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Ismā'īlī literatures and publications

Corbin, Henry.

  • Trilogie ismaélienne Téhéran - Paris, I.F.I. & A. Maisonneuve, 1961 gr. in-8, 200-196-188 pp.,

  • The following three texts are edited with French translation and commentary.

1. Abu Ya'qub Sejestani : le Livre des Sources (IVè/Xè. s.) -

2. Sayyid-na al-hosayn ibn Ali : Cosmogonie et Eschatologie (VIIè/XIIè. s.) -

3. Symboles choisis de la Roseraie du Mystère, de Mahmoud Shabestari (VIIIè/XIVè. s.) 

Corbin, Henry, History of Islamic Philosophy. tr. Philip Sherrard. London: Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1993.
Corbin, Henry, Temple and Contemplation. tr. Philip Sherrard. London: Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1986.
Corbin, Henry, Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis. tr. Ralph Manheim and James Morris. London: Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1983.

Corbin, Henry.

  • Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis. London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies Ltd./ Kegan Paul Int’l. with Islamic Publications, 1985
  • (ed.) Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi‘ite Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Daftary, Farhad.

  • The Assassin Legends: Myth of the Isma‘ilis. London: I.B. Tauris, 1994.
  • The Isma‘ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • (ed. ) Mediaeval Isma‘ili History and Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Cortese, D.

  • Ismaili and Other Manuscripts. A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Londres-New York, l.B. Tauris, 2000. *

Daftary, Farhad

  • The Isma'ills: their history and doctrines, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990.*
  • The Isma`ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma`ilis. I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1995.
  • A Short History of the Isma`ilis: Traditions of a Muslim Community. Markus Weiner Publishers, 1998.
Daftary, Farhad, A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Islamic Surveys Series, 2000.
Daftary, Farhad ed., Intellectual Traditions in Islam. London: I. B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2000.
Daftary, Farhad ed., Mediaeval Ismaili History and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 1996.
Daftary, Farhad, The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis. London: I. B. Tauris, 1994.
Daftary, Farhad, The Ismailis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 1990.

 

De Smet, D.

  • La Quiétude de l'Intellect. Néoplatonisme et gnose Ismaélienne dans l'œuvre de Hamld ad֊ Din al֊Kirinäni (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 67], Leuven, Peelers, 1995. *
     
  • "Éléments chrétiens dans l'ismaélisme yemenite sous les derniers Fatimides. Le problème de la gnose tayyibite", dans M. Barrucand (éd.), L'Egypte fatimide, son art et son histoire, Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999, p. 45-53.
  • "Anges, diables et démons en gnose islamique. Vers l'islamisation d'une demonologie néoplatonicienne", dans R. Gyselen (éd.), Démons et Merveilles d'Orient [Res Orientales XIII], Bures-sur-Yvette, GECMO, 2001, p. 61-70.

Farrukh, O.A.

  •  "Ikhwān al-Safã'", dans M.M. Sharif (éd.), A History of Muslim Philosophy, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1963,1, p. 289-310.

 al-Fãrũqî, I. R.

  • "On the Ethics of the Brethren of Purity". Muslim World, L, 1960, p. 109-121, 193-198. 252-258.


Fyzee, A.A.

  •  "The Study of the Literature of the Fatimid Da'wa՝, dans G. Makdisi (éd.), Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of H.A.R. Gibb, Leyde 1965, p. 232-249.


A. Gacek,

  • Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies. Volume One, London, Islamic Publications, 1984.*


Gālib, M.

  • Ga'far b. Manşür al-Yaman. Kitāb al-Kashf, Beyrouth, Dar al֊ Andalus, 1984.
  • ar-Risāla al-Gāmi'a. Tāg Rasā՝il Ikwan aş-Şafa՝ UY/ Hullam al-Wafa', Beyrouth. Dar al֊ Andalús, 1984.

Griffini,  E.

  • "Die jüngste ambrosianische Sammlung arabischer Handschriften", Zeitschrift der Deutsclien Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, LXIX, 1915, p. 63-88.

 Halm, H.

  • Kosmologie und Heilslehre der frühen isma'iliya [Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 44, 1], Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner, 1978.*
  •  "Der Treuhänder Gottes. Die Edikte des Kalifen al-Hākim", Der Ìslam 63, 1986, p. 11-72.
  •  Die Schia, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1988.

