Iranian Studies, Qajar Persia : Bibliography and miscellany

 

    MISCELLANEOUS IRANIAN BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND LIBRARY COLLECTIONS.

  • Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī wa Markaz-i Asnād-i Danishgāh-i Tehran. Tehran: Fihrist-i nuskhahay-i khaţţī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehran, by M.T. Dānishpazhūh and 'A.N. Munzawī , Tehran, 1330-57 sh./1951-1978..
  • Fihrist-i mīkrufīlmha-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehran, by M.T. Dānishpazhūh, Tehran, 1348 sh. /1969.Microfilms.
  • Fihrist i kitābkhāna-yi Farhād Mu'tamid,  M.T.  Dānishpazhūh and Gh. Κ. Farzanapur , in Nashrlyya-yi  Kilabkhana-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh i Tehran  dar bara-yi nushkhahā-yi khaṭṭī,  III Tehran, 1964, pp.141- 276.
  • Kitābkhāna-yi 'Umūmī yi Farhang wa Hunar·. Mashhad Catalogue: Fihrist-i kutub i khatţī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi 'Umūmī-yi Farhangj wu Hunar, by R. Shākirī, Mashhad, 1348 sh./ 1969.
  • Fihrist-i kutub i khatţī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Astān-i quds-i Raḍawī,   Ahmad Gulchin Ma`ani. Mashhad: Intisharat-i Adarah-i Kitābkhāna, 1346 Sh/1967. (vol.7. part 2). *
  • Kitabkhana-yi Masjid-i Gawharshad, Mashhad
    Fihristi-i Kitābkhāna-yi Jāmi'-i Gawharshād, by 'A. Nūrānī and K. M. Shānachī, in Fihrist-i nuskhaha-yi khaţţī-yi chahār kitabkhana-yi Mashhad, the first volume of Majmū'a-yi fihrist-i nuskhahay-i khaţţī-yi kitabkhanahay-i shahrastanha-yi Iran . Tehran, 1351 sh/ 1972,  pp.57-435
  • Fihrist-i nuskhaha-yi khaţţī-yi chahār Kitābkhāna-yi Mashhad,  2 vols. Tehran: Intisharat-i Farhang-i Iran-i Zamin, 1351/1972.  *
     
  • Sāzmān-i Lughatnama-yi Dihkhuda, Tehran
    Fihrist-i Kitābkhāna-yi Sāzmān-i Lughatnama-yi Dihkhuda, by M.T. Dānishpazhūh, in Nashriyya-yi Kitābkhāna-yi MarkazT-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehran dar bara-yi nuskhahay-i khaţţ III  Tehran, 1964,  pp. 1-59, 387-426
  • Collection of R. Ustādī, Qum- now in Mara'ashi Library, Qumm.
    Şad wa shaįt nuskha-yi khaţţī az yak Kitābkhāna-yi shakhį՜, by R. Ustādī, Qumm, 1354 Sh/1975.

     
  • Kitābkhāna-yi Madrasa-yi Fayḍiyya, Qumm: = Fihrist-i nuskhahā-yi khatţī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Madarasa-yi Fayḍiyya, by R. Ustādī, Qumm: ADD, 1396/1976.
  • Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Būhār Library, by Shams al-֊'Ulama' M. Hidayat Ḥusayn Khan Bahadur, Calcutta, 1923
  • Makhṭūṭāt Maktabat Madrasat al-Sayyid al-Burujirdī, by A. al-Husayni , in his Dalil al-Makhṭūṭāt  Qum , 1397/1977,  pp. 4-43
  •  Kitābkhāna-yi Markazī wa Markaz-i Asnād-i Danishgāh-i Tehran, Tehran
    Fihrist-i nuskhaha-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitabkhana-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehran, by M.T. Dānishpazhūh and 'A. N. Munzawī , Tehran, 1330-57 sh/ 1951-1978..

 

  • Kitābkhāna-yi Gharb, Hamadan
    Fihrist-i nuskhaha-yi khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Gharb, by J. Maqşud, Tehran, 1397/ 1976.
     
  • Fihrist-i nuskhaha-yi khaţţī Farsi-yi  Kitābkhāna-yi Burusa (= Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Bursa Library),  Compiled by Dr. Tawfiq H. Subhani, 1368/1989.     (426pp.) *
  • Fihrist-i nuskhaha-yi khaţţī Farsi  6 vols (with Vol. 2 in 2 Parts)  ed. Ahmad Monzavi, (Regional Cultural Institute Pub. No. 14) Tehran: Mu`assat-i Farhangi-yi Munṭaqih'i. 1348/1969>.  * (all except vol.2 Pt. II).*
     
  • The Dacca University Library, Dacca
    The Persian, Urdu and Arabic Manuscripts in the Dacca University Library, by A.B.M. Habibullah, Dacca, 1966-8
  • The Persian, Urdu and Arabic Manuscripts in the Dacca University Library, by A. B. M. Habibullah, Dacca, 1966-8.
  • Dar al-Kutub, Cairo :
    Fihrist al-makhļūļāt, by Fu'ād Sayyid, Cairo, 1961-2
  • Fihrist al-kutub al-'Arabiyya, Cairo, 1924-59
  • Library of Congress (Washington, USA).
  • Fihris al-makhļūlāt al-'Arabiyya fī Maktabat al-kunghress, by S. al-Munujjid, Beirut, 1969

 

  • Topkapi Serayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul
    Arapça yazmalar katalogu, by F.E. Karatay, Istanbul, 1964.

 

  • The Būhār Library, Imperial Library, Calcutta
    Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Būhār Library, by Shams al-֊'Ulama' M. Hidayat Ḥusayn Khan Bahadur, Calcutta, 1923
     
  • VATICAN = Biblioteca Vaticana
    Elenco munscritt arabi Islamici della Biblioteca Vaticana, by G. Levi della vida, Rome, 1935-65

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  • Maktabat al-Husayniyya al-Tustariyya, Najaf
    Fihrist-i nuskhaha-yi  khaṭṭī-yi Kitabkhana-yi  Ḥusayniyya֊ yi Shushtarīha, by A. Isma'īliyan and R. Ustādī, in Nashriyya-yi Kitabkhana-yi Markazī-yi Dānishgāh-i Tehran dar bara-yi nuskhahay-i khaṭṭī, XI-XII, Tehran, 1362 sh/ 1983.     pp. 787-879
     
  • Maktabat jyiadrasat al-sayyid al-Burũjirdĩ , Najaf_
    Makhtūtāt Maktabat Madrasat al-sayyid al-Burujirdī, by A. al-Husayni, in his D α/77 al-Makhtūtāt, Qumm , 1397/ XXXX  pp. 4-43
     
  • FU'ĀD SAYYID:
    Fihris al-makhIūļāt al-muşawwara, Ma՝had ihya' al-MakhluIat al-'Arabiyya, Cairo, 1954 -
    FUSUL = Fusul khaţar bi 'l-bāl հ՜ո muļāla'at kitāb al-fahara, MS 2647, Mar'ashT Library, Qum
     

Miscellaneous Catalogues of Persian and Arabic Maunscripts

  • Catalogue of Persian manuscripts and records in the Shri Raghubir Library, Sitamau By: Nizami, A(khtar) H(ussain). Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, Delhi , 1993        (pp. 230).
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  • Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library at Patna (Arabic manuscripts). Vol. 35,  Tradition, 1993             (pp. 231+29).

 

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  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a. Tehran and Na jaf, 1353-98.

  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a.  26 vols. Beirut: Dār al‑Aḍwā’, 1403/1983.

  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a.  29 vols. Beirut:

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  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a. Tehran and Na jaf, 1353-98.
  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a. Tehran 1941-1978 + Na jaf, 1353-8/1936-8..

  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a.  26 vols. Beirut: Dār al‑Aḍwā’, 1403/1983.

  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a. Tehran and Na jaf, 1353-98.

  • al‑Dharī`a ilā taṣānif al‑shī`a.  26 vols. Beirut: Dār al‑Aḍwā’, 1403/1983.

 

McGill Univ. (Canada) : Gacek: Persian Manuscripts in McGill University Libraries

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  • “List of Oriental manuscripts, lithographed, and printed medical books presented in 1927 by Dr. Casey A. Wood”.

  • Biblotheca Osleriana: a catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science collected, arranged and annotated by Sir
    William Osler, BT. and bequeathed to McGill University. Montreal / London, 1969: 701—3.

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Abstracta Iranica

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Arberry , Arthur. J.

  • A second supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts in the University and Colleges of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1952.

Nicholson, Reynold. A.

  • A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

Margoliouth, D. S.

  • Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts in the Library of Eton College. Oxford, 1904. 

 

Browne, Edward, Granville (d.1926 CE)

  • A Literary History of Persia, 4 vols. London: 1902-1924; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951.

  • A Literary History of Persia: Volume One: From the Earliest Times Until Firdawsi (To 1000 A.D.) (Classics of Persian Literature, 4) by Edward G. Browne and J. T. P. De Bruijn.

  • A Literary History of Persia: Volume Two: From Firdawsi to Sa'di (Classics of Persian Literature, 4).Ibex Pub; New Ed edition (June 1, 1997), 584pp. ISBN-10: 0936347635 ISBN-13: 978-0936347639.

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  • A Literary History of Persia: Volume Two: From Firdawsi to Sa'di (Classics of Persian Literature, 4).

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  • A catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1896.

  •  A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900.

  • A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the libraries of the University and Colleges of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922.

  • A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts belonging to the Late E.G. Browne, by Edward G. Browne and Reynold A. Nicholson, Cambridge, 1932

 

Dihkhuda, `Ali Akbar (1879-1955).

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  • Lughat'namah / ta'lif-i `Ali Akbar Dihkhuda. Tihran : Danishgah-i Tihran, 1946

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EIr =  Encyclopedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, 14 + vols. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Costa Mesa: Mazda; Eisenbrauns: ADD   1983 >

Elr. = Ehsan Yarshater, (ed.) Encyclopedia Iranica., Costa Mesa: Mazda Publisher New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 1982>

Modarressi, Hossein

  • An Introduction to Shi`i Law, a bibliographical study. London: Ithaca Press, 1984.

Storey, C. A.

  • Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, London, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1927-1939, reprint 1989; and vol. 1, pt. 2, 1953, reprint 1972.

al-Ḥillī,  Abu Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf

  • Rijāl al-`Allāmah al-Ḥillī.  1st . Najaf:  Matbu`at al-Haydariyya,  1381/1961/ 2nd printing   Qumm: Dar al-Dakha'ir, 1411/1990.   40+ [= introduction by Muhammad Ṣādiq, Baḥr al-`ulūm] +296pp.  *

  • Rijal al-'Allamah al-Hilli. al-Najaf : Matb'ah al-Haydariyah, 1381/1961.

  • Sharḥ Minhaj al-Karāma fi Ma`rifat al-Imama.  ed. Sayyid `Ali Husayni al-Milani. vol. 1.  Qumm: Mu`assasah-i intisharat-i Hejrat, 1997.  (582pp.). *

  • al-Alfayn fi'l Imamat Amir al-Mu`minin `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. 2nd ed. [printing] Najaf: Matba`at al-Haydariyya, 1388/1969 (437pp.). Has a 63 pp. prolegomenon on al-Hilli and his  100 or so writings by Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi al-Khurasan *

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  • Risālat al-sa`idiyya. ed. `Abd al-Husayn Muhammad `Ali Baqa'i.  Qumm: Bahman, 1410/1989-90. (172pp.).  *

     

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 fi'l-ijāzāt tarājim rijāl al-ḥadīth.ed. Sayyid Muhammad Sadiq Bahr al-Ulum, Najaf: ADD., 1386/1966.  *

Muhammad-Bāqir Khwānsārī,

Mīrzā Muhammad Bāqir al-Mūsawī Chaharsuqi  al-Khwānsārī (1811-1895).

