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- BAYŻĀWĪ, NĀṢER-AL-DĪN
BAYŻĀWĪ, NĀṢER-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḴAYR (or ABŪ SAʿĪD) ʿABD-ALLĀH B. ʿOMAR B. MOḤAMMAD, Shafeʿite jurist, Asḥʿarite theologian, and renowned Qurʾān commentator. Information…
- BARĀ’A
BARĀʾA, an Imami theological term denoting dissociation from the enemies of the imams. During the conflict between ʿAlī and Moʿāwīa,…
- BALĀḠĪ, MOḤAMMAD-JAWĀD
BALĀḠĪ, MOḤAMMAD-JAWĀD B. ḤASAN B. ṬĀLEB B. ʿABBĀS RABAʿĪ NAJAFĪ, Imami author, poet, and polemicist. Born in Najaf in 1282/1865-66…
- BAḤRĀNĪ, YŪSOF
BAḤRĀNĪ, YŪSOF B. AḤMAD B. EBRĀHĪM DERĀZĪ, Imami author and jurisprudent. He was born in 1107/1695-96 to a merchant family…
- BAḤRĀNĪ, AḤMAD
BAḤRĀNĪ, AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. YŪSOF B. ṢĀLEḤ, described as the leading representative in his generation of Imami Shiʿite scholarship…
- BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ
BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ, SHAIKH MOḤAMMAD B. ḤOSAYN BAHĀʾĪ, also known as Shaikh Bahāʾī, Imami scholar and author born near Baalbek on…
- ASTARĀBĀDĪ, MOḤAMMAD AMĪN
ASTARĀBĀDĪ, MOLLĀ MOḤAMMAD AMĪN B. MOḤAMMAD ŠARĪF AL-AḴBĀRĪ, founder of the 17th-century Aḵbārī school. His first teacher of Hadith was…
- ĀMOLĪ, SAYYED BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN
ĀMOLĪ, SAYYED BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ḤAYDAR B. ʿALĪ B. ḤAYDAR AL- ʿOBAYDĪ AL-ḤOSAYNĪ, early representative of Imamite theosophy (b. 720/1320, or perhaps…
- ʿĀMMA
ʿĀMMA (pl. ʿawāmm), a common Emāmī Shiʿite appellation for the Sunnites. Roughly equivalent to ahl al-ḵelāf, al-moḵālefūn, al-ḵaṣm, or al-ǰomhūr,…
- AḴBĀRĪYA
AḴBĀRĪYA, a school in Imamite Shiʿism which maintains that the traditions (aḵbār) of the Imams are the main source of…
- AʿMAŠ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD
AʿMAŠ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD SOLAYMĀN B. MEḤRĀN ASADĪ (in some sources, erroneously, Azdī) KĀHELĪ KŪFĪ, 1st-2nd/7th-8th century Shiʿite scholar, traditionist, and…
- ĀMEDĪ
ĀMEDĪ, ABU’L-FATḤ NĀṢEḤ-AL-DĪN ʿABD-AL-WĀḤED B. MOḤAMMAD (B. MAḤFŪẒ) B. ʿABD-AL-WĀḤED TAMĪMĪ, 6th/12th century traditionist and author of a well-known collection…
- ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB
ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB (b. ca. 600, d. 40/661), cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Moḥammad, first Shiʿite Imam, father…
- EVIL ii. In Shiʿism.
ii. IN SHIʿISM. the struggle against evil Imami Shiʿites, more than any other group in Islam, have an overwhelming sense…
- FAŻL, b. Šāḏān NĪŠĀPŪRĪ AZDĪ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD
FAŻL, b. Šāḏān NĪŠĀPŪRĪ AZDĪ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD, Imami traditionalist, theologian, and jurisprudent (d. Moḥarram 260/October-November 873). After studying with his…
- EBN ṬĀWŪS, RAŻĪ-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ
EBN ṬĀWŪS, RAŻĪ-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar (b. Ḥella, 15 Moḥarram 589/21 January 1193; d. Baghdad, 5 Ḏu’l-qaʿda 664/8…
- DEYLAMĪ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ḤASAN
DEYLAMĪ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ḤASAN b. Abi’l-Ḥasan (b.) Moḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd-Allāh (or Moḥammad), Shiʿite author and traditionist. He is…
- ḎARĪʿA elā TAṢĀNĪF al-ŠĪʿA
ḎARĪʿA elā TAṢĀNĪF al-ŠĪʿA, AL-, a comprehensive bibliography of Imami Shiʿite works in twenty-five volumes compiled by Shaikh Moḥammad-Moḥsen Āqā…
- BEḤĀR AL-ANWĀR
BEḤĀR AL-ANWĀR (Oceans of light) by Mollā Moḥammad-Bāqer b. Moḥammad-Taqī Majlesī (d. 1110 or 1111/1699 or 1700), an encyclopedic compilation…
- ḤELLI, NAJM-AL-DIN ABU’L-QĀSEM JAʿFAR
ḤELLI, NAJM-AL-DIN ABU’L-QĀSEM JAʿFAR b. Ḥasan b. Abi Zakariyā Yaḥyā b. Ḥasan b. Saʿid Hoḏali, known as Moḥaqqeq or Moḥaqqeq-e…
- ḤALABI, ABU’L-ṢĀLEḤ
ḤALABI, ABU’L-ṢĀLEḤ Taqi-al-Din b. Najm-al-Din b. ʿObayd-Allāh b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Moḥammad (b. Aleppo, 374/984-85, d. Moḥarram 447/April 1055), Imami jurist…
- ḠAŻĀʾERĪ
ḠAŻĀʾERĪ, nesba of two Imami authors and traditionists. 1. Abū ʿAbd-Allāh Ḥosayn b. ʿObayd-Allāh b. Ebrāhīm, reportedly a leading scholar…
- RĀVANDI, Qoṭb-al-Din Saʿid
RĀVANDI, Qoṭb-al-Din Saʿid, Imami author, traditionist, and jurist (d. Qom, 14 Šawwāl 573/5 April 1178; his birthday is not known)….
- KOLAYNI
KOLAYNI (or Kolini, erroneously Kalini), Abu Jaʿfar Moḥammad b. Yaʿqub b. Esḥāq Rāzi, prominent Imami traditionist. He was born (at…