Biblical, Islamic and Babi-Baha'i Studies

 BIBLICAL AND ISLAMIC STUDIES

Stephen N. Lambden UC Merced.

^{In progress - last substantially updated 10-11-2021.}

• The Bible and the Qur'an: Some introductory Notes and Bibliographical Observations.
• Islamo-Biblica I : Pre-Mosaic and other Anti-Diluvian Islamicate sacred writings.
• Islamo-Biblica II : the Torah, Herew Bible and post-biblical Jewish and related writings.
• Islamo-Biblica III : the Psalms, the Zabur and related post-Qur'anic Islamic writings.
• Islamo-Biblica IV : the Gospels-Injil, the New Testament and related post-Qur'anic Islamic writings.
• The Islamo-Biblical Pseud-Gospel of Barnabas. Text, Notes, Bibliography...
• The Bible, the Qur'ān and the Question of Taḥrīf ("falsification") and Tabdīl ("alteration").
• `Ali ibn Ahmad Ibn Hazm  ( d,456/1064)  and the issue of the corruption of the Bible and pre-Islamic religions.
• The Bible and the Qur'ān:  Select General Bibliography of Primary Sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish with occasional Notes - 1980s+2007+.
• The Bible and the Qur'an: Select General Bibliography II- 1980s+2007+ - Western Sources.

ISLAMO-BIBLICA - ISRA'ILIYYAT

• Islamo-Biblica, Isrā'īliyyāt ("Israelitica"), Abrahamica..
• Select Bibliography for Islamo-Biblica (Israelitica).
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• Early Islamic Transmitters of Islamo-Biblica.
•  Stephen Lambden, "Islam' [The Bible and Isrā'īliyyāt in Islamic Literatures]" chapter  9 in John F. A Sawyer  ed. The  Blackwell Companion to The Bible and Culture,  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2006, pp. 135-157.   Lambden-BCBC.pdf

Stephen Lambden,

• `From Fig-Leaves to Fingernails: Some Notes on the Garments of Adam & Eve in the Hebrew Bible and Select early post-Biblical Jewish Writings' in P. Morris & D. Sawyer (ed.), A Walk in the Garden : Exegesis, Iconography and Literature (Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Lancaster Jan. 8-9, 1986 , JSOT Supp. 136 )  © Sheffield Academic Press [ISBN 1-85075-338-5], 1992 [written 1985]. 0-lancaster.pdf.  

