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IMAMI SHI`I AND RELATED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES PERTAINING TO SUFISM AND ISLAMIC MYSTICISM,

Stephen Lambden

IN PROGRESS - last updated 15-10-2020,

IMAMI SHI`I ISLAM - SELECT SHI`I BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NOTES AND STUDIES

• Imami  Shī`ī Islam, General Bibliography
• Shi`i Hadith/ Akhbar Compilations - Bio-bibliographical Notes and Studies.
• The Twelver Imams from `Alī  (d. 40/661) until al-Hujjat, Muhammad al-Mahdī (d. c. 260/873-4).
• Shi`i Imamology.
• Nubuwwa (Prophethood) and Nabi (Prophet), Wilāya ("Divine Providence") and Walī (Intimate),
• Beyond Khatamiyya (Sealedness) through Shī`ī Imamology, Messianism and Theophanology. 
• Proto-Shi`ism and the Ghulāt factions.
• Zaydism & Ismā'īlism  
• The Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā'.
• Shi`i and Babi-Baha'i Imamology: Some introductory Notes on the Twelver Imams and traditions attributed to them in Shi`i and Babi-Baha'i scriptural sources.

Rijal mss, Books and Sources.

• Rijal Books - Sunni
• Rijal Books - Shi`i

Twelver Shi`i Scholars and other Influential notables.

• Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī (d. c. 705 CE)
• Ṣaffār al-Qummī = Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farrukh al-'Ash'ari al-Qummi (d. 290/903).
• Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Ya`qub al-Kulaynī (d. c. 328/929).
• Ibn Bābawayh [Bābūya], Abū Ja`far Muhammad. b. `Alī, al Qummī = al‑Ṣādūq (d. 381/991-2)
• Shaykh al-Mufid = Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Nu'mani al-'Ukbari al-Baghdadi = Shaykh al-Mu`allim (d. 413/1022).
• Sayyid Husayn ibn Hasan al-Karaki (d. 992-93/1001).
• Sayyid al-Ḥusayn ibn `Ali al-Karaki (b. Jabal Amil c. 865/1451-d. Najaf 940/1534).
• Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Ḥasan al Tūsī (d. 460/1067).
• Ibn Shahrāshūb, ابن شهراشوب , Muhammad ibn `Alī, Abū Ja`far (d. 588/1192).

SELECT EARLY SUFIS AND THEIR WRITINGS.

• al-Ḥallaj : al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr / Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj  (executed. 309 /922).
• al-Tirmidhī, Muhammad ibn ʻAlī, al-Ḥakīm (d. 320/932),

^{Mausoleum of the Shaykh al-Ishrāq...}

SUHRAWARDI AND SELECT INFLUENTIAL ISHRAQI THINKERS.

• Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī (549-587 AH = 1154-1191CE): Annotated Bibliography. 2015.
• Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī (549-587 AH = 1154-1191CE): Bibliography, Secondary Sources  2015.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -Suhrawardi.

`ALI IBN AHMAD, MUHYI AL-DIN, AL-BUNI, AND ASSOCIATED OCCULT THINKERS ABD THEOLOGIANS

• `Ali ibn Ahmad, Muhyi al-Din, al-Buni (d. 622/1225). 

IBN AL-`ARABI AND SELECT DEVOTEES OF INFLUENCE AND OPPONENTS WITHIN THE SHI`I WORLD,

• Muhammad, Muḥyi al-Dīn Ibn al-`Arabī (b. Murcia [Spain] 560/1165 - d. Damascus [Syria] 638/1240).

• Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Shabistarī (b. Shahbistar [near Tabriz] c.  686/1287 - d. c. 720/1320).

• ʻAbd al-Razzāq Kamāl al-Dīn al-Kāshānī (d. 730/1330).  

• Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biyabanak, `Alā al-Dawlah Simnānī (d. 787/1385).

• Sayyid Ḥaydar al-Āmulī (b. Āmul 719–787 / 1319–1385).

  This learned twelver Shī`ī scholar and mystic was much influenced by Ibn al`Arabī upon whose seminal Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (The Bezels of Wisdom) he wrote a commentary entitled Naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ (The Text of Texts).

• al-Jīlī, `Abd al-Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm ( d. c. 832/1428).
• al-Lahījī, Muhammad ibn Yaḥyā (d. Shiraz 912/1505).

