Hājj Mirzā Muhammad Karīm Khān Kirmāni  (d. 1288/1871)

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Subsequent Kirmānī Shaykhī leaders (IV-VI).

Hajjī Mirza Muhammad Karim Khān Kirmānī

(1225-1288 AH= 1810-1871 CE)

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III. Hājj Mirza Muhammad Karim Khan  Kirmānī (d. 1288/1871), The (3rd) Kirmānī Shaykhī leader. 

See Ibrahimi, Fihrist, section XX pp.  where XXX works of Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmānī are listed.

URL: The Shaykhi Collection of the University of California includes several important works of Muhammad Karim Khan:

 

Anti-Babi-Baha'i and other writings:

See  http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SHAYKHISM/Shaykhi%20anti-B&B.htm

Izhāq al-bāṭil dar radd al-Bābiyya ("The Crushing of Falsehood in refutation of Bābism").Completed 12th Rajab 1261/17th July 1845.

  • Izhāq al-bāṭil dar radd al-Bābiyya

  • Izhāq al-bāṭil dar radd al-Bābiyya

  • Izhāq al-bāṭil dar radd al-Bābiyya. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, 1392/1972 (277+2pp.).

 

رسالة تير شهاب Risālih-yi tīr-i shihāb dar... ("The Treatise of the Piercing Meteor"), 1262/1846.

 In the Fihrist of Kirmānī this 1,300 verse Persian work is listed as No. 364. A treatise written in refutation of the Bab/ Babism, it was completed on the 12th Rabi al-Awwal 1262 = 10th March 1846 (Fihrist, 379). ....

  • Risālih-yi tīr-i shihāb dar... ("The Treatise of the Piercing Meteor..."). Kirmān, 1386/1966-7 where it is found within the Shaykhī produced compilation Majmu`a-i rasā'il-i fārsī (Persian Compendia of Treatises) No.1 . pp. 162-242.

  • Risāla-yi ṭīr-i shihāb in Majma' al-rasā'il-i Farsi 1. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda,1386/1966-67.

 

Risāla al-Shihāb al-thāqib fī rajm al-nawāṣib ("The Piercing Thunderbolt for the Stoning of the Enemies"), 1265/1849.

Cites the full text of an Arabic letter of the Bāb to Karim Khān Kirmānī   which was delivered by the leading `Letter of the Living' , the youthful Mullā Muhammad `Alī Bārfarūshī (d. 1849 CE), entitled Quddūs (the Holy One") (see al-Shihab pp.25-27,  trans. Lambden URL : http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SHAYKHISM/Kirmānī1-bab.htm

  • al-Shihāb al-thāqib. rajm al-nawāṣib. Kirmān:  Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, 1353 Sh./1974-75. (97+2pp.).*

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Risāla dar radd-i Bāb-i murtāb (Treatise in Refutation of the Suspicious Bāb). Completed 1283/1867.

Written at the request of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh

  • Risāla dar radd-i Bāb-i murtāb. 2nd. ed. of Persian text. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, Jumādī al-Thāniyya, 1384/ October 1964. (59pp).*

  • Tarjama Risālah fī al-radd `alā al-Bāb al-murtāb. 1st ed. of the Arabic translation of `Abd-Allāh al-Mūsāwī completed 28th Ramadan 1383 = 12th February 1964. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, Dhū'l-Qa'dah 1383/March-April 1964 (76pp.).*

Iqadh al-ghāfitīn wa ibtāl al-bāļitīn dar radd-i Bāb-i khusrān ma'āb

  • Iqadh al-ghāfitīn wa ibtāl al-bāļitīn dar radd-i Bāb-i khusrān ma'āb. Tehran, n.d.

 

 

ارشاد العوام  Irshād al--`awāmm  ("Guidance for the Masses").

Kirmānī, Fihrist, No. 361 p. 376-8.

The  Irshād al-`awāmm  was written in 4 vols. between 6th Rajab 1263 / 20th July 1847 and 1st Rabi` II (al-Akhir) 1267/ 3rd February 1851. The following is a list of the various of the printed editions known to the present writer (cf. Kirmani, Fihrist,  No. 361 p. 376-8):

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 A digitized text of a mss. of the  Irshād al-`awāmm  can be found in  the UCLA Caro Minasian Collection Digitization Project, Mss. 142:  Irshād al-ʿavām [sic.] (398 images)

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Risāla-yi Sullṭāniyya (Treatise for the Monarch),  written at the request of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh in 1274/1858.

  • Risāla-yi Sullṭāniyya. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda 1382/1962-63.