• Prophecy (al-Nubuwwa), Prophetology, Imamology- Walaya and Beyond.  
• From Adam until Muhammad in The Qur'an and Select Islamo-Biblical Sources. 
• Tafsir Sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish - A Bio-Bibliographical Overview and Chronological Survey,
• Islamo-Biblica in Tafsir ("Qur'an Commentary") Literatures I. Early Islamic Exegetes.
• ''Islamo-Biblica in Tafsir ("Qur'an Commentary") Literatures II. Imami Shi`i, Zaydi, Isma'ili and Twelver  Shi`i Tafsir.
• Islamo-Biblica in Tafsir ("Qur'an Commentary") Literatures III. Early Sufi Exegetes and their Ta`wil.
• Islamo-Biblica in Tafsir ("Qur'an Commentary") Literatures IV. Post al-Tabari Sunni Tafsir.
• Islamo-Biblica in Esoteric Tafsir and in the writings of Ibn al-`Arabi and his devotees.
• Islamo-Biblica in select Later Tafsir Literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica in Hadith Qudsi (Divinely inspired Sacred Traditions).
• Islamo-Biblica in  select Sunni Hadith ("Tradition") and related Literatures I.
• Islamo-Biblca in select Imami Shi`i Hadith and related Literatures II.
• Islamo-Biblica in  Hadith ("Tradition") related Literatures III.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Anno-Mundi, Genesis-Creation Traditions and Literatures.
• Alpha and Omega : Islamo-Biblica and Islamic Chronological Schemata, Texts and Literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Genealogical Texts and Literatures.
• Islamo -Biblica in Mubtadā’ (“Genesis-Beginnngs”), Awā’il (“Originations.Progenitors”), Muhammarun (the “Long-Lived”) and related literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Messianism, Eschatology and Apocalyptic : Traditions and Literatures expressive of Fitan and Malāḥim.
• Islamo-Biblica and Pre-Islamic Prophet Figures, Philosophers and Sacred writings.
• Islamo-Biblica and Islamicate pseudo-biblical and  pseudepigraphical writings.
• Islamo-Biblica in Qisas al-Anbiya' (Narratives of the Prophets) Literatures I. 
• Islamo-Biblica in Qisas al-Anbiya' ("Narratives of the Prophets") and related Literatures II.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Sira (Biographical) and related Literatures-I.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Sira (Biographical) and related Literatures-II.
• Islamo-Biblica in Dala'il al-nubuwwa (Proofs of the Prophethood") Literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Dalā’il  (Testimonia) Literatures and Proof-Text compendia.
• Islamo-Biblica in Qur'anic-Islamic traditions pertaining to al-Hajj (Pilgrimage) and  related rituals.
• Islamo-Biblica in Maghazī  (“Militaristic Engagements”) treatises, Futūḥ (“Conquests”) works and related writings.
• Islamo-Biblica in the Fada'il ("Excellencies") of  Mecca-Medina Arabia, Jerusalem, Syria-Palestine. I
• Islamo-Biblica in the Fada'il ("Glories") of Egypt and elsewhere in Islamic Literatures II.
• Islamo-Biblica in proto-early Shi`ism and the Ghulat factions.
• Islamo-Biblica or Islamic world ("Biblical") History in Tarikh (Historical) Literatures I
• Islamo-Biblica or Islamic world ("Biblical") History in Tarikh (Historical) Literatures II
• Islamo-Biblica or Islamic world ("Biblical") History in Tarikh (Historical) Literatures III
• Islamo-Biblica in Imami Shi`i Historical Writings Persian World Histories. IV.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Local Histories I  - Arabia, Egypt and the Levant.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Local Histories II - Persia and Iraq Local Histories.
• Islamo-Biblica, Dialogue and Dissonance I : K. al-masā’il  (`Questions and Answers’) and  Ihtijāj   (Religious disputation) writings..
• Islamo-Biblica, Dialogue and Dissonance II : Islamic Dialogue and Polemic with the ahl al-kitab (People of the Book) and others.
• Islamo-Biblica and Islamic Theology in Dialogue and Disputation : The Mu`tazila  (“Seceders”)  and the Mutakallimun  (Rationalist  theologians), exponents  of `ilm  al-kalām  (Dogmatic Theology).
• Islamo-biblica and Abū Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd ibn Ḥazm (d. 456 /1064).
• Islamo-Biblica and Select Islamic Philosophers.
• Islamo-Biblica  and Islamic Devotional Texts and  Literatures: Ṣalāt, Namāz, Du`a, Munājāt, Ziyārat-nāmah.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Legalism and Ritualism.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Adab (belles lettres) and the encyclopaedic tradition.
• Islamo-Biblica in Islamic Alchemy and the `Ulum al-Ghayb ("Esotericism").
• Islamo-Biblica in early Islamic Asceticism and Emergent Sufism I
• Islamo-Biblica in selet later Sufi thinkers and mystics II
• Islamo-Biblica in the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (the Treatises of the Brethren of Purity).
• Islamo-Biblica in Select writings of Ibn al-`Arabi and his devotees.
• Islamo-Biblica Islamic heresiographical and associated works.
• Islamo-Biblica in selet later Sufi thinkers III
• Islamo-Biblica in Later Persianate Sufi and other poetical writings.
• Islamo-Biblica in Arabic-Islamic gnomological traditions, wisdom literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica in Arabic-Islamic gnomological traditions... : Bibliographies.
• Islamo-Biblica in  pre-Safavid Shi`i Sources.
• Islamo-Biblica in Ishraqi and associated `Illuminationist' thinkers.
• Islamo-Biblica and later post-Safavid Shi`ism.
• Islamo-Biblica in Ahl-i Haqq or `Ali Ilahi Literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica in select Hurufi literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica among Bekhtasi thinkers and literatures.
• Islamo-Biblica in  the Rasa'il al-Hikma and Literatures sacred to the Druzes. 

