Rasūl Jaʿfarīyān continuing with the project of publishing travelogues (especially those relating to pilgrimage) is about to publish an interesting travelogue from 1924 by Mirzā Ḥasan Iḥqāqī (b. Karbala 1900, d. Tehran 2000) leader of the #Shaykhīya #Tabriz #Karbala #Kuwait 1/ 
Mirzā Ḥasan was the grandson of Mirzā Muḥammad Bāqir Uskūʾī (1815-1884) the founder of the tradition, and the son of Mirza Mūsā (b. Karbala 1863, d. Karbala 1945), the scholar of the family whose Iḥqāq al-ḥaqq is the reason for the family name #Iḥqāqī 2/
He succeeded his brother ʿAlī (b. Najaf 1887, d. Kuwait 1966) as leader of the #Tabriz #Karbala branch of the #Shaykhīya moving from #Tehran to Kuwait, further cementing the relationship with political and merchant elites in #Kuwait 3/
His son and successor Mirzā ʿAbd al-Rasūl (1928-2003) provides a history of the scholarly contribution of the family in #Shaykhīya and the links between #Tabriz #Karbala #Ahsa and #Kuwait in this account Qarnān 4/
Mirzā Ḥasan's defence of his position (and #ShiiIslam more generally) are seen in two works Nāma-ye Shīʿīyān and Nāma-yi ādamīyat in response: 1) Aḥmad Kasravī (1890-1946) in 1947 published in 1964 and 1970, 2) against Asrār-e hazār-sāle of ʿAlī-Akbar Ḥakamī-zāde in 1943 5/
That was a continuation of the account from Tehran to Mashhad entitled Ḥayāt-e Jāvīd but does not seem to be extant or printed 7/
For a more detailed discussion of the work and the encounter with #modernity and shifting nature of religious practice and performance on the cusp on the modern #Iraqi and #Iranian states that are witnessed in the text, check out historylib.com/articles/1890/ 8/
So we can add this text as a further witness to the religious cultural and social life of this period - and Jaʿfarīyān has produced yet another highly useful work for us to consider for the #modern_Islam dossier 9/
