Works by Jafar b. Mansur al–Yaman
Jafar b. Mansur al–Yaman. Asrar al–nutaqa, ed. Mustafa Ghalib, Beirut, 1404/1984, pp. 121–264 in volume entitled Sarair wa asrar al–nutaqa. Ms. no. 239 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 8; ms. no. 51/984, and Cortese, Descriptive Catalogue, pp. 32–33. [The description in Poonawala, Biobibliography, p. 72, should be corrected: this work is a separate book from the Sarair al–nutaqa, continuing Jafars tawil of the prophets from the story of Abraham and Lot onward.] The concluding chapter on Shii sects after Jafar al–Iadiq has been edited (pp. 81–106) and translated (pp. 275–304) in W. Ivanows Ismaili Traditions.
–––Kitab al–Faraid wa hudud
al–din
, ms. no. 520 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 42; ms. no. 53/928, Cortese, Descriptive Catalogue, p. 34. It is followed by short extract from Jafars (otherwise lost?) K. al–Adilla wal–shawahid ala marifat al–hudud min al–afaq wal–anfus.
–––Kitab al–Fatarat wal–qiranat. Ms. no. 726 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 42.
–––Kitab al–Kashf, ed. R. Strothmann, London, 1952; ed. M. Ghalib. Beirut, 1404/1984. –––Kitab al–Rida fi al–Batin
. Ms. no. 167 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 48.
–––Sarair al–nutaqa, ed. M. Ghalib. Beirut, 1404/1984, pp. 17–118, in volume entitled Sarair wa asrar al–nutaqa. Manuscript no. 178, dated 1316/1898 (183 pp.), in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 111.
–––Sharh dalalat huruf al–mujam [Tawil al–huruf al–mujam], ms. no. 716 (ff. 48b–52b) in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 118.
–––K. al–Shawahid wal–bayan fi ithbat amir
al–muminin wal–aimam
, ms. no. 734 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, pp. 118–119.
–––Sirat Ibn Hawshab. (For the sections preserved in later historians, see Introduction, Section IV above, and al–Qadi
al–Numan, Iftitah al–dawa; Idris Imad al–Din, Uyun
al–akhbar; Ibn Malik al–Yamani, K. Kashf al–asrar; and Ibn al–Walid, R. al–Wahida.)
–––Tawil al–zakat
, ms. no. 216 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 129; ms. no. 54/1028, Cortese, Descriptive Catalogue, pp. 34–35.
Other Primary Arabic Sources (together with translations)
al–Alawi, Ali b. M. b. Ubaydallah al–Abbasi. Sirat al–Hadi Yahya b. al–Husayn, in Akhbar al–Qaramita, ed. Suhayl Zakkar. Damascus, 2nd ed., 1482/1982, pp. 87–110 (excerpts concerning the Ismailis in Yemen).
Ali b. Abi Éalib. Nahj al–Balagha, ed. M. Abd al–Hamid, with commentary of M. Abduh. Cairo, n.d. English tr. A. Jafery, Peak of Eloquence. Bombay, 1978.
Amuli, Sayyid
Haydar. Kitab Jami al–asrar wa manba al–anwar ('La philosophie Shiite'), ed. H. Corbin and O. Yahia. Tehran–Paris, 1347 s./1969.
Arberry, A.J., tr. The Koran Interpreted. London, 1955.
Ghalib, Mustafa, ed. Arbaa kutub haqqaniyya. Beirut, 1403/1983.
al–Hamidi, Ibrahim b. al–Hasan. Kanz al–walad, ed. M. Ghalib. Wiesbaden, 1971.
al–Harithi, M. b. Tahir b. Ibrahim. Majmu al–tarbiyya, ms. no. 263 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 71.
Ibn al–Haytham. Kitab al–Munazarat , ed. and tr. W. Madelung and P.E. Walker as The Advent of the Fatimids
: A Contemporary Shii Witness. London, 2000.
Ibn Hawshab: see Mansur al–Yaman.
Ibn Malik al–Hammadi al–Yamani, M. Kitab Kashf asrar al–Batiniyya
wa akhbar al–Qaramita. In Akhbar al–Qaramita, ed. S. Zakkar. 2nd ed., Damascus, 1482/1982, pp. 202–251.
Ibn al–Nadim, Abu al–Faraj Muhammad. Kitab al–Fihrist li–l–Nadim, ed. R. Tajaddud. Tehran, 1971. English tr. B. Dodge, The Fihrist of al–Nadim. New York, 1970. Ibn al–Walid, Ali b. M. b. Jafar. Lubb al–maarif
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Ibn al–Walid, al–Husayn b. Ali b. M. Risalat al–Wahida fi tathbit arkan al–aqida, ms. no. 676 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, pp. 102–103. [See also A. Hamdani, An Early Fatimid Source.]