δια τεσσαρον

• The Arabic version of the Gospel Harmony called the Diatessaron ("Out of Four") of Tatian the Syrian (d. late 2nd cent CE).

ARABIC AND PERSIAN BIBLES

• The Arabic Bible : Select Mss. and Printed Editions of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Bibles, Biblical Books and Related Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical Texts. Pt 1
• The Arabic Bible : Select Mss. and Printed Editions of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Bibles, Biblical Books and Related Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical Texts. Pt 2
• Arabic Versions of the Bible - Bibliography and Miscellany.
• Selected mss. texts and Printed editions of the Persian Bible and related writings.
• Persian Versions of the Bible - Bibliography and Miscellany.

 The Enigmatic  מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶֿק Melchizedek. melchizedek.pdf

• Some Notes on the Abrahamic-Islamic pre-history and intertextuality of traditions about the person and name  آسية  (Ar.) Āsiyah (Per. Āsiyih), the  name of the wife of Bahā’-Allah (1817-1892) and the mother of `Abdu’l-Bahā’ (1844-1921).

• The Sinaitic Mysteries : Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in Babi and Baha'i Scripture, Lambden 1986. Corrected Web edition May 2007. Sinaitic Mysteries.pdf Sinaitic Mysteries.pdf

Expanded Revised Version - Lambden 2016-7.

• The Sinaitic Mysteries : Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in  Abrahamic-Islamic and the Babi and Baha'i  Religions. Pt. I.  The Bible, Judaism, Christanity and associated Pre-Islamic Religions. 
• The Sinaitic Mysteries : Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in  Abrahamic-Islamic and the Babi and Baha'i Religions.  Pt. II.  The Qur'an and Sunni and Shi`i-Shaykhi Islamic Literatures.
• The Sinaitic Mysteries : Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in  Abrahamic-Islamic and the Babi and Baha'i Religions. Pt. III. The Writings of the Bab (1819-1850 CE).  
• The Sinaitic Mysteries : Notes on Moses/Sinai Motifs in  Abrahamic-Islamic and the Babi and Baha'i Religions. Pt. IV. The Writings of Baha'-Allah (1817-1892).  
• V. The Sinaitic Mysteries : Select Bibliography.

Adventist Groups and Millenarian Movements

• William Miller (1782-1849) in Baha'i and associated Literatures.
• Jews, Bābīs and Bahā'īs: Bibliographical and Historical Notes

Missionary Periodicals

• Panoplist and Missionary Herald and Select Other Missionary Periodicals in the Lambden Library.

ISLAMO-BIBLICA AND BABI-BAHA'I EXEGESIS-EISEGESIS

Some Islamo-Biblica and Babi-Baha'i Interpretations and Intertextualities.

• Islamo-Biblica and Beyond: Prophetology and Theophanology in Babi and Baha'i sacred literatures.
• Two Ishmaels, two Moses' and Two Davids in Bibical, Islamic and Babi-Baha'i Sources.
• Islamo-Biblica, Jafr and the `ilm al-huruf.
• Beatitudes and Woes:  Some Bibical, Islamo-Biblical and Babi-Baha’i  Intertextualities, Pt. I Beatitudes.
• Beatitudes and Woes:  Some Bibical, Islamo-Biblical and Babi-Baha’i  Intertextualities, Pt.II Woes.

IT CAME TO PASS

Eschatology and Apocalyptic :

Intertextual Studies in the Islamic and Babi-Baha'i Interpretations of the Bible and the Qur'an.

