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• Moslem schisms and sects (al-Fark bain al-firak) being the history of the various philosophic systems developed in Islam (AMS Press, 1966), by ʻAbd al-Qāhir Ibn Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī and Kate Chambers Seelye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ...Moslem schisms and sects (al-Fark Bain al-Firak) being the history of the various philosophic systems developed in Islam (Columbia university press, 1920), by ʻAbd al-Qāhir Ibn Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī and Kate Chambers Seelye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luqṭat al-ʻajlān Mimmā tamass ilá maʻrifat ḥājat al-insān; wa-fī ākhirihi khabīfat al-akwān fī iftirāq al-ummam ʻalá al-madhāhib wa-al-adyān (Maṭbaʻat al-Jawāʾib, 1879), by Nawab of Bhopal Muḥammad Ṣiddīq Ḥasan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tomar-ı turuk-u aliye (Evkaf-ı İslamiye Matbaası :, 1922), by Sadık Vicdani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Khiwlafatʻ : patmakan hetazōtutʻiwn (880-03 Alēkʻsandrapōl : Tparan "Shirak", 1906., 1906), by Sarkīs Mubāyjīyān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• İhvan fırkası (Hüsn-i Tabiat Matbaası, 1924), by M. M. Fetih (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dīvān-i Ḥanafī; dar radd-i dīvān-i Sayyid Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ḥasan Khān Qunnūjī, dar laʻn va ṭaʻn-i muqalladīn ... (Lakhnau, 1888), by called ʻĀjiz Vakīl Aḥmad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālah-i sī faṣl. (Bambaʾī, 1895), by Muḥammad Karīm Khān Kirmānī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḥujaj al-qaṭʻīyah li-ittifāq al-firaq al-islāmīyah (Maṭbaʻat al-Saʻādah, 1906), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn Suwaydī and Aḥmad ibn Zaynī Daḥlān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Risālat al-qawl al-matīn fī al-radd ʻalá al-mukhālifīn (Maṭbaʻat Majallat al-Manār al-Islāmīyah, 1906), by Qāsim ibn Saʻīd Shammākhī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Risālat al-Qawl al-matīn fī al-radd ʻalá al-mukhālifīn (Maṭbaʻat Majallat al-Manār al-Islāmīyah, 1906), by Qāsim ibn Saʻīd Shammākhī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ara üʼl-milel (Istanbul, 1886), by Giritli Sırrı Paşa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mezahip ve turuk-ı İslâmiye tarihi (Evkaf-ı İslâmiye Matbaası, 1919), by Haydarîzade İbrahim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barāhīn-i qāṭiʻah (880-05 Lāhawr : Maṭbaʻ-i Muḥammadī, [between 1860 and 1899], in the 19th century), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī and Kamāl al-Dīn Jahrumī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb al-fiṣal fī al-milal wa al-ahwa wa al-niḥal (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Adabīyah, 1899), by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥazm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arai ül-milel (Şirketi Mertebiye Matbaası, 1885), by Giritli Sırrı Paşa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Derkaoua d'hier et d'aujourd'hui; essai historique. (Alger, 1902), by Napoléon Lacroix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moslem schisms and sects = al-Farḳ bain al-firaḳ : being the history of the various philosophic systems developed in Islam (Columbia University Press, 1919), by ʻAbd al-Qāhir Ibn Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī and Kate Chambers Seelye (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-ʻAqā’id (880-03 [al-Qāhirah, Miṣr] : Dār al-ʻUṣūr lil-Ṭabʻ wa-al-Nashr, 1928., 1928), by ʻUmar ʻInāyat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Saʻādat al-dārayn fī al-radd ʻalá al-firqatayn al-Wahhābīyah wa-Muqallidat al-Ẓāhirīyah (880-04 Miṣr : Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat al-Islām, 1319 H., [1901? M.], 1901), by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUthmān Samannūdī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-aqwāl al-marḍīyah fī al-radd ʻalá al-Wahhābīyah. (Wa-yalīh) al-durar al-manthūrah fī al-awrād al-ma’thūrah (880-05 Miṣr : al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻUmūmīayh, 1901., 1901), by Muḥammad ʻAṭā Kasm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Al-Farq bayna al-firaq (Maṭbaʻat al-Maʻārif, 1910), by ʻAbd al-Qāhir Ibn Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī and Muḥammad Badr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notice of the Book of Sulaiman's first ripe fruit, disclosing the mysteries of the Nusairian religion ([publisher not identified], 1865), by al-Adhanah Sulaiman and Edward Elbridge Salisbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb al-Nafaḥāt al-hudāʼīyah ʻalá wird al-sādāt al-Aḥmadīyah (Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat al-Baṣīr, 1898), by Muḥammad Nūrī Arīḥāwī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb Saʻādat al-dārayn fī al-radd ʻalá al-firqatayn al-Wahhābīyah wa-muqallidat al-Ẓāhirīyah : wa-yashtamil ʻalá tārīkh inshāʼ al-Manṣūrah wa-ḥādithat muftīhā al-mashhūrah (Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat al-Islām, 1902), by Ibrāhīm Samannūdī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Āʼīnah-yi Islām : jismen̲ ahl-i Islām ke ḍeṛh sau firqon̲ kā nām aur unkā uṣūl-i ʻaqāʼid va īmān aur yih kih vase bi-aham mukhtalif hain aur bhī Masīḥiyonke firqonkī muvāfaqat kā mājarā marqūm hai (Methūḍīsṭ Pablishing Haus, 1897), by Samuel Knowles and Rajab ʻAlī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nādān Vahābī (Ḥalaqah-yi Mashāʼik̲h̲ :, 1925), by K̲h̲vājah Ḥasan Niẓāmī Dihlavī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ma'rifat al-madhāhib : al-Juzw al-awwal muṭābiq-i Tadhkirat al-madhāhib (in the 19th century), by Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ghazālī, Ibn al-Sirāj, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn fī adillat al-farīqayn. ([India] : Maṭbaʻ-i Muḥammadī, 1293, [1876], 1876), by Aḥmad Ḥusayn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hadīyatulmahdī. (Matbaʻulislām, 1907), by Vaḥīduzzamān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moslem schisms and sects (Al-Fark Bain al-Firaḳ) ... (New York : Columbia Univ. Press, 1920., 1920), by Abū Manṣūr 'Abd al-Ḳāhir b. Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī and Kate Chambers Seelye (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Aïssaoua, ou, Les charmeurs de serpents (E. Dentu, 1862), by Jules Davasse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kitab al-milal wa-al-nihal: Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects (2 volumes in Arabic, with English title pages and prefatory matter; London: Printed for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1842-1846), by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karim Shahrastani, ed. by William Cureton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milal wa-al-niḥal. (Harassowitz, 1923), by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karim Shahrastani and William Cureton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• رساله معرفت المذاهب (in the 19th century), by fl. 14th cent. ? Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Ghazālī and Frank E. Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barāhīn-i qāṭiʻah (880-05 Lāhawr : Maṭbaʻ-i Muḥammadī, [between 1860 and 1899], in the 19th century), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī and Kamāl al-Dīn Jahrumī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taṭhīr al-janān wa-al-lisān (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Maymanīyah, 1894), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Muʻtazilah, being an extract from the Kitābu-l milal wa-n niḥal (Harrassowitz, 1902), by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn al-Murtaḍá, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn al-Murtaḍá, and Thomas Walker Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hādhā kitāb al-musammá bi-Ṭarāʼif ʻAbd al-Maḥmūd (Bi-saʻī wa-ihtimām Aqā Shaykh Bāqir Ṭihrānī, 1902), by ʻAlī ibn Mūsá Ibn Ṭāwūs and Ibn Muḥammad Riḍā ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAlī al-Sharīf Khūzānī al-Iṣfahānī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tarjumah-i Ṭarāʼif ([publisher not identified], 1884), by ʻAlī ibn Mūsá Ibn Ṭāwūs (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Ṣawāʻiq al-mursalah ʻalá al-Jahmīyah wa-al-Muʻaṭṭilah (880-04 Makkah al-Mukarramah : al-Maṭbaʻah al-Salafīyah wa-Maktabatuhā, 1348 H., [1929? M.], 1929), by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Razzāq Ḥamzah, and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Baladī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Taṭhīr al-jinān wa-al-lisān (al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻĀmirah, 1891), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (page images at HathiTrust)

• Khiwlafatʻ : patmakan hetazōtutʻiwn (880-03 Alēkʻsandrapōl : Tparan "Shirak", 1906., 1906), by Sarkīs Mubāyjīyān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hadīyatulmahdī. (Matbaʻulislām, 1907), by Vaḥīduzzamān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nationalism, sectarianism, and the future of the U.S. presence in post-Saddam Iraq (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2003), by W. Andrew Terrill and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iraq's constitutional process two (United States Institute of Peace, 2005), by Jonathan Morrow and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fırat Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (in Arabic, English and Turkish; 2008-) (partial serial archives)

• Notice of the Book of Sulaiman's first ripe fruit, disclosing the mysteries of the Nusairian religion ([publisher not identified], 1865), by al-Adhanah Sulaiman and Edward Elbridge Salisbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bektaşilik ve edebiyatı (Matbaa-yı Âmire, 1922), by Besim Atalay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam, by G̲h̲ulām Aḥmad
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• Testimony of the Holy Quran, by G̲h̲ulām Aḥmad, trans. by Zahid Aziz (HTML at muslim.org)
• Ahmad, the Guided One: A Life of the Holy Founder of the Movement to Unite All Religions, by Iain Adamson (Javascript-dependent page images at alislam.org)
• Kitāb al-Maʻārif al-Maḥammadīyah fi al-Waẓāʾif al-Aḥmadiyyah (Maṭbaʻat Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, 1888), by ʻIzz al-Dīn Aḥmad Ṣayyād (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teachings of Islam; a solution of five fundamental religious problems from the Muslim point of view. (Ahmadia Anjuman Ishaʾat-i-Islam, 1921), by G̲h̲ulām Aḥmad and Muhammad Ali (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A present to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from the Ahmaldiyya community. (Nashr-o-Ishaat (Publicity Dept.) Sadr Anjuman-i-Ahmadiyya, 1922), by Bashīruddīn Maḥmūd Aḥmad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Claims and teachings of Ahmad, the promised Messiah and Mahdi : (from his own writings and sayings). (Secunderabad, 1917), by G̲h̲ulām Aḥmad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The teachings of Islam; an exposition of the beauties of Islam drawn entirely from the Holy Quran in a very lucid form; the real key to eternal happiness. (Abul Fazl Mahmood for the Anjuman-e-Tarraqqi Islam, 1900), by G̲h̲ulām Aḥmad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb al-Nafaḥāt al-hudāʼīyah ʻalá wird al-sādāt al-Aḥmadīyah (Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat al-Baṣīr, 1898), by Muḥammad Nūrī Arīḥāwī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kaifiyyat-i mubāḥisah-yi Siyālkoṭ. (Am Kay K̲h̲ān, 1925), by Mūsá K̲h̲ān K̲h̲ān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ahmadiyyat, or, The true Islam (Manager, Book Depot, 1924), by Bashīruddīn Maḥmūd Aḥmad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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