadi Trust. 1981.
     

Rizvi, Saiyid Athar `Abbas.

  • A Soao-Intellectual History of the Isna 'Ashari Shi'i in India, 2 vols. Australia: Ma'rifat Pub. House, 1986.

Sabzawari.

  • Asrar al-hikam. Tehran: Tehran University Press.

  • Diwan-i ash'ār. Isfahan: Saqafi Press, 1959.

  • Sharh-i al-manzùmah. Naşiri Edition. Tehran: Tehran University Press.

 

Sachedina, Abdulaziz. 1988.

  • The Just Ruler in Shi‘ite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998.

Abdul-Jabar, Faleh, ed.

  • Ayatollahs, Sufis, and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq. London: Saqi, 2002.

     

Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali.

  • The Divine Guide in Early Shi‘ism: The Sources of Esotericism in Islam. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Arjomand, Said Amir.

  • The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam. Chicago, IL: University of  Chicago Press, 1984.
  • (ed.) Authority and Political Culture in Shi‘ism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1988. 

 

Ayoub, Mahmoud.

  • Redemptive Suffering in Islam. The Hague: Mouton, 1978.

Bill, James A. and John Alden Williams.

  • Roman Catholics and Shi‘i Muslims: Prayer, Passion, and Politics. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Blichfeldt, Jan-Olaf.

  • Early Mahdism: Politics and Religion in the Formative Period of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985.

Brunner, Ranier and Werner Ende, eds.

  • The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture and Political History. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001.

Chelkowski, Peter J., ed.

  • Ta‘ziyah: Ritual and Drama in Iran. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1979

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Chittick, William.

  • A Shi‘ite Anthology. London: Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1980.

Cole, Juan.

  • Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi‘ite Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002.
  • Cole, Juan R.I. and Nikki R. Keddie. Shi‘ism and Social Protest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

Fuller, Graham E. and Rend Rahim Francke.

  • The Arab Shi‘a: The Forgotten Muslims. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Halm, Heinz.

  • The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning. London: I.B. Tauris and Co., 2001.
  • Shiism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
  • Shi‘a Islam: From Religion to Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1997.

Hollister, John N.

  • The Shi‘a of India. London: Luzac & Co., 1953.

Jabar, Faleh A.

  • The Shi‘ite Movement in Iraq. London: Saqi, 2003.

Jafri, S. Husain M.

  • The Origins and Early Development of Shi‘a Islam. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kholberg, Etan.

  • Belief and Law in Imami Shi‘ism. Aldershot: Variorum/Ashgate, 1991.
  • (ed.) Shi`ism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

Khumayni, Ayatu’llah Seyyid Ruhu’llah (Hamid Algar, trans. and ed.).

  • Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini. Berkeley, CA: Mizan Press, 1981.

Kramer, Martin S.,

  • (ed.) Shi‘ism, Resistance, and Revolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987.

Litvak, Meir.

  • Shi‘i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Mallat, Chibli.

  • Shi‘i Thought from the South of Lebanon. Oxford, UK: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1988.

Modarressi, Hossein.

  • Tradition and Survival: A Bibliographical Survey of Early Shi‘ite Literature, Vol.1. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2003.

Nakash, Yitzhak.

  • The Shi‘is of Iraq. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Hamid Dabashi and Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, eds.

  • Expectation of the Millennium: Shi‘ism in History. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.
  • +Hamid Dabashi and Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, eds.
  • Shi‘ism: Doctrines, Thought and Spirituality. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Newman, Andrew J.

  • The Formative Period of Twelver Shi‘ism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001.

Pinault, David.

  • The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community. New York: Palgrave, 1993.

Sachedina, Abdulaziz A.

  • Islamic Messianism: The Idea of the Mahdi in Twelver Shi‘ism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Tabataba’i, ‘Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husain (Seyyed Hoseyn Nasr, trans. and ed.).

  • Shi‘ite Islam. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975.


 

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Islamic Thought and the Sciences: Mirāth-i Maktub (Written Heritage Research Centre) Publications.

Ibn-e Kalbali Tabrizi, Muhammad Zaman (11th Cent. AH.)

  • Fara'id AL-Fava'id (Persian), Edited by: Rasoul Ja'fariyan Tehran: 1994 HB (362 pp).
    (A study of schools and mosques in the field of Islamic culture and civilization till author's era)

 Annonymous author (6th century A.M.)

  •  Nuzhat al--Zahid, (Persian, Arabic) Ed.  Ali Owjabi Tehran: 1997 HBk (363 pp) ISBN: 964-5568-39-0
    (Prayers of the infallible Imams + Persian explanation in the 6th century)


TASLĨYAT AL-'IBAD (DAR TARJUMAH-'I MUSAKKIN AL-FU'ĀD SHAHID SANI (Persian)
Translated by: Majedul Odaba Khorasani (13th century A.M.) Ed. Mohammad Reza Ansari Tehran: 1995-Pbk(193 pp)
(A translation of Musakkin al-Fu`ad by Shahid thani...

 


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