Sayyid Muhammad Mahdī Tabataba'i,  Baḥr al-`ulūm (The Ocean of the Islamic sciences)  (d.1212/1797 )

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See Algar, EIr. III:504; Moreen, 1999; Lambden Ph.D 183-4.

Sayyid Muhammad Mah̄dī ibn Sayyid Murtada'̄ al-Tabataba`i al-Najafi, Bahr al-`ulum  (1155-1212 AH = 17XX-18XX CE).

• Risala al-sayyir wa'l-suluk ed and introd. Ayat-Allah Hajji Sayyid Muhammad Husayn al-Husayni al-Tihrani. Beirut: Dar al-Muhajjat al-Bayda',1422/2001. (301pp.).

 Sayyid Muhammad Mahdī Tabataba'i Baḥr al-`Ulūm.

• In Rijal: [49] 50-66  =  Text of a debate (munāẓara) between Baḥr al-`Ulūm and a small Jewish group of Dhu'l-Kifl, located 20 miles south of Hilla in Iraq or Jewish leaders named Dā`ūd (David) and Azrā (Ezra).

 

Muhammad Sadiq Bahr al-`Ulum and Husayn Baḥr al-`Ulūm.

• Rijāl-i Sayyid Bahr al-`Ulum. Tehran: Maktabah al-Ṣādiq, 1363/1984.

• Contains text of a debate (munāẓara) between  Baḥr al-`Ulūm and a small Jewish group of Dhu'l-Kifl, located 20 miles south of Hilla in Iraq or Jewish leaders named Dā`ūd (David) and Azrā (Ezra).

Moreen, Vera.

• 1999 `A Shi`i Jewish Debate (munāẓara) in the Eighteenth Century' in JAOS 119 (1999) 570-589.

 

 

Muhammad Rida' Shirazi Tabrizi.

• Zindigānī siyāsi ijtimā`i Sayyid Diya' al-Din Tabataba'i,  3rd Isfand 1299 Sh. [= 1310 AH = 1889] ISBN 964-325-146-2 (481pp.).

• Son of Aqa Sayyid `Ali Yazdi and

[1268-1348 =  1852-1929 CE]