TWELVER SHI`I NOTABLES,  13TH CENT CE., ONWARDS.

• Raḍī al-Dīn Ibn Tāwūs  (d. 664/1226 ), Raḍī al-Dīn 'Alī ibn. Mūsā ibn Ṭāwūs al-Hasanī al-Ḥillī,
• Muhammad ibn Ḥasan Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. Baghdad 672 /1274)
• Abu Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf ... `Allāma al-Ḥillī (648-726 = 1250-1325).
• Ibn Abī  Jumhūr al-Aḥsā'ī,  ابن أبي جمهور الاحسائي  (d. after 878/ 1479) = Muhammad Ibn Zayn al-Din ibn Ibrahim al-Aḥsā'ī.
• al-Karaki = Nur-al-Din Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAli b. Ḥosayn b. ʿAbd-al-ʿĀli, = Moḥaqqeq al-Thāni or Moḥaqqeq ʿAli (1464-1533).
• al-Kaf`amī al-`Āmilī, Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn ( d. 900/1494-5). 

THE SAFAVID ERA AND BEYOND - CLERICS, PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS (1501-1722?),

• Zayn al-Din ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad, Shahīd al-Thānī, al-Jubba`i al-`Amili al-Shami (911-966  = 1506-1559).
• Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Makki al-`Āmilī (d. 984/1576) = al-Shahīd al-Awwal (The First Martyr).
• Shaykh Husayn ibn `Abd al-Samad al-Ḥārithī al-`Āmilī (d. 984/1576) 
• Zayn al-Din ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jubba'i al-`Āmilī (d. 984/1576) = al-Shahīd al-Thānī (The Second Martyr).
• Muhammad Bāqir Astarābadī, Mīr Dāmād,  Ishrāq, the "Third Master" (d.1041/1641).

بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين عاملي

^{Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī, Shaykh Bahā'ī,  (d. Isfahan 1031/1622).}

• Old UK Incomplete, uncorreced site, 2009-10 : Hurqalya I PDf. Shaykh Bahai-WI.pdf
• Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muhammad al-`Āmilī  (953-1030 = 1547-1621 CE) = Shaykh Bahā'ī : Select Primary Sources, mss. and Printed Texts.  Under revision and updating - 2015.
• `Āmilī, Shaykh Bahā'ī : Bibliography of Secondary Sources.  Being updated 2015.

 در رموز اسم اعظم

• Lambden, trans. from Persian : Dar rumuz-i ism-i a`zam  ("On the secrets of the Mightiest Name of God") of Bahā' al-Din al-Amili (d. Isfahan 1031/1622). rumuz.pdf

ملا صدرا‎

• Ṣadr al-Dīn Shirazi = Mullā Ṣadrā  (d.1050/1640). Uncorrected UK Website.
• Ṣadr al-Dīn Shirazi = Mullā Ṣadrā  (d.1050/1640). Primary Sources, UC Merced 2015.
• Ṣadr al-Dīn Shirazi = Mullā Ṣadrā  (d.1050/1640). Secondary Sources, 2015.
• Sayyid Aḥmad b. Zayn al-Ābidīn al-Alawī (d. c. 1050/1650).
• al-Fayḍ al-Kāshī / al-Kāshānī, Muhammad ibn Murtaḍá (d. 1090/1680),
• al-Ḥurr al-`Āmilī = Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥurr al-`Āmilī (d. 1104 / 1693).

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• Muhammad Baqir Majlisī (d. 1111 /1699-1700).

TOWARDS THE QAJAR ERA AND BEYOND (1794-1925),

• Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī = Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrahim Dirāzī (d. 1186/1772).
• Aqa Muhammad Baqir Bibihani, Vahid Bihbihani ( d. c. 1207/1792).
• Sayyid Muhammad Mahdī Tabataba'i,  Baḥr al-`ulūm ("The Ocean of the Islamic Sciences"), (d. 1212 /1797);
• Kashfi, Ja`far ibn Abi Ishaq (c. XXX/1775 - d.126X/1850-1).

• Ḥājj Mullā Hādī Sabzavārī (1797-1873) - ملا هادی سبزواری‎‎

ولاية

Dimensions of Walāya in Shi`i-Shaykhi and Babi-Baha'i literatures

...اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ بَهَائِكَ بِأَبْهَاهُ وَكُلُّ بَهَائِكَ بَهِيٌّ، اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِبَهَائِكَ كُلِّهِ

• The Du`ā  al-Bahā' or  Saḥar, the Ramadan Dawn Prayer of Imam Muhammad al-Bāqir. 
• PDf. from `Abbas al-Qumi (ed.), Mafatih al-Jinan (Keys to the Paradises), 1427/2006.  Du`a al-Baha.pdf

دُعاء يوم المباهلة

• The Du`ā  yawm al-mubāhala  ("Supplication for the Day of Mutual Execration") of Imam Muhammad al-Bāqir (d.c. 126/743).
• PDf. from `Abbas al-Qummi ed. Mafatih al-Jinan (Keys to the Paradises), 1427/2006.  Yawm Mubahala.pdf

دعاء أمّ داود

• The Du`ā  Umm Dawud ("The Supplication of the Mother of David");
• PDf. from `Abbas al-Qummi. ed. Mafatih al-Jinan (Keys to the Paradises). PDf.  Umm Dawud-y.pdf

 The Ḥadīth al-Ḥaqīqa (Tradition Regarding Ultimate Reality) ascribed to Imam `Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661).

• Tafsīr Ḥadith al-Ḥaqiqa I: Introduction, the Shi`i Origins and Commentaries.
• Texts and Translations of the Ḥadīth al-Ḥaqīqa.
• Tafsīr Ḥadith al-Ḥaqiqa  II : Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ahsāī and Early Shaykhism.
• Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī  on an Islamic form of the Delphic Maxim - Introduction
• Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā’ī  on an Islamic form of the Delphic Maxim with extensive Commentary on the Hadith al-haqiqa - Annotated Translation.
• Tafsīr Ḥadīth al-Ḥaqīqa, III : The Commentary of the Bāb upon the Ḥadīth al-Haqiqa
• The Ḥadīth al-Ḥaqīqa (Tradition Regarding Ultimate Reality) IV : In the writings of the Bab, early Babis and the writings of Baha'-Allah and his successors. 

دعاء السمات

• The Du`a al-simat, Some introductory Notes,
• PDf. from `Abbas al-Qumi. ed. Mafatih al-Jinan (Keys to the Paradises). Du`a al-simat.pdf
• An annotated Translation of the Du`a al-Simat
• Further Notes on the Du`a al-simat
• Biblical echoes of the Shī`i  Du`a al-simāt (Prayer of the Signs).
• The Commentary of Sayyid Kāẓim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī (d.1259/1843).  

  خطبة  الطتنجية

The Khutbat al-Tutunjiyya [Tatanjiyya] "Sermon of the Gulf" ascribed to `Ali ibn Abi  Talib (d. 40/661), its Translation and Studies in its Shaykhi and Babi-Baha'i Interpretations.

• An Introduction to the Khuṭbat al-ṭutunjiyya [taṭanjiyya].  
• Mss and printed versions of the Khuṭbat al-ṭutunjiyya [taṭanjiyya].
• The Khuṭbat al-ṭutunjiyya [taṭanjiyya] ("Sermon of the Gulf") ascribed to  Imam `Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661).  Text and translation Stephen N. Lambden.
• The Khuṭbat al-Ṭutunjiyya in the writings of  Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsā'ī (d. 1241/1826), Sayyid Kazim al-Husayni al-Rashti (d.1259/1843) and other Shaykhi leaders.
• The al-Khuṭba al-Ṭutunjiyya of Imam `Ali and the Commentary of Sayyid Kazim Rashti.
• The Khuṭbat al-Ṭutunjiyya in the writings of Sayyid `Ali Muhamnmad Shirazi, the Bab (1817-1850).   
• The Tafsīr of the Bāb on a passage in the Sharḥ Khuṭbat al-Ṭutunjiyya of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī (d.1259/1843).  
• Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-Ṭutunjiyya of the Bab - Introduction.
• Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-Ṭutunjiyya of the Bab - Translation
  in the Writings of Baha'-Allah (1817-1892).Khuṭbat al-ṭutunjiyya The
•  Further Notes on the Babi and Baha’i Interpretation of the Khuṭbat al-Ṭutunjiyya ("Sermon of the Gulf"). 

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