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Safavid Period

 Zayn al-Din ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad, Shahīd al-Thānī, al-Jubba`i al-`Amili al-Shami (911-960 [5] = 1506-1559).   
  • Rawḍ al-jinān fī sharḥ irshād al-adhhān. Qumm [?]: Muassasat Al al-Bayt li-Ihya al-Turath,  n.d. (400pp.)*  + Rep.of Lithograph, 198??.
  • Ḥaqā'iq al-ayman ma` Risalati al-Iqtiṣād wa'l-`idalah.  Ed. Sayyid Mihdi al-Rija'i...  [Qumm:] al-Maktabat Ayat-Allah al-Mar`ashi, 1409/1988-9.*
  • Majmū`at al-Rasā'il.  Qumm: Manshurat Maktabat Ayat-Allah al-Mara`shi al-Najafi.  1404/1983. * Contains works of  (1) `Allamah al-Ḥllī , Kashf al-Fawa'id (2) Shahid al-Thani, Asrar al-Salat  (3) Shahid al-Thani, Kashf al-Rība   (4)  Mulla Sadra, Tafsir Surat al-A`la and (5) Ma`ani ba`aḍi al-akhbār li'l-Saduq (= Ibn Babawayh al-Qummi).

 

Dāmād, Mīr Muhammad Baqir Āstarābādī  (d. 1041/1641).

  • URL =Muhammad Bāqir Astarābadī, Mīr Dāmād,  Ishrāq, the "Third Master" (d.1041/1641)

  • Jadhawāt ("Firebrands"). n.d.  repr. Bombay lith. 1302/1884.  Tehran: Intishārāt‑i Bihnām. * A treatise on theophany, emanation and existence....

  • al-Qabasāt ḥaqq al-yaqīn fi ḥudūth al-`ālam. writen 1034/1624.

  • K. al‑Qabasāt.  ed. Mahdī Muḥaqqiq.  Tehran: Intishārāt‑i Dānishgāh‑i Tehrān. 1362/1983*

  • Sidrat al-Muntahā ("The Lote Tree of the Extremity") . mss. An unpublished  Qur'an Commentary.

 

Ṣadr al-Din Shirazi [= Mullā Ṣadrā], Muhammad ibn Ibrahim (XXXX /1571--1050/1641)

 

 Sayyid Ahmad ibn Zayn al-Abidin, al-Alawī ( d. c.1041/ 1650),

  • Sharḥ al-Qabasāt ( A Commentary onMir Damad's Kitab al-Qabasat), ed. Ḥāmid Nājī Isfahani with Persian and English introductions by M. Mohaqeeq. Tehran: Institute of Islamic Studies, 1997 (19+747pp.) [= Mirath-i Maktub vol. 21]. *

al-'Āmilī, Bahā' al-Dīn ( = Shaykh[-i]  Bahā’ī) (d. Isfahan c. 1031/1622)

Ṣadr al-Din Shirazi [= Mullā Ṣadrā], Muhammad ibn Ibrahim (XXXX /1571--1050/1641)

Qāḍī Saîd Qommî (d, 1104/1692)

Corbin, Henry

  • La configuration du temple de la Kaba comme secret de la vie spirituelle : d'apres l'oeuvre de Qâzî Saîd Qommî (1103/1691) / Henry Corbin
    Publish info Zurich : Rhein-Verlag, 1967
  • Temple and Contemplation...

 

al-`Alawī, Sayyid Aḥmad b. Zayn al-Ābidīn [`Āmilī, Isfahānī] ( d. c.1041/ 1650),

An Isfaḥānī first cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad Baqir Āstarābādī Mīr Dāmād (d. 1041/1641), Sayyid Aḥmad al-`Alawī was a major philosopher- theologian and polemicist  who made considerable study and reflection upon Abrahamic scripture, especially the Hebrew Bible (tawrat) and the Christian Gospel (s) (injīl). Giving precedence to the Qur’ānic “Word of God” in the light of Shī`ī hermeneutical and doctrinal norms, as opposed to a partly altered and corrupted Jewish-Christian Bible, he wrote four weighty Persian treatises in dialogue with Jewish and Christian `people of the Book’:

Note also:

  • Sharḥ al-Qabasāt ( A Commentary onMir Damad's Kitab al-Qabasat), ed. Ḥāmid Nājī Isfahani with Persian and English introductions by M. Mohaqeeq. Tehran: Institute of Islamic Studies, 1997 (19+747pp.) [= Mirath-i Maktub vol. 21].

