Works by Ja‘far b. Mansur al–Yaman
Ja‘far b. Mansur al–Yaman. Asrar al–nutaqa’, ed. Mustafa Ghalib, Beirut, 1404/1984, pp. 121–264 in volume entitled Sara’ir 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 Sara’ir al–nutaqa’, continuing Ja‘far’s ta’wil
of the prophets from the story of Abraham and Lot onward.] The concluding chapter on Shi‘i sects after Ja‘far al–Iadiq has been edited (pp. 81–106) and translated (pp. 275–304) in W. Ivanow’s Ismaili Traditions.
–––Kitab al–Fara’id 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 Ja‘far’s (otherwise lost?) K. al–Adilla wa’l–shawahid ‘ala ma‘rifat al–hudud min al–afaq wa’l–anfus.
–––Kitab al–Fatarat wa’l–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.
–––Sara’ir al–nutaqa’, ed. M. Ghalib. Beirut, 1404/1984, pp. 17–118, in volume entitled Sara’ir 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–mu‘jam [Ta’wil al–huruf al–mu‘jam], 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 wa’l–bayan fi ithbat amir
al–mu’minin wa’l–a’imam
, 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–Nu‘man, Iftitah al–da‘wa
; Idris ‘Imad al–Din, ‘Uyun
al–akhbar; Ibn Malik al–Yamani, K. Kashf al–asrar; and Ibn al–Walid, R. al–Wahida.)
–––Ta’wil 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.
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‘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
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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.
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al–Jawdhari, Abu ‘Ali Mansur al–‘Azizi. Sirat al–Ustadh Jawdhar, ed. M. K. Husayn and M. A. H. Sha‘ira. Cairo, 1954. French tr. M. Canard, Vie de l'ustadh Jaudhar. Algiers, 1958.
Ja‘far al–Hajib: see al–Yamani, M.
Kalam
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al–Kulayni, Abu Ja‘far M. b. Ya‘qub. al–Usul min al–kafi. Tehran, 1334 s./1955.
al–Kirmani, Ahmad Hamid al–Din. Rahat al–‘aql
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Mansur al–Yaman (al–Husayn b. Hawshab b. Zadan al–Kufi). Kitab al–Rushd wa’l–hidaya, ed. M.K. Hussein, ‘Fragments of the Kitabu’r–Rushd Wa’l–Hidayat,’ in Collectanea, vol. 1. Leiden, 1948; tr. W. Ivanow, in Studies in Early Persian Ismailism, pp. 32–59.
al–Qadi al–Nu‘man, Abu Hanifa b. M. K. Asas
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–––Kitab al–Majalis
wa’l–musayarat, ed. H. al–Faqi et al. Tunis, 1978.
–––Risalat Iftitah al–da‘wa wa ibtida’ al–dawla
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–––Ta’wil al–da‘a’im, ed. M. H. al–A‘óami. Cairo, 1968–72.
al–Razi, Abu Hatim. A‘lam al–nubuwwa
, ed. I. al–Sawi and G. R. al–A‘wani. Tehran, 1397/1977.
al–Iaffar al–Qummi, Abu Ja‘far M. b. al–Hasan. Kitab Basa’ir al–darajat al–kubra fi fada’il Al Muhammad, ed. M. M. Kuchehbaghi. Tehran, 1380 s./1981. al–Sijistani, Abu Ya‘qub 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 Ja‘far al–Hajib, ed. W. Ivanow, in Majallat Kulliyyat al–Adab
bi–l–Jami‘at al–Misriyya, 4, Part 2 (1936), pp. 33–107; tr. W. Ivanow, in Isma‘ili Tradition Concerning the Rise of the Fatimids, pp. 184–223; French tr. M. Canard, ‘L’autobiographie d’un 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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