Sayyid Kāẓim ibn Sayyid
Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī (d.1259/1843)
السيد كاظم
بن السيد قاسم الحسيني الرشتي
An annotated alphabetical
bibliography
2009-10
Introductory Note
The over 135 Persian and Arabic writings of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashti (d.
1259/1843) remain largely unpublished and unstudied. Few of these sometimes
complex and spiritually engaging works have been published in Qajar
lithograph editions or by more modern publishers. Only a small quantity of
the writings of this key disciple and successor of Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn
al-Ahsāī (d. 1241/1826) have been appeared in Persia-Iran or other
Middle Eastern and Asian countries. Very little, virtually nothing, of
the writings of this major representative of the early Shaykhī
literary heritage has been translated into English, French or other European
languages. Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī remains virtually unknown even in
western academic circles. So too amongst the vast majority of contemporary
Bahā'ī believers who have a very high estimate of his spiritual station and
position as a deep and insightful Shī'ī Muslim sage, mystic, philosopher and
harbinger of the Bābī-Bahā'ī religions.
Sources for
the Bibliography of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashti (d. 1259/1843)
(1) Fīhrist-i Sayyid compiled
by Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī himself. A bibliographical list his own works and
those of Shaykh Aḥmad. Listed in School of Oriental and African Studies,
Mss No. 92308, Item no. 38, pp. 398a-406b. See also Adam Gacek,
Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the School of
Oriental and African Studies, London, 1981, No. 277, pp. 165-9. This
list of Sayyid Kāẓim was composed in Rajab 1258/1842 and the manuscript
was written by Jawād ibn Qāsim al-Najjār in Kufa and completed on 30
Dhu'l-Ḥijjih 1259 / January 1844, nineteen days after the death of
Sayyid Kāẓim" (Momen, BSBM1).
(2) Fihrist-i kutub-i mashāyikh `izam by Shaykh
Abu'l-Qāsim Kirmānī. 3rd Kirmān: Chāpkhāna Sa`ādat, n.d (several
reprints), pp. ADD Nos. Ongoing translation URL :
http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SHAYKHISM/sayyidK.htm
(3) In 1345/1926 Sayyid `Abdu'l-Majid Fa'iqī wrote a
large (1500pp.) bibliographical list of the writings of all of the
Shaykhī leaders.
(4) The French diplomat and orientalist, A-L-M Nicholas
( )
published a French transliterated bibliography in his
SÉYYED KAZEM RECHTI,
Ch. II: 32-36 . See:
URL: SÉYYED KAZEM RECHTI, Ch. II:
32-36
Titled writings of
Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī (d.1259/1843) on various Subjects
Asrār al-`ibādāt ("The Mysteries of
Servitude")
اسرارالعباداة
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Asrār al-shahāda sirr
al-ḥaqīqat fī waq`at al-ṭufūf (The Mysteries of the Shahada-Testimont of
Faith..")
ا سرارالشهادة
سّرالحقيقة في وقعة الّطفوف
- Asrār al-shahāda sirr al-ḥaqīqat fī waq`at al-ṭufūf
[No. 3 on cover] ("The Mysteries of the Shahāda [Testimony of Faith];
the secret of the reality regarding the incident of the quenching" ).
Sayyida Zaynab / Lajnat Iḥyā Turāth Madrassa al-Shaykh [al-Awḥad] al-Aḥsā'ī.
1st ed. 1421/ 2000. ADD DETAILS
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Dalīl al-mutaḥayyirīn ("The Proof
regarding Matters Perplexing") Arabic, 1258/ 1842.
A work of Sayyid Kāẓim in response issues surrounding the
differences between the person and doctrinal positions of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ahsā'ī
and other Shī`ī Muslims. Completed near Kufa (Iraq) 11th Rabī al-Thānī [II]
1258/ May 22nd 1842.
-
Dalīl al-mutaḥayyirīn 1st ed. [Tabriz?],
1st ed. Jumadī al-Awwal 1261/ May 1845. (Dhari`a 8:360).