• On the Babi-Baha'i Interpretations of the Bible and the Qur'an: Some Introductory Notes.
• Biblical and Islamic Prophecy and fulfillment in Babi and Baha'i literatures.
• A Survey of Babi and Baha'i Istidlaliyya ("Testimonia")  literatures in the East and the West.
• Antichrist Dajjal I : Jewish and Christians origins.
• Antichrist Dajjal II : Islamic texts and traditions
• Antichrist Dajjal III : Babi and Baha'i Interpretations,
• Antichrist Dajjal IV, : Select Bibliography, Abrahamic and Babi-Baha'i.
• Select Babi-Baha'i and earlier Interpretations of 666, "the number of the Beast" in the Apocalypse or book of Revelation.
• Eschatological Trumpet Blasts in the Bible, the Qur'an and Babi-Baha'i scriptural writings.
• The eschatological rising of the sun, the cleaving of the "moon" and the falling of the "stars" : 
• Catastrophe and Armageddon. 

THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE KHATAM AL-NABIYYIN (" SEAL OF THE PROPHETS")

THROUGH THE LIQA' ALLAH / AL-RABB

(THE ENCOUNTER-MEETING WITH GOD/ THE LORD).

• (1) The Arabic Jawahir al-asrar (Essence-Gems of the Mysteries" c.1268/1860-61) and the Persian Kitab-i Iqan ("The Book of Certitude", c. 1261/1861) and question of the Khatam al-nabiyyin (the "Seal of the Prophets").
• (2) Extracts from the Kitab-i Badi`(c. 1867), the Lawh-i Sarraj (c. 1867) and other Babi-Baha'i Sacred Writings in confirmation of the veracity of the Qur'anic Khatam al-nabiyyin (Q. 33:30b) - with an Appendix on the positive Babi-Baha'i use of the phrase Khatam al-nabiyyin, Muhammad is the "Seal of the Prophets" in Babi-Baha'i scriptural texts.
• (3) The Lawh-i Khatam al-Nabiyyin 1, A Tablet of Baha'u'llah to Hasan Shahabadi in confirmation of the Khatam al-nabiyyin of Qur'an 33:40b.
• (4) Further Scriptural Tablets of Baha'u'llah relating to the question of the Khatam al-nabiyyin including that to Aqa-yi Bashir-i Ilahi.
• (5) Extract from the Lambden Ph.D 1980s + 2002. Liqa' Transcends Khatam al-Nabiyyin. PDf. Lambden_phd-80-86.pdf
• (6) Khatamiyya (Q. 33:40b) and the Liqa' Allah (the Divine Theophany) - An Early Web Beta Version.
• (7) The 2017 Expanded Ph.D English text for Louis Henezut, Lambden-Transcendence 2017.pdf
• (7a), The 2018 French Published Version Trans. Louis Henezut PDf. Henuzet_--Lambden_paper_2018.pdf
• (8) The Bābī-Bahā’ī transcendence of khatam al-nabiyyīn (Qur’ān 33:40) as the `Finality of Prophethood’. Beta monograph version F30 - Last updated 20-05-2018, Lambden- Seal 2018-F30.pdf
• (9) Liqa'-Allah (The "Encounter -Meeting with God") and the Bābī-Bahā’ī transcendence of the Khatam al-nabiyyīn (Qur’ān 33:40b) as the `Finality of Prophethood’ (revised and expanded version of the above papers). Forthcoming 2022.

παρακλητος

The 1993 Paper and the Printed 1997 version.   PDf. Paraclete.pdf

• Prophecy in the Johannine Farewell Discourse : The Advents of the Paraclete , Aḥmad and Conforter (al-Mu`azzi).  A Revised and Expanded 2016> Web Edition of `Prophecy in the Johannine Farewell Discourse'. 
• Evolving Beta text of the above revised 2016 article
• Bibliography on the Paraclete and related figures in select Abrahamic Religious and associated writings.

