The Kirmānī Shaykhī leaders and their writings

 Ḥajji Mīrzā Muḥammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī

(1225-1288 AH /1810- 1871 CE)

 Karīm Khān Kirmānī   was the son of Ibrāhīm Khān Ẓahīr al-Dawla (d. 1240/1824-5), a cousin and son-in-law of Fatḥ `Ali Shāh (1771-1834), the second Qajar Shah who ruled from 1797 until 1834.  Kirmani's father was at one time the governor of Khurasan and later, for the last 21 years of his life, was governor of Kirmān and Baluchistan (Raḍawī, Tadhkirat al-awlīyā,  56 ref.  MacEoin, 1982). He apparently had forty wives and something like 20 sons and 21 daughters. The mother of Karim Khan Kirmani, who gave birth to him on 18 Muḥarram 1225/ 23rd February 1810,  was the daughter of Mīrzā Raḥīm the mustawfi  of Tiflis (ibid, 8+refs.).... ADD  

Karīm Khān Kirmānī   was an extremely well-educated and polymathic individual. He clalmed leadership of the Shaykhī school after the passing of Sayyid Kazim Rashti (d.1259[60]/ 1843[4]) its second leader. He very early on rejected the messianic and related claims of Sayyid `Ali Muhammad (1819-1850) the Bāb  in his  رساله ازهاق الباطل فى رد البابيه   Risāla izhāq al-bāṭil fī radd al-bābiyya..   ("The Crushing of Falsehood in Refutation of Bābism") and produced a dozen or more anti-Babi-Baha'i tracts and works. For some details see URL

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His Kirmani based descendants and successors ( see below) headed the Persian, Kirmani Shaykhi branch (see below).

        The (4th)  Kirmani Shaykhī  leader and  the son of the third Shaykh  Karim Khān Kirmānī.

The (5th)  Kirmani Shaykhī leader 

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• 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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• Moojan Momen trans. in BSBM1 = Pt. 1 Shaykh Aḥmad, Fihrist,  pp. 220-288, listing 132 items;
• Stephen 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 Kirmani (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 Kirmani 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.

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

Section 6 (pp. 42-51) has 9 subdivisions and lists the writings of SA 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.