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Muhammad Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-`Āmilī = Shaykh Bahā'ī and the Baha'i religion

 

 

بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين عاملي

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muhammad ibn ʻIzz al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ... al-Harithi al-Hamdanī al-`Āmilī al-Jubā'ī,

(953-1030 = 1547-1621 CE_ =  Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī = Shaykh Bahā'ī.

Stephen Lambden

In progress 2000s + 2019

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The son of Shaykh Ḥusayn ibn `Abd al-Ṣamad al-`Āmilī (919-984 AH = 1512-1576 CE) who was appointed Shaykh al-Islam at the then Safavid capital Qazvin by Shah Ṭahmasb (930-984 AH =1524-1576 CE). He was born near Baalbek on the 27th Dhu'l-Ḥijja 953 AH = 18th February 1547 CE and died Isfahan 12th Shawwāl 1030 AH = 29th August 1621 CE. A polymathic and widely travelled individual Shaykh Bahā'ī is viewed by some as the Islamic Mujaddid ("Renewer") of the 11th/17th century. The elder Majlisi, Muhammad Taqi Majlisi, described him as follows in his al-Rawdat (22:1),"[He is] al-Shaykh al-A`ẓam ("the Supreme Shaykh"), al-Wālid al-Mu`azzam ("the Venerated Father"), Imam al-`Allāmah ("the Imam of the Most Erudite"), Malik al-Fuḍalā' wa'l-Udabā' wa'l-Muḥaddithīn ("Commander of the Most Eminent Ones, the Cultured Persons and the Masters of Tradition"), Bahā' al-millat wa'l-Ḥaqq wa'l-Dīn ("the Splendor of the Religious Community and of the Real One [God] and of Religion")" (cited introduction to the Miftah al-Falah [1422/2001 ed], 4). Shaykh Baha'i was an accomplished theologian, philosopher, mathematician, Sufi inclined mystic, architect, grammarian and more besides. Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī was the one-time supremely powerful Shaykh al-Islām under Shāh `Abbās I (r. 996/1588- 1038/1629) at his then Safavid capital Isfahan. Shaykh Baha'i wrote a poem dar rumuz-i ism-i a`zam in which He claimed to disclose yet conceal something of the secret of the ism-i a`zam - see Lambden trans. below:

The word Baha' in the poems of Shaykh Baha'i

 در رموز اسم اعظم

Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam ("On the Secrets of the Mightiest Name [of God]")

در رموز اسم اعظم

  • Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam  ["On the Secrets of the Greatest Name"] in Jawahiri, 93-99.
  • Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam- Notes on the Lambden translation.
  • PDf.

Some Notes on the word baha' in the poem `Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam ("On the Secrets of the Mightiest Name [of God]").

 

 

 

The writings of Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī (b. Baalbeck c.1547, d. Isfahan 1622 CE),  Shaykh Bahā'ī , his uses of the word Bahā', and Baha'i Perspectives about him

Perhaps the most famous Baha' al-Din was the Safavid theologian, mystic, mathematician, architect, man of letters and polymath,  Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili author of around 100 works including a well-known anthology entitled Kashkul ("Begging-Bowl"). A one time Shaykh al-Islam of Isfahan appointed by Shah 'Abbas the Great, he adopted the takhallus (pen-name) Shaykh Baha'i. This great Baha' al-Din is also especially famous as a poet.He was a polymathic Shi`i sage with mystical tendencies who wrote upon many subjects from Tafsir Qur'an commentary to a systematic exploration of the universe of twelver Fiqh, jurisprudence. He was much travelled having been on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, visited Jerusalem and Egypt, and well-aware of Sunni docrtrinal and the legal convictions of its major schools.

Baha'u'llah on Shaykh Baha'i

In an untitled Persian Tablet mostly concerned with the exercise of wisdom (hikmat) in proclaiming the Bahai religion and making reference to the martyrdom of Aga Buzurg Khurasani (d. July 1869) known as Badi` ("Wondrous") who delivered the Tablet of Baha"-Allah to Nasir al-Din Shah, Baha'-Allah refers to "Shaykh Bahai'i and his poetry". Though the Persian is a little ambiguous he saw him as a man of insight and realization, unlike many of his clerical contemporaries and successors:

As to that which thou hast observed in the poems of Shaykh-i Baha'i. This servant ('abd = Baha'-Allah) giveth testimony (shahadat) to the mysteries (asrar) that are today unveiled throughout the expanse of the heavens and of the earth, as realized by that eminent one (an jinab) [Shaykh Baha'i]!

Indeed, one hundred thousand the like of that late Shaykh [Baha'i] and many more beyond even that one, never did come to realize anything of significance. It is thus the case, as thou have born witness, that the informed `ulama' either entertain imaginary fancies (awhamat) regarding the bodily manifestation of the Qa'im, or produce numerous specious pages (awraq-i agfah) thus blackening things in refutation [of the Babi-Bahal Cause] by mentioning all manner of fanciful notions (zannunat) that are of no lasting value. Numerous books have been composed regarding these matters from which nothing touching upon true understanding is generated" [The above translation is under revision and correction] (

Various Baha'i scholars and apologists, most notably, the Persian born `Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khavari (b. Mashhad 1902 - d. Tehran 1972), have interpreted certain poems of Shaykh Baha'i as indicating his special gnosis of the person of Baha'-Allah or of the Baha'i religion. Though he lived  300 or so years before the onset of the Babi-Baha'i era, he is said to have have atttained a  mystical knowledge of the ism-i a`zam (Ar. al-ism al-a`zam) or Greatest Name of God as the word Baha'. 

Some Baha'i Interpretations of the status and insight of Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī

`Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khavari (d. 1972).

In a number of his compilations and writings the Persian Baha'i apologist `Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khavari (d. 1972) had occasion to note how select Shi`i sources, including the poetry of Shaykh Baha'i,  utilized the word baha' as the al-ism al-a`zam.

 

 

 

بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين عاملي

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻIzz al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ... al-Harithi al-Hamdanī al-`Āmilī al-Jubā'ī, (953-1030 = 1547-1621 CE)

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Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī = Shaykh Bahā'ī

The son of Shaykh Ḥusayn ibn `Abd al-Ṣamad al-`Āmilī (919-984 AH = 1512-1576 CE) who was appointed Shaykh al-Islam at the then Safavid capital Qazvin by Shah Ṭahmasb (930-984 AH =1524-1576 CE). He was born near Baalbek on the 27th Dhu'l-Ḥijja 953 AH = 18th February 1547 CE and died Isfahan 12th Shawwāl 1030 AH = 29th August 1621 CE. A polymathic and widely travelled individual Shaykh Bahā'ī is viewed by some as the Islamic Mujaddid ("Renewer") of the 11th/17th century. The elder Majlisi, Muhammad Taqi Majlisi, described him as follows in his al-Rawdat (22:1),"[He is] al-Shaykh al-A`ẓam ("the Supreme Shaykh"), al-Wālid al-Mu`azzam ("the Venerated Father"), Imam al-`Allāmah ("the Imam of the Most Erudite"), Malik al-Fuḍalā' wa'l-Udabā' wa'l-Muḥaddithīn ("Commander of the Most Eminent Ones, the Cultured Persons and the Masters of Tradition"), Bahā' al-millat wa'l-Ḥaqq wa'l-Dīn ("the Splendor of the Religious Community and of the Real One [God] and of Religion")" (cited introduction to the Miftah al-Falah [1422/2001 ed], 4). Shaykh Baha'i was an accomplished theologian, philosopher, mathematician, Sufi inclined mystic, architect, grammarian and more besides. Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī was the one-time supremely powerful Shaykh al-Islām under Shāh `Abbās I (r. 996/1588- 1038/1629) at his then Safavid capital Isfahan. Shaykh Baha'i wrote a poem dar rumuz-i ism-i a`zam in which He claimed to disclose yet conceal the something of the secret of the ism-i a`zam (see Lambden trans. below).

See further Brockelmann, GAL II: 414-15; Supp. I:76, 741; Supp. II: 595-97.

