نشریه آینه پژوهش
سال بیست و هفتم شماره 2 (پیاپی 158، خرداد و تیر 1395)

The author of this paper intends to write about Urjūzahfī al-Tibb (Poem on Medicine) attributed to Avicenna. Regarding this, he starts the article with the history of tendency towards poetry in Persian and Arabic. Following this, he talks about the definition of the poem, writing urjūzah, and its features as well as its advantages. Then, he discusses Urjūzahfī al-Tibb (Poem on Medicine), attributed to Avicenna, and scrutinizes the doubts about this work. Other issues presented here include the features of Urjūzahfī al-Tibb, other medical urjūzahs which are attributed to Avicenna, the commentators of urjūzah, and a report of the Latin, Hebrew, and Persian translations and prints. Finally, the author is going to explain some samples of the medical urjūzahs written by others.

Islamic hagiographic life writing can be applied in historical research in different ways. These works can certainly be used to write the history of mysticism,the history or biography of single characters, and also to write the history of religious thought in general, and even to write the social history. In the following paper, the author has made attempts to focus on the narrative pattern of these works, and connect this pattern with the fundamental purpose of Islamic hagiographic life writing that is to keep alive the charisma of the heroes of these works. Regarding this, he deals with one of the Persian earliest monographs and puts it alongside with another one of the Persian monographs which belongs to the East of Iran and is written in the 6th century (almost contemporary with the other one). The last section of this article is a careful studying of one of the anecdotes about Karamatfound in Ghaznavi’s work.

The present paper is considered to be the second article in the series of publications on documents. The authors first of all have made attempts to scrutinize the history of archive in the world. Following this, they are going to study the history of the Ottoman archive and the history of archive in Iran.

Tarīqol-VosūlelāAkhbār-e Āl-e al-Rasūlis a set of Ayatollah HādiNajafi’s permissions along with a fairly detailed report of the biographies of forty elders of Mushārallahin narrating of hadith. The author has written the book in order to collect the permissions and the biographies of the elders,who permitted the narration of hadith, the way the past scholars did. The present paper is going to point out some of the advantages as well as some of the shortcomings and mistakes of the book.

Writing AmsālvaHekam (Proverbs and Mottos), whenever AllāmeDehkhodā found an equivalent for Persian proverbs in Arabic language, he mentioned that. However, sometimes he did not refer to the equivalents for some other Persian proverbs and mottos. One of the reasons was perhaps the point that while writing AmsālvaHekam, he did not intend to search through the sources of the Arabic proverbs and only paid attention to some of the proverb books such as MeidāniNeishāboori’sMajma’ al-Amsāl. In the following paper, the author is going to mention the equivalents for some of the proverbs which are in Dehkhodā’sAmsālvaHekam; therefore, he would highlight the common points of these two literatures in AmsālvaHekam more than before.

In the present paper, the author is going to introduce and correctively criticize Tazkiratul-Wāsilīn fi Sharh-e Nahjul-Mustarshidīn, written by Abdulhamid bin A’raji Hosseini, which is a commentary on Nahjul-Mustarshidīn, a theological treatise by AllāmeHilli. This book was corrected by Tāhir al-Salāmi and published by al-Markaz al-IslamiLildirāsāt al-Istirātijiah in 1436 AH. The author first of all mentions some points about Tazkiratul-Wāsilīn, its author, and also its surviving manuscripts. Then, he is going to evaluate and criticize the presented edition of this work. Providing some examples from the corrected text, he counts the book shortcomings.

The author in this paper, which is the ninth part of the series of Parts of Islamic Studies, is going to provide a brief report of the following sources:Authorship in the Sīra Literature; Andreas Goerke
Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan, book review
The Concept of Salafi and the Salafism

The present paper is the translation of a book review which was written on Qur’ans of the Umayyads(Francois Deroche, Leiden, Brill publication, 2014) in 2014. This book gives an overview of Mus’haf-e Qur’an in the Umayyad era. In the following paper, the author is going to study the book chapters and content very carefully.

Ayatollah Ali Akbar Nahāvandi, known as Mujtahid (1278 – 1369 AH), is one of the significant contemporary Shia scholars who not only had a great social aspectbut also has written many works. The bibliography of his works can be classified into five groups according to these subjects: the Qur’an and hadith, jurisprudence and the principles of jurisprudence, al-Tarājim and al-Rijāl (biographical evaluation), as well as sermons and preaching. In this paper, the author is going to provide a brief description of his works.