Past Issues of JSIS (contents)
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Past issues of the Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) are listed below in order of publication. Please note that some old issues have been made available as PDF via Project MUSE.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930317
The Encyclopaedic Aspect of Bihār al-Anwār (Part I)
Rasul Jafarian, Fatemeh Abolghasemi
- 5-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930322
Ḥusayn Ardabīlī: The First Narrator of Jaʿfarī Thought in Persian
Najib Mayil-Hiravi, Fatemeh Abolghasemi
- 23-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930315
Philosophical-Mystical Kalām: A Case Study on Muḥsin Fayḍ Kāshānī’s Theological Methodology
Nafiseh Ahl Sarmadi, Janan Izadi, Seyyed Mehdi Emami Jomeh
- 41-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930319
Shi‘ism in Turkey: A Comparison of the Alevis and the Jaʿfaris
- 63-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930321
Shi‘a Ethics: A Moderate Rationalist Interpretation
- 73-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930320
The Inclusion of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib in the Adhān
- 89-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930323
- 105-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a930324
- 119-125
Editorial: Rediscovering Lost Gems: Republishing Forgotten Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a925779
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a925780
The Spiritual Stance of the Shi‘a Imams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a925781
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a925782
The Concept of ‘Love’ in Transcendent Philosophy: A Comparison between Mullā Ṣadrā and Plato
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2022.a925783
2021, Volume 14, Number 3-4
A Close Encounter. Iranian Shiʻi Clergy and Artificial Intelligence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2021.a921411
Shi‘ites in Aleppo during the Seljuq, Zangid and Ayyūbid Periods (479–658 AH / 1086–1260 CE)
Almahdi Alrawadieh, Issam Mustafa Okleh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2021.a921418
Names and Sacred Titles Among the Shi‘ites from their Appearance in Early Islam until the Fifteenth Century AH/Twenty-First Century CE
Khalid Sindawi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2021.a921417
Book Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2021.a921414
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2021.a921412
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture, and Migration by Kristina Richardson (review)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2021.a921415
Half of My Heart. The Narrations of Zaynab, Daughter of Ali by Christopher Paul Clohessy (review)
The Impact of the Maktab-Khānah on the Socialisation of Students in the Safavid Era in Iran (1501–1722)
Mohsen Lotfabadi, Ataollah Hassani
- 389-424
Historicising Alevism: The Evolution of Abdal and Bektashi Doctrine
Zeynep Oktay
- 425-456
The Concept of the Social Contract in the Shi’a Gnostic Tradition: A Case Study of Quṭb al-Dīn Nayrīzī
Mahdi Fadaei Mehrabani
- 457-488
Book Review
- 489-492
ICAS Press Transliteration
- 493-495
The Theory of the Imamate in the Work of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā
Mohammad Mehdi Ali
The Death of Angels according to Mullā Ṣadrā
Sayyid Mustafa Musawi Aʿẓam, Zahra Qasemzadeh
The Barāthā Mosque and its Role in the Crystallisation of the Early Shi’i Thoughts
Khalid Sindawi
The Appearance of the Lord in the Clouds in Shiʻi and Ṣūfī Writings
Ali Ashraf Emami, Vali Abdi
The Conceptual Evolution of the Principles of Religion (Uṣūl al-din) in Imami Shi’a
Naser Forouhi, Abdullah Hosseinieskandian
BOOK Review
Jaffer Abbas Mirza
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires, The Idea of Iran Volume X ed. by Charles Melville (review)
Brian Welter
Sciiti in Italia – Il cammino dell’Islam minoritario in diaspora by Minoo Mirshahvalad (review)
Cleo Cantone
The Theory of the Imamate in the Work of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā
Mohammad Mehdi Ali
Shi‘as in Britain: The 19th & Early 20th Centuries (Part I)
Ali Paya & Isa Jahangir
Establishing Suhrawardī’s Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq Through Philosophical Discussion
