نشریه آینه پژوهش
سال بیست و هفتم شماره 3 (پیاپی 159، امرداد و شهریور 1395)

Among the books which have only one manuscript is the Collection of the Anecdotes by Fazlollah bin Abdollah Monshi Borūjerdi which was written in Nastalīq calligraphy in 1284 AD (somewhere in the text of the book, it is written 1283 AD). The author of the present paper is going to introduce this manuscript and examine it from different aspect such as the features and the content of the stories. In the last part, he briefly tells us one of the stories which was written by the author twice, each time in a different way.

In this article, the author discusses a version of Jāme’ al-Akhbār which was dedicated to the Yazdis’ school in Najaf along with some other books by Muhammad Hasan bin Muhammad Ibrahim Yazdi. There is a one-page dedication at the beginning of this manuscript in which in addition to writing about birth and marriage, he wrote some notes about his pilgrimages. His pilgrimage notes are in three pages which include a very brief report of his one trip to Mecca, two trips to Atabāt, and four trips to Mashhad. The author of this paper presents the text of the dedication as well as his pilgrimage notes.

The present paper is the translation of an entry in the 31st volume of The Encyclopedia of Islam. This entry is written on Mūsā Jārallah who is one of the Tatar Muslim scholar. The author is going to study Mūsā Jārallah’s works and ideas.

At-Tāli’ as-Saiīd by Kamāloddin Adfavi is one of the most important sources which provides us with some valuable historical information about Shiism and some of the Shiite names in Sa’īd area in Egypt especially during the 7th century. Having presented a short report of the book and its author, the following paper is going to offer some evidences and clues of the presence and spread of Shiism in this area in the middle centuries.

Due to the importance of keeping the documents, the author of the present paper has made an attempt to make the reader in short familiar with the documents center and its tasks, the documents management and its importance, the tasks of archival organizations in managing the documents, and also the failures of the system of the documents management.

Sa’di az Dast-e Khīshtan, Faryād, by Abbās Kiārostami, is one of the selective collections which this filmmaker has presented based on the Persian collections of poems. The mentioned book is a selection of Sa’di-e Shīrāzi’s sonnets. The author of the following paper has gone through this book in order to criticize it.

Among the theological works which are left by the Shiite theologian Sharīf Murtaza Alam al-Hudā, the collection of his treatises is a precious treasure of Imami knowledge which is considered to be of great importance. His treatises are difficult to understand, and correcting them is not that simple to do. Not only did Alam al-Hudā use a complicated and technical language in his writing, but also an authentic old version of many of his works is not available; hence, correcting his heritage including his treatises has confronted a serious problem. The author of the present paper is going to review Sharīf Murtaza’s treatises in terms of quality and the accuracy of the correction. As an instance, he is going to write a review on an edition of the treatise Javābāt al-Masāel al-Tirāblesiāt as-Sānia. This treatise was corrected by Seyyed Mahdi Rajāie and published as a part of the first volume of Sharīf Murtazā’s Treatises from page 307 to page 356. Among the various versions of Tirāblesiāt as-Sānia, the author has chosen the best seven available versions and compared them with the published text, then he pointed out the shortcomings such as the omissions, the redundant words and phrases, as well as false readings or recordings along with some examples from the published text.

The Arabic Manuscript Tradition: A Glossary of Technical Terms and Bibliography by Adam Gacek is a book about manuscript writing and manuscript terms which is translated into Persian by Ali Qolināmi. The author of the present paper has criticized the Persian translation of the book. Regarding this, he, first of all, scrutinizes the general and structural problems of the translation, and then talks about the technical problems by providing some examples of the book.

Zeil Nafthat ol-Masdūr by Najmoddin Abulrajā-e Qomi, who passed away around 584 AD, includes seventeen Seljuk ministers’ biographies, covering from the second period of Qavāmoddin Darguzīni’s ministry to the end of Azīzoddin Kāshi’s ministry. Abulrajā-e Qomi has recorded his observations very diligently in this book. The book is considered to be a primary source for the history of Iraq Seljuk. One of the most important features of this book is the large number of similarities which are between its Persian themes with the Arabic proverbs and mottos which have been seen in Arabic texts. The author of the present paper has made an effort to find some Arabic equivalents and themes for the Persian themes of Zeil Nafthat ol-Masdūr, and depicts the points which are common between this book themes and the Arabic proverbs and mottos.

Divān an-Nathr al-Arabi (The Collection of Arabic Prose) by Adunīs is a selection of Arabic proses which was published in four volumes by Syria Dār a Bidāyāt publication in 2012. In the introduction to the book, Adunīs is going to explain in detail about the basic writing of the Qur’an and its significant influence on the Islamic culture, i.e. about the formation of the Islamic Renaissance in the fourth century. This book is going to deal with a serious reading of the history of the Islamic culture and its main source that is the Qur’an. It also discusses some of the Qur’an new manifestations, and believes that prose has played a valuable role in promoting the Arabic culture. The author of the book brings up three important points: finding the unknowns, freedom of experiencing, and freedom of expression. The present article has tried to provide a report of the mentioned book.

Mir Jalāloddin Kazzāzi is one of the professors of Persian Language and Literature who has presented his reflections and meticulousness on Hāfez’s poems in the form of a series of books which include explanations about and reports of Hāfez’s sonnets based on aesthetics. The author of the present paper is going to introduce and criticize the first volume of this series called Deir-e Mughān which is a report of the first twenty sonnets of Hāfez’s Divān (collection of poems). According to the author, despite all the efforts made by the book writer to provide a comprehensive report of Hāfez’s literal and figurative arts in the poems, there are still some shortcomings and probably mistakes in the procedure or content of the report. Therefore, having talked about the features and strong points of the book, he points out the deficiencies and briefly explains about his own suggestions with regard to the meaning. In the last part of the article, the author studies the first and fifth sonnets in details, and then with regard to the other sonnets he mentions the report problems or recommend some complementary suggestions in the same order as the pages of the book.

Dating Hadith: Methods and Case Studies by Ali Āqāie (Hekmat Publication, Tehran, 1394) includes the Persian translation of twelve of the most important articles written by ten prominent western researchers which are about the dating of hadith and have been published in the recent decades. This book is the most comprehensive Persian book on the literature of western study of hadith. It presents a report of the most important works in this field and provides its reader with some explanations about different methods of western novel researches on dating of hadith and their results. It also talks about the possibilities and limitations of every method, and mentions some of the answers given to the results of these methods by some Muslim scholars. The following paper is going to have a brief look at this book and review its articles.

Thirty Five Scholars, a book written by Muhammad Āref-e Mūsavinejād, is a collection of thirty five biographies of Afghan influential scholars in the last century. The Secretariat of the International Conference of the Common Heritage of Iran and Iraq commissioned this book, and later in 1393 the book was published by Majma’-e Zakhāer-e Is lami publishing house in Qom. The author of the following paper is going to introduce this book and examine its content. Regarding this, he firstly talks about the book author and publishing house, and then compares the book with other similar books which have been published in Iran. Finally, he points out the book strong points and shortcomings.

Najaf News, which is based on the information concerning Najaf news and condition reported in the Persian documents and publications, was published in two volumes by Shahr publishing house in 1394. The second volume of the book is a descriptive list of Najaf documents, and is mostly about Iran and Ottoman relations during Qajar era. The following article is going to introduce this book.

In most of the published data banks and encyclopedias, the compound names of the authors and the books are typed in three forms of without space, half space, and full space between two compound parts. Therefore, the process of gaining access to the information and as a result transmitting and analyzing the information has turned to be not comprehensive. The same inconsistencies in the names have been seen in all the volumes of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia. The present paper is going to point out some of the inconsistencies in the orthography of the book titles and authors’ names.

Ma’ālim ol-Medina al-Monavvara bain al-Emāra wa at-Tārīkh by Abdolazīz Al-Ka’aki is a voluminous book in 30 volumes (9 parts) which has been effective in changing the urban planning policy in Medina. The author of this book has madean attempt to record the endangered legacy of the first Islamic city which has expanded more than 25 times in the last 60 years. The first part of the book was published in 1998, and its writing was completed in 2015. The present paper is going to introduce this book. Regarding this, firstly a brief biography of the author is provided, and then the titles of all the volumes are looked at. Following this, the arrangement of the content of the book is analyzed, and some information about the steps and procedure of compiling the book as well as about the author’s religious thinking is provided.

The present paper is the translation of an article by Lawson (published in 2016) on the book God Is Beautiful:The Aesthetic Experience of the Qur’an by Navīd Kermāni. This book is one of the most important works in the field of Islamic and Qur’anic Studies. Its translation from German to English was carried out by Toni Crawford and published by Polity Press Publication in Cambridge in 2015. The author of the present paper is going to introduce this book and talk about its content. Key words: God Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Qur’an, Navīd Kermāni, the Qur’anic studies, aesthetics of the Qur’an, book report.

The author of the following article intends to provide a report of the manuscripts as well as the bibliography of the issue of “Badā’”1in two parts. In the first part, he introduces 39 selective treatises and lectures which belong to the past scholars such as Sheikh Kuleini, Sheikh Sadooq, Sheikh Mufīd, Ayatollah Khūie, and Maleki Miānji. In the second part he discusses the books and treatises which partially or exclusively has dealt with Badā’, but are not included in the collection of treatises written on Badā’.