 

al-Lāhijī, Muhammad ibn Shaykh `Alī al-Sharīf, `Abd al-Razzāq ( d. 1072/1661).

     • Tafsīr-i sharīf-i Lāhijī. ed. Mīr Jalāl al-Din Ḥusaynī Armavī. Vols. 3-4 ed. Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Āyatī. 4 Vols. Tehran: Mu’assasih-i Maṭbū`āt al-`Ilmī, 1340/1961. *

  • Gawhar murad. Bombay: 1923.
  • "Risālah nūriyah dar 'Alam-i mithāl." In Majilla-yi ilãhiyãí wa ma'ārif Islami, Meshed: Meshed Univ. Press, 1972.

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al-Fayḍ al-Kashānī, Mullā Muḥsin (d.1091/1680-81).

  • al-Maḥajjat al-bayḍā' fī tahdhīb al-iḥyā’.  ed. 'Alī Akbar al-GhaXarī, 8 vols. Beirut: Mu`assat al-A`lamī. 1403/1984. A  systematic Shi`i reconstruction of al-Ghazali's Iḥyā’ `Ulum al-Din ("The Revival of Religious Sciences").  *
  • `Ilm al-yaqīn fī Uṣūl al-dīn. 2 vols. Dār al-balāgha. 1410/1990.*
  • Nawādir al-akhbār fīmā yata`allaq bi-uṣūl al-dīn. Ed. Mahdi Ansārī. Tehran: Institute for Cultural Studies, 1375/1996. *
  • T-Safi = Tafsīr al-ṣāfī.  5 Vols., ed. Shaykh Ḥusayn al-A`lam. Mashhad: Sa`āda n.d.*
  • Ilm = `Ilm al-yaqīn fī uṣūl al-dīn. 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Balāgha, 1410/1990. *
  • Nawadir = Nawādir al-akhbār fīmā yata`allaq bi uṣūl al-dīn.  Tehran. 1375 Sh./.1997.
  • Kalimat-i Maknunih ("The Hidden Words")*.
  • Dīwān-i Kāmil Fayḍ-i Kashānī.  Tehran: Intishārāt-i Bigār,  1361Sh. /1982.  720pp.  Includes Risala-yi Gulzar-i quds (pp. 11-26). *

al-Ḥurr al-`Āmilī, Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan (d. 1097 / 1686).

  • Jawāhid al-Saniyya fī al-aḥādīth al-qudsiyya. Beirut: Mu`assat al-Wafā’.  1405/1984.
Sayyid  Zayn al-Din al-Jubba'i al-`Amili al-Shami (XXX/XXXX).
  • Rawdat al-Jinan fi Sharh Irshad al-Adhan.  Mu`assah Al al-Bayt li'l-Ihya al-Turath, Rep. of Lithograph. Tehran 1302+1307/??
Fakhr al-Dīn b. Muhammad 'AIī Ţurayḥī (d. 1085/1674-5) 
  • Jāmi' al-maqāl, Tehran, 1374/ 1954. 
    
Mulla Muhammad Ṭāhir al-Qummī (d.1100/1688) 
  • al-Fawā'id al-dīniyya fi'l-radd `alā al-ḥukamā' wa'l-ṣūfiyya. A denunciation of philosophy and mysticism.