  • Kitāb-i arba`īn. Muhammad ibn Husayn mashhur bi-Shaykh Baha'i, Sharḥ-i Khatun'abadi. n.p. n.d. = Reproduction of the lithograph ed., Tehran: XXX., 1275 / 1858 (509pp.).
  • al-Arba`ūn Ḥadīth an . Beirut: Dar al-Muḥajjat al-Bayḍā'. 1413/1992 (280pp.).
  • Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan ..
  • Jāmiʻ-i ʻAbbāsī [-i Kabīr] Reprint. of the above ed., Tehran : Intishārāt-i 'Ābidī, n.d. [XXXX/198?] (463pp. Index p.454ff) [Alden Lib. 6th Floor].
  • Miftāḥ al-falāḥ fī ʻamal al-yawm wa'l-laylah min al- wājibāt wa-al-mustaḥabāt wa-al-ādāb, by Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥārithī al-Hamadānī al-ʻĀmilī al- maʻrūf bi-al-Shaykh al-Bahāʾī. Beirūt : Muʾassasat al-Aʻlamī lil-Maṭbūʻāt [Rep. of the 1324/1906 ed.] c. 1977 ? (307pp.).
  •  Miftāḥ al-falāḥ fī ʻamal al-yawm wa'l-laylah li'l-Shaykh Bahāʾal-Din Muhammad ibn al-Husaynal-Ja'iri al-`Amili ma` ta`liqat hamma li'l-`Allama Muhamad Isma'il al-Mazandarani al-Khwaju`i, ed, Sayyid Mahdi al-Rija'i. Qum: Mu`assat al-Nashr al-Islami. 1422/2001. 808pp. ISBN 964-470-427-4.
  • Miftāḥ al-falāḥ as̲ar-i Bahāʾ al-Millat va al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (Shaykh Bahāʾī) ; tarjumah-ʾi ʿAlī ibn Ṭayfūr Basṭāmī. Bi-z̤amīmah-ʾi risālah-ʾi Nūr ʿalá nūr dar z̲ikr va z̲ākir va maz̲kūr - nivishtah-ʾi Ḥasan Ḥasanʹzādah Āmulī. [Tehran?] : Ḥikmat, 1366/ 1987 (12, 462 pp.) Barnāmij al-Shaykh al-Bahā'ī li'l-`Ibadāt al-yawmiyya, Miftāḥ al-falāh., Beirut: Markiz Baqiyyat-Allah al-A`ẓam, 1999. (111pp.).*
  • Dīvān-i kāmil-i Shaykh Bahāʾī
  • ديوان شعره بالعربية والفارسية
  • Dīvān-i kāmil-i Shaykh Bahāʾī bā muqaddamah-i Saʻīd Nafīsī. 1982
    Dīvān-i kāmil-i Shaykh Bahāʾī bā muqaddamah-i Saʻīd Nafīsī. c. 1982 + Tehran : Chikamah, 1372/1993 (348 pp).
  • Dīvān-i Shaykh Bahā'ī : shāmil-i ash‘ār va āsār-i Fārsī - muqaddamah va sharh-i hāl bih qalam-i Sa‘īd Nafīsī. Tehran : Chakāmah, 1372/1993 (348pp.).

Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam ("On the Secrets of the Mightiest Name [of God]")

در رموز اسم اعظم

  • Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam  ["On the Secrets of the Greatest Name"] in Jawahiri (see above), 93-99.  *

  • Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam- Stephen Lambden translation. *

