Christian  Missions and Missionary Literature  in Qajar Persia

Select Sources for Qajar Period Shi`i-Shaykhi Dialogue with Western Missionaries and Intellectuals.

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Fasā’ī, Mīrzā Ibrahīm (d. 1255/ 1839).

  • Risālah Ms.  Persian Bodleian Library Oxford (Bodl. 765).  Partial trans. in Lee Controversial Tracts (1824), p. 1f.  

Farahānī,  Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim, Qā'im Maqām (d. 1237/1822).

  • Miftah = Miftāḥ al-nubuwwa   in Muhammad Ṣādiq Ḥusaynī, Makhzān al-inshā’, 1232 / 1815 [1812]
  • Irshād al-muḍillīn (Guidance for the Negligent) ADD

Hamadānī, Muhammad Riḍā’ ibn Muhammad Amīn (  ADD  )

  • Irshād al-muḍillīn (Guidance for the Misguided ), 1232 / 1815 [1812]  summary in Lee ed. 1824.
  • Miftāḥ al-nubuwwah (The Key of the Prophethood [of Muhammad]). Lithographed (Scribe = Muhammad Riḍā ibn `Alī Akbar al-Khvansari), Tehran: [?] 1824.

Sayyid Kāẓim ibn Sayyid Qasim al-Husayni al-Rashtī (d.1259/1843). Second Shaykhi leader.

  • Ḥujjat al-Baligha

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Kirmānī, Hajjī Mīrzā Muhammad Karīm Khān (d. 1288/1871), 3rd Kirmani Shaykhi leader.

Risāla-yi sharīfah-yi Nusrat al-Din. written 1266/1849-50.

  • Risāla-yi sharīfah-yi Nuṣrat al-Dīn. Lithograph. Bombay:      1285/1868 (260 pp.).*

  • Kitāb-i Nuṣrat al-Dīn. 2nd ed. /printing, Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda 1376/1956 (viii+350 pp.).*

Āqā Ḥajjī Muhammad Khan Kirmani (1263-1324 = 1846-1906). The 4th Kirmani Shaykhi leader.

 

Kirmānī, Hājj Muhammad Khan (d.1324/1906).

  • Ḥusām al-Dīn dar Ithbāt Taḥrīf Tawriyya  wa Injil ("The Sword of Religion in Establishment of the Corruption of the Torah and the Gospel") Completed 5th Rabi` al-Thani, 1309/ 8th November 1891. 2nd ed./ printing Kirmān: Chap-Khanah al-Sa`āda,  n.d. [198X?] (vii+241pp.). *

Naraqī,  (Mulla) Aḥmad ibn Muhammad Mahdī (d. 1244/1828-9)

  • Sayf al-ummah wa-burhān al-millah (The Sword of the Community and Vindication of the Religion). Lithographed Ed. Tabriz, 1850 and n. p. [Tehran?], 1331/1912-3. *

 

Lee, Samuel (d. 1852).

  • 1824 Controversial Tracts on Christianity and Mohammedanism by the late Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D... and some of the most eminent writers of Persia translated and explained. Cambridge: Cambridge: J. Smith, 1824.*

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Algar, Hamid

  • Religion and State in Iran, 1785-1906. The Role of the Ulama in the Qajar Period, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969.

Dilger, A.,

  • Basler Missionsgesellschaft, hi: RGG/1, Tübingen 1986/3, pp. 914-16
  • Basler Missionsgesellschaft in: LThK/2, Freiburg 1957/1986,
  • Basler Mission, in: Brunotte, Heinz; Weber, Otto (Hg.), Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon, Göttingen 1956, pp. 329-32

 

Boyce, Mrs. Arthur C.,

  • Persian Christian Literature, in: MW 17/1927, S. 76-80

al-Hairi,  `Abd al-Hadi.

· 1993 `Reflections on the Shi`ī Responses to Missionary Thought and Activities in the Safavid Period’ in Etudes Safavides  ed. J. Calmard. Paris/Tehran, 1993.

 

Naraqī, Mulla Ahmad ibn Mahdī (           ).

  • Sayf al-umma wa burhān al-milla dar radd-i Padri-yi Nasrānī .Tabriz 1267/1851.
  • Mi`raj al-sa`ada.
  • Mathnawi-yi taqdis.