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A Shiʻite anthology / selected and with a foreword by ʻAllāmah Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabātabāʾī ; translated with explanatory notes by William C. Chittick ; under the direction of and with an introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. [electronic resource]
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chittick, William C., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hadith (Shiites).
- Hadith (Shiites)--Texts.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 152 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press ; London : Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, c1981.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [142]-143.
- ISBN:
- 0-7914-9897-2
- 0-585-07818-1
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