Thread by @mullasadra

#manuscripts #Shii_arcana an important genre of writing concerns the arcana of acts of worship (asrār al-ʿibādāt) and here is MS Maktabat al-Imām al-Ḥakīm in Najaf 2032 - a copy of Asrār al-ṣalāt of Ibn Fahd al-Ḥillī (d. 841/1437) 1/

There are a number of classic works in the #Shii tradition on this including works by Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī (d. after 786/1385), Qāḍī Saʿīd Qummī (d. 1107/1696) and even recently Āyatullāh Khumaynī (d. 1989) 2/

Ibn Fahd was a prominent jurist and pivot of disseminating legal and ethical thought in the 14th century between #Iraq #Iran #JabalʿĀmil and a number of his students were from #EasternArabia - this is an important study 3/

The text was completed by Shaykh Mubārak b. ʿAlī Āl Ḥumaydān al-Aḥsāʾī (1144/1732-1234/1819) in 1165/1752 4/

At the time of the decline of the #Safavids Shaykh Mubārak, born in al-Jārūdīya near #Qatif, studied in #Najaf where many scholars had moved away from the Iranian centres 5/

His work as a jurist shows the links of #EasternArabia with the shrine cities and is another witness to the importance of the region integrated into the wider networks of exchanges and patronage 6/

And it shows that like Ibn Fahd and others earlier he considered the #arcana as a completion of the efficacy of ritual practice 7/

I should perhaps add that our understanding of the #intellectual_history and networks of scholars in #EasternArabia owes much to Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ḥirz's work and his excellent #Telegram channel

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