Risāla-yi sī faṣl fi jawāb īrādāt ba`aḍī al-muridīn `alā al-silsilat al-shaykhiyya al-jaliyya

("The Treatise in Thirty Sections in reply to issues raised by certain of the enquirers about the Shaykhī chain of authority" )

Completed 14th Rabī  al-Thānī 1269/ 25th January 1853 and written in reply to enquiries about the glorious Shaykhī heritage-lineage.

The Risāla-yi sī faṣl (Treatise in 30 sections) was written in 1269/1853 and has been several times printed. It is a work which contains responses to many interesting questions including whether jihad can be legitimately called for without the parousia of the eschatological Imam (Q. ) and whether the first two Shaykhs were the al-rukn al-rabi` ("Fourth Support") (Q. 4, pp. 31-33). 

  • Risāla-yi sī faṣl Kirmān:  Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, 1368/1949.

  • Risāla-yi sī faṣl Kirmān:  Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, np.nd. (105pp.).*

  • Risālih-' sī faṣl dār javāb īrādāt ba`aḍi ... bar silsalih-' jaliliyyih-' shaykhiyya. Kirmān: Matba`ah al-Sa`adat, Sha`ban 1368/ May 1970. (127pp. )*

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. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda 1376/1956 (viii+350 pp.).*

     

Hidāyat al-ṭālibīn  ("Guidance for the Seekers"), written Yazd in 1261/1845.

  • Hidāyat al-ṭālibīn. 2nd. ed., Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda 1380/1960-61.

al-Fitra al-salīma

  • al-Fitra al-salīma. 3rd. ed., 3 vols, in 1, Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, 1378/1958-59.

Risāla-yi Rukn-i Rābi` (Treatise on the 'Fourth Pillar [Support]').

A short Persian.treatise  written in 1282/1865-6 for Āqā-yi Muhammad Raḥīm Thibātī. Refutes the idea Karim Khan himself or the founders of al-Shaykhiyya constitute the "fourth pillar"

  • Risāla-yi rukn-i rābi`. 2nd ed. Kirman, 1368/    (26pp.). *

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Rujūm al-Shayāṭin  (The Stoning of the Satans), 1268/1852.

  • Tarajim Rujūm al-Shayāṭin.   Printed (in Persian Translation) at the command of Sarkār Āqā, Ḥajj Abd al-Riḍā' Khān Ibrahimi (Persian translation in the hand of Muhammad Taqi Wa`iz al-Taqwā)  Jumādī al-Thāniyya, 1392AH / 1351 Sh. /1972 CE.*(156+v pp.)

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IV .  Āqā Ḥajjī Muhammad Khan Kirmānī (1263-1324 AH = 1846-1906 CE), 

The (4th) Kirmānī Shaykhī leader (d.1324/1906).

  • Risāla fī  radd al-Bāb al-murtāb. 1st ed. of  (modern) Arabic text. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, nd [196/7??] (223pp).*

  • Risālah fi radd al-Bāb al-Murtāb ("The Treatise in Refutation of the Apostate Bāb"), Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda  XXX/XXXX (223pp.).

  • Risālah dar radd-i Ta'wīlāt-i Bābiyya (Treatise in Refutation of the Bābī Ta'wīl). 2nd printing Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda  n.d. XXX/XXXX (151pp.).

  • Shams al-muḍi'a. n.p. [Kirmān?], 1322/1904-05 . Reprinted, n.d. 

  • Taqwîm al-'awj. Bombay, 1311/1893-94. Reprinted Kirmān, n.d. See URLs.

  • Majmū`a al-Rasā'il Fārsi No. 5 = Risalah Dar Sulūk  ("Treatise On the Pathway") written 25th Safar 1290/ 24th April 1873. Kirmān: Chap-Khanah al-Sa`āda,  n.d. (v+146+2pp.).

  • Ḥusām al-Dīn dar Ithbāt Taḥrī Tawriyyat 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.). 

 

 

V. Āqā Ḥajjī Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān Kirmānī, Sarkār Āqā (1276-1360 AH =1859-1942 CE),



The (5th) Kirmānī Shaykhī leader.  Brother of IV above.

Āqā Ḥajjī Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān Kirmānī (d. 1360/1942)

Risālah-yi Ṣā'iqa dar radd-i Bāb-i Murtadd ("The Treatise of the Thunderbolt in Refutation of the Apostate Bāb"), 1330/1911.

  • Risalah-yi Ṣā'iqa dar radd-i Bab-i Murtadd ("The Treatise of the Thunderbolt in Refutation of the Apostate Bab"). 2nd ed. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, 1252 Sh./1974 (v+203+2pp.). Complted 3rd Muharram 1330= 24th December 1911.