Ali Babaei & Naser Forouhi
Book Reviews
The Prophet’s Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib by Hassan Abbas, 2021
Jaffer Abbas Mirza
Le Chiisme. Clés historiques et théologiques by Ameer Jaje, 2019
Brian Welter
Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam by Omid Ghaemmaghami, Islamic History and Civilisation Studies and Texts, Vol. 167
(Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020)
Rebecca Masterton
Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi‘ ism in Iran 1487-1565 by Chad Kia, 2019
Cleo Cantone
The Mahdi and the Last Roman Emperor: An Enquiry into the Significance of Inter-religious Polemics
Hadi Taghavi
An Analysis of the Meaning of the ‘Reports of Subjection’ and an Examination of Their Practical Application in Identifying Fabricated Reports
Nafiseh Faghihi Moghaddas, Saeid Ghafarallahi, Amirhosein Bankipoorfard
The Process of Socialising the Mothers of Shi’a Imams and Social Mobility
Tahereh Rahimpour Azghadi, Mohsen Noghani Dokht Bahmani
The Fundamental Change of Circumstances from the Viewpoint of the Shi’ite and Sunni Exegesis
Hamid Reza Tousi, Seyyed Hamid Jazayeri, Seyyed Hossein Sajed
An Ontological Perspective on Iblīs: Exploring His Corporeality in the Light of Endless Human Existence
Shahbaz Haider, Ali Naqvi
Book Reviews
Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World – Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality ed. by Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik (review)
Jaffer Abbas Mirza
La preuve de Dieu: La mystique shi’ite à travers l’oeuvre de Kulaynî, IXe-Xe siècle by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (review)
Mohammad Amin Mansouri
Aspects of ʿAllāmah Majlisī’s Impacts on the Research Culture of Shi‘ites and Persian Speakers
Ahmad Jalali
Artificial fertilisation and ‘being a mother’ problematics from the viewpoint of contemporary Shi‘i fiqh
Seyed ‘Ali Alavi Ghazvini, Shahriyar Shojaeipour and Veronika Sobotková
The Shi‘i Minority in Indonesia: A Consideration of its Historical and Cultural Links and Gaps with the Sunni Majority
Seyyed Abolhasan Navvab
Imprinted Forms in Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Theory of Divine knowledge
Maryam Salem & Morteza Asghari Nejad
Book Reviews
Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires – New Studies in Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Art and Culture, Kishwar Rizvi (Editor), Leiden & Boston: Bill, Vol. 9 Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, 2018
Cleo Cantone
Shi‘i Islam and Sufism, by Denis Hermann and Mathieu Terrier, 2020
Brian Welter
The Expression of Shiʻite-Jewish Sympathies in Islamic Communities:
Early Islamic Sources on the Exilarchate
Fariba Pat & Negar Zeilabi
‘Mother of Her Father’: Fatima-Zahra’s Maternal Legacy in Shiʻa Islam
Ladan Rahbari
Three Sources of Shiʻi Knowledge and Authority: Texts, Reason, and
Mysticism in Islamic Intellectual History
Zackery Mirza Heern
Imami Shi‘ism in Aleppo and its Region in the Shadow of the Three
States: the Ḥamdānids, the Mirdāsids and the ʿUqaylids
Al Mahdi Eid Al Rawadieh & Issam Okleh
Contrasting Trajectories of Shi‘a Emergence in Post-New Order Indonesia
Dede Syarif
Book Reviews
The Shīʿīs in Palestine: From the Medieval Golden Age until the Present
by Yaron Friedman, 2019
Fuchsia Hart
God and Man in Tehran: Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars
to the Islamic Republic by Hossein Kamaly, 2018
Rebecca Masterton
Rationalism in Traditions Related to Shiʻi Theologians: A Case Study of
Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
Mahdi Azimi & Seyed Mohammad Kazem Madadi Almousavi
Theoretical Challenges in Early Shiʻi Theology: Methodological Background of an Early Collapse
Abbas Mirzaei
Shi‘as in Britain: The Earliest Cases (Part 2)
Ali Paya & Isa Jahangir
Book Reviews
Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi’i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran by Maryam Moazzen, 2016
Brian Welter
Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran: Mulla Muḥammad-Ṭāhir Qummī’s Ḥikmat al-ʿĀrifīn, (English and Arabic Edition), ed. Ata Anzali & S. M. Hadi Gerami, 2018
Brian Welter
Shi‘as in Britain: The Earliest Cases (Part 1)
Ali Paya & Isa Jahangir
Rereading the Motivations Behind the Prohibition of Narrating and Recording Traditions and Their Historical Implications
