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Imams (Shiites) -- Biography -- Early works to 1800

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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)
Ṭūfān al-bukāʼ ([Maṭbaʻ-i ʻAbd al-Karīm], 1844), by Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Bāqir Jawharī (page images at HathiTrust)
Nāsikh al-tavārīkh (Amīr Kabīr, 1857), by Muḥammad Taqī Sipihr (page images at HathiTrust)
Hādhā kitāb-i Tuḥfat al-riḍawīyah. (Dār al-Salṭanah-i Tabrīz, 1864), by Nawrūz ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Bāqir Fāz̤il Basṭāmī (page images at HathiTrust)
Qamqām-i zakhkhār. (s.n.], 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Gülzar-i Haseneyn (Cemiyet Kütüphanesi, 1915), by Fazlullah Rahimi (page images at HathiTrust)
Ṭūfān al-bukāʼ. ([publisher unknown], 1850), by Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Bāqir Jawharī (page images at HathiTrust)
Safīnat al-awlīyā (Munshī Naval Kishawr, 1900), by Prince Dārā Shikūh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[Rawz̤at al-aʼimmah ([Iran?], 1855), by ʻIzzat ʻAlī Riz̤avī (page images at HathiTrust)
Hādhā al-kitāb Manāqib Amīr al-Muʼminīn Sayyidinā al-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ... wa-najlayhi al-Imāmayn al-Karīmayn Sayyidinā al-Ḥasan wa-al-Ḥusayn ... ([publisher not identified], 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hādhā Kitāb Taz̲kirat al-aʼimmah. (1700), by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī -1674 Lāhijī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Maṣāʼib al-hudāh al-maʻṣūmīn (s.n.], 1913), by Asad Allāh ibn Sạdr al-Dīn Aḥmad Qazvīnī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Imams (Shiites) -- Biography -- Early works to 1800

حديقة السعدا (1592), by 1495?-1556 Fuzulî, Frank E. Nuttall, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī, and active 1592 Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Qāḍī Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad Rāzī (page images at HathiTrust)
كتاب حديقة السعداء (in the 16th century), by 1495?-1556 Fuzulî and Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī (page images at HathiTrust)
Risālah dar maṣāʼb-i Ahl-i Bayt (1824), by Frank E. Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
عین بکا خطی ([Tabrīz], 1827), by Muḥammad Naqī ibn Aḥmad Burūjirdī and Frank E. Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
Hādhā Kitāb fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī maʻrifat al-aʼimmah, ʻalayhim al-salām (s.n.], 1886), by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (page images at HathiTrust)
Muḥriq al-qulūb. (1811), by Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Abī Z̲arr Narāqī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Shāh Muḥammad al-Tākirī, and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Rawz̤at al-shuhadāʼ. (1818), by Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

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Kitāb al-Manāqib āl Abī Ṭālib (s.n., 1898), by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Shahrāshūb (page images at HathiTrust)
Maẓāhir al-anvār fī manāqib aʼimah al-aṭhār (s.n.], 1863), by Riz̤ā Qulī Khān Hidāyat (page images at HathiTrust)
Wilāyat al-aʾimmah. ([Shīrāz, 1921), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Bihbihānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Surūr al-nāẓirīn dar maʻrifat uṣūl-i dīn ... ([Tehran, 1886), by ʻAbd al-Vahhāb ibn Muḥammad Javād Dīvān-Bīgī Shīrāzī (page images at HathiTrust)
Tadhkirat al-aʼimmah. ([Tehran?, 1860), by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i musammá bi-Ḥadīqat al-ʻārifīn (Sayyid Murtaz̤á Ṭihrānī, 1885), by Muḥammad Ḥasan Māzandarānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Hādhā huwa ʼal-kitāb ʼal-musammá bi-Baḥr ʼal-jawāhir ([Bumbay?], 1880), by Muḥammad Bāqir Mūsavī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kharāʼij wa-al-jarāʼiḥ fī muʻjizāt al-aʼimmah wa-muʻjizāt al-Qurʼān al-majīd wa-al-Furqān al-ḥamīd. (Mirza Mohamed Shirazi, 1884), by Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh Rāwandī (page images at HathiTrust)
Bishārat al-ẓuhūr (s. n., 1918), by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Turāb Shīrāzī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sharḥ Kitāb Malhūf, al-musammá bi-, Lajjat al-alam fī ḥujjat al-umam ([publisher not identified], 1893), by Riz̤ā Qulī ibn Mahdī Qulī Sarābī and Mahdī Mumtaḥin al-Dawlah (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā. (1618), by Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh Mīr Khvānd and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Safīnat al-awlīyā (Munshī Naval Kishawr, 1900), by Prince Dārā Shikūh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rawz̤at al-ṣafā fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ w-al-mulūk w-al-khulafā. (1631), by Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh Mīr Khvānd and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Ansāb al-a'immah. (in the 19th century), by Khān Ṣāḥib Miyān Fātiḥ 'Alī Khān, Afḍal 'Alī Riḍavī al-Mūhānī, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Dah majlis. (1827), by Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī, Mīrzā Anīs Baik, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Tarjamah-i Sirr al-shahādatayn (1840), by ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad Dihlawī, Muḥammad Salāmat Allāh Kashvī, Ramaḍān 'Alī, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
[Rawz̤at al-aʼimmah ([Iran?], 1855), by ʻIzzat ʻAlī Riz̤avī (page images at HathiTrust)
Izālat al-ghayn ʻan biṣārat al-ʻayn bi-is̲bāt shahādat al-Ḥusayn (Maṭbaʻ-i S̲amar-i Hind, 1878), by Ḥaydar ʻAlī Fayz̤ābādī (page images at HathiTrust)
Muḥriq al-qulūb. (1811), by Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Abī Z̲arr Narāqī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Shāh Muḥammad al-Tākirī, and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Hādhā al-kitāb Manāqib Amīr al-Muʼminīn Sayyidinā al-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ... wa-najlayhi al-Imāmayn al-Karīmayn Sayyidinā al-Ḥasan wa-al-Ḥusayn ... ([publisher not identified], 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Iḥtijāj ʻalá ahl al-lajāj (in the 18th century), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ṭabarsī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Hādhā Kitāb Taz̲kirat al-aʼimmah. (1700), by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī -1674 Lāhijī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Rawz̤at al-shuhadāʼ. (1818), by Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Imams (Shiites) -- Early works to 1800

Musnad al-Imām Zayd. (Maṭbaʻat al-Manār, 1921), by Zayd ibn ʻAlī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Isḥāq Baghdādī, and Abū Khālid ʻAmr ibn Khālid Wāsiṭī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sharḥ Kitāb Malhūf, al-musammá bi-, Lajjat al-alam fī ḥujjat al-umam ([publisher not identified], 1893), by Riz̤ā Qulī ibn Mahdī Qulī Sarābī and Mahdī Mumtaḥin al-Dawlah (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā. (1618), by Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh Mīr Khvānd and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Rawz̤at al-ṣafā fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ w-al-mulūk w-al-khulafā. (1631), by Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh Mīr Khvānd and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Iḥtijāj ʻalá ahl al-lajāj (in the 18th century), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ṭabarsī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

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Afṣaḥ al-fuṣaḥā (Maṭbaʻ Sipihr, 1813), by 1776-1845 or 1846 Abū al-Ḥasan Khān (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb maʻārij al-faz̤āʾil dar muʻjazāt-i aʾimmah as̲nā ʻashar. (Sult̤ān al-Mat̤ābiʻ, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)

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