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Part VI the Scholarly Output of Professor Hossein Modarressi P a r t V I The Scholarly Output of Professor Hossein Modarressi Bibliography of Works by Professor Hossein Modarressi Compiled by Intisar A. Rabb and Hassan F. Ansari Books Modarressi, Hossein. Qum dar qarn-i nuhum-i hijrī, 801-900: Fas.lī az Kitāb-i Qum dar chahārdah qarn. [Qum]: H. ikmat, 1350/[1972]. ———. Farmānhā-yi Turkmānān-i Qarāqūyūnlū va Āqqūyūnlū. Qum: H. ikmat, 1352/[1973]. ———. Rāhnamā-yi jughrāfiyā-yi tārīkhī: Majmūʿa-yi mutūn va asnād. Qum: H. ikmat, 1353/[1974]. ———. Mithālhā-yi s.udūr-i S.afavī: Barrasī-yi kūtāhī dar bārah-yi yik nawʿ az asnād-i dīvānī-yi dawra-yi S.afavī. Qum: H. ikmat, 1353/1974. ———. Kitābshināsī-yi āthār-i marbūt. bih Qum. Qum: H. ikmat, 1353/1974. ———. Khāndān-i Fath. ān: Ah. wāl va āthār-i dānishmandān-i yikī az khāndānhā-yi ʿilmī-yi Qum dar qarnhā-yi haftum tā dahum. Qum: H. ikmat, 1353/1974. ———. Turbat-i pākān: Āthār va bināhā-yi qadīmī-yi mah. dūda-yi kunūnī-yi dār al-muʾminīn-i Qum. 2 vols. Qum: Anjuman-i Āthār-i Millī; Chāpkhāna-yi Mihr, 1355/1976. ———.Bargī az tārīkh-i Qazvīn: Tārīkhchihʾī az āstāna-yi Shāhzāda-yi H. usayn va dūdmān-i Sādāt-i Marʿashī-yi Qazvīn. [Qum]: Kitābkhāna-yi ʿUmūmī-yi H. ad. rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʿUz.mā Najafī Marʿashī, 1361/1982. ———. Kharāj in Islamic Law. [Tiptree, Essex]: [Anchor Press], 1983. Persian Translation: Zamīn dar fiqh-i Islāmī. 2 vols. Tehran: Daftar-i Nashr-i Farhang-i Islāmī, 1362/ 1983. ———. An Introduction to Shīʿī Law: A Bibliographical Study. London: Ithaca Press, 1984. Persian Translation: Muqaddamaʾī bar fiqh-i Shīʿa: Kulliyyāt va kitābshināsī. Translated by Mu- h.ammad Ās.if Fikrat. Mashhad: Bunyād-i Pazhūhishhā-yi Islāmī, 1368/[1989]. 294 Compiled by Intisar Rabb and Hassan Ansari Modarressi, Hossein. Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shīʿite Islam: Abū Jaʿfar ibn Qiba al-Rāzī and His Contribution to Imāmite Shīʿite Thought. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1993. Persian Translation: Maktab dar farāyand-i takāmul: Naz. arī bar tat.awwur-i mabānī-yi fikrī-yi tashayyuʿ dar sih qarn-i nukhustīn. Translated by Hāshim Īzadpanāh. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1374/[1995]. Revised Edition: Maktab dar farāyand-i takāmul: Naz. arī bar tat.awwur-i mabānī-yi fikrī-yi tashayyuʿ dar sih qarn-i nukhustīn. Translated by Hāshim Īzadpanāh. New edition with new introduction. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Kavīr, 1386/[2007]. Supplement: Khāndānhā-yi h. ukūmatgar-i Shīʿī dar Baghdād dār awākhir-i ghaybat-i s.ughrā (supplement to Maktab dar farāyand-i takāmul: Naz. arī bar tat.awwur-i mabānī-yi fikrī-yi tashayyuʿ dar sih qarn-i nukhustīn). Translated by Hāshim Īzadpanāh. New ed. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Kavīr, 1386/[2007]. Arabic Translation: Tat.awwur al-mabānī al-fikriyya lil-tashayyuʿ fī ’l-qurūn al-thalātha al-ūlā. Translated by Fakhrī Mashkū r. Edited by Muh.ammad Sulaymā n. [Iran]: n.p., 1996. Reprints: 1. [Qum]: Nū r Wah.y, 1423/[2002–3]. 2. Beirut: Dār al-Hādī lil-T. ibāʿa wa’l-Nashr wa’l-Tawzīʿ, 2008. ———. Tradition and Survival: A Bibliographical Survey of Early Shīʿite Literature. London: Oneworld, 2003. Persian Translation: Mīrāth-i maktūb-i Shīʿa az sih qarn-i nukhustīn-i hijrī. Translated by Rasūl Jaʿfariyān and ʿAlī Qirāʾī. Qum: Kitābkhāna-yi Takhas.s.us.ī-yi Tārīkh-i Islām va Īrān, 1383/[2004]. Revised Edition: Mīrāth-i maktūb-i Shīʿa az sih qarn-i nukhustīn-i hijrī. Translated by Rasul Jaʿfariyān and ʿAlī Qirāʾī. Rev. ed. Qum: Nashr-i Muʾarrikh, 1386/[2007]. Collected Articles [Persian & Arabic] Modarressi, Hossein. Qum-Nāma: Majmūʿa-yi maqālāt va mutūn dar bārah-yi Qum. Qum: Kitābkhāna-yi ʿUmūmī-yi H. ad. rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʿUz.mā Najafī Marʿashī, 1364/[1985–6]. Works by Hossein Modarressi 295 ———. Qummiyyāt: Majmūʿa-yi maqālāt dar bārah-yi Qum. Majmūʿa-yi Āthār-i Qadīm, no. 2. [NJ]: Zagross, 2007. ———. Sanadiyyāt: Majmūʿa-yi maqālāt dar bārah-yi asnād-i tārīkhī. Majmūʿa-yi Āthār-i Qadīm, no. 3. [NJ]: Zagross, 2008. ———. Kitābiyyāt: Majmūʿa-yi maqālāt dar zamīna-yi kitābshināsī. Majmūʿa-yi Āthār-i Qadīm, no. 4. [NJ]: Zagross, 2009. ———. Tārīkhiyyāt: Majmūʿa-yi maqālāt va tah. qīqāt-i tārīkhī. Majmūʿa-yi Āthār-i Qadīm, no. 5. [NJ]: Zagross, 2009. ———. Ijtimāʿiyyāt: Guzīdaʾī az maqālāt dar masāʾil-i madhhabī va ijtimāʿī. Majmūʿa-yi Āthār-i Qadīm, no. 1. [NJ]: Zagross, 2010. Articles and Chapters [Arabic, English, Persian] Modarressi, Hossein. “Katībahā-yi dawra-yi S.afavī dar Qum.” Wah. īd 47(1346/ [1967]): 1017–23. ———. “Dhayl bar Katībahā-yi dawra-yi S.afavī dar Qum.” Wah. īd 48 (1346/ [1967]): 1107. ———. “al-Ashʿariyyūn.” In Dāʾirat al-maʿārif al-islāmiyya al-Shīʿiyya, vol. 2, 3–8. Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf, 1968. ———. “H. āfiz. Rajab Bursī va Kitāb mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn-i ū.” Haftigī-yi Wah. īd 39 (1347/[1968]): 6ff. ———. “Waqfnāma-yi dū qanāt dar Qum (Farmānī az Nās.ir al-Dīn Shāh va sang nabishtaʾī-yi manz.ūm).” Wah. īd 54 (1347/[1968]): 575–77. ———. “Gach burīhā-yi bāzamānda az qarn-i haftum tā nuhum dar Qum [1].” Wah. īd 55 (1347/[1968]): 683–84. ———. “Gach burīhā-yi bāzamānda az qarn-i haftum tā nuhum dar Qum [2].” Wah. īd 56 (1347/[1968]): 793–96. ———. “Gach burīhā-yi bāzamānda az qarn-i haftum tā nuhum dar Qum [3].” Wah. īd 57 (1347/[1968]): 839–41. ———. “Sang nabishtahā-yi tārīkhī dar Qum az dawra-yi Afshāriyya va Qājariyya.” Wah. īd 58 (1347//[1968]): 931–36. ———. “Dhayl-i chand athar va katība-yi tārīkhī dīgar.” Wah. īd (1348/[1969]): 389–92. ———. “Namūnahā-yi nathr va naz.m-i Fārsī dar dū qarn-i nukhustīn-i hijrī [1].” Wah. īd 77 (1349/[1970]): 578–84. ———. “Namūnahā-yi nathr va naz.m-i Fārsī dar dū qarn-i nakhustīn-i hijrī [2].” Wah. īd 78 (1349/[1970]): 733–37. ———. “Namūnahā-yi nathr va naz.m-i Fārsī dar dū qarn-i nakhustīn-i hijrī [3].” Wah. īd 80 (1349/[1970]): 921–24. ———. “Madāris-i qadīm-i Qum [1].” Wah. īd 86 (1349/[1970]): 201–6. ———. “Madāris-i dīgar-i Qum [2] (dar qarnhā-yi shishum tā nuhum).” Wah. īd 87 (1349/[1970]): 409–11. ———. “Madrasa-yi āstāna-yi muqaddasa (Fayd. iyya) [3].” Wah. īd 88 (1350/[1971]): 126–29. ———. “Madrasa-yi Ghiyāthiyya-yi Qum [4].” Wah. īd 90 (1350/[1971]): 383 –87. 296 Compiled by Intisar Rabb and Hassan Ansari Modarressi, Hossein. “Madāris-i [qadīm-i] Qum (dar dawra-yi S.afaviyya) [5].” Wah. īd 94 (1350/[1971]): 1015–20. ———. “Madāris-i qadīm-i Qum (dar dawra-yi S.afaviyya) [6].” Wah. īd 95 (1350/ [1971]): 1247–52. ———. “Madāris-i qadīm-i Qum (dar dawra-yi Qājariyya) [7].” Wah. īd 99 (1350/ [1971]): 1767–72. ———. “Madāris-i qadīm-i Qum (dar dawra-yi Qājariyya) [8].” Wah. īd 100 (1351/ [1972]): 34–39. ———. “Madāris-i qadīm-i Qum (mustadrakāt) [9].” Wah. īd 101 (1351/[1972]): 199–206. ———. “Iʿjāz-i Qurʾān [1] (Pāsukh-i shubahāt-i pādirī-yi ‘Henry Martin’ dar mawd. ūʿ-i iʿjāz-i Qurʾān az muh.aqqiq Mīrzā Abū al-Qasim Gīlānī Qummī (d. 1231).” Wah. īd 109 (1351/[1972]): 1115–18. ———. “Iʿjāz-i Qurʾān [2].” Wah. īd 110 (1351/[1972]): 1225–37. ———. “Asnād va ah.kāmī az khāndān-i Afshār Urūmī.” Barrasīhā-yi tārīkhī 40 (1351/[1972]): 145–202. ———. “Fulūshā-yi d. arb-i Qum.” Hunar va mardum 117 (1351/[1972]): 46–48. ———. “Az daftar-i khāt.irāt-i buzurgān.” Khāt.irāt-i Wah. īd 13 (1351/[1972]): 19–23. ———. “Az Furāt tā Nīl (Guzarī bar ʿahd-i adyān-i buzurg va tamaddunhā-yi kuhan [1]).” Khāt.irāt-i Wah. īd 14 (1351/[1972]): 81–88. ———. “Az Furāt tā Nīl (Guzarī bar ʿahd-i adyān-i buzurg va tamaddunhā-yi kuhan [2]).” Khāt.irāt-i Wah. īd 16 (1351/[1972]): 107–14. ———. “Az Furāt tā Nīl (Guzarī bar ʿahd-i adyān-i buzurg va tamaddunhā-yi kuhan [3]).” Khāt.irāt-i Wah. īd 18 (1352/[1973]): 67–78. ———. “Nāmaʾī az Mīrzā-yi Qummī bih Āghā Muh.ammad Khān Qājār.” Wah. īd 122 (1352/[1973]): 1150–51. ———. “Āshināʾī bā Ustādī-yi Buzurg dar hunar-i gach burī-yi Īrān ʿAlī b. Mu- h.ammad b. Abū Shujāʿ Bannā.” Hunar va mardum 132 (1352/[1973]): 36–47. ———. “Yik sanad az qarn-i dahum.”Wah. īd 121 (1352/[1973]): 991–96. ———. “Khāndān-i ʿAlī S.afī: Shahriyārānī gumnām [1].” Barrasīhā-yi tārīkhī 44–45 (1352/[1973]): 13–40. ———. “Khāndān-i ʿAlī S.afī: Shahriyārānī gumnām (Qismat-i duvvum) [2].” Barrasīhā-yi tārīkhī 47 (1352/[1973]): 25–68. ———. “Dū risāla az Āghā Muh.ammad Bīdābādī dar sayr va sulūk.” Wah. īd 115 (1352/[1973]): 384–97. ———. “Mukātibāt-i Fayd. va Qād. ī Saʿīd-i Qummī.” Wah. īd 117 (1352/[1973]): 667–78. ———. “H. ājj Mullā Muh.ammad S.ādiq Qummī, Faqīh-i ʿĀlī-qadr-i dawra-yi Qājār va nāma-yi-ū bih Nās.ir al-Dīn Shāh dar shakwa az maz.ālim-i ʿummāl-i dawlat.” Wah. īd 126 (1353/[1974]): 211–19. ———. “Maʾākhidhī tāza barāh-yi tah.qīqāt-i marbūt. bih Is.fahān.” Wah. īd 128 (1353/[1974]): 372–75. ———. “Chand athar-i nū yāfta dar munāz.arāt-i kalāmī-yi Shīʿī.” Wah. īd 134 (1353/[1974]): 874–86. ———. “Waqfnāmaʾī az Turkumānān Qarāqūyūnlū.” Farhang-i Īrān zamīn 20 (1353/[1974]): 245–65. Works by Hossein Modarressi 297 ———. “Kitābcha-yi thabt-i mawqūfāt va khulās.a-yi jāt-kishvar dar dawra-yi Nāz. irī.” Rāhnamā-yi kitāb 18 (1354/[1975]):435–42. ———. “Qād. ī Ah.mad Qummī: Nigāranda-yi Khulās.at al-tawārīkh va Gulistān-i hunar.” Barrasīhā-yi tārīkhī 57 (1354/[1975]): 61–100. ———. “Panj nāma az Fath.-ʿAlī-Shāh Qājār bih Mīrzā-yi Qummī.” Barrasīhā-yi tārīkhī 59 (1354/[1975]): 245–76.
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