الشيخ أحمد بن زين الدين الإحسائي
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.
- Materials for the Study of Shaykhism I - Arabic, Persian + Sources.
- Materials for the Study of Shaykhism II - Western Language Sources.
- Hyperlinks to Shaykhi Websites and related studies.
- A brief biography of Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī
- Select Ijāzas ("Religious Authorizations") written for Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī.
- Biographical Notes and Sources for the life of Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī (d.1241/1826) I.
- Biographical Notes and Sources for the life of Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī (d.1241/1826) II Select Western Sources.
- Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i : An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī including select mss., printed texts, Urls and PDf downloads.
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
- The text of the al-Ziyāra al-jāmi`a al-kabīra of the 10th Imam `Ali al-Hadi (d. 254/868).
- PDf. Ziyara jk.pdf
- A translation of al-Ziyāra al-jāmi`a al-kabīra of the 10th Imam `Ali al-Hadi (d. 254/868).
- Some Notes on select twelver Shi`i commentaries on the Ziyarat al-Jami`a al-kabira.
- Introduction to and extracts in translation from the Sharh al-Ziyāra al-jāmi`a al-kabīra of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (d.1241/1826).
- The Tafsir Surat al-Tawhid (Commentary on the Surah of the Divine Unity [= Q. 114) of of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī.
- PDf. The Arabic text : T-Tawhid.
- A Risala of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī in Reply to some brethren of Isfahan.
- A Risala of Shaykh Ahmad in responce to questions of Mullā Muhammad Ḥusayn al-Anārī.
- PDf. The Arabic text :
- Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī on an Islamicate Delphic Maxim - Introduction
- Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī on an Islamicate Delphic Maxim - Translation.
- PDf. The Arabic text : al-Ahsa'i-man arafa.pdf
- Select texts of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī on the Isra'-Mi`raj of the Prophet Muhammad.
- Uncorrected Stephen Lambden Powerpoint Presentation on Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī = PP_-_Twin Shining Lights 1-Shaykh_Ahmad.pdf
SAYYID KAZIM RASHTI
السيد كاظم بن السيد قاسم الحسيني الرشتي
Sayyid Kāẓim ibn Sayyid Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī
(d.1259/1843)
- A Brief Biography of Sayyid Kāẓim al-Husayni al-Rashtī.
- Sayyid Kāzim al-Rashtī : An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of Sayyid Kazim Rashtī including select mss. materials, printed texts and Urls.
- Sayyid Kāẓim al-Rashtī : Bibliography A - Arabic, Persian, etc.
- Sayyid Kāẓim al-Rashtī : Bibliography B - Western Languages.
- Āqā Ḥajjī `Abu'l-Qāsim Khān al-Ibrahīmī (d. 1389/1969), Fihrist –B Sayyid Kāẓim ibn Sayyid Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī (d.1259/1843). Stephen Lambden, BSBM 2. Fihrist –B Sayyid Kāẓim al-Rashtī.
- Uncorrected Stephen Lambden Powerpoint Presentation on Sayyid Kāzim Rashtī = PP Twin Shining Lights 2-Sayyid Kazim Rashti.pdf
SELECT TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF SAYYID KAZIM
- Some extracts from the Tafsīr āyat al-kursī (Commentary upon the verse of the Throne [= Q. 2:255]) of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī .
- Some extracts from the Sharh al-Qasida al-Lamiyya (The Ode Rhyming in the Letter "L") of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī.
- The Risālah fī sharḥ wa tafsīr ism al-a`ẓam: The Treatise in Commentary upon the [graphical form of] the Mightiest Name of God. Introduction and Annotated Translation. PDf. SOAS ms. : Rashti-Sharh al-ism al-a`zam.pdf
- `The treatise of Sayyid Kāzim Rashtī on the Shī`ī graphical form of the Mightiest Name of God (al-ism al-a'zam)'. Paper and abstract. PDf-2004 Abstract = SKR-ism.pdf
- The Commentary of Sayyid Kāẓim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī (d.1259/1843) on the دعاء السمات Du`a al-Simat (The Prayer of the Signs).
- PDf. Lambden 2007 Trans. Du`a al-Simat : Du`a al-simat-trans. Lambden.pdf
- Lambden Trans. of the Sharh Du`a al-simat ("Prayer of the Signs") of Sayyid Kazim Rashti.
- Some Early Shaykhi Interpretations of the Basmala, Shaykh Ahmad ibn Zayn al-Din al-Ahsa'i (d.1241/1826) and Sayyid Kazim al-Husayni al-Rashti (d. 1259/1843). 2023-4.
THE KIRMANI SHAYKHI LEADERS AND THEIR WRITINGS
Ḥajji Mīrzā Muhammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī
(1225-1288 AH /1810- 1871 CE)
- Biographical Notes
- Sources for the Biography of Muhammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī
- Ḥajji Mīrzā Muhammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī I
- Ḥajji Mīrzā Muhammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī II
- Karim Khan Kirmanī : An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of Karim Khan Kirmanī including select mss. printed materials, PDfs and Urls.
- An early Epistle of the Bāb to Ḥajji Mirza Muhammad Kārim Khān Kirmānī (d.1871 CE) as cited in Kirman's own Risāla al-Shihāb al-thāqib fī rajm al-nawāṣib ("The Piercing Thunderbolt for the Stoning of the Enemies"). Translation Stephen Lambden.
- The Anti-Babi Writings of Karīm Khān Kirmānī
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.
- 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
- Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān al-Kirmani al-Ibrahīmi : An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of Zayn al-`Ābidīn Khān al-Ibrahīmi including select mss. printed materials, PDfs and Urls.
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.
`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)
- Bibliography `Abd al-Riḍā' Khān al-Ibrahīmī : An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of `Abd al-Riḍā' Khān al-Ibrahīmī including select mss. printed materials, PDfs and Urls.
The 6th Kirmani-Iraqi Shaykhī leader
Ḥajjī `Sayyid `Ali `Abd Allah al-Mūsāwī al-Ḥifzih of Basra (1317/1899- XXX).
- Bibliography`Sayyid `Ali `Abd Allah al-Mūsāwī al-Ḥifzih : An Annotated, Alphabetical, Bibliographical Survey of the Writings of `Sayyid `Ali `Abd Allah al-Mūsāwī al-Ḥifzih including select mss. printed materials, PDfs and Urls.
OTHER SHAYKHI LEADERS AND NOTABLES OF THE 19th-21st CENTURIES
Handwriting of Fatima Baraghani, Tahira ( d.1852).
- A Baraghānī - Qazvini Shi`i Shaykhi family and their writings.
- The Adhirbayjani, Mamaqani Shaykhi leaders and their literary legacy. 2015
- A letter of the Bab to Mullā Ḥasan Gawhar (d.1266/1849) or Shaykh Ḥasan ibn `Alī [of Qarāja Dāghī] al-Tabrīzi.
- Prominent Adhirbayjani Shaykhis/ Usulis of the Thiqat al-Islam family.
- From Adhirbayjan to Kuwait: The al-Ḥāʼirī al-Iḥqāqī legacy.
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
- Shaykhī related materials in select early writings of the Bab.
- The Ziyarat-Nama (Visitation Supplication) of the Bab for Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī (d. 1241/1826).
- The Commentary of the Bāb on [a portion of] Sayyid Kāẓim Rashti's Sharḥ al-khuṭba al-ṭutunjiyya (The Commentary on the Sermon of the Gulf).
- An Early Epistle of the Bāb to Karim Khān Kirmānī
- The Baraghāni family, Early Shaykhism and the emergent Bābi Religion.
- Ṭāhira, Qurrat al-`Ayn (d. 1852), Shaykhī sage, poetess and Bābī Martyr.
- Mulla Jawād Viliyānī, The Babi then anti-Bābi cousin of Fātima Baraghānī, Ṭāhira.
- The Risāla of Qatil ibn al-Karbalā'ī translated from Fadil-i Mazandarāni, Kitāb-i Zuhur al-Haqq III
- The Babi-Baha'i exaltation of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i and Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī
- The Lawh-i qina' ("Tablet of the Veil") of Mirza Husayn `Ali, Bahā'-Allāh, An Introduction, Translation and Commentary. See Lawḥ-i qinā' (The Tablet of the Veil). c. 1871?.
- An annotated Bibliography of Shaykhi anti-Bābi-Bahā'i polemic.
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