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#manuscripts #ShiiTheology an autograph of Sayyid Ahmad ‘Alawi ‘Amili (d. c. 1650), son-in-law of Mir Damad (d. 1631), commentary on one of the #FourBooks of #ShiiHadith al-Istibsar of al-Tusi (d. 1065) MS Mar’ashi 5368 dated 1039/1629 1/ 
It seems that this commentary was written in refutation of the #Akhbari commentary of Muhammad Amin Astarabadi (d. c. 1626) hadith.net/PrintSourceTex… 2/
The #FourBooks seem to have become canonised during the #Safavid period with the earliest explicit reference in the work of al-Shahid II Zayn al-Din al-‘Amili d. 1558), although one finds reference in the later 15th century to الاصول الاربعة and الاصول الخمسة
The #maktab_e_tafkik is gaining significance in the #ShiiSeminary - alongside a recent edition of the collected works of its ‘founder’ #MirzaMahdiIsfahani (d. 1945) this volume of studies on him came out around 4 years ago #ShiiTheology 1/
The remaining ToC 2/
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Grateful to a friend for picking up these volumes from #Iran of #Mahbubalqulub of Qutb al-Din Ashkivari (d. c. 1692) a student of #MirDamad on history of philosophy #IslamicPhilosophy 1/
The work comprises three volumes the first two of which appeared as critical editions with #MiraseMaktub in #Tehran around 20 years ago - there is still no edition of volume 3 #IslamicPhilosophy #HistoryofPhilosophy 2/
Volume 1 is on pre-Islamic thinkers and has an extensive discussion on #Zoroaster as well as the Quranic sage #Luqman and a prophetic conception of the beginnings of philosophy with #Seth and then #Hermes_Idris following #Shahrazuri (d. 1288) 3/
Not entirely sure when I got hold of this book published by @maarefhekmeya but pretty decent work by #AliFazili on the semantics of being and how one applies existence to God, to humans and to the secondary intelligible of ‘existence’ in the mind #MullaSadra #IslamicPhilosophy 1/
Part of the question goes back to the problem of the subject of philosophy in Aristotle and what is meant by #being_qua_being and how we understood and delimit what we intend by the term #MullaSadra #IslamicPhilosophy 2/
It is also a useful way to making sense of the different ways in which we understand #existence in #IslamicPhilosophy #ShiiTheology and #mysticism 3/
#Ijazat are critical licenses to teach and transmit texts given by a teacher to a disciple and constitute highly useful sources for the intellectual historian working on #ShiiTheology and this is one recent collection #Najaf 1/
This work is published by Dar al-turath attached to the shrine in #Najaf and they are doing some excellent work on texts, authors, archival documents, and bibliographies 2/
The author, son of a prominent scholar Muhammad Taqi Aqa Najafi Isfahani (d. 1914), is a useful guide to the networks of scholarship in the shrine cities of #Iraq and their links into #Iran and further as well as #Shiiconstitutionalism #ShiiTheology iranicaonline.org/articles/aqa-n… 3/
The shrine of #alAbbas in #Karbala is arguably the largest publisher in Iraq and editing many significant works of #ShiiTheology - this commentary on a classic textbook of #’Allama_Hilli is by an 18th C #Safi_al_Din_al_Turayhi 1/
The base for the edition is this manuscript from the collection of #KashifulGhita 2/
The manuscript is dated 11 Ramadan 1121/1709 and a digital copy is preserved in #ImamalHakim library in #Najaf 3/
More #ShiiTheology commentary by a little known 9/15th century #SayyidAbdalWahhabAstarabadi on #NasiralDinTusi (d. 672/1274) pithy four chapters on divine simplicity, prophecy, the Imamate, and the afterlife published by the shrine of #ImamHusayn 1/
Precious commentaries included #Tusi contemporary #MaythamalBahrani (d. 699/1300), #MiqdadalSiyuri (d. 826/1423) but the work was a mainstay of the #Hilla school of #ShiiTheology 2/
There were a number of attempts by the #hawza to respond to the challenges of #materialism all the way from #naturalism to #Marxist #dialectical materialism including this work of #MuhammadTaqiAmuli (d. 1971 #ShiiTheology #kalam_jadid 1/
Earlier there was the poem of #MuhammadHusayn Isfahani in Najaf entitled #Tuhfat_al_hakim published in the late 90s with the glosses of #MehdiHaeriYazdi (d. 1999) #ShiiTheology #kalam_jadid 2/
#AllamaTabatabai (d. 1981) works #Usul_e_falsafeh #BidayatalHikma and #NihayatalHikma are similar responses to materialism and working out the scope for #metaphysics and the life of the mind #ShiiTheology #kalam_jadid 3/