Khātūnābādī, Muhammad Bāqir ibn Ismā`īl Ḥusaynī  

· Tarjamih-yi anājil-i arba`ih. Ed. Rasūl Jāfaryān (= Persian Literature and Linguistics 10).Tehran: Nuqṭih Press, 1375/1996 

 
Majiisī, Shaykh Muhammad-Taqī (d. 1070/1659). the Elder Majlisi
  • Treatise against al-Qummi's anti-Sufi tract, 
 
Majiisī, Muhammad-Bāqir b. Muhammad-Taqī Majiisï (d. 1111/1699-1700). 
  • Biḥār al-anwār  1st ed.  Tehran 25/15 vols. Tehran:    1887-98.
  • Bihār al-anwār, 110 vols. Tehran: Dar al-Kutub al-Islamīyah, 1956-72. *
  • Biḥār al-anwār 2nd ed = Bihar 2  110 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Iḥyā al-Turāth al-`Arabī, 1376-94/1956-74 and 1403/1983.  *

al-Āmilī,  Abū al-Ḥasan al-Isfahani ( d.  Isfahan, 1138/1726)

·  Mir’āt al‑anwār wa mishkāt al‑asrār fī tafsīr al‑Qur’ān (Mirrors of Lights and Niches of Mysteries in Commentary upon the Qur’ān). ADD

  Pampas, Karl-Heinz,

  • Die Theologische Enzyklopadie Biḥār al-anwār  des Muhannad Baqir al-Majlisi (1037-1110 A.H.= 1627-1699 A.D...Ph.D. Bonn 1970.

Abu 'l-Hasan ibn  Muljammad Ţahir al-Sharīf al-Nabatī al-'Amilī (d. 1138/1725-6)

  •  Tanzīh al-Qummiyyīn min ai-mata'in, Qumm: ADD 1328 Sh/1949.
     

al-Bahrānī Yūsuf

Yusuf al-Baḥrānī : Yusuf ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Dirāzī, al-Baḥrānī (1107-1186 = 1695/6-1772).

EIr. III:529-530.

  • Ḥadā'iq al-nāḍira fi aḥkām al-`itra al-ṭāhira. 3rd. ed. Muhammad Taqi al-Iyrawai,  25 vols.  [Beirut/ Qumm?] Dar al-Adwa' 1413/ 1993. (incomplete legal work)*.
  • Lu`lu`at al-Bahrayn
  • Lulu`at al-Baḥrayn ed. Muhammad Ṣādiq Baḥr-al-`Ulūm,  Najaf: Matba`at al-Nu`mān,  1386/1966.

Mahābhārat i Fārsī. Lucknow, 1897-1901.(9 pts. (13, 291, 1 ; 15, 66, 2 ; 182 ; 44 ; 107 ; 76 ; 125 ; 18, 212, 11 ; 39, 8, 14 p.) ;  (4to)

General note A translation of the Mahābhārata prepared by order of Akbar, chiefly by Naqīb Khān, and revised by Fayz̤ī, with a preface by Abuʾl-Faz̤l. Ādi-parva to Ṣrī-parva only (Parvas i-xi).  Persian Lithograph.  Copy in Brit. Library.

 

Lewisohn, L. (ed.)  & David Morgan (eds).

  • LMPS 1  1992(ed.) The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism.  London, New York: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications.

  • LMPS 2  1993 (ed.) Classical Persian Sufism: from its Origins to Rumi. London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications.

  •  LMPS 3 1999 (ed) The Heritage of Sufism. Volume III: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750), the Safavid and Mughal Period. Oxford: Oneworld.

  • 1998-9 An Introduction to the History of Modern Persian Sufism, Part I: The Ni`matullāhī order: persecution, revival and schism’ BSOAS 61 (1998), 437-461.

  • `An Introduction to the History of Modern Persian Sufism, Part II: A Socio-cultural profile of Sufism, from the Dhahbī revival to the present day’, BSOAS, 61 (1999), 36-53.

  • Muhammad Baqir b. Shams al-Dīn Muhammad al-Husayn al-Astarābādī (d. 1040/1630-1)

    • aI-Rawashih al-samawiyya, Tehran, 1311/ 1893.

    Lockhart, L.

    • 1938 Nadir Shah. London: Luzac & Co.

    Nasr, Seyyed Hossein,

    •  Cosmography in pre-hlamic and Islamic Persia, Tehran: Cultural Committee Press (monograph), 1971.

    • Jashn nämay-i Henry Corbin. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1977.

    • Knowledge and the Sacred. New York: Crossroad, 1981.