^{The Kitāb al-muṭawwal ("The Comprehensive) of Sa`d al-Dīn al-Harawi al-Taftazānī al-Shafi'ī (d.793/1390)}

• Arabic, Dictionaries, Grammars & Linguistic Studies ...
• Persian Dictionaries, Grammars & Linguistic Studies ...
• Turkish Dictionaries, Grammars & Linguistic Studies ...
• Islamic Studies, Reference, General & Miscellany ...

TAFSIR-TA'WIL

• Tafsir-Ta`wil, Qur'anic Exegesis-Eisegesis - Primary Sources I. 
• Tafsir-Ta`wil, Qur'anic Exegesis-Eisegesis - Primary Sources II. 
• Tafsir-Ta`wil, Qur'anic Exegesis-Eisegesis - Primary Sources X. 
• Qur'ān and Tafsīr : Select secondary sources and Abbreviations. 
• Fadā'il al-Qur'ān ("The Excellences of the Qur'an") and related Literatures.
• An annotated chronological survey of Islamic Tafsir Literatures I. 
• An annotated chronological survey of Islamic Tafsir Literatures II.
• An annotated chronological survey of Islamic Tafsir Literatures III. 
• Imami Shi`i Tafsir Literatures, Part 1= IV. 
• Safavid Era Shi`i Islamic Tafsir Literatures (1501-1736), Part 2. V 
• Qajar Era Shi`i Islamic Tafsir Literatures (1796-1926), Part 3- VI 
• Nineteenth Century Shaykhi Tafsir Writings. VII 
• Nineteenth-Twenty First Century Bābī and Bahā'ī Tafsīr Writings VIII. 

THE BABI-BAHA'I RELIGIONS AND  SELECT HADITH LITERATURES.

• Sunni Hadith Compilations : Bio-Bibliographical Notes and Studies.
• Shi`i Hadith/ Akhbar Compilations : Bio-bibliographical Notes and Studies.
• Hadith Citations of the Central Figures of the Babi-Baha'i Religions.
• The Bābī-Bahā’ī Attitude towards Sunni and Twelver Shī`ī Ḥadīth Literatures (aḥādīth / akhbār)  with special reference to the Bible and Islamo-Biblica. 1980s+ 2018 + Updated Pdf version

THE BASMALA AND THE ISOLATED LETTERS OF THE QUR'AN

• The Islamic basmala : An Introductory Note.
• The Islamic basmala Pt. 1 The Abrahamic or Persianate religious background.
• Possible Jewish roots of the Islamic basmala
• Some Christian roots and reactions to the Islamic basmala
• The Islamic basmala Pt. II. The Basmala in the Qur'ān.
• The Islamic basmala Pt. IIIA. In Sunni Hadith literatures.
• The Islamic basmala Pt. IIIB. In Shi`i Akhbar/ Hadith literatures.

• The child Jesus, the Alphabet and the Basmala in the Abrahamic and Babi-Baha'i religions.
• The Islamic basmala Pt. IV. Imami Shi`i and related literatures.
• The Islamic basmala in Islamic esotericism Pt. V. In Magical, Mystical Sufi and related literatures.
• The Islamic basmala Pt. VI. In Early Shaykhism, the writings of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī  (d. 1241/1826) and Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī  (d. 1259/1843).
• The Islamic basmala Pt. VII.   An annotated bibliographical Survey.
• The Islamic Basmala البسملة =)   بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ = Bi-smillāh al-Raḥman al-Raḥīm), its Abrahamic background and Babi-Bahā’ī  Recreations. PDf. 

بِسْمِ اللهِ الامنع الاقدس

“In the Name of God, the Inaccessible, the Most Holy”

• The Commentaries of the Bab on the Islamic basmala, Introduction.
• Towards a translation of the Tafsir Huruf al-basmala of the Bab.
• The Basmala and its recreations in the writings of Sayyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab (1819-1850).

بِسْمِ اللهِ البهي الابهى

“In the Name of God, the Glorious, the All-Glorious”

• The Commentaries of Baha'-Allah on the Islamic basmala.
• The Basmala and its recreations in the writings of Mirza Husayn`Ali Nuri, Baha'-Allah (1817-1892).
• The Commentaries of `Abd al-Baha'i and Baha'i writers on the Islamic basmala.
• The Babi-Baha'i Basmala and its recreations, further considerations.

THE AL-HURUFAT AL-MUQATTA`AT, THE ISOLATED / DISCONNECTED LETTERS  AND THEIR ISLAMIC AND BABI-BAHA'I INTERPRETATIONS.

• The al-Hurufat al-Muqatta`at (The Isolated Letters) - 
•  The al-Hurufat al-Muqatta`at (The Isolated Letters) - 
•  The al-Hurufat al-Muqatta`at (The Isolated Letters) - 
•  The al-Hurufat al-Muqatta`at (The Isolated Letters) -  Babi and Baha;i Interpretations,
•  The al-Hurufat al-Muqatta`at (The Isolated Letters) - historical, annotated  bibliography.

SOME ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC AND BABI-BAHA'I THEOLOGY.

 هوية

^{Huwiyya (The Divine Ipseity, “Selfness”)}

• “Huwa-Hiya"/"He–She-It is”, the Huwiyya (Divine Ipseity), and some aspects of re-created Basmalas within Babi-Baha’i Literary Commencements.
•   Huwiyya - Updated Beta PDf. version XX-12-2017,

The Isra' (Night Journey) and the Mi`rāj (Heavenly Ascent) of the Prophet Muhammad

• Some Aspects of the Abrahamic religious background in to the Islamic Isra'-Mi`rāj traditions.
• The succession of the heavens in Abrahamic and Islamic Literatures.
• The Prophet Muhammad and the tradition of Ibn `Abbas about the Isra'-Mi`rāj. PDf. Ibn `Abbas.pdf.
• Mi`raj Hadith Ibn `Abbas, partial trans. from Calder et. al. eds.  Classical Islam, PDf. CI-Mi`raj.pdf
• Major Sunni canonical Hadith texts on the  Isra'-Mi`raj : Annotated Translations.
• The Isra'-Mi`rāj in the writings of select Sunni Tafsir writers.
• The Isra'-Mi`rāj in the writings of select Shi`i Tafsir writers
• The Isra'-Mi`rāj in the writings of various Shi`i Exegetes, philosophers and Mystics.
• The Isra'-Mi`rāj in Select Sufi writers.
• The Isra'-Mi`rāj in the writings of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-`Arabi (d.1240 CE) and his followers.
• The Isra'-Mi`rāj in the writings of Muhammad Baqir Majlisi (d. 1111/1699-1700 CE).
• The Isra'-Mi`rāj in the writings of Sadr al-Din Shirazi (d. Basra 1050/1640), Mulla Sadra.
• Select texts of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī on the Isra'-Mi`raj of the Prophet Muhammad.
• al-Aḥsā’ī , Risala al-Qaṭīfīyya, Q. 26 on the Mi`raj. Translation +   PDf. Miraj-Q26 JK 1ii 127-8.pdf

• al-Buraq (Lightening) in Islamic Literatures and select Shi`i-Shaykhi texts.
• al-Aḥsā’ī , Risala al-Qaṭīfīyya, Q. 28 on al-Buraq (JK 1ii,129). Translation +   PDf. Qatifiyya Q28 Buraq.pdf
• Sayyid Kazim Rashti (d.1259/1843) and later Shaykhi Writers on the Isra'-Mi`rāj.
• Sayyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi (d. 1850 CE), the Bab, on the Isra'-Mi`rāj.
• CUL F.21 [9] Q14. `On the Mi'rāj (Night Journey) in the Land of Ṣād (Isfahān) (pp. 104-106).   PDf.
• Sharḥ kayfiyyat al-mi`rāj  (Commentary upon the  modality of the Mi`rāj [of the Prophet Muhammad]), the Risāla fī'l-jasad al-nabī  (Treatise upon the [translocation] of the body of the Prophet [Muhammad]). Lambden Translation. 
• Mirza Husayn`Ali Nuri, Baha'-Allah (d.1892) and `Abd al-Baha' (d.1921) on the Isra'-Mi`rāj.
• Karim Khan Kirmani (d. 1871 CE) and Baha'-Allah on the Mi`rāj in the Kitab-i iqan (The Book of Certitude, c.1862), a new Babi Hermeneutic of Spirituality.
• A Bibliography of Islamic Mi`rāj articles and books by western academic scholars and others.