  • al-Sirr al-mustatir...
  • al-Sirr al-mustatir fī al-ʻulūm al-gharībah wa'l-jafr wa-taʻbīr al-ruʾyā : wa-khawāṣ asmāʾ Allāh wa-maʻrifat baʻḍ al-masāʾil al-majhūlah; ed. Muḥammad Riḍā Saqqā Zād Wāʻiẓ. Beirut : Dār al-Irshād lil-Ṭibāʻah wa'l-Nashr wa'l-Tawzīʻ, 2005.
  • Kulliyāt-i ash`ār va āthār-i fārsī. ed. Ghulām Ḥusayn Javāhirī. [Tehran]: Intishārāt-i Maḥmūdī, 1372/1993 (336pp.)
  • Kullīyāt-i ashʻār-i Fārsi-i Shaykh-i Baha'i. muqaddimah va sharh-i hal... Ustad Sa`īd Nafisi. Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Aḥmadī, n.d. [c. 2000 CE?] (348+2pp.)
  • Kullīyāt-i ashʻār va athar-i Fārsi-yi Shaykh-i Baha'i. ... Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Ramīn, 1384 Sh./ 2005 CE., 236. ISBN 964-405-532-2.*
  • Majmu`a-yi Āthār-i va Ash`ar-i Shaykh-i Bahā'ī : Falnameh, Gorbeh va Mush, Ghazaliyyat, Nan va Halva, Shir va Shikar ed. intro. Sayyid Muhammad Sahafi. Qumm, 1371/1992.
  • Nān u ḥalvā in `Pand i ahl i dānish u hūsh ba-zabān i gurbah u mūsh'. Cairo : Saʿādah, 1346/ 1927. (272 pp.) "The fable of the cat and the mouse. Followed by (1) Mūsh u gurbah, the same fable in verse, by Niẓām al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh, called ʿUbayd i Zākāni, p. 216 ; (2) Nān u ḥalvā, a fable in verse by Shaykh Bahāʾī, p. 224; (3) Nān u panīr, a similar composition, by the same, p. 251; (4) Shīr u shakar, a similar work by the same, p. 266. Edited with biographical preface by Faraj Allāh Zakī.
  • Hadha kitab-i mustaṭab-i nan va ḥalva : va shir va shikar va sar gu_zasht-i Janab Shaykh Abu al-Pashm. Qazvin: Ittiḥad, 1952 (25pp.).
  • Nan u Halva in Kullīyāt-i ashʻār-i Fārsi-i Shaykh Baha'i. muqaddimah va sharh-i hal... Ustad Sa`īd Nafisi. Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Aḥmadī, n.d. [c. 2000 CE?] pp. 150-176.
  • Shīr u Shakar in Kullīyāt-i ashʻār-i Fārsi-i Shaykh Baha'i. muqaddimah va sharh-i hal... Ustad Sa`īd Nafisi. Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Aḥmadī, n.d. [c. 2000 CE?] pp. 177-188.
  • al-Kashkūl. [Sayyid Mahdi al-Ajurdi] 3 vols. Qum : Matba`at al-Hikmat / Mu’assasa-yi Intishārāt-i Farāhānī, 1377-9/1958-9 (Vol. 1 = 333pp. vol.2 = 387pp. vol.3 = 493+ii pp..)*
  • al-Kashkūl li-Bahāʼ al-Dīn alʻĀmilī ; taḥqīq al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad al-Zāwī. 2 vols. Cairo : Dār Iḥyāʼ al-Kutub al-ʻArabiyya, 1961.
  • Kashkūl-i Shaykh Bahāʾī. Tehran : Adabiyya, 1349 Sh./1970, (648pp.) Facsimile of the Tehran Lithograph of 1296/1879 (above = Bosworth T) Kashkūl li-Muḥammad Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. [Beirut] : Dār al-Kitāb al-Lubnānī - Dār al-Afriqiyya al-`Arabiyya - Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya : Maktabat al-Madrasah, 1403/1983. (791pp.).
  • al-Kashkūl ... 3 vols. (7th ed./printing). Preface by Muhammad al-Karami of Qumm (pp. 1-8). Beirut: Mu’assasat al-A`lamī li'l-Matbū`āt, 1420/1999. (3 vols. = Vol. 1 = 335pp. vol.2 = 354 pp. vol.3 = 475+ii pp.).*
  •  Persian Translations =
  • Kashkūl. Bahā' al-Din Muhammad ʻĀmilī (Shaykh Baha'i). Guzinish, tarjumah, taṣḥīḥ taḥshiyah va ta`liqat az Abu al-Qasim Ayat-Allahi. [Tehran]: Tuka, 1978 (609pp.)
  • Partial Persian translation.. Gulzar -i Najafi [Persian trans.] Hujjat al-Islam Hajji Sayyid Hāshim Najafī Yazdī. Gulzār-i Najafī : bā tarjamah va gulchīnī az Kashkūl-i Shaykh Bahā'ī - ta'līf-i Hāshim Najafī Yazdī . Tehran : Intisharat-i Gulī, 1362/ 1984 ( 15+240pp.).
  • Kashkūl (Shaykh Baha'i) [Persian trans.] Bahā' al-Din Muhammad ʻĀmilī (Shaykh Baha'i). tarjumah-yi Bahman Rāzānī. [Tehran] : Zarrīn, 25th printing 1375/ 1996. (8+668+1pp.). ISBN 964-407-018-6 . * 1976
  • Riyāḍiyyāt Bahā’- al-Dīn al-`Āmilī ("Mathematical Works of Bahā’ al-Dīn al-Āmilī. ..) ed. Galal S. A Shawky (Institute for the History of Arab Sciences), Ma‘ahad al-Turāth al-‘Ilmī al-‘Arabī, Jāmi‘at Halab = Univ. Aleppo., 1976. (207pp.)* An edition of al ʿĀmili's al-Khulāsah fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb (pp.29-153)... and a study of a related passage in his work al-Kashkūl (p.165ff). 1981 Aʻmāl al-riyāḍīyah li-Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī ; taḥqīq wa-sharḥ wa-taḥlīl Jalāl Shawqī. Cairo: Dar al-Shurūq, 1401/1981. Again contains an edition of the Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb and related materials. *
  • al-A'māl al-riyāḍīyah li-Bahā' al-Dīn al-'Amilī. ed. Jalāl Shawqī. Cairo: Dar al-Shurūq, 1981 (226pp.).

 Select Bibliography

See further Brockelmann, GAL II: 414-15; Supp. I:76, 741; Supp. II: 595-97.

  • Kitāb-i arba`īn. Muhammad ibn Husayn mashhur bi-Shaykh Baha'i, Sharḥ-i Khatun'abadi. n.p. n.d. = Reproduction of the lithograph ed., Tehran: XXX., 1275 / 1858 (509pp.).
  • al-Arba`ūn Ḥadīth an . Beirut: Dar al-Muḥajjat al-Bayḍā'. 1413/1992 (280pp.).
  • Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan ..
  • Jāmiʻ-i ʻAbbāsī [-i Kabīr] Reprint. of the above ed., Tehran : Intishārāt-i 'Ābidī, n.d. [XXXX/198?] (463pp. Index p.454ff) [Alden Lib. 6th Floor].
  • Miftāḥ al-falāḥ fī ʻamal al-yawm wa'l-laylah min al- wājibāt wa-al-mustaḥabāt wa-al-ādāb, by Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥārithī al-Hamadānī al-ʻĀmilī al- maʻrūf bi-al-Shaykh al-Bahāʾī. Beirūt : Muʾassasat al-Aʻlamī lil-Maṭbūʻāt [Rep. of the 1324/1906 ed.] c. 1977 ? (307pp.).
  •  Miftāḥ al-falāḥ fī ʻamal al-yawm wa'l-laylah li'l-Shaykh Bahāʾal-Din Muhammad ibn al-Husaynal-Ja'iri al-`Amili ma` ta`liqat hamma li'l-`Allama Muhamad Isma'il al-Mazandarani al-Khwaju`i, ed, Sayyid Mahdi al-Rija'i. Qum: Mu`assat al-Nashr al-Islami. 1422/2001. 808pp. ISBN 964-470-427-4.
  • Miftāḥ al-falāḥ as̲ar-i Bahāʾ al-Millat va al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (Shaykh Bahāʾī) ; tarjumah-ʾi ʿAlī ibn Ṭayfūr Basṭāmī. Bi-z̤amīmah-ʾi risālah-ʾi Nūr ʿalá nūr dar z̲ikr va z̲ākir va maz̲kūr - nivishtah-ʾi Ḥasan Ḥasanʹzādah Āmulī. [Tehran?] : Ḥikmat, 1366/ 1987 (12, 462 pp.) Barnāmij al-Shaykh al-Bahā'ī li'l-`Ibadāt al-yawmiyya, Miftāḥ al-falāh., Beirut: Markiz Baqiyyat-Allah al-A`ẓam, 1999. (111pp.).*
  • Dīvān-i kāmil-i Shaykh Bahāʾī
  • ديوان شعره بالعربية والفارسية
  • Dīvān-i kāmil-i Shaykh Bahāʾī bā muqaddamah-i Saʻīd Nafīsī. 1982
    Dīvān-i kāmil-i Shaykh Bahāʾī bā muqaddamah-i Saʻīd Nafīsī. c. 1982 + Tehran : Chikamah, 1372/1993 (348 pp).
  • Dīvān-i Shaykh Bahā'ī : shāmil-i ash‘ār va āsār-i Fārsī - muqaddamah va sharh-i hāl bih qalam-i Sa‘īd Nafīsī. Tehran : Chakāmah, 1372/1993 (348pp.).

Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam ("On the Secrets of the Mightiest Name [of God]")

در رموز اسم اعظم

  • Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam  ["On the Secrets of the Greatest Name"] in Jawahiri (see above), 93-99.
  • Dar rumūz-i ism-i a`ẓam- Notes on the Lambden translation. 
  • al-Sirr al-mustatir...
  • al-Sirr al-mustatir fī al-ʻulūm al-gharībah wa'l-jafr wa-taʻbīr al-ruʾyā : wa-khawāṣ asmāʾ Allāh wa-maʻrifat baʻḍ al-masāʾil al-majhūlah; ed. Muḥammad Riḍā Saqqā Zād Wāʻiẓ. Beirut : Dār al-Irshād lil-Ṭibāʻah wa'l-Nashr wa'l-Tawzīʻ, 2005.
  • Kulliyāt-i ash`ār va āthār-i fārsī. ed. Ghulām Ḥusayn Javāhirī. [Tehran]: Intishārāt-i Maḥmūdī, 1372/1993 (336pp.)
  • Kullīyāt-i ashʻār-i Fārsi-i Shaykh-i Baha'i. muqaddimah va sharh-i hal... Ustad Sa`īd Nafisi. Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Aḥmadī, n.d. [c. 2000 CE?] (348+2pp.)
  • Kullīyāt-i ashʻār va athar-i Fārsi-yi Shaykh-i Baha'i. ... Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Ramīn, 1384 Sh./ 2005 CE., 236. ISBN 964-405-532-2.*
  • Majmu`a-yi Āthār-i va Ash`ar-i Shaykh-i Bahā'ī : Falnameh, Gorbeh va Mush, Ghazaliyyat, Nan va Halva, Shir va Shikar ed. intro. Sayyid Muhammad Sahafi. Qumm, 1371/1992.
  • Nān u ḥalvā in `Pand i ahl i dānish u hūsh ba-zabān i gurbah u mūsh'. Cairo : Saʿādah, 1346/ 1927. (272 pp.) "The fable of the cat and the mouse. Followed by (1) Mūsh u gurbah, the same fable in verse, by Niẓām al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh, called ʿUbayd i Zākāni, p. 216 ; (2) Nān u ḥalvā, a fable in verse by Shaykh Bahāʾī, p. 224; (3) Nān u panīr, a similar composition, by the same, p. 251; (4) Shīr u shakar, a similar work by the same, p. 266. Edited with biographical preface by Faraj Allāh Zakī.
  • Hadha kitab-i mustaṭab-i nan va ḥalva : va shir va shikar va sar gu_zasht-i Janab Shaykh Abu al-Pashm. Qazvin: Ittiḥad, 1952 (25pp.).
  • Nan u Halva in Kullīyāt-i ashʻār-i Fārsi-i Shaykh Baha'i. muqaddimah va sharh-i hal... Ustad Sa`īd Nafisi. Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Aḥmadī, n.d. [c. 2000 CE?] pp. 150-176.
  • Shīr u Shakar in Kullīyāt-i ashʻār-i Fārsi-i Shaykh Baha'i. muqaddimah va sharh-i hal... Ustad Sa`īd Nafisi. Tehran: Chapkhanah-yi Aḥmadī, n.d. [c. 2000 CE?] pp. 177-188.
  • al-Kashkūl. [Sayyid Mahdi al-Ajurdi] 3 vols. Qum : Matba`at al-Hikmat / Mu’assasa-yi Intishārāt-i Farāhānī, 1377-9/1958-9 (Vol. 1 = 333pp. vol.2 = 387pp. vol.3 = 493+ii pp..)*
  • al-Kashkūl li-Bahāʼ al-Dīn alʻĀmilī ; taḥqīq al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad al-Zāwī. 2 vols. Cairo : Dār Iḥyāʼ al-Kutub al-ʻArabiyya, 1961.