    • Sadr al-Din Shirāzi and His Transcendental Theosophy. Tehran: 1978.

    •  Science and Civilization in Islam. Cambridge: Islamic Text Society, 1987.

    • Three Muslim Sages. Delmar, N.Y: Caravan Books, 1969.

    • The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia, ed. M. Aminrazavi, London: CURZON Press, 1996.
       

    Āshtiyānī, Sayyed Jalaloddin

    • Anthologie des philosophes iraniens depuis le XVIIe siècle jusquà nos jours / textes choisis et presentes par Sayyed Jalâloddîn Ashtiyâni ; intoduction analytique par Henry Corbin. Teheran : Département diranologie de lInstitut franco-ira- nien de recherche ; Paris : Librarie dAmérique et d0rient Adrien Maisonneuve, l972-l976.  Series Bibliothèque iranienne no 19.  Introduction in French, texts in Persian.   *

    Corbin, Henry (d.1972)

    • La philosophie iranienne islamique aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris : Buchet/Chastel, c. 1981 (416pp.).
    • Muntakhabat-i az Asar-i ḥukamā-yi ilāhi-i irān : az asr- i Mir Dāmād va Amir Findirski tā zamān-i hāzir  tahiyah. tahqiq, muqaddamah va taliq, Jalāl al-Din Āshtiyānī. Vol. III  Mashhad:  Intisharat-i Falsafi 1355Sh./1976. 42 + 760pp.  *
    • Ed. Qum : Markaz-i Intisharat-i Daftar-i Tablighat-i Islami, Hawzah-i `Ilmiyyah-i Qum, 1363- [1984-   = Series Bibliotheque iranienne no 18.  *
    • 1961 Trilogie ismaélienne. Paris: Maisonneuve. Rep. Paris: Verdier, 1994.
    • 1970 `L'Idée du Paraclet en philsophie iranienne', (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Atti del Convegno "La Persia nel Mediovo", 1970), Rome, 37-68.
    • 1971-2 En Islam iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques. 4 vols. Paris: Gallimard.
    • 1976 `Theologumena Iranica.' Studia Iranica 5: 225-235.
    • `Aḥmad b. Zayn al-`Abedīn `Alawī'. EIr. 1:644
    • Temple and Contemplation. Trans. P.& L. Sherrard. London, Boston, and Henley: Kegan Paul Internaitional.
    • 1993 History of Islamic Philosophy. London, New York: Kegan Paul International.
    • 1995 Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam. Trans. Leonard Fox. West Chester, Pennsylvania: Swedenborg Foundation.
       

    Newman, Andrew J. (University of Edinburgh).

    • 'Towards a Reconsideration of the Isfahan School of Philosophy: Shaykh Baha'i and the Role of the Safawid Ulama', Studia Iranica (Paris), Tome 15, fasc. 2
      (1986), 165-199.

    • 'The Nature of the Akhbari/Usuli Dispute in Late-Safawid Iran. Part One: 'Abdallah al-Samahiji's "Munyat al-Mumarisin" ', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 55, i (1992), 22-51.

    • 'The Nature of the Akhbari/Usuli Dispute in Late-Safawid Iran. Part Two: The Conflict Reassessed', BSOAS, Vol. 55, ii (1992), 250-261.

    • 'The Myth of the Clerical Migration to Safawid Iran: Arab Shi'ite Opposition to Ali al-Karaki and Safawid Shi'ism', Die Welt des Islams, Vol. 33 (1993), 66-112.

    • 'Safavids - religion, philosophy and science', Encyclopedia of Islam, series 2, VIII: 777-787.

    • "Tashrih-e Mansuri': Human Anatomy Between the Galenic and Prophetic Medical Traditions", in La Science dans le Monde Iranien, ed. Z. Vesel, et. al.
      (Tehran: Institut Francais de Recherche en Iran, 1998), 253-71.

    • http://www.imes.ed.ac.uk/staff/newman.htm (1 of 2) [12/24/2006 2:34:40 AM]  IMES, Staff, Andrew Newman Published by Curzon
      ISBN: 0-7007-1277-1 Published by Brill ISBN: 90 04 12774 7.

    • 'Sufism and Anti-Sufism in Safavid Iran: The Authorship of the "Hadiqat al-Shi'a" Revisited ', IRAN, XXXVII (1999), 95-108.

    • 'Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia: Arguments Over the Permissibility of Singing (Ghina)', in L. Lewisohn and D.
      Morgan, eds., The Heritage of Sufism, Vol. III: Late Classical Persianate Sufism: the Safavid and Mughal Period (1501-1750), (Oxford, 1999), 135-64.

    • 'Fayd al-Kashani and the Rejection of the Clergy/State Alliance: Friday Prayer as Politics in the Safavid Period', in Linda Walbridge, ed., The Most Learned of
      the Shi'a, The Institution of the Marja' Taqlid (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 34-52.

    • 'Baqir al-Majlisi and Islamicate Medicine: Safavid Medical Theory and Practice Re-examined', in Newman, ed., Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle
      East, Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 371-96.

    • 'Anti-Akhbari Sentiments among the Qajar `Ulama: The Case of Muhammad Baqir al-Khwansari (d. 1313/1895)', in R. Gleave, ed., Religion and Society in
      Qajar Iran (London: Routledge/Curzon: 2005), 155-73.

    Iskandar Beg Munshī.

    •  Tārīkh‑i `Ālamārā‑ yi `Abbāsī .  Trans. by Roger Savory as History of Shah `Abbas the Great.  3 Vols.  Boulder, Colorado:  Westview Press.  Vol. 3 Index comp. Renée Bernhard, 1978. 

     

     

     

    Quinn, Sholeh (University of Ohip)

    · 1996 `The Historiography of the Safavid Prefaces’ in C. Melville (ed.) Safavid Persia: the History and Politics of an Islamic Society.  London, New York: I.B Tauris.

    · 2000 Historical Writing During the Reign of Shāh `Abbās: Ideology, Imitation and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles,  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

    • Historical Writing during the reign of Shah `Abbas. Ph.D. thesis Univ. Chicago, 1993.
    • Historical Writing during the reign of Shah `Abbas. Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles Salt Lake City, Univ of Utah Press, 2000.
    • “Coronations in Safavid Chronicles,” in History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: Studies in Honor of John E. Woods, eds. Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006).

     

    Moreen, Vera B.

    • 1981 The Status of Religious Minorities in Safavid Iran between 1617 and 1661," JNES 40 : 119-134.
    • 1987 Iranian Jewry’s Hour of Peril and Heroism, A Study of Bābāī ibn Luṭf’s Chronicle (1617 1662). New York Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research.
    • 1999 `A Shī`ī Jewish "Debate" (munāẓara) in the Eighteenth Century’ JOAS 119 (1999), 570 589.

    Stewart, Devin J.  1991.

    • A Biographical Notice on Baha al-Din al-Amili (d. 1030/1621) Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1991), 563-571
       

    Stewart, Devin J. 1996

    • "Taqiyya as Performance: The Travels of Baha’ al-Din al’Amili in the Ottoman Empire (991–93/1583–85)."  Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies 4 (1996) , 1–70.
    • `Notes on the Migration of ʿĀmilī Scholars to Safavid Iran'  Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 55, No. 2. (Apr., 1996),  81-103.

    • `The First Shaykh al-Islām of the Safavid Capital Qazvin'  in  Journal of the American Oriental Society  vol. 116, No. 3 (Jul., 1996),  387-405

    Stewart, Devin J. 1997

    • `Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī's Treatise for Sultan Suleiman and the Shīʿī Shāfiʿī Legal Tradition'  Islamic Law and Society  vol. 4, No. 2 (1997), 156-199

    Tucker, Ernest S.

    • Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 151pp. HB US$55.00 ISBN 0-8130-2964-3

     

    al-Tūnjī, Muḥammad.

    • Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Āmilī : Adīban, Shāʻiran, ʻāliman.  Damascus: Manshūrāt  al-Mustashāriyyah al-Thaqāfiyyah li'l-Jumhūriyya  al-Islāmiyya al-Īrāniyya, 1985