• Some Aspects of the Abrahamic roots and Islamic interpretations of the Qur'anic Sidra (Lote Tree), Sidrat al-Muntaha (Lote Tree of the Extremity).
• The Sidrat al-Muntaha in select Sunni Hadith texts and commentators.
• The Sidrat al-Muntahā in the Tafsīr and Tarikh of Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Jarīr  al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/922) and its Persian recreation by Bal`ami.
• The Sidrat al-Muntaha in Select Sunni Tafsir Literatures.
• Ibn Ḥajar al-Asqalānī (d. 853 / 1449) on the Sidrat al-Muntahā
• The Sidrat al-Muntahā in the Tafsīr of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1209).
• The Sidra and Sidrat al-Muntahā in the writings of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-'Arabī (d. 638/1240) and select followers.
• The Sidrat al-Muntaha in Shi`i traditions and related sources.
• The Sidrat al-Muntaha in select Shi`i Tafsir and associated sources.
• `Abd al-Karim al-Jilī (d. c. 832/1428) on the Sidrat al-Muntahā in his al-Insan al-Kamil (XLIX).
• PDf. The Sidrat al-Muntaha in al-Insan al-Kamil. al-Insan: Sidrat al-Muntaha.pdf
• The Sidrat al-Muntahā in Islamic Mi`raj and related writings.
• The Sidrat al-Muntahā in the early Shaykhi Literatures.
• Some aspects of the Islamic and Bābī-Bahā'ī Interpretations of the Qur'anic Sidrat al-Muntahā (Lote-Tree) motif.

• The Qur'ānic Sūrat al-Kahf (Surah of the Cave), Q. 18 in Tafsir and other Islamic Literatures.I 
• The Surah of the Cave in Islamic Exegesis and Eisegesis, A Bibliography.
• Some Notes upon the Interpretations of the Bab of sections of the Qur'ānic Sūrat al-Kahf (Surah of the Cave), Q. 18. Pt.1I.
• Some Notes upon the Interpretations of  Baha'-Allah and his successots of portions of the Qur'ānic Sūrat al-Kahf (Surah of the Cave), Q. 18. Pt. III.

AN ISLAMICATE DELPHIC MAXIM

• An Islamicate Delphic Maxim - Introduction.
• الرسالة الوجودية  (al-Risala al-wujudiyya) of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-'Arabī (b. Murcia 560/1165- d. Damascus 638/1240).
• الرسالة الوجودية  (al-Risala al-wujudiyya) of Ibn al-'Arabī, the Translation of T. H. Weir : Ibn `Arabi-Know thyself-c.pdf 
• Jalal al-Din Suyuti on the `Man `Arafa' Hadith and its veracity. Translation + Text PDf.  Suyuti-man `arafa.pdf
• Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī  on an Islamicate Delphic Maxim with extensive Commentary on the Hadith al-haqiqa - Annotated Translation.
• The Bab on the Islamicate Delphic Maxim.

• Baha'-Allah on an Islamicate Delphic Maxim - the Scriptural Tablet to Hajji Mulla Hadi Qazvini.
• Lawh-i Hajji Mulla Hadi Qazvini with an explanation of the Hadith, "He who hath known himself hath indeed known his Lord" (man `arafa nafsahu faqad `arafa rabbahu). Introduction
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