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Zaydī & Ismā'īlī literatures

Zaydī  & Ismā'īlī  literatures

IN PROGRESS 2009-10

Stephen Lambden UC Merced

IN PROGRESS 1990s +2017,

[I]

Zaydī  Shi`ism

 

[II]

Ismā'īlī literatures and publications

Corbin, Henry.

  • Trilogie ismaélienne Téhéran - Paris, I.F.I. & A. Maisonneuve, 1961 gr. in-8, 200-196-188 pp.,

  • The following three texts are edited with French translation and commentary.

1. Abu Ya'qub Sejestani : le Livre des Sources (IVè/Xè. s.) -

2. Sayyid-na al-hosayn ibn Ali : Cosmogonie et Eschatologie (VIIè/XIIè. s.) -

3. Symboles choisis de la Roseraie du Mystère, de Mahmoud Shabestari (VIIIè/XIVè. s.) 

Corbin, Henry,

  • History of Islamic Philosophy. tr. Philip Sherrard. London: Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1993.
  • Temple and Contemplation. tr. Philip Sherrard. London: Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1986.
  • Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis. tr. Ralph Manheim and James Morris. London: Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications Ltd., 1983.
  • Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis. London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies Ltd./ Kegan Paul Int’l. with Islamic Publications, 1985
  • (ed.) Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi‘ite Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Daftary, Farhad.

  • The Assassin Legends: Myth of the Isma‘ilis. London: I.B. Tauris, 1994.
  • The Isma‘ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • (ed. ) Mediaeval Isma‘ili History and Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Cortese, D.

  • Ismaili and Other Manuscripts. A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Londres-New York, l.B. Tauris, 2000. *

Daftary, Farhad

  • The Isma'ills: their history and doctrines, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990.*
  • The Isma`ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma`ilis. I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1995.
  • A Short History of the Isma`ilis: Traditions of a Muslim Community. Markus Weiner Publishers, 1998.
  • A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Islamic Surveys Series, 2000
  • Intellectual Traditions in Islam. London: I. B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2000.
  • Mediaeval Ismaili History and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 1996.
  • The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis. London: I. B. Tauris, 1994.
  • The Ismailis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 1990.

De Smet, D.

  • La Quiétude de l'Intellect. Néoplatonisme et gnose Ismaélienne dans l'œuvre de Hamld ad֊ Din al֊Kirinäni (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 67], Leuven, Peelers, 1995. *
     
  • "Éléments chrétiens dans l'ismaélisme yemenite sous les derniers Fatimides. Le problème de la gnose tayyibite", dans M. Barrucand (éd.), L'Egypte fatimide, son art et son histoire, Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999, p. 45-53.
  • "Anges, diables et démons en gnose islamique. Vers l'islamisation d'une demonologie néoplatonicienne", dans R. Gyselen (éd.), Démons et Merveilles d'Orient [Res Orientales XIII], Bures-sur-Yvette, GECMO, 2001, p. 61-70.

Farrukh, O.A.

  •  "Ikhwān al-Safã'", dans M.M. Sharif (éd.), A History of Muslim Philosophy, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1963,1, p. 289-310.

 al-Fãrũqî, I. R.

  • "On the Ethics of the Brethren of Purity". Muslim World, L, 1960, p. 109-121, 193-198. 252-258.

Fyzee, A.A.

  •  "The Study of the Literature of the Fatimid Da'wa՝, dans G. Makdisi (éd.), Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of H.A.R. Gibb, Leyde 1965, p. 232-249.

A. Gacek,

  • Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies. Volume One, London, Islamic Publications, 1984.*

Gālib, M.

  • Ga'far b. Manşür al-Yaman. Kitāb al-Kashf, Beyrouth, Dar al֊ Andalus, 1984.
  • ar-Risāla al-Gāmi'a. Tāg Rasā՝il Ikwan aş-Şafa՝ UY/ Hullam al-Wafa', Beyrouth. Dar al֊ Andalús, 1984.