Sawā'iq al-burḥān

  • Sawā'iq al-burḥān. Kirmān:  Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda1381/1962.

 

Sharḥ al-khuṭba min sharḥ al-qaṣīda 

("Commentary on a passage from the Sharh al-Qaṣida" [Lāmiyya of Sayyid Kazim Rashti]).

  • Sharḥ al-khuṭba min sharḥ al-qaṣīda   which is dated 19th Rajab 1336 / 30 April 1918. Kirman: Maṭba`ah al-Sa`ada. n.d. [198?] (227 pp. )

  A Commented on the opening of the Sharḥ al-qaṣīda al-lāmiyya of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī dated 19th Rajab 1336 / 30 April 1918.

Risālah-i Haftad mas`alah...  ("The Treatise of Seventy Issues...")

  • Risālah-i Haftad mas`alah dar javab-i Saqat al-`ulama' salmasi az masa'il -i mukhtalafah. Kirman: Sa`adat Press, 1959.  See On aspects of this work A. Najmabadi, 2005: 141-2; 279 n. 37...

 

VI.  Āqā Ḥajjī `Abu'l-Qāsim ibn Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān, (d.1389/1969)

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The Fihrist (Index)

  • Fihrist-i kutub-i Shaykh Aḥmad Aḥsā'ī va sā`ir mashāyik-i `izām. 3rd ed. Kirman: Chapkhanih Sa`adat, / 1977. 653pp (+3pp of errata).
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Note Momen trans. in BSBM1 = Pt. 1 Shaykh Aḥmad, Fihrist, pp. 220-288, listing 132 items;

Lambden trans. Pt. II Sayyid Kāẓim, Fihrist, pp. 288-359 listing nos.133-304 (= 171 items) (forthcoming).

Also included in this volume are bibliographies of the third to sixth Kirmānī Shaykhī leaders who were all Ibrahīmī Khāns and fairly prolific writers. The third Shaykh of the Kirmānī Shaykhī leaders, Hajjī Mirza Muhammad Karim Khān Kirmānī (1225-1288 /1810-1871) = Pt. III spanning pages 360-487 listing bibliographical items nos. 305-582 (=277 items). This is followed by the bibliography of the fourth Shaykh, Āqā Ḥajjī Muhammad Khan Kirmānī (d. 1263-1324/1846-1906), the son of the third Shaykh Karim Khān Kirmānī. Under his name (Pt. IV) are listed bibliographical items nos. 583-786 (= 203 items). Part V lists the works of the 5th Shaykhi leader Āqā Ḥajjī Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān Kirmānī (1276-1360/1859-1942), bibliographical items nos. 787-940 (= 153 items). Part VI consists of a list of the works of the 6th Kirmānī Shaykhi leader and author of this Fihrist, Āqā Ḥajjī `Abu'l-Qāsim b. Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān, (1314-1389/1896-1969). nos. 941-963 (= 22 items).

  • Risālih sharḥ aḥwāl.. Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā'ī

(= pp.1-51 dated Muḥarram 1387/ April-May, 1967 ) 2nd ed. Kirmān: Chapkhānih: Sa`adat n.d.

Persian work in six sections beginning with a few pages on the reason for the authorship of the book....

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Section 5 is in clarification of the number of wives and children of Shaykh Ahmad .

Section 6 (pp. 42-51) has 9 subdivisions and lists the writings of Shaykh Ahmad after their different categories.

  • Risālih tadhkirat al-awliyā' about Karīm Khān Kirmānī (= pp. 52-176 apparently written 1312/1894-5). 2nd ed. Kirmān: Chapkhānih: Sa`adat n.d. This Persian work is in six sections with various subdivisions. It is printed with the work about Shaykh Ahmad listed above.

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  • Rasā'il thalatha, (Three treatises bound together) :  [1] Risalah tanziyya al-anbiyā' (= 130 pp. ), 2nd ed. Shawwal, 1384/ Feb-March 1965; [2] Risalah tamiyyiz al-awṣiyā' (= 61 pp.) 2nd ed.  1341/ 1922-3; [3] Su'alāt akbarī. in reply to the queations of Hajji Mirza `Ali Akbar Aqa Jurabji. (= -243pp. ) 2nd ed. Kirmān: Chap-Khanah al-Sa`āda Dhu'l-Qa'dah 1339/ July-August 1921. *

 

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VII.  Āqā Ḥajjī `Āqa al-Riḍā' Khān Ibrahimī (d. XXXX/XXXX)  (d. XXXX/XXXX)

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VIII  Ḥajjī `Sayyid `Ali Mūsāwī al-Ḥifzih (b. XXXX/XXXX).
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