Preparatory Session of the International Conference Commemorating Allamah Mir Hamid Hussain Musawi Lucknawi Held in Najaf al-Ashraf

By divine grace and under the auspices of the Imam of the Age (may Allah hasten his reappearance), this preparatory session will be held on Thursday, 29th of Shahrivar (corresponding to 15th Rabi al-Awwal) at the Al-Murtada Intellectual Complex in Najaf al-Ashraf. Scholars from the Islamic seminaries of Iran and Iraq will present their research papers.

From the Qom Seminary:

  • Ayatullah Najmuddin Tabarsi will speak on “The Status of Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Ijtihad in the Theological Thought of Allamah Mir Hamid Hussain”
  • Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Muhammad Taqi Subhani will present “The Position of the Lucknow Theological School and Allamah Mir Hamid Hussain’s Role in Reviving the Doctrine of Imamate”

From the Najaf Seminary:

  • Hujjat al-Islam Ali al-Ghuzzi will discuss “A Window into the Hadith Methodology (Dirayat al-Hadith) of the Author of ‘Abaqat al-Anwar'”
  • Hujjat al-Islam Hussam al-Ubaydi will present “Quranic Foundations of Imamate in Light of the Book ‘Nafahat al-Azhar'”
  • Hujjat al-Islam Hussain al-Asadi will speak on “The Principle of Divine Grace (Qa’idat al-Lutf) and Its Applications in Imamate”

Additionally, the conference secretariat has arranged meetings with senior religious authorities (Maraji’) and prominent scholars of Iraq’s seminaries during this visit.

(Note: Dates follow the Iranian calendar [29 Shahrivar ≈ mid-September] and Islamic lunar calendar [15 Rabi al-Awwal])

 

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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.

Notes

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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