Griffini,  E.

  • "Die jüngste ambrosianische Sammlung arabischer Handschriften", Zeitschrift der Deutsclien Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, LXIX, 1915, p. 63-88.

 Halm, H.

  • Kosmologie und Heilslehre der frühen isma'iliya [Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 44, 1], Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner, 1978.*
  •  "Der Treuhänder Gottes. Die Edikte des Kalifen al-Hākim", Der Ìslam 63, 1986, p. 11-72.
  •  Die Schia, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1988.

Gacek,  A.

  • Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies. Volume One, London, Islamic Publications, 1984. *

Gālib, M.

  • Ga'far b. Manşür al-Yaman. Kitāb al-Kashf, Beyrouth, Dar al֊ Andalus, 1984.
  • ar-Risāla al-Gāmi'a. Tāg Rasā՝il Ikwan aş-Şafa՝ UY/ Hullam al-Wafa', Beyrouth. Dar al֊ Andalús, 1984. *

 Hamdani, A.

  • "The Discovery of a Lost Literature (Fātimid)", All Pakistan History Conference, VIII, 1958. p. 61-73.
  •  "The Arrangement of the Rasa il Ikhwān al-Safā՝ and the Problem of Interpolations", Journal of Semitic Studies, XXIX, 1984, p. 97-110.

Ivanow, W.

  • Studies in Early Persian Ismailism (The Ismaili Society Series A3)  Leyden, Brill, 1948. *
  • Ismaili Literature. A Bibliographical Survey [The Ismaili Society Series A15], Tehran, 1963. *

Nanji, A.

  • `Isma`īlism," in Islamic Spirituality: Foundations, ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, New York: SUNY Press, 179-198.  *

Nishapuri, Muhammad ibn Surkh (11th cent.)

  •  Commentaire de la Qasida ismaélienne d'Abu'l-Haitham Jorjani [= Sharh-i Qasidah-'i Fārsi-i Khvājah Abu al-Haysam Jurjāni] attribué à Mohammad ibn Sorkh de Nishapour (IVe/Xe-Ve/XIe siècles / texte persan édité avec introd. et esquisse comparative en français par Henry Corbin et Moh. Mo'in. Tehran : Dép. d'iranologie de l'Institut franco-iranien, 1955 Series Bibliothèque iranienne ; v. 6  Jurjānī, Abu al-Haysam Ahmad ibn Hasan, 10th cent. Qasidah,  

Poonawala, I.K.

  • Bibliography of Ismā'īlī Literature, Malibu, Undena Publications, 1977.  *
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al-Sijistãnĩ, Abu Ya'qub.

  • Kashf al-Mahjūb. Ed. Henry Corbin. Bibliothèque Iranienne A.I. Tehran: Institut Franco-Iranien, 1949.

Walker, Paul E.

  • Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abû Ya`qûb al-Sijistânî Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. *

  • The Wellsprings of Wisdom: A Study of Abû Ya`qûb al-Sijistânî's Kitâb al-Yanabi including a Complete English Translation with Commentary and Notes on the Arabic Text. University of Utah Press, 1994. *

  • Abû Ya`qûb al-Sijistânî:Intellectual Missionary. London: I.B. Taurus, 1996. *

  • An Ismaili Heresiography: The Bab al-shaytan from Abû Tammam's Kitâb al-shajara. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. *

Watt, W. M.

  • "Shî'ism under the Umayyads." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1960.

  • "The Muslim Yearning For A Saviour: Aspects of Early 'Abbasid Shî'ism." In The Saviour God. Ed. S. G. F.Brandon. Oxford: 1963.

 

NIZARI ISMA'ILISM

Eboo Jamal, Nadia.

  • Surviving the Mongols: Nizari Quhistani and the Continuity of Ismaili Tradition in Persia. London: I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2002.