Article “The Complete Revival of Abaqat al-Anwar after One Hundred and Fifty Years of Waiting” was published.

چکیده: By Divine favors, the Secretariat of the International Congress Commemorating Allamah Mir Hamid Husayn (may mercy be upon him) girded the loin of effort to produce a comprehensive and technical research, and brought this important [task] to fruition after many ups and downs along with a bank of images of manuscripts, based on a single manual (style guide) and by the effort of a generation of young researchers under the supervision of masters of the craft, and realized the long-standing wish of scholars and concerned individuals.

Article “The Complete Revival of Abaqat al-Anwar after One Hundred and Fifty Years of Waiting” was published.

The Complete Revival of Abaqat al-Anwar after One Hundred and Fifty Years of Waiting

Article Type: Research

Authors: Mahdi Esfandiyari; Ruhollah Kazemi

Abstract:

The Theological-Jurisprudential School of Lucknow in the era of conflict and confrontation of sects, with a multitude of thinkers and countless scientific heritage, has had a significant role in promoting Imamiyyah culture throughout the subcontinent, rather beyond that in other Islamic lands. Meanwhile, “Abaqat al-Anwar fi Imamat al-A’immat al-Athar” by Allamah Mir Hamid Husayn (may mercy be upon him) as the “Greatest Proof of the Sect,” has created a turning point among Imamate-researching thinkers, and with a straight and correct, renowned and enduring method, and the expansion and progress of the knowledge of Imamate because of it, appears peerless. Regrettably, despite the efforts formed in these long years and considering the unique literature, significant volume, content diversity, and difficulty in finding its manuscripts and sources, its revival did not take place and “we still do not have the printed [edition] of the book of Abaqat with this greatness.” Until, by Divine favors, the Secretariat of the International Congress Commemorating Allamah Mir Hamid Husayn (may mercy be upon him) girded the loin of effort to produce a comprehensive and technical research, and brought this important [task] to fruition after many ups and downs along with a bank of images of manuscripts, based on a single manual and by the effort of a generation of young researchers under the supervision of masters of the craft, and realized the long-standing wish of scholars and concerned individuals. Today, all that from this great work which had the capability of correction and research, has been adorned with the ornament of print in 37 volumes and has attracted the praise of the people of craft and specialists to itself.

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Notes

The Splendor of the Lucknow School in the Indian Travelogue of the Author of *al-Ghadir

The primary objective of this historic journey was to gain access to early, first-hand sources from both sides and to transcribe rare documents for the completion of the volumes of *al-Ghadir* and the enrichment of the Amir al-Mu’minin Library in Najaf. The highlight of the journey was his month-long stay in Lucknow, the warm hospitality and companionship of the Abaqat family, and the indescribable amazement of the author of *al-Ghadir* at the unparalleled holdings of the Nasiriyya Library—an event that immortalized the bond between two major centers devoted to defending the doctrine of Imamate in Najaf al-Ashraf and Lucknow.

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Article: A Critique and Review of the Critical Edition of “Hadith Ali ma‘a al-Haqq” from Abaqat al-Anwar: Critical Editing and Research, or Corruption and Distortion?

“Hadith Ali ma‘a al-Haqq,” from the Abaqat al-Anwar encyclopedia, is an incomplete manuscript section that became available to researchers in recent years. This section consists of a collection of unorganized research slips and rough notes, most of which were written by copyists unfamiliar with the relevant vocabulary and terminology; consequently, what has survived is a disordered text containing numerous errors. Recently, a portion of these notes that possesses greater order and continuity was selected by an institute in Qom and published with grand claims of “critical editing, research, and annotation” and described as “a rarely matched scholarly investigation.”

Manuscript Repository

The Researcher’s Introduction to the Revival of the Qur’anic Verses Section of Abaqat al-Anwar

The present volume is a researched and critically edited edition of this monumental work. In preparing this edition, every effort has been made, as far as possible, to exercise the degree of precision, patience, and diligence befitting the critical editing and study of an exceptional work such as Abaqat al-Anwar, and to honor the efforts of the devoted scholar Allamah Mir Hamed Hussain Lakhnawi in compiling this book by presenting a sound and critically established text. Accordingly, an effort has been made to produce a final text so thoroughly refined, corrected, and critically examined that the reader of Abaqat al-Anwar will perceive no difference in editorial quality between its First Manhaj, whose two extant copies are manuscripts, and its Second Manhaj, whose surviving copies are printed and well preserved.

News & Announcements

President and Members of the Secretariat of the International Congress Commemorating Allamah Mir Hamed Hussain Meet with Ayatollah Alidoost

During a meeting between the president and members of the Secretariat of the International Congress Commemorating Allamah Mir Hamed Hussain and Ayatollah Abolqasem Alidoost, a report was presented on the progress of reviving 70 volumes of the heritage of the Lucknow scholarly school, preserving the documents of the Nasiriyya Library, and extracting the theological methodology of the author of Abaqat al-Anwar. The distinguished professor of the Qom Seminary also referred to the enduring impact of text-centered conferences and emphasized the systematic analysis of the manner in which Allamah interacted with the hadith heritage, the observance of proper etiquette in criticism, and the avoidance of non-academic disputes in the contemporary context.

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