-
Dalīl al-mutaḥayyirīn, 1276/1859-60.
-
-
Dalīl al-mutaḥayyirīn. The most recent
Arabic 2nd ed. 3rd printing of 1423/2002 .185 pp. + Index
(pp.186-7) A very beautifully printed edition with
pictures of Shaykh Ahmad, Sayyid Kāẓim and the Kuwaiti born al-Ḥajjī
Mīrzā`Abd al-Rasūl al-Ḥā'iri al-Iḥqāqī (1307 Sh. / ADD- ADD ] on the
front cover (as well as on many inside pages).
Persian Translations of the Arabic
Dalīl al-mutaḥayyirīn
-
Dalīl al-mutaḥayyirīn. 1st Arabic
edition, translated into Persian by Sayyid Kazim's disciple
Muhammad Raḍī ibn Muhammad Riḍā', (1st ed. Jumadī al-Awwal 1261/ May
1845, see Dhari`a 8:360). 2nd (Arabic) ed. Maṭba`at al-Sa`adat, Kirmān,
n. d. [197?] 178pp.
- Persian trans. by the fifth Kirmānī Shaykhī
leader Ḥajjī Zayn al-`Ābidīn
Khān Kirmānī / Ibrāhīmi ( d.
1360/1942). 2nd printing Kirmān: Chāp-Khānih Sa`adat. pp. 4 (Index)+
181pp.
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ADD
Ḥujjat al-bāligha ("The
Climactic Proof")
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 99
p.35.
-
Ḥujjat al-Bāligha
-
Ḥujjat al-Bāligha
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URL =
Kashf al-ḥaqq ("The
Uncovering of the Truth")
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 99
p.35.
-
Kashf al-ḥaqq.
-
Kashf al-ḥaqq.
Lawāmi` Ḥusayniyya (The
Husaynid Brilliances)
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 1
p. 32.
-
Lawāmi` Ḥusayniyya.
-
Lawāmi` Ḥusayniyya
Dar asrār-i shahadat-i
Imam Ḥusayn ("On the Mysteries of the Martyrdom of Imam Husayn").
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 20
p.32.
Treatises on Various
Subjects.
Risāla fī sharh wa tafsīr Ism Allāh al-a`ẓam
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 11
p.32.
·
Sh. Ism
= Risāla fī sharh wa tafsīr Ism Allāh al-a`ẓam. School of Oriental and
African Studies Library. Ms. Ar. 92308 fol. 271a-74a.
Risāla sirr al-basmalah and other treatises
pertaining to the Basmalah
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 10
p.32 +No.12 p.32.+14 p.32.+15 p.32.
Sharḥ Du`a al-simāt ("Commentary on the
Prayer of the Signs"), 1238/1823.
شرح
دعاى
السمات
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 79
p.34
The Arabic text of the
Du`a'
al-simāt exists in various versions or
recensions which are believed to go back to the fifth and sixth Imams,
Muhammad al-Baqir ( d. c.126/743) and Ja`far al-Ṣādiq (d. c 48/765). It has
been variously transmitted and reproduced in such works as the al-Misbāḥ al-mutahajjid
al-kabir (The Greater Luminary of the Pilgrim..) of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
(d.460/1067) and the Jamāl al-usbū` (Beauty of the Week) of Raḍī al-Dīn
Ibn Ṭāwūs (d. 664/1226). As transmitted and commented upon by SKR in the
abovementioned edition of the Du`a'
al-simāt, the prayer opens with the
basmala
بسم الله
الرحمن الرحيم
and continues with
reference to the Greatest Name of God as follows:
بِإِسْمِكَ العَظِيمِ الاَعْظَمِ
الاَعَزِّ الاَجَلِّ الاَكْرَمِ الَّذِي إِذا دُعِيتَ بِهِ عَلى
مَغالِقِ أَبْوابِ السَّمأِ لِلْفَتْحِ بِالرَّحْمَةِ انْفَتَحَتْ ،
وَإِذا دُعِيتَ بِهِ عَلى مَضائِقِ أَبْوابِ الاَرْضِ لِلْفَرَجِ
انْفَرَجَتْوَإِذا دُعِيتَ بِهِ عَلى مَضائِقِ أَبْوابِ الاَرْضِ
لِلْفَرَجِ انْفَرَجَتْ وَإِذا دُعِيتَ بِهِ عَلى العُسْرِ لِلْيُسْرِ
تيَسَّرَتْ وَإِذا دُعِيْتَ بِهِ عَلى الاَمْواتِ لِلْنُّشُورِ
انْتَشَرَتْ وَإِذا دُعِيْتَ بِهِ عَلى كَشْفِ البَأْسأِ وَالضَّرَّأِ
انْكَشَفَتْ
[1] I, verily, O my God! beseech Thee by Thy Mighty,
Greatest, Mightiest Most Powerful, Most Glorious, Most Noble Name which,
when one supplicates thereby, that an opening be effected of the
bolts of the gates of heaven (maghāliq abwāb al-samā') they would indeed
be flung wide open through Thy Mercy! [2] And If Thou art supplicated
thereby to rend asunder the narrow confines of the portals of the earth
(maḍā'iq abwāb al-arḍ) they would indeed be cleft asunder! [3] And If
Thou art supplicated thereby regarding adversity (al-`usr) it would
indeed be ameliorated and become insignificant (al-yusr)! [4] And If
Thou art supplicated thereby regarding the resurrection of the dead (al-amwāt),
they would indeed be resurrected (al-nushūr)! [5] And If
Thou art supplicated thereby regarding the removal of misery (al-bā'sā')
and suffering (al-ḍarrā') such would indeed be removed!" (trans. Lambden
06).
Ibrāhimī mentions in the Fihrist that this
medium length work of 1350 verses was written in reply to Mullā `Alī Asghar
Nīshāpūrī on 15th Sha`ban 1238 (27th April 1823) in Kufa about a portion of
the well-known Du`a-yi simāt, the supplication or `Prayer of the
Signs'. In his opinion it is a work replete with "weighty mysteries and
philosophical wisdom" (Fihrist, No. 144 p. 292). Kirmānī again mentions that
the original mss. of this work is lost and refers to the existence of an
old (lithograph?) printing (chap qadīm) (ibid.).
-
Sharḥ Du`a al-simāt, 1st Lithograph
edition (not seen).
-
Sharh du`a' al-simāt wa yalayihi Sharḥ
ḥadīth al-qadr). Beirut: Mu`assat Fikr al-Awḥad, [14th Rabi` al-Awwal]
1423/ [26th May] (Syria [Damascus] al-Sayyida Zaynab). 2002.This
printing appears to have been expertly made from various original mss.
(see pp.24-29, first and last pages are reproduced here) as edited and
introduced by Raḍī Nāṣir al-Salmān. It is printed along with an edition
of Sayyid Kāẓim's brief `Commentary upon the Ḥadīth of al-Qadr' (Power,
Destiny) (see below). In this printing the general or editors'
introduction occupies pp.1-36 ADD HERE. The text of the commentary, the
Sharḥ du`a al-simāt occupies pp. [37] 41-385. The text of the
'Prayer of the Signs' is divided into 72 portions and commented upon in
some detail
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Sharḥ Hadith al-qadr ("Commentary on the
Tradition about Destiny")
وحديث القدر
-
Sharh du`a' al-simāt wa yalayihi Sharḥ
ḥadīth al-qadr). Beirut: Mu`assat Fikr al-Awḥad, [14th Rabi` al-Awwal]
1423/ [26th May] (Syria [Damascus] al-Sayyida Zaynab). 2002 `Commentary
upon the Ḥadīth of al-Qadr' (Power, Destiny) which occupies (with its
introduction) pp. 287-298.