Abolfazl Alishahighalehjoughi & Bibi Zeinab Hosseini & Morteza Iravani Najafi
The Ismāʿīlī Hierarchy – Ḥudūd al-Dīn – in the Context of Central Asia
Dagikhudo Dagiev
Book Reviews
A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi’i by John Mc Hugo, 2019
- B. Parsa
Islam, Modernity and a New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam, by Ali Paya, 2018
- B. Parsa
In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 2019
Jaffer Abbas Mirza
The Esoteric Nature of the Holy Qur’an and its Impact on the Eternalness of the Holy Qur’an, with particular emphasis on the viewpoint of Ayatollah Maʿrifat
Muhammad Ali Rezaei Isfahani & Syed Muhammad Haider Naqvi
Ontology and Cosmology of the ʿaql in Ṣadrā’s Commentary on Uṣūl al-Kāfī
Seyedamirhossein Asghari
The Soul’s Self-Knowledge: The Views of Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Ḥazm
Tayebeh Mahrouzadeh
The End of Traditional Islamic Jurisprudence in Hermeneutics of
Moḥammad Mojtahed Shabestarī
Magdalena Rodziewicz
Book Reviews
The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction
by Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, 2015
Brian Welter
From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Identity and Politics after the Arab Conquest by Maged S. A. Mikhail, 2016
Brian Welter
Divine Speech: Exploring the Qur’an as Literature by N.A. Khan, and S. Randhawa, 2016
Brian Welter
Book Notes
Gleams from the Rawdat al-Shuhada’ (Garden of the Martyrs) of Husayn Vaiz Kashifi. Prepared for English Recital by Abdal Hakim Murad
Alessandro Cancian
A Study of Iraqi Immigrants: Has The Shi‘a-Sunni Conflict Been transferred to Ottawa, Canada?
Ahmad Jafar
Has Kalki Already Appeared as Ali? The Influence of Hindu Beliefs on the Nizari Ismaili Khojas: A Case Study of the Ginans
Cemil Kutluturk
The Relation between the Concept of Intellect in the Qur’an and raditions and the Concept of Intellect in Islamic Culture and History
Hamid Parsania
Symbolic Meaning of Colours in Safavid and Ottoman Mosques
Mahsa Esmaeili Namiri & Rafooneh Mokhtarshahi Sani
Book Reviews
The Shi‘as of Pakistan – An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority by Andreas Rieck, 2016
Jaffer Abbas Mirza
History of Hadith Compilation, by Muhammad Ali Mahdavirad, trans. Alexander Khaleeli, 2017
- B. Parsa
The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought- The Tafkikis
Ali Paya
Nawbakhtī: An Independently-Minded Imāmī Theologian
Saideh Sadat Nabavi
Criminalising Religious Pluralism: The Legal Treatment of Shi‘ites in Malaysia
Mohd Al Adib Samur
The Hullabaloo Surrounding the Origin of the Muharram Festival Amongst the Sunni Malays: The Myth of the Shi‘a Indian Sepoys in Nineteenth Century Malay Peninsula
Maziar Mozaffari Falarti
A Comparative Interpretation of the Qurʾan: the Case of Sūrat al-Qalam (verses 42-3)
Ali Ashraf-Emami & Mahdi Hasanzadeh
Book Reviews
Desire of the Aspirant: On the Etiquette of the Teacher and the Student by al-Shahid al-Thani, trans. Alexander Khaleeli, 2016
Shayan Doroudi
The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond. Reprint edition. S.I., 2018
Oliver Leaman
2016, Volume 9, number 3
A Comparative Study of the Concept of Seeing God in the Holy Qurʾan from the Viewpoints of Imam Khomeini and ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’
Karam Siavoshi and Javad Muhammadi
The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologising Shiʿi Iran in V. S. Naipaul’s ‘Islamic’ Travelogues
Hossein Nazari
Conversion to Shi‘ism in Indonesia
Zulkifli
For the Love of Ahl al-Bayt: Transcending Sunni-Shiʿi Sectarian Allegiance
Siti Sarah Muwahidah
Book Reviews
An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith (eds and trans), 2014
Ismail K. Poonawala
Understanding the Qurʾan, the First Book: Qurʾan and the Orientalists, by Majid Maʾaref, 2015
Farhad Divsalar
The Study Qurʾan: A New Translation and Commentary, by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake, Joseph E. B. Lumbard and Mohammed Rustom, 2015
Louis Medoff
The Expeditions, by MaÝmar ibn RÁshid, ed. and trans. by Sean W. Anthony, foreword by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, 2014
Faiyaz Jaffer
Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism by Matthew Pierce (review)
Philosophy in Islam: The Concept of Shiʿism as a Philosophical Genre
Oliver Leaman
Use of Transmission Patterns in Contemporary Shