Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Map of the Middle East
- Introduction
- 1 Etic Concepts and Emic Terms
- 2 The State of the Art
- Part One A Sacred Place: The Shrine of al-Husayn’s Head
- Part Two A Sacred Time: The Month of Rajab
- Final Comments: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity
- Works Cited
- Index
20 - Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of the Sacred Months
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Map of the Middle East
- Introduction
- 1 Etic Concepts and Emic Terms
- 2 The State of the Art
- Part One A Sacred Place: The Shrine of al-Husayn’s Head
- Part Two A Sacred Time: The Month of Rajab
- Final Comments: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
The following is a preliminary list of works dedicated to the merits of Rajab, or to the three sacred months (Rajab, Shaʿban and Ramadan), or to the merits of all months, and all meritorious times (Faḍāʾil al-Awqāt). It is arranged in chronological order of the date of the authors’ death. Shiʿi authors are marked SH, Sunni authors SU, and unidentified authors feature two question marks (??).
Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī (d. 381/991), Faḍāʾil al-Ashhur al-Thalātha (The Merits of the Three Months), ed. Mīrzā ʿArfāniyān, Beirut 1992. SH
Abū ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī (d. 401/1010–11), ʿAmal Rajab wa-Shaʿbān wa-Ramaḍān (The Good Works of Rajab, Shaʿban and Ramadan). SH
Al-Iṣbahānī, Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad (d. 414/1023), Faḍl al-Iiyām (The Virtue of Fasting) ??
Al-Khallāl, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan (d. 439/1047), Faḍāʾil Shahr Rajab (The Merits of the Month of Rajab), ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad, Beirut 1996. SU
Al-Bayhaqī, Abū Bakr Aaḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn (d. 458/1066), Faḍāʾil al-Awqāt (The Merits of Times), ed. Khallāf Maḥmūd ʿAbd al-Samīʿ, Beirut 1417/1997. SU
Al-Kattānī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Aamad (d. 466/1074), Faḍāʾil Shahr Rajab (The Merits of the Month of Rajab). SU
Al-Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad (d. 478/1085), Oadīthān fī Faḍl Rajab = Ḥadīthān Aaadhumā fī Faḍl Rajab li-Abī Muʿashshar al-Ṭabarī (Two Hadiths in Praise of Rajab = Two Hadiths, one in praise of Rajab by Abu Muʿashshar al-Tabari), ed. Jamāl ʿAzūn, Beirut 2000. SU (most likely)
Al-Ḥākim al-Ḥasakānī (fifth/eleventh century), Faḍāʾil Shahr Rajab (The Merits of the Month of Rajab). Bound with: Shawāhid al-Tanzīl li-Qawāʿid al-Tafḍīl: fī al-Āyāt al-nāzila fī Ahl al-Bayt, ed. Muḥammad al-Maḥmūdī, Tehran 1990, 3 vols. SU
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166), al-Ghunya li-Ṭālibī Ṭarīq al-Ḥaqq (The Sufficient [Guide] for the Seekers of the Way of Truth), ed. Ṣallāḥ b. ʿUwayḍa, Beirut 1997, 2 vols. SU
Al-Madīnī, Abū Mūsa, Faḍāʾil al-Ayyām wa-l-Shuhūr (The Virtues of Days and Months) ??
Ibn ʿAsākir, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan (d. 571/1176), Faḍl Rajab (Virtues of Rajab). SU
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- Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle EastA Historical Perspective, pp. 218 - 220Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020