A. BIBLIOGRAPHY

PRIMARY : (Arabic & Persian)

Nahjul Balagha (Qum, 1981). Kitab al-Maghazi (London, 1966) by Waqidi (d. 822). Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyah (Cairo, 1955) by Ibn Hisham (d. 833). Kitab al-Tabaqat (Leiden, 1905) by Ibn Sa'd (d. 845). Masnad (Cairo, 1949) by Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (d. 855). Al-Bayan wal-Tabyin (Cairo, 1952) by al-Jahiz (d. 868). Sunan (Cairo, 1952) by Ibn Majah (d. 886). Sunan (Cairo, 1952) by Abu Daud (d. 888). Futuh al-Buldan (Leiden, 1966) by Baladhuri (d. 892). Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk (Cairo, 1960) by Tabari (d. 923). Kitab al-Aghani (Leiden, 1900) by Abul Faraj Ispahani (d. 969). Musibat-Nama (Tehran, 1959) by Fariduddin Attar (d. 1221). Akhbar al-Muluk Bani Ubayd wa Siyaratihim (Paris, 1927) by Ibn Hammad (d. 1230). Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh (Beirut, 1965) by Ibn Athir (d. 1233). Wafayat al-A'yan (Paris, 1838) by Ibn Khallikan (d. 1281). Muqaddimah (tr. Franz Rosenthal, London, 1958) by Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406). Al-Khitat (Cairo, 1959) by Makrizi (d. 1441). Rauza-tus-Safa (tr. Mubarik Ali Shah Jilani Hashim, Lahore, 1983) by Mir Khund. Haft Bab (Bombay, 1959) by Abu Ishaq Kohistani. Voyage from Bombay to Najaf (Ms. 1885) by Mukhi Kassim Musa (d. 1896).

MODERN : (English & Urdu)

History of Persia (Lahore, 1888) by John Malcolm. The Seljuks in Asia Minor (London, 1961) by Tamara Talbot Rice. The Arab Kingdom and its Fall (Beirut, 1963) by J. Wellhausen. History of Arabia before Muhammad (Lahore, 1989) by De Lacy O'Leary. The Spirit of Islam (London, 1965) by Sayed Amir Ali. Rise and Fall of the Fatimid Empire (Bombay, 1944) by A.S. Picklay. Ismailis through History (Karachi, 1997) by Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali. Early Arabic Odes (Delhi, 1938) by S.M. Husain. Organisation of Government under the Prophet (Delhi, 1987) by M. Y. Mazhar Siddiqui. Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975) by Annemarie Schimmel. Deciphering the Signs of God (Cambridge, 1994) by Annemarie Schimmel.. Studies in Early Ismailism (Jerusalem, 1983) by S.M. Stern. The Social Structure of Islam (Cambridge, 1962) by Reuben Levy. The Legacy of Islam (London, 1960) ed. by T. W. Arnold. War and Peace in the Law of Islam (Virginia, 1955) by Majid Khadduri . History of Egypt (London, 1914) by Stanely Lane Poole. The Fatimid Theory of State (Lahore, 1957) by P.J. Vatikiotis. Religion and State in Iran (Berkeley, 1969) by Hamid Alagar. A Short History of Islam (Lahore, 1980) by Mazhar-ul-Haq. The New Islamic Dynasties (Edinburg, 1996) by C.E. Bosworth. Jihad-i-Islami (Lahore, 1966) by Khalil Ahmad Hamidi. Islam-ka-Nizam-i Hukumat (Lahore, 1982) by H.A. Ghazi. Ahadith-I Mathnawi (Tehran, 1955) ed. By Badi'uz Zaman. Maqalat-i Nasiri (Gilgit, 1972) by Allama Nasiruddin Nasir Hunzai. Land and Sovereignty in India (Cambridge, 1986) by Andre Wink. Sulh al-Hasan (Qum, 1998) by Shaykh Radi al-Yasin. Gohar-e-Gwadar by Shihabuddin A. Gwadari, Karachi (1994).

MISCELLANEOUS :

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden, 1997). Encyclopaedia Britannica (1990). Encyclopaedia Americana (1983). Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. Encyclopaedia of World Art (Rome, 1959). American Educator (New York, 1973). The Concise Encyclopaedia of Islam (London, 1989) by Cyril Glassee. The Dictionary of Islam (Lahore, 1984) by T.P. Hughes. Islamic Shi'ite Encyclopaedia (Beirut, 1970). The New Universal Encyclopaedia (London, 1955).

PERIODICALS & MONOGRAPHS :

Private & Confidential Subjects Discussed by Religious Study Group (Mombasa, 1959). The weekly "Ismaili" (Bombay, June-August,1927 & March, 1946). The weekly "Das" (Calcutta, December 9, 1927). "Fidai" quarterly (Bombay, July, 1927). "Ismaili Satpanth Prakash" (1927).