Born Khwānsār, 27 Safar  1226/ 23rd March 1811. Died 8th Jamadī I 1313 / 27 October 1895.  Khwānsārī moved in late 1253/ 1838 to Najaf.   He wrote around 20 (largely Arabic and a few Persian) works mostly relating to Shī`ī  doctrine, ethics and legalism ( aqā'id, adab, fiqh uṣūl al-fiqh...). His  8 volume rijāl  work has been frequently printed. Only a few editions can be mentioned here:

  • Rawḍāt al-jannat fī aḥwāl al-`ulamā' wa'l-sādāt.  Tehran: ADD. 1304/1887.
  • Rawdat al-jannāt fi ahwäl al-'ulama wa Ί-sādāt. Tehran: ADD 1306/1888-89
  • Rawḍāt al-jannat fī aḥwāl al-`ulamā' wa'l-sādāt.  8 vols. Tehran: ADD. 1390-2/1970-2.
  • Rawdat al-jannat fi ahwal al-'ulama ' wa al-sadat, ed. Asad Allah Isma'iliyan, 8 vols.Qum, 1391/ 1979?).

  • Rawḍat al-jannāt fi aḥwāl al-`ulamā' wa'l-sādāt.  8 vols.  ed. A. Ismā'iliyyan, Tehran: al-Matba`ah al-Haydariyya, 1390-92/1970-72.

  • Rawḍat al-jannāt fi aḥwāl al-`ulamā' wa'l-sādāt.  X vols.  ed. A. Ismā'iliyyan, Qumm: ADD.,, 1390-92/1970-72,

  • Rawḍāt al-jannat fī aḥwāl al-`ulamā' wa'l-sādāt.  8 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Islamiyya. 1411/1991.  In this recent Beirut edition the section on `...Shaykh  Aḥmad ibn Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn ibn Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Aḥsā'ī'  is in vol.1 section 22, spanning pp. 97-103.  

Tunukābunī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān (c. 1234-1302 AH =1819-1884 CE).

  • Qiṣas al‑`ulamā. 1st ed.  [Tehran] n.p.n.d.

  • Qiṣas al‑`ulamā.  Tehran: Kitābfurūshī‑ i `Ilmiyyah‑i Islāmiyyih, N.d. 

  • Qiṣaṣ al-`ulamā'   (Stories of the Ulama'). Tehran: Kitāb-furūshī  `Ilmiyya Islamiyya.,.n.d. [1887-8]
  • Qiṣas al‑`ulamā.  Tehran:  Islamiyya,  1364/1944??
  • Qiṣas al‑`ulamā. ed. Muhammad Rida' Barzgar Khaliqi and Uffat Karbasi. Tehran:  Intisharat `Ilmi va Farhang, 1383Sh/2004 (xxxiv+777+1 pp.)

This important Persian Shi`i  rijāl  book includes a lengthy treatment of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ahsa'i and his doctrinal position by one sympathetic to his person and teachings. Numerous sometimes bowdlerized editions and Arabic translations of his Qiṣaṣ al-`ulamā'   exist.  

including,  ADD            Tehran 1319/1901. 

Ar. trans.  Qiṣaṣ al-`ulamā' . trans by Shaykh   ADD  Beirut: Dar al-Hujjat al-Bayḍā',

 

Tunukabūnī,  Muhammad b. Sulayman (d. 1302/1884-5)

  • Qiṣaṣ al-'ulamā', Tehran, n.d.

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  • Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, London, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1927-1939, reprint 1989; and vol. 1, pt. 2, 1953, reprint 1972.

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Shaykh `Abbās al-Qummī (d. 1319/1901).

  • Mafātīḥ al-Jinnān. Dar Ihya al-Turath al-`Arabi, 1422/2001 (807pp.) 

 

Bāmdād, Mehdī.

  • Tārīkh-i rijāl-i Īrān dar qarn-i 12, 13, 14 Ḥijrī. 6 vols. Tehran, 1347 Sh. / 1968-9 -1351 Sh/ 1971-2.
  • Sharḥ-i ḥāl-i- Rijāl-i Īrān dar qarn-i 12, 13, 14 Ḥijrī., 6 vols. (5th printing) [Tehran:] Intishārāt-i  Zavvār,   1378/ 1999. *