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شرح قص يده
لاميه عبدالباقى افندى
Sharḥ al-qāṣida al-lāmiyya
`Abd al-Bāqī Effendi [Mawsuli] ("Commentary on
the Ode rhyming in the letter "L" )
The Shaykhi bibliographer and leader Kirmānī in his
Fihrist
(= No. 149 p. 293) states that the original, 16,000 verse mss. is
lost but refers to the old lithograph printing which is presumably
the very rare ([Tabriz] n. p., 1270/1853)
This work commences (cf the scan above) as follows:
"Praise be to God Who hath ornamented the brocade of existence
with the
mystery of differentiation
(sirr
al-baynūnat)
by virtue of the ornament of the emergent Point
(irāz al-nuqat
al-bāriz) from whence cometh the letter "H"
(al-hā') through
the letter "A" (bi'l-alif), without filling up (ishbā`)
or segregation (inshiqāq)" (Sharh al-qaṣīda).
See Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 6
p.32.
·
Sharh al-qāṣida al-lāmiyya. 1st ed. Lithograph, Tabrīz. 1270/1853.
Sharh al-qāṣida al-lāmiyya.
·
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كتاب
شرح
خطبة
طتنجية
Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-ṭutunjiyya [taṭanjiyya]
("The Book of the Commentary upon the Sermon of the Gulf")
See Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 2
p.32.
Kitāb
sharḥ khuṭba ṭutunjiyya
·
Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-ṭutunjiyya Tabriz, 1270/1853-4.
·
Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-ṭutunjiyya
Likeness of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī holding the Sharḥ al-khuṭba
al-ṭutunjiyya (as found in the new
printing-see below)
 
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Qur'an- Tafsir related works
(i) On the Basmalah : various treatises on aspects of the basmalah
بسم
الله الرحمن الرحيم
=
and related subjects.
See
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi, No. Nicholas 1914, No. 10
p.32 +No.12 p.32.+14 p.32.+15 p.32.
Sayyid Kazim appears to have written at least six or seven
treatises on or relating to the qur'anic basmalah. Among them,
- Risālah for Mirza `Ali Ṭabīb Hindī containing
responses to questions about the basmalah. Unpublished mss. See Fihrist
of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 265.
- Risālah for Mulla Muhammad `Ali Shahir Bujdali
on some of the mysteries of the basmalah. Unpublished mss. See Fihrist
of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 266
- .Risālah for Mulla Muhammad `Ali Shahir Bujdali
on some of the mysteries of the basmalah. Unpublished mss. See Fihrist
of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 267
- Risālah in exposition of the Point (
• ) of the Letter "B" ((ب
) of the Basmalah. Unpublished mss. See Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and
Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 269.
- Risālah in exposition of some aspects of the Basmalah.
Unpublished mss. See Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330
No. 270..
- Risālah in exposition of the exegetical modes (maqāmāt)
of the outer (ẓāhir) and inner (bāṭin) as well as the
allegorical (ta`wil) senses of the Qur'an and of the ahkbar or
traditions of the people of the House [of the Prophet]. Old Lithograph
edition. See Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 272
(ii) On the Surat al-Hamd or Fatiha =
Q.1
Other Tafsir works
- Risālah-i Yawmiyya on the [Qur'anic and related
refernces to the] creation of the heavens and the earth in four - eight
or six days. See Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.331 No. 271.
[Tafsir] Sharḥ āyat al-kursī ("Commentary
upon the `Throne-Chair Verse").
Fihrist SK: mss. p.
Fihrist- Ibrahimi,
No. 270 p. 331; Nicholas 1914, No. 3
p.32.
The
important and much commented upon qur'ānic verse of the Chair (kursī) or
Throne (`arsh), Qur'an 2:255 reads as follows:
يَا أَيُّهَا
الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ أَنفِقُواْ مِمَّا رَزَقْنَاكُم مِّن قَبْلِ أَن
يَأْتِيَ يَوْمٌ لاَّ بَيْعٌ فِيهِ وَلاَ خُلَّةٌ وَلاَ شَفَاعَةٌ
وَالْكَافِرُونَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ
اللّهُ لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْحَيُّ
الْقَيُّومُ لاَ تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلاَ نَوْمٌ لَّهُ مَا فِي
السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ مَن ذَا الَّذِي يَشْفَعُ عِنْدَهُ
إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِهِ يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ
وَلاَ يُحِيطُونَ بِشَيْءٍ مِّنْ عِلْمِهِ إِلاَّ بِمَا شَاء وَسِعَ
كُرْسِيُّهُ
السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ وَلاَ
يَؤُودُهُ حِفْظُهُمَا وَهُوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْعَظِيمُ
"O
believers, expend of that wherewith We have provided you, before
there comes a day wherein shall be neither traffick, nor friendship,
nor intercession; and the unbelievers -- they are the evildoers. God
there is no god but He, the Living (al-hayy), the Everlasting (al-qayyūm).
Slumber seizes Him not, neither sleep; to Him belongs all that is in
the heavens and the earth. Who is there that shall intercede with
Him save by His leave? He knows what lies before them and what is
after them, and they comprehend not anything of His knowledge save
such as He wills. His Throne comprises the heavens and earth; the
preserving of them oppresses Him not; He is the All-high, the
All-glorious" (trans. A.J. Arberry)
The Sharḥ āyat al-kursī
was apparently written in 7,000 verses when Sayyid Kāẓim was
about 20 years old. A mss. copy can be found, for example, in School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS., London), Mss No. 92308, Item no. 8
[unpaginated], fols. Xa-Xb No. 1141. Rashti claims at the outset of
his `Commentary on the Throne verse' to be giving a deep
mystico-philosophical exegesis expressive of the ta`wīl ("allegorical")
and of the bāṭin ("Interior dimension") of thix Qur'ānic verse. This
work is an extended, several hundred page very complex exegesis-eisegesis of the Throne Verse. It commences as follows:
الحمد لله الذي اجلي افئدة العارفين
لتجليات ظهوره و انار قلوب السالكين لاشراقات نوره و شرح صدور العالمين
لتشعشع لمعات بدوره و الصلوة علي سيدنا محمد الذي به استقر عرشه و كرسيه و
هو الاسم الذي استقر في ظله فلايخرج منه الي غيره و هو الاسم الاعظم
المكنون و النور الانور المخزون به نورت الانوار و به ظهرت الاسرار و به
اشرق النور من صبح الازل و به وجدت الموجودات ما قل و جل و علي آله و
اصحابه شموس الهدي و بدور الدجي و اعلام التقي و ذوي النهي و اولي الحجي و
كهف الوري و ورثة الانبياء عليهم صلوات الله ما دامت الارض و السماء .
"Praised be unto God Who shed the splendor of His radiance upon the
inmost hearts of the mystic knowers so as to actualize the disclosure of
the orient lights of His theophany. He set ablaze the hearts of the
mystic wayfarers through the orient splendors of His Light and
explicated the inner retreats [bosoms] of all the worlds for the purpose
of dazzlingly illuminating the radiances of His cyclic schemata.
And blessings be upon our Master [the Prophet] Muhammad through whom He
settled down upon His Throne (`arsh) and His Seat (kursi) for he is the
Name through the shadow of which eyes were solaced. Wherefore there did
not emerge from before me aught save what is of Him for he [Muhammad] is
the Hidden, Mightiest Name (al-ism al-a`zam) and the Light of Lights
treasured up, the very one through whom the Lights found illumination.
Through him were mysteries disclosed and Light irradiated from the Dawn
of Eternity (subḥ al-azal). And through him did all existence find
realization.... " (trans. Lambden).
- [Tafsir] Sharḥ āyat al-kursī ("Commentary on the Throne
Verse", Q. 2:254). 19th cent. lithograph edition (not seen).
-
Sharḥ āyat al-kursī.
Treatises in reply to
specific individuals who enquired about various Subjects.
MANUSCRIPTS COMPILATIONS AND
MISCELLANY.
