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• Fatima the Gracious, by Abu Muhammad Ordoni (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Ammar Yasir: A Companion of the Prophet, by Sadruddin Sharafuddin (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• A Brief History of the Fourteen Infallibles (Tehran: World Organization for Islamic Services, 1984) (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Al-Imam al-Mahdi: The Just Leader of Humanity, by Ibrahim Amini, trans. by Abdulaziz Sachedina (HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Life of Imam 'Ali al-Hadi: Study and Analysis, by Baqir Sharif Quarashi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Nafasul Mahmum Relating to the Heart Rending Tragedy of Karbala, by 'Abbas ibn Muhammad Rida Qummi (HTML at al-islam.org)

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• A Summary of Rulings by Grand Ayatullah Nasir Makarem Shirazi: A Translation of His Original Work, Zubdah al-Ahkaam (second edition, c2006), by Nasir Makarim Shirazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Shi'ite Encyclopedia (electronic edition), ed. by Ali Abbas (HTML at al-islam.org)

• Al-Muraja'at: A Shi'i-Sunni Dialogue, by Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Kitab Al-Mumin (in Arabic and English), by al-Husayn ibn Sa'id Ahwazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Kitab Al-Mumin (in Arabic and English), by al-Husayn ibn Sa'id Ahwazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• A Divine Perspective on Rights: A Commentary on Imam Sajjad's "The Treatise of Rights" (original treatise in Arabic, with translation and commentary in English), by Zayn al-'Abidin 'Ali ibn al-Husayn and Ghodratullah Mashayekhi, trans. by Ali Peiravi and Lisa Zaynab Morgan (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Nahjul Balagha, by Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Sharif al-Radi
  • Part 1 (Sermons): multiple formats at al-islam.org
  • Part 2 (Letters and Sayings): multiple formats at al-islam.org

• Al-Amali: The Dictations of Sheikh al-Mufid, by Muhammad ibn Muammad Mufid, trans. by Asgharali M. M. Jaffer (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• A Bundle of Flowers from the Garden of Traditions of the Prophet & Ahlul-Bayt, ed. by Kamal Faghih Imani, trans. by Abbas Sadr-ameli (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Shi'ite Anthology, ed. by Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, trans. by William C. Chittick (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Life of Imam 'Ali al-Hadi: Study and Analysis, by Baqir Sharif Quarashi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Imam Husain and His Martyrdom, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (HTML at al-islam.org)
• Nafasul Mahmum Relating to the Heart Rending Tragedy of Karbala, by 'Abbas ibn Muhammad Rida Qummi (HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Revolution of al-Husayn: Its Impact on the Consciousness of Muslim Society, by Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din, trans. by I. K. A. Howard (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Karbala and Ashura, by Ali Hussain Jalali (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Al-Imam al-Mahdi: The Just Leader of Humanity, by Ibrahim Amini, trans. by Abdulaziz Sachedina (HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Occultation of the Twelfth Imam: A Historical Background (1982), by Jassim M. Hussain (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Al-Muraja'at: A Shi'i-Sunni Dialogue, by Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Discussions concerning Al-Mahdi, by Lutf Allah ibn Muhammad Javad Safi Gulpaygani, trans. by Sulayman 'Ali Hasan (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• God and His Attributes: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari, trans. by Hamid Algar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Resurrection Judgement and the Hereafter: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari, trans. by Hamid Algar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Shi'ism: Imamate and Wilayat, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Bundle of Flowers from the Garden of Traditions of the Prophet & Ahlul-Bayt, ed. by Kamal Faghih Imani, trans. by Abbas Sadr-ameli (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Guiding the Youth of a New Generation, by Murtaza Mutahhari (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Man and His Destiny, by Murtaza Mutahhari (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Master and Mastership, by Murtaza Mutahhari (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Seal of the Prophets and His Message: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari, trans. by Hamid Algar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Shi'ah Are (the real) Ahl al-Sunnah, by Muhammad Tijani Samawi, trans. by Yasin T. al-Jibouri (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Marriage and Morals in Islam, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Shiism in Sunnism, by Muhammad Riza Mudarrisi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Imamate (The Vicegerency of the Prophet), by Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Imamate and Leadership: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari, trans. by Hamid Algar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Discussions concerning Al-Mahdi, by Lutf Allah ibn Muhammad Javad Safi Gulpaygani, trans. by Sulayman 'Ali Hasan (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Shi'ism: Imamate and Wilayat, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Occultation of the Twelfth Imam: A Historical Background (1982), by Jassim M. Hussain (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Shi'a Political Thought (2004), by Ahmad Vaezi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Essai sur le Chéïkhisme (4 parts in 1 volume, in French; Paris: P. Geuthner, 1910-1914), by A. L. M. Nicolas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fatima is Fatima, by Ali Shariati, trans. by Laleh Bakhtiar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Fatima the Gracious, by Abu Muhammad Ordoni (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (second edition, with new afterword; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Nicholas Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• University of California Publications in History (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Theological Studies (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Historical Studies (partial serial archives)
• Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany (partial serial archives)
• Beacon Lights of History (15 volumes, 1902), by John Lord (Gutenberg and archive.org volumes)
• Collected Papers: Historical, Literary, Travel and Miscellaneous (5 volumes; Cambridge: At the University press, 1921), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eye-Witness (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historic Oddities and Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1889), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Mysteries (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Sketches (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906-9), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume III: HTML at newmanreader.org
• Historische Werke (15 volumes in German; 1821-1828), by A. H. L. Heeren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and Essays, by Goldwin Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Man in History: An Oration for the Columbian Year (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1893), by John Clark Ridpath (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The New History: Essays Illustrating The Modern Historical Outlook (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Secrets of the Past (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Allen Upward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Great Events in History (Historical series book 4 part 2; New York: D. Appleton, 1887), by James Johonnot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

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