Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Najaf and Hawza Bibliography

Āl Maḥbūbah, Jaʻfar al-Shaykh Bāqir. Māḍī al-Najaf wa-ḥāḍiruhā al-Najaf : Maṭbaʻat al-Ādāb, 1955-1958. 
Amini, Muhammad Hadi, Muʻjam rijāl al-fikr wa-al-adab fī al-Najaf khilāla alf ʻām Najaf? : s.n., 1992
Amīnī, Muḥammad Hādī. Muʻjam al-maṭbūʻāt al-Najafīyah. al-Najaf : Maṭbaʻat al-Ādāb, 1966
al-Asadi, Hasan Thaura al-Najaf ‘ala al-inkliz, Baghdad: Wizarat al-I‘lam, 1975
Āṣafī, Muḥammad Mahdī. Madrasat al-Najaf wa-taṭawwur al-ḥarakah al-iṣlāḥīyah fīhā. al-Najaf : [Dār al-Nuʻmān lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr, 1965]
Bahādilī, ʻAlī. al-Najaf : jāmiʻatuhā wa-dawruhā al-qiyādī Bayrūt, Lubnān : Muʾassasat al-Wafāʾ, 1989.
Bahādlī, ʻAlī. al-Ḥawzah al-ʻilmīyah fī al-Najaf : maʻālimuhā wa-ḥarakatuhā al-iṣlāḥīyah. Bayrūt, Lubnān : Dār al-Zahrāʼ, 1993
Bahadli, Ahmad Kadhem. al-Najaf al-Ashraf wa Jama'taha al-Deenaiyya
Bahr al-‘Ulum, Introduction to Amali Al-Shaykh Al-Tusi
Balāghī, ʻAbd al-Ḥujjat, Tārīkh-i Najaf-i ashraf va Ḥīrah Tehran, Chāpkhāneh-yi Maẓāhirī, 1368 [1949
Dujaili, Ja'far Mousooa't al-Najaf al-Ashraf (12 vol) 
Faḍlī, ’Abd al-Hādī. Dalīl al-Najaf al-ashraf. 1966
Fakhr al-din, tarikh al-najaf
Gharaviyān , Muḥsin. Ḥawzah dar maʻraẓ-i hujūm : naqdī bar maqālah-ʾi. Qum : Daftar-i Nashr-i Barguzīdah, [13]75 [1996]
Gharawī, Muḥammad. al-Ḥawzah al-ʻilmīyah fī al-Najaf al-ashraf : dirāsah tārīkhīyah mutawāḍiʻah tabḥathu ʻan bidāyat al-jāmiʻah al-ʻilmīyah al-dīnīyah fī al-Najaf al-ashraf Bayrūt, Lubnān : Dār al-Aḍwāʼ, 1994.
Gharawī, Muḥammad. Maʻa ʻulamāʾ al-Najaf al-ashraf Bayrūt, Lubnān : Dār al-Thaqalayn, 1999
Ḥakīm Hasan ʻĪsá, al-Mufaṣṣal fī taʼrīkh al-Najaf al-Ashraf, Qum : al-Maktabah al-Ḥaydarīyah, 1427/2006
Al-Hakim, Muhammad Taqi, Da’ira al-Ma ‘arif al-islamiyya al-Shi‘a, Beirut: al-Ta‘arif, 1986
Hāshimī al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad ʻAlī. al-Ḥawzah al-ʻilmīyah tudīn al-inḥirāf. Bayrūt, Lubnān : Dār al-Ḥusaynī lil-Maṭbūʻāt, 2001.
Ḥassūn al-Burāqī, Ḥusayn ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad. Tārīkh al-Najaf : al-maʻrūf bi, al-Yatīmah al-gharawīyah wa-al-tuḥfah al-Najafīyah fī al-arḍ al-mubārakah al-zakīyah Bayrūt : Dār al-Muʾarrikh al-ʻArabī, 2009
Ibn shahrashub, mu’alam al-ulama
Karbala center for research, najaf al-ashraf
Khalili, Jafar mausuat al-‘atabat al-muqadassah, Baghdād, Dār al-Taʻāruf, 1965 (vol. 7 has info on madrasa and students. Also look at section 7 vol. 2 for Bahr al-Ulum’s derasat wa tarikhaha fi al-najaf)
Kūfī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbbūd, Nuzhat al-gharī fī tārīkh al-Najaf. al-Najaf : Maṭbaʻat al-Gharī, 1952
Al-Khu’i, Abu al-Qasim al-Musui, Musu‘a al-‘atabat al-muqadasa qism al-Najaf, Beirut: al-A ‘lami, 1987
Maghnīyah, Muḥammad Jawād, Maʻa ʻulamāʾ al-Najaf al-Ashraf [Iran] : Ahl al-Dhikr, 1426 [2005 or 2006] – This seems to be a translation of Gharawi’s book with same title
Marjānī, Ḥaydar, al-Najaf al-ashraf qadīman wa-ḥadīthan. Baghdad : Jamʻīyat al-Tawjīh al-Dīnī, 1986
Markaz Karbalāʾ lil-Buḥūth wa-al-Dirāsāt. al-Najaf al-Ashraf, isʹhāmāt fī al-ḥaḍārah al-insānīyah : waqāʾiʻ al-nadwah al-ʻilmīyah al-latī ʻaqadahā Markaz Karbalʾ̄ lil-Buḥūth wa-al-Dirāsaāt fī Landan Landan : Būk Akstrā, 2000.
Muhsin, Muhammad Zindaginamah va asar-I shaykh tusi,
Mufrijī, ʻUdayy Ḥātim ʻAbd al-Zahrah. al-Najaf al-ashraf wa ḥarakat al-tayyār al-iṣlāḥī Bayrūt : Dār al-Qārī ; al-Mawāhib, 2005
Mūsawī al-Ghurayfī, Muḥammad Riḍā al-Sayyid Muḥyī al-Dīn. Fikrah ʻan al-Hawzah al-ʻIlmiyah fi al-Najaf. Vol. 1 Qum : Muʼassasat al-Sayyidah al-Maʻṣūmah, 1429 [2008 or 2009]
Muvaḥḥid Abṭaḥī, Ḥujjat. Āshnāʾī bā ḥawzahʹhā-yi ʻilmīyah-ʾi Shīʻah dar ṭūl-i tārīkh.  Iṣfahān : Ḥawzah-i ʻIlmīyah, 1365- [1986- ]
Ruhaimi, tarikh al-haraka al-islamiya fil Iraq: al-juthur al-fikriya wal waqi al-tarikhi, 1985
Saghir, Muhammad Husayn ‘Ali, Asāṭīn al-marjiʻīyah al-ʻulyā fī al-Najaf al-ashraf, Bayrūt: Muʾassasat al-Balāgh, 2003
Salihi, ‘Abd al-Husayn, Al-Hawzat al-‘ilmiyya fi al-alaqtar al-islamiyya, Bayt al-‘ilm lil-nabihin, Beirut, 2004
Sahlani, Haydar. Fiqh al-atabat al-muqaddasah. Vol. 1 Qum : Manshurat Dalil Ma, 1429 [2008 or 2009]
Sayyid Kibārī, ʻAlī Riz̤ā. Ḥawzahʹhā-yi ʻilmīyah-ʾi Shīʻah dar gustarah-ʾi jahān. Tihrān : Amīr Kabīr, 1378 [1999 or 2000]
Shahir, tarikh al-najaf
Shams al-Din, Muhammad Rida Hadith al-Jama‘a al-Najafiyya
Sprenger and ʿAbd Ḥaḳḳ, eds. Fihrist kutub al-s̲h̲īʿa (, Calcutta 1848, repr. Mas̲h̲had 1972);
al-Suyuti, Jalal al-din Baghiyat al-wa‘a
Tihrani, Zendeginame-ye Shaykh al-tusi
Ṭihrānī’s intro to al-Ṭūsī’s Tibyān, in Yād-nāma-yi S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ al-Ṭāʾifa... Ṭūsī , Mas̲h̲had 1348/1970 - see the 102-page introd.
Tusi, amali (2 vols), on hadith and dogma
Tusi, al-fihrist kutub al-shia, ed. Sprenger and ‘Abd al-Hakk, Calcutta, 1848. (Ṭūsī gives a list of 43 of his own works; later he would have composed several more (Ṭihrānī, introd. to Tibyān).
Tusi, al-Istibsar ed. al-Ḵh̲arsān (one of the four canonical books of Imami hadith)
Tusi, al-jamad wal-uqud intro with introd. and Persian tr. by Wāʿiz̦-zāda, Mas̲h̲had 1374
Tusi, kitab al-ghayba
Tusi, rijal al-tusi
Tusi, al-Tahdhib al-ahkam ed. al-Ḵh̲arsān
Tusi, al-Tibyān fī tafsīral-Ḳurʾān, 10 vols. ed. S̲h̲awḳī and ʿĀmilī, Nad̲j̲af 1376-83, 10 vols., with introd. by Āg̲h̲ā Buzurg al-Ṭihranī)
Uqaylī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ḥirz al-Dīn al-Muslimī, Tārīkh al-Najaf al-ashraf ; hadhdhabahu wa-zāda ʻalayhi ʻAbd al-Razzāq Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ḥirz al-Dīn. Qum : Dalīl Mā, 1427, 2006
Wadāʻah, Nājī. Lamaḥāt min tārīkh al-Najaf  al-Najaf : Maṭbaʻat al-Qaḍāʾ, 1973

Saturday, December 8, 2012

News articles on Baha'i Persecution

Article published in Washington Post on 11/28/12 about Baha'is in Semnan: Faith under siege: The Baha’is of Semnan, Iran

Published by LA TIMES on 8/11/10 IRAN: Court sentences leaders of Bahai faith to 20 years in prison

Published by NPR on 4/3/10, Roxana Saberi mentions her experience with Baha'is in Evin prison: