Shaykh `Izz al-Din Husayn ibn `Abd al-Ṣamad al-Harithi al-`Āmilī (d. 918-984 AH = 1512-1576 CE)

Shaykh al-Islam of Qazvin under Shah Ṭahmasp and Father of Shaykh Bahā''ī

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Newman, Andrew,

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Savory, R. M. 

•                                             BSOAS 23 (1960), 91-105.

•                                             BSOAS 24 (1961), 65-85.

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
   

  Abstract

  Baha al-Din al-Amili was an important religious authority in the Safavid Empire and held the high position of shaykh al-islam of the Safavid capital, Isfahan. While his importance has been recognized by modern scholars for some time, difficulties in determining the chronology of his career have stood in the way of an accurate portrayal of this many-sided individual. The biography of Baha al-Din, as generally accepted, derives in large part from a seventeenth-century Safavid chronicle, Iskandar Beg Munshi's Tarikh-i alam-ara-yi abbasi. The following is an attempt to rectify some of these accepted views of al-Bahai's life and career, especially those regarding his early years and his tenure of the office of shaykh al-islam of Isfahan.

Stewart, Devin, J.

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

     Abstract:

Previous scholarship on the Safavids has noted the importance of the office of shaykh al-islam, or chief jurist, of Isfahan during the seventeenth century as an institutionalized locus of the highest religious authority of the empire. It is suggested here that this special status dates to ca. 963/1555-56, when Shah Tahmasb appointed Shaykh Husayn b. Abd al-Samad al-Harithi al-Amili (d. 984/1576) shaykh al-islam of Qazvin. The abrupt dismissal of al-Harithi from this office ca. 970/1563 probably resulted from his being challenged and replaced by his outspoken contemporary, Sayyid Husayn b. Hasan al-Karaki (d. 1001/992-93), who enjoyed the support of the Qizilbash and was known for his extreme anti-Sunni views

Stewart, Devin J.

• "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

Stewart, Devin J. 2006

• `An Episode in the ʿĀmilī Migration to Safavid Iran :Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī's Travel Account'  Iranian Studies vol. 39, No. 4 (2006), 481-508.