Gacek,  A.

  • Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies. Volume One, London, Islamic Publications, 1984. *


Gālib, M.

  • Ga'far b. Manşür al-Yaman. Kitāb al-Kashf, Beyrouth, Dar al֊ Andalus, 1984.
  • ar-Risāla al-Gāmi'a. Tāg Rasā՝il Ikwan aş-Şafa՝ UY/ Hullam al-Wafa', Beyrouth. Dar al֊ Andalús, 1984. *

 Hamdani, A.

  • "The Discovery of a Lost Literature (Fātimid)", All Pakistan History Conference, VIII, 1958. p. 61-73.
  •  "The Arrangement of the Rasa il Ikhwān al-Safā՝ and the Problem of Interpolations", Journal of Semitic Studies, XXIX, 1984, p. 97-110.

Ivanow, W.

  • Studies in Early Persian Ismailism (The Ismaili Society Series A3)  Leyden, Brill, 1948. *
  • Ismaili Literature. A Bibliographical Survey [The Ismaili Society Series A15], Tehran, 1963. *
     

Nanji, A.

  • `Isma`īlism," in Islamic Spirituality: Foundations, ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, New York: SUNY Press, 179-198.  *

Nishapuri, Muhammad ibn Surkh (11th cent.)

  •  Commentaire de la Qasida ismaélienne d'Abu'l-Haitham Jorjani [= Sharh-i Qasidah-'i Fārsi-i Khvājah Abu al-Haysam Jurjāni] attribué à Mohammad ibn Sorkh de Nishapour (IVe/Xe-Ve/XIe siècles / texte persan édité avec introd. et esquisse comparative en français par Henry Corbin et Moh. Mo'in. Tehran : Dép. d'iranologie de l'Institut franco-iranien, 1955 Series Bibliothèque iranienne ; v. 6  Jurjānī, Abu al-Haysam Ahmad ibn Hasan, 10th cent. Qasidah,  

Poonawala, I.K.

  • Bibliography of Ismā'īlī Literature, Malibu, Undena Publications, 1977.  *
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al-Sijistãnĩ, Abu Ya'qub.

  • Kashf al-Mahjūb. Ed. Henry Corbin. Bibliothèque Iranienne A.I. Tehran: Institut Franco-Iranien, 1949.
     

Walker, Paul E.

  • Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abû Ya`qûb al-Sijistânî Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. *

  • The Wellsprings of Wisdom: A Study of Abû Ya`qûb al-Sijistânî's Kitâb al-Yanabi including a Complete English Translation with Commentary and Notes on the Arabic Text. University of Utah Press, 1994. *

  • Abû Ya`qûb al-Sijistânî:Intellectual Missionary. London: I.B. Taurus, 1996. *

  • An Ismaili Heresiography: The Bab al-shaytan from Abû Tammam's Kitâb al-shajara. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. *


Watt, W. M.

  • "Shî'ism under the Umayyads." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1960.

  • "The Muslim Yearning For A Saviour: Aspects of Early 'Abbasid Shî'ism." In The Saviour God. Ed. S. G. F.Brandon. Oxford: 1963.

 

NIZARI ISMA'ILISM

 

Eboo Jamal, Nadia. Surviving the Mongols: Nizari Quhistani and the Continuity of Ismaili Tradition in Persia. London: I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2002.

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'اخوان الصفا وخلان الوفا 

Rasa'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' ("The Treatises of the Brethren of Purity")

Fifty-two or so Arabic most likely Isma'ili related epistles ultimately set down in the late 4th AH /10th cent. CE. 

"The Encyclopedia is divided into fifty-two epistles (rasa'il) of varying lengths, which make up four books. Each book develops different topics: Book 1: the mathematical sciences (14 rasa'il) include theory of number, geometry, astronomy, geography, music, theoretical and practical arts, ethics and logic. Book 2: the natural sciences (17 rasa'il) comprehend matter, form, motion, time, space, sky and universe, generation and corruption, meteorology, minerals, plants, animals, human body, perception, embryology, man as microcosm, development of souls in the body, limit of knowledge, death, pleasure, and language. Book 3: the psychological and rational sciences (10 rasa'il) comprehend intellectual principles (Pythagoras and Ikhwan), universe as macrocosm, intelligence and intelligible, periods and era, passion, resurrection, species of movement, cause and effect, definitions and descriptions. Book 4: the theological sciences (11 rasa'il) include doctrines and religions, way to God, doctrine of Ikhwan, essence of faith, divine law and prophethood, appeal to God, hierarchy, spiritual beings, politics, magic and talisman."

  • Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' wa Khullan al-Wafa', 4 vols, Bombay: Matba'at nukhbat al-akhbar, 1887-9.
  • Rasa'il ikhwan al-safa', by Ikhwan al-Safa'. 4  vols. (in 2) Cairo: ADD., 1347 / 1926.
  • Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' wa Khullan al-Wafa', 4 vols, Cairo: al- M a t ba'a al-'Arabiyya bi-misr, 1928.
  • al-Risala al-jami'a, Damascus: al- Majma' al-'ilmi al-'arabi, 1949 - 51.
  • Risalat jami'at al-jami'a, Beirut: Dar maktabat al-hayat, 1970.
  • al-Risala al-jami'a, Beirut: Dar Sadr, 1974.
  • Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' wa khullan al-wafa', 4 Vols. Beirut: Dar Sadr, 1957 + 1983. 

 

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'Awa, Ά.,

  •  L'esprit critique des Freres de la Purete, Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique, 1948.

Baffioni, C,

  •  L'epistola degli Ihwan al-Safa', Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1989.

Bausani, Α.,

  •  L'enciclopedia dei Fratelli della Purita, Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1978.

 

De Callatay, Godefroid, 

  • Ikhwan al-Safa': les revolutions et les cycles, Beirut: al-Buraq, 1996.
  • Ikhwan al-Safa (Makers of the Muslim World) (Hardcover) by Godefroid de Callatay Oxford: Oneworld, 200X

Diwald, S.,

  • Arahische Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der Enzyklopadie Kitab as-Safa', iii,  Wiesbaden: O. Harrasowitz, 1975.
  • Arabische Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der Enzyklopädie Kitab Ihwan as-Safa' III: Die Lehre von Seele und Intellekt (Arab Philosophy and Science in the Book of the Brethren of Purity III: Teachings on the Soul and the Intellect), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

El-Bizri, Nader. 

  • `Ikhwan al-Safa', BEIP 1: 322-331.
  • The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Rasa'il: An Introduction  by Nader El-Bizri. Publisher: Oxford University Press (USA.) 2009. 328 pp.  ISBN-10: 0199557241 +  ISBN-13: 978-0199557240

Farrukh, U.,

  •  'Ikhwan al-Safa', in A : History of Muslim Philosophy, > vol. I, ed. M.M. Sharif, Delhi: \ Low Price Publications, 1999, pp< 2 8 9 - 3 1

Goodman, L. E.,

  • The Case of the Animals versus Man before the King of the Jinn, Boston: Twaynej Publishers, 1978.

Marquet, Y.,

  • La Philosophie des ;· Ihwan al-Safa', Algiers: Societe Nationale d'edition et de diffusion, 1975.
  • La philosophie des Ihwan al-Safa' (The Philosophy of the Brethren of Purity), Algiers: Société Nationale d'Édition et de Diffusion. 1975. 

Netton, I.R.,

  • Muslim Neoplatonisti An Introduction to the Thought < of the Brethren of Purity, London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1982.
  • Muslim Neoplatonists: An Introduction to the Thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa'), London: Allen & Unwin; paperback edn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
  • 'The Brethren of Purity', in S.H. Nasr and O. Leaman (eds) History of Islamic Philosophy, London: Routledge, ch. 15, 222-30. 1996.

Poonawala, I. K.,

  •  'The Qur'an in `Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa', in Selected Proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of the Qur'an, Canberra: Australian National University, Faculty of Asian Studies, 1980, pp. 51-67.

Stern, S.M.,

  • 'New Information 1 About the Authors of the > 'Epistles of the Sincere BrethrenV ILERI Islamic Studies, 1964, vol. 3, pp. 405-28.

Tibawi, A.-L.,

  • 'Ikhwan as-Safa' and their Rasa'il: A Critical Review of a Century and a Half of Research', Islamic Quarterly, 1955, vol. 2, pp. 28-46.
  • 'Ikhwan as-Safa' and Their Rasa'il: A Critical Review of a Century and a Half of Research', Islamic Quarterly 2 (1): 28-46.

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