ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES AND RELATED RESEARCH  AREAS

Bibliographical notes and studies

STEPHEN LAMBDEN (UC-MERCED)

UNDER CONSTRUCTION 2009-10

 The hyperlinks below will lead to pages attempting to set forth select areas within the fields of  Islamic, Iranian and Bābī-Bahā'ī bibliography. Something of the holdings of my personal library in the UK (Newcastle upon Tyne) and the USA (Merced, California) will at the same time be selectively indicated. Dimensions of Islamic, Shī`ī-Shaykhī (al-Shaykhiyya) bibliography are included in the Early Shaykhism hyperlink on the main page:

For sometimes related Bibliographical Notes and Studies within Biblical, Islamic and Babi-Baha'i Studies see :

• Abrahamic-Israelite  and associated religions  url

• SHAYKHISM  URLs., which is supplemented  further below at No. (19).  

      ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES

The Kitāb al-muṭawwal ("The Comprehensive)  of Sa`d al-Dīn al-Harawi al-Taftazānī al-Shafi'ī (d.793/1390)

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Arabic, Dictionaries, Grammars & Linguistic Studies..

Persian Dictionaries, Grammars  & Linguistic Studies

Turkish Dictionaries, Grammars & Linguistic Studies.

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Islamic Studies, Reference and General

Persian-Iranian Studies : Bibliographies and miscellany

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Periodicals :

Biblical Studies, Patristics, Theology, Religious Studies...

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Periodicals :

Iranian, Islamic, Middle Eastern...

THE ARABIC, PERSIAN AND TURKISH BIBLE

The Diatessaron of  Tatian and its Arabic translation.

Mss. and printed Arabic Bibles, biblical and related books.

The Syriac Bible

The Ethiopic Bible

Mss. and Printed Persian Biblies, biblical and related books.

Mss. and printed Turkish Bibles and biblical books.

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ISLAMO-BIBLICA

إِسْراَئيليات

Isrā'īliyyāt ("Israelitica" ), Definitions, Articles

Islamo-Biblica 

The Bible  and the Qur'ān, Bibliography, Miscellany  

PRE-ISLAMIC SACRED SCRIPTURES

Pre-Islamic Arabia - Bible, Jews, Christians.

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صحف

Suḥuf : The Primordial Scriptural Scrolls

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תּוֹרָה

تورات

Tawrāt- The Torah- Hebrew Bible, Bible...

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زبور

Zabūr - The Davidic Psalter, Psalms...

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انجيل  

Injīl- The Gospel(s) of Jesus

The Bible and Islamo-Biblica in the Qur'ān and Islamic Literatures

Islamo-biblica, Pseudepigrapha and the Gospel of Barnabas

تحريف

The Bible and the Qur'ān: Taḥrīf ("falsification")

THE ANTI-BIBLICAL

`Alī ibn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456 /1064)

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 God, His Names (al-Asmā') and Attributes (al-Ṣifāt), His Most Beautiful Names (al-asmā' al-ḥusnā)

الاسم الأعظم

and His Supreme or Mightiest Name (al-ism al-a`ẓam).

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Qur'ān

Qur'ān-Concordances-Translations-etc.

Tafsīr

Primary and select Secondary sources:

Tafsīr - Qur'ān Commentary : Primary sources, Arabic, Persian, Turkish...

بسملة

The Basmala

Qur'ānic Studies, Tafsir: Select secondary sources and academic articles

Tafsīr and Ta'wīl

Islamic hermeneutics and modes of exegesis-eisegesis

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(Ḥadīth / Akhbār) :

Sunnī Ḥadīth Compendia and General bibliography.

Qur'ānic and Early Islamic Law and legalism

Imami Shī`ī Ḥadith Texts (akhbār) and Legal texts, Compilations and Commentaries.

Ḥadīth Qudsī , Extra-qur'anic "Sacred Ḥadīth" or "Divine Sayings".

Hadīth `Arba`ūn ("Forty Hadith Compilations")

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The Islamic Cosmology, Genesis, Millennialism and History

Islamic Millennialism and Chronological schemata...

al-Bad' wa'l-khalq ("Genesis and the History of Creation"). 

Islamic  Angelology and the Jinn

Primordial Religion

الصَّابِؤُون

Ṣabi`ūn ("Sabaeans"or "Sabians"), Mandaeans ("Gnostics") Ḥanīf ("Monotheists") and related groups.   

GENESIS & BEGINNINGS

الأوائل  

Awā'il ("Originators"), Mu`ammarūn ("The Long Lived") and Ajā'ib ("Creational Wonders")

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ISLAMIC PROPHETOLOGY

Nubuwwat-Prophethood: General Bibliography

قصص الانبياء

 Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā'  (Stories of the Prophets).

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The Prophet Muhammad and Islam

Sīra (Biography) - Maghāzī  (Expedition) - Futūḥ (Conquests)

Dalā'il al-nubuwwa and associated Prophetological works

Prophecy and Istidlāliyya

Testimonia to the Prophethood [of Muhammad]).

The Bible and Islamo-biblica in Futūḥ (Conquests) and Faḍā'il (Excellences).

Islamic Fadā'il ("Excellences") and related literatures.

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ISLAMIC HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

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History and Historiography

Tarikh I

Tārīkh (History)

Tarikh I: Islamic History : Select Primary and associated Secondary Sources

Tarikh II

Tarikh II : Islamic History : Select Primary and associated Secondary Sources

Tarikh III

Tarikh III:  Islamic History : Select Primary and associated Secondary Sources

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Islamic Messianisms and Apocalyptic Eschatology.

Eschatological Signs of the End

The Mahdi-Qā'im and Jesus son of Mary

Antichrist-Dajjal

Gog and Magog-Yājūj and Mājūj.

Resurrection, Judgment and the Divine Theophany.

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SHI`I ISLAM

Shi`i Islam: Bibliography

Wilāya and Shī`ī Imamology

The Twelver Imams from `Alī  (d. 40/661) until al-Hujjat, Muhammad al-Mahdī (d. c.260/844).

Proto-Shi`ism and the Ghulāt factions.

Zaydism & Ismā'īlism

The Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā'.

IMAMI / TWELVER SHI`I  SCHOLARS AND NOTABLES

Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī (d. c. 705 CE)

al-Ṣaffār al-Qummī =

Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farrukh al-'Ash'ari al-Qummi (d. 290/903).

Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Ya`qub al-Kulaynī (d. c.328/929)

Ibn Bābūya [Bābawayh], Abū Ja`far Muhammad. b. `Alī, al‑Ṣādūq (d. 381/991-2)

ابن شهراشوب

Ibn Shahrāshūb, Muhammad ibn `Alī, Abū Ja`far (d. 588/1192).

محمد بن علي =  ابن أبي جمهور الاحسائي

Muhammad Ibn `Alī ibn Ibrahim= Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsā'ī (d. after 878/1479).

Major Shī`ī  Scholars, Intellectual and Philosophers

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ISLAMIC LEGAL AND RITUAL PRACTISES

Islamic Ritual Practice and Devotional texts and literatures

Islamo-Biblica-Isra'iliyyat and Islamic Legal and Ritual Practises - Hajj (Pilgrimage).

Ṣalat - Namaz - Du`ā - Munajat - Ziyārat-nāmah

دُعاء الِسمَات

The Du`ā al-Simāt ("Prayer of the Signs")

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DIALOGUE AND DISPUTATION

 al-ʻAqāʼid al-Islāmiyya

Islamic Creeds and related materials

كلام

`Ilm al-kalām - Islamic Theology.

The Mu`tazila ("Seceders") and the Mutakallimun ("Rationalist Theologians").

فخر الدين الرازي

Fakhr al‑Dīn al‑Razī (d. 606/1209 ).

Islam and the encounter with Religions

Kitāb al-masā'il ("Questions and Answers")

Literatures of Iḥtijāj ("Religious Disputation")

Polemical refutations (Raddiyya) against the ahl al-kitab and their sacred books

Islamic heresiological and associated works

Ibn Ḥazm,  `Alī ibn Aḥmad (d. 456 /1064)

 Ibn Taymiyya, Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad (d. 728 /1328)

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr (d. 751/1350).

Judaism and Islam

Jews and Judaism in the Middle East and Islam

Persian Jews

Islam and Christianity

Christians and Christianity in the Middle East

Persian Christians

Qajar theology and dialogue with western missionaries

Asian Religions and Islam

Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Islam

Judaism and the Babi and Baha'i Religions

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SUFISM

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Emergent Sufism: asceticism, hagiography.

`Ulūm al-ghayb, the Esoteric Sciences

Sayyid Ḥaydar  Āmulī (d. 787/1385)

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Islamic philosophy: General Bibliography

أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي

Abū Yūsuf Ya`qub ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī (d. c. 259 / 873).

Abū Naṣr al-Farabī (d. 329 /950)

Abū `Alī Ḥusayn ibn `Abd-Allāh, Ibn Sina = Avicenna (d. 428/1037)

Arabic gnomological traditions, Wisdom literatures and Philosophical compendia

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Adab (Belles-lettres) Encyclopedias & Doctrinal-theological works

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Islamic Cosmology and the Sciences

Cosmology

Islamic Angelology and Demonology

 Time, Being, Atoms, Space

Kimiyā' - Alchemy

Ṭibb

طب

Graeco-Islamic and Qajar Persian Medicine

Abū al-Rayḥān Muhammad Ibn al-al-Bīrūnī  (d. 440 /1048)

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`Umar Ibn al-Fāriḍ of Cairo (d.622/1235)

Fakhr al-Din al-`Iraqi (d.688/1289)

PERSIAN POETRY

Persianate Sufism and Poetical writings

Nizāmī Ganjavī,

Nizam al-Din Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf (d. c. 1202)

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Safavid Philosophy and Theology

Later Shi`i theology and philosophy

The `School of Isfahan', `Irfānī thought and mystical gnosis...

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

الحر العاملي

Muhammad-Bāqir b. Muhammad-Taqī Majlisï (d. 1111/1699-1700). 

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QAJAR PERSIA

Qajar Persia

Rijal - The Persian Qajar Period

Shi`ism and Sufism in Qajar Iran

Qajar Persia  bibliogarphy: Western travels and miscellany

Missions and missionary Literature  in Qajar Persia

Missionary  related Books and Periodicals.

 Missionaries and Muslims in Persia and the Middle East

India Missionaries

Qajar Period Dialogue

Henry Martyn (d. 1812 CE) Protestant Missionary

Joseph Wolff, Protestant Missionary (d. 1864 CE)

Maulānā Raḥmat-Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Kairānawī  (b. 1818 d. Mecca 1891)

Pfander, Carl, Gottlieb (b. Wurttemberg 1803[5]-1865),

SHAYKHISM

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Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā'ī (d. 1241/1826)

The Shaykhī school of Shī`ī Islam :

http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SHAYKHISM/SHAYKHISM.htm

hūrqalyā [sic.] (= Per. havarqalyā).

Shi`i Prophetology and Shaykhi Gnosis

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Post-Qajar Modern Persian Literatures

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Scholars and Orientalists

Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921).

Arminius Vambery

Edward G. Browne (1862-1926)

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Islamic Anti-Babi-Baha'i texts

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Islamic Studies Miscellany

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