A Shi'ite Anthology

A Shi'ite Anthology

Hadith (Shiites) -- Texts

Albany : State University of New York Press ; London : Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

selected and with a foreword by ʻAllāmah Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabātabāʼī ; translated with explanatory notes by William C. Chittick ; under the direction of and with an introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Introduction: Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Translator's Introduction -- Foreword: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i -- On the Unity of God -- The Prophet -- Profession of Faith -- God's Attributes -- Ali, the First Imam -- The Transcendent Lord -- Via negativa -- Firm Rooting in Knowledge -- The Fairest of Creators -- Oneness -- Discernment -- The Vision of the Heart -- al-Baqir, the Fifth Imam: The Incomparable Lord -- Jac far al-Sadiq, the Sixth Imam -- Seeing God -- The name that can be named -- Musa, the Seventh Imam: The Mighty and Majestic -- the Eighth Imam -- Profession of Unity -- The Veil -- Notes: Pan I -- The Ruler and Society -- Instruction to Malik al-Ashtar -- Notes: Pan II -- The Spiritual Life: Prayer and Supplication -- al-Husayn, the Third Imam: Prayer for the Day of Arafah -- The Fourth Imam -- In Praise of God -- Prayer for the Morning and Evening -- Muhammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam: Prayer for the Month of Rajab -- Notes: Part III -- Appendix: The Twelve Imams.

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