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Early Shaykhism : Bibliographies, Notes and Translations = الشيخية

الشيخ أحمد بن زين الدين الإحسائي

 Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī  (d. 1241/1826)  

Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī

(d. 1241/1826)

Stephen Lambden UC Merced
IN PROGRESS AND UNDER REVISION - Last updated 08-04-2023.

 

 

 

فهرست كتب شيخ اجل اوحد مرحوم شيخ احمد احسائى و ساير مشايخ عظام و خلاصه شرح احوال ايشان 

Fihrist-i kutub-i shaykh-i ajall-i awhad-i marḥūm Shaykh Aḥmad Aḥsāʼī va sāyir mashāyikh-i iẓām va khulāsah-i sharḥ-i aḥvāl-i īshān. Āqā Ḥajjī `Abu'l-Qāsim Khān al-Ibrahīmī   (d. 1389/1969), Fihrist -A . Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī (d.1241/1826).

  • Moojan Momen, BSBM1 - uncorrected 1st ed. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991. BSBM1-C.pdf
  • BSBM1 2nd expanded Web edition (ed. S. Lambden) UC Merced,  2015.

 

Towards a reprint of the Jawāmi` al-kalim ("The Comprehensive Discourse") a 19th century compilation of the writings of  Shaykh Aḥmad b. Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā'ī  (d. 1241/1826). Extracts from the lithograph printing ...

SELECT TRANSLATIONS FROM WRITINGS OF SHAYKH AHMAD

SAYYID KAZIM RASHTI

السيد كاظم بن السيد قاسم الحسيني الرشتي

Sayyid Kāẓim ibn Sayyid Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī

(d.1259/1843)

SELECT TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF SAYYID KAZIM

THE KIRMANI SHAYKHI LEADERS AND THEIR WRITINGS 

  

Ḥajji Mīrzā Muhammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī

(1225-1288 AH /1810- 1871 CE)

  

 The 2nd  Kirmānī Shaykhī leader 

 Āqā Ḥajjī Muhammad Khān Kirmānī

(1263-1324/1846-1906).

The Kirmani Shaykhī  leader and the son of Muhammad Karim Khān Kirmānī.

Biography

  • Muhammad Khān Kirmānī : An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of Muhammad Khān Kirmānī  including select mss. printed materials, PDfs and Urls.
  • Muhammad Rahim Khan Kirmani (d. 1889), elder brother of Muhammad Khan Kirmani and his supporters, the Natiqis (pl. Nawatiq).
  • The 1878 Shaykhi-Balasari conflict in Kirman.
  • Hajji Mirza Muhammad Baqir son of Muhammad Ja`far son of Muhammad Sadiq [Isfahani] Hamadani (1239/1823-4, d. Jandaq, 1319/1901) and his writings.

  The 3rd  Kirmānī Shaykhī leader 

  

Āqā Ḥajjī Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān  al-Kirmani al-Ibrahīmi (1276-1360/1859-1941), brother of 2nd  Kirmānī Shaykhī leader.

Biography

  The 4th  Kirmānī Shaykhī leader 

  

Āqā Ḥajjī `Abu'l-Qāsim b. Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān Kirmani al-Ibrahīmī (1314-1389/1896-1969), son of the 3rd  Kirmānī Shaykhī leader.  

Biography

`Abu'l-Qāsim ibn Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān al-Ibrahīmī: An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of `Abu'l-Qāsim b. Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān al-Ibrahīmī  including select mss. printed materials, PDfs and Urls.

  The 5th  Kirmani Shaykhī leader 

 

  Ḥajjī  Sarkar Aqa,`Abd al-Riḍā' Khān al-Ibrahīmī

(1340-1400/1921- 26th Dec. 1979)

  Biography 

  The 6th  Kirmani-Iraqi Shaykhī leader

  

  Ḥajjī `Sayyid `Ali `Abd Allah al-Mūsāwī al-Ḥifzih of Basra (1317/1899- XXX).  

Biographical Notes

 

 

  OTHER SHAYKHI LEADERS AND NOTABLES OF THE 19th-21st CENTURIES

Handwriting of Fatima Baraghani, Tahira ( d.1852).

 

STUDIES ON SHAYKHI DOCTRINAL PERSPECTIVES

  • Towards a Bibliography of Anti-Shaykhi polemic in Twelver Shi`i and Sunni religious literatures.
  • On the possible Hebrew-Judaic roots of the Ishraqi, Shi`i-Shaykhī term Hurqalya [sic.] and a survey of its Imami interpretations.
  • On the Etymology of Hurqalya [sic.] / Havaqalya [sic.].
  • The Early  Shaykhī interpretation of the Isra'-Mi`raj (Night Ascent and Ascension) and Babi-Baha'ī Responses thereto.
  • Some Notes on the Shaykhī Cosmology and Psychology of Soul-Spirit-Mind and Intellect.

SHAYKHISM AND THE BABI AND BAHA'I RELIGIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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