  • Kashkūl-i Shaykh Bahāʾī. Tehran : Adabiyya, 1349 Sh./1970, (648pp.) Facsimile of the Tehran Lithograph of 1296/1879 (above = Bosworth T) Kashkūl li-Muḥammad Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. [Beirut] : Dār al-Kitāb al-Lubnānī - Dār al-Afriqiyya al-`Arabiyya - Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya : Maktabat al-Madrasah, 1403/1983. (791pp.).
  • al-Kashkūl ... 3 vols. (7th ed./printing). Preface by Muhammad al-Karami of Qumm (pp. 1-8). Beirut: Mu’assasat al-A`lamī li'l-Matbū`āt, 1420/1999. (3 vols. = Vol. 1 = 335pp. vol.2 = 354 pp. vol.3 = 475+ii pp.).*
  •  Persian Translations =
  • Kashkūl. Bahā' al-Din Muhammad ʻĀmilī (Shaykh Baha'i). Guzinish, tarjumah, taṣḥīḥ taḥshiyah va ta`liqat az Abu al-Qasim Ayat-Allahi. [Tehran]: Tuka, 1978 (609pp.)
  • Partial Persian translation.. Gulzar -i Najafi [Persian trans.] Hujjat al-Islam Hajji Sayyid Hāshim Najafī Yazdī. Gulzār-i Najafī : bā tarjamah va gulchīnī az Kashkūl-i Shaykh Bahā'ī - ta'līf-i Hāshim Najafī Yazdī . Tehran : Intisharat-i Gulī, 1362/ 1984 ( 15+240pp.).
  • Kashkūl (Shaykh Baha'i) [Persian trans.] Bahā' al-Din Muhammad ʻĀmilī (Shaykh Baha'i). tarjumah-yi Bahman Rāzānī. [Tehran] : Zarrīn, 25th printing 1375/ 1996. (8+668+1pp.). ISBN 964-407-018-6 . * 1976
  • Riyāḍiyyāt Bahā’- al-Dīn al-`Āmilī ("Mathematical Works of Bahā’ al-Dīn al-Āmilī. ..) ed. Galal S. A Shawky (Institute for the History of Arab Sciences), Ma‘ahad al-Turāth al-‘Ilmī al-‘Arabī, Jāmi‘at Halab = Univ. Aleppo., 1976. (207pp.)* An edition of al ʿĀmili's al-Khulāsah fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb (pp.29-153)... and a study of a related passage in his work al-Kashkūl (p.165ff). 1981 Aʻmāl al-riyāḍīyah li-Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī ; taḥqīq wa-sharḥ wa-taḥlīl Jalāl Shawqī. Cairo: Dar al-Shurūq, 1401/1981. Again contains an edition of the Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb and related materials. *
  • al-A'māl al-riyāḍīyah li-Bahā' al-Dīn al-'Amilī. ed. Jalāl Shawqī. Cairo: Dar al-Shurūq, 1981 (226pp.).

Bausani, Alessandro. 1981

  • `Notes on the Safavid Period: Decadence or Progess?' in Rudolph Peters ed. Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the UEAI (Amsterdam, 1st-7th september,1978), [= Publications of the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo. No.4 ] , Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981, pp. 15-30, esp. pp.24-27.
  • `L'opera matematica del siro-persiano Bahà' ad-Dìn al-'Àmilì (1546-1622)' `Āmilī, Bahā' al-Dīn al-. Il Veltro, 1984, Vol. 28, pp. 319-333.

ʻAbbās, Dalāl.

  • Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī : Adīban wa-Faqīhan wa-ʻāliman, Beirut (?): Dar al-Ḥawar, 1995 (711pp.). *

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