Majmū`a al-Rasā'il
Fārsī ("Compendium of Persian Treatises" ) No.16.
Anwār al-ghayb.
انوارالغيب مسائل متعددة:
- Anwār al-ghayb, masā'il mu`tu`addida li-ḥakīm al-awwal,
hiya Sayyid Kāẓim al-Husayni, al-Rashtī... ("Lights of the Unseen,
Multifarious Issues by the foremost philosopher who is Sayyid Kāẓim
Rashtī (may God elevate his station) (1212-1259 AH). Lajna Iḥyā'
turath madrassa al-Shaykh al-Ahad [n.p.] 1st printing [1,000 copies]
1421/ 2000. This is a a small 131 page Arabic booklet
(+2 page index) edited by Aḥmad `Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bushafī`
انوارالغيب مسائل متعددة
[No. 2 on cover] Anwār al-ghayb, masā'il
muta`addid ("Lights of the Unseen, Multifarious issues").
A compilation of miscellaneous replies to
religious and philosophical issues by SKR edited and annotated by
Aḥmad `Abd al-Wahhāb al-Būshafī` and put out from Damascus (Syria)
through the Sayyida Zaynab / Lajnat Iḥyā Turāth Madrassa al-Shaykh
al-Awḥad [al-Aḥsā'ī]. 1st ed. 1421/ 2000. The introductory,
editorial part occupies pp.1-20 and the next 4 pages reproduce the
mss. on which sections of this printing is based. Section one is on
al-Malā'ikat (The Angels [Angelology]) in 4 main divisions spanning
pp. 31-77. Section two is entitled Tajdīd al-Khilqa (The Renewal of
the Created Order, pp. 79-94) and is primarily SKR's response to a
question about the state of things after the qiyāmat al-kubrā (the
Greatest [Eschatological] Resurrection) relative to the khalq jadīd
("new Creation") mentioned in a tradition from of Imam Ja`far al-Şādiq
as cited by Ibn Babuwayh (d. 381/991) in his Kitāb al-khiṣāl.
Section three is a response to a question about about whether al-fi`l
(the Active Reality) is something nobler than al-maqāmāt (the ranks
or levels [of human activity]) and the ism al-fā`il ([active
participle] the [Shaykh as the] name of the One Efficacious, pp.
95-111). Complex metaphysical issues are discussed in this section.
The fourth section is the response of SKR to a question about
metaphysical and philosophical issues surrounding the nature of al-ḥarakat
al-jawhariyya ("substantial motion", a central concept in the
philosophy of Mulla Şadrā) ( pp.117-127). The book ends with a note
signed by Aḥmad al-Bushafī` al-Aḥsā'ī (dated 3rd Sha`bān 1419/ 23rd
Nov. 1998), a list of sources drawn upon in the book and and Index
(pp. 130-137).
Manuscript Compilation of
Writings of Sayyid Kazim in the Library of the Institute of Isma'ili Studies
Extract from Adam Gacek 1985 vol. 2 pp.130-143 =
No.156.
[RASĀ'IL al-RASHTI]
Author: Kāẓim ibn Qāsim al-Ḥusayni al-Rashtī
(d.1259/1843)
*A(620): fol.lb-155a, 21 χ 15 / 15 χ 8 cm., 19 lin.--
Laid paper, watermarks: 1. column surmounted by crescent (in circle);
FIVIZZANO 2. six-pointed lozenge-shaped floret, PICARDO 3. Fortune .--Neat
Shikastah Nasta'līq hand.-- Black ink.-- Dark-green leather binding (without
flap).
1 (fol.lb-18b), Jawab al-masā'il (see colophon).--
Composed in 1240/ 1824-5.— Copied (tahrīr) in 1256/1840.— Incip. .....
2 (fol.18b-22a), Answers to 13 questions
(Arabic and Persian), referred to in colophon as Mukhtaşar al-kalām fī jawab
al-masā'il.— ...
No date (c.1256/1840) -- Ref. Fihrist 427 (290).
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