Idris Imad al–Din. Uyun al–akhbar wa funun al–athar fi fadail al–aimmat al–athar, ed. M. Ghalib, Beirut, 1973 (vol. 4), 1975 (vol. 5), and 1984 (vol. 6; 2nd ed.).
al–Jawdhari, Abu Ali Mansur al–Azizi. Sirat al–Ustadh Jawdhar, ed. M. K. Husayn and M. A. H. Shaira. Cairo, 1954. French tr. M. Canard, Vie de l'ustadh Jaudhar. Algiers, 1958.
Jafar al–Hajib: see al–Yamani, M.
Kalam
al–Abd al–Ialih maa Waladih al–Mustajib
(anonymous), ms. no. 241 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 34.
al–Kulayni, Abu Jafar M. b. Yaqub. al–Usul min al–kafi. Tehran, 1334 s./1955.
al–Kirmani, Ahmad Hamid al–Din. Rahat al–aql
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Kitab Bilawhar wa Budhasf, ed. D. Gimaret. Beirut, 1972. French tr. D. Gimaret, Le Livre de Bilawhar et Budhasf selon la version arabe ismaélienne. Geneva–Paris, 1971.
al–Majdu, Ismail b. Abd al–Rasul
. Fahrasat al–kutub wal–rasail, ed. Ali N. Munzavi. Tehran, 1344 s./1966.
Mansur al–Yaman (al–Husayn b. Hawshab b. Zadan al–Kufi). Kitab al–Rushd wal–hidaya, ed. M.K. Hussein, Fragments of the Kitabur–Rushd Wal–Hidayat, in Collectanea, vol. 1. Leiden, 1948; tr. W. Ivanow, in Studies in Early Persian Ismailism, pp. 32–59.
al–Qadi al–Numan, Abu Hanifa b. M. K. Asas
al–tawil, ed. A. Tamir. Beirut, 1960.
–––K. Daaim al–Islam, ed. A.A.A. Fyzee. Cairo, 1951–60; Partial English tr. The Book of Faith (first chapter of Daaim al–Islam, on walaya
), tr. A.A.A. Fyzee. Bombay, 1974
–––Kitab al–Majalis
wal–musayarat, ed. H. al–Faqi et al. Tunis, 1978.
–––Risalat Iftitah al–dawa wa ibtida al–dawla
, ed. W. al–Qadi. Beirut, 1970; ed. F. al–Dachraoui. Tunis, 1975.
–––Tawil al–daaim, ed. M. H. al–Aóami. Cairo, 1968–72.
al–Razi, Abu Hatim. Alam al–nubuwwa
, ed. I. al–Sawi and G. R. al–Awani. Tehran, 1397/1977.
al–Iaffar al–Qummi, Abu Jafar M. b. al–Hasan. Kitab Basair al–darajat al–kubra fi fadail Al Muhammad, ed. M. M. Kuchehbaghi. Tehran, 1380 s./1981. al–Sijistani, Abu Yaqub Ishaq. Kitab Ithbat al–nubuwwat, ed. A. Tamir. Beirut, 1966.
al–Sultan al–Khattab b. al–Hasan al–Hamdani. Ghayat al–mawalid, ms. no. 249 in the library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies: see Gacek, Catalogue, vol. 1, p. 25.
al–Yamani, Muhammad. Sirat Jafar al–Hajib, ed. W. Ivanow, in Majallat Kulliyyat al–Adab
bi–l–Jamiat al–Misriyya, 4, Part 2 (1936), pp. 33–107; tr. W. Ivanow, in Ismaili Tradition Concerning the Rise of the Fatimids, pp. 184–223; French tr. M. Canard, Lautobiographie dun chambellan du Mahdî Obeidallâh le Fâtimide, in Hespéris 39 (1952), pp. 279–329; reprinted in his Miscellanea Orientalia, London, 1973, article 5.
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–––Shades of Shiism in the Tracts of the Brethren of Purity, in P. Slater and D. Wiebe, ed., Traditions in Contact and Change: Selected Proceedings of the XIV Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. Waterloo, Ont., 1983, pp. 447–460, 726–728.
–––and Francois de Blois, A Re–Examination of al–Mahdis Letter to the Yemenites on the Genealogy of the Fatimid Caliphs, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1983), pp. 173–207.
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–––Ibn al–Qaddah (The Alleged Founder of Ismailism). 2nd rev. ed., Bombay, 1957.
–––Ismaili Literature: A Bibliographical Survey. 2nd rev. ed., Tehran, 1963.
–––Ismaili Tradition Concerning the Rise of the Fatimids, London, 1942. [Includes translation of the Sirat Jafar al–hajib, pp. 184–223, with edition (pp. 81–106) and translation (pp. 275–304) of concluding section of Jafar b. Mansur al–Yamans Asrar al–nutaqa.]
–––Studies in Early Persian Ismailism. 2nd rev. ed., Bombay, 1955.
Kassis, Hanna. A Concordance of the Quran. Berkeley–London, 1983.
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