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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"). 

Some Cosmological Aspects of Shi`i-Shaykhi and Babi-Baha'i Gnosis.

Stephen Lambden, UC Merced. In Progress 2025-6

The various Worlds according to Qur'amic and Post-Quranic cosmology

Mulk and Malakut

The world of the Kingdom or Kingdom of God = `ālam al-mulk wa'l-malakūt

• Nasut
• Jabarut
• Lahut
• Hahut

On               Barzakh              and      Hūrqalyā (Arabic = هورقليا = h-w-r-q-l-y-a  

The term Barzakh and its Islamic and Babi-Baha'i Interpretations

Barzakh  in the Qur'an

Barzakh  in the writings of al-Ghazzali (d. 505/1111). 

Barzakh  in the writings of Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi (d.    /   ). 

Barzakh  in the writings of  Muhyi al-Din ibn al-`Arabi (d. 638 /1240). 

The succinct definition of al-Barzakh in the Istilahat al-Sufiyya attributed to Ibn al-`Arabi (          ). 

The succinct definition of al-Barzakh in the Istilahat al-Sufiyya attributed to `Abd al-Razzaq al-Kashani (          )

 Hūrqalyā (Arabic) = هورقليا = h-w-r-q-l-y-a  

For such as might wonder, Hūrqalyā (Arabic هورقليا = h-w-r-q-l-y-a [sic.], pointing uncertain) is a seven letter Arabic transliterated loanword probably originating in an Islamic context with Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī (d. [executed] Aleppo 587/1191) who is viewed as the founder of the Ishrāqī or Illuminationist school of Islamic philosophy. I have a lengthy paper in press (due 2024 after a fifteen year blockage!) which argues that etymologically and conceptually this word (to simplify) derives (probably as orally transmitted with a supplementary adjective) from a Hebrew (הָרָקִיעַ, hā-rāqîa`), Aramaic-Syriac or Mandaic form of   רָקִיעַ rāqîa`, a  word which is often indicative of a luminous, firmament or interworld spanning or linking "heaven" and "earth". As the subject of most of the material on this website has to do with the intellectual history of religious concepts, the use of `Hurqalya Publications' was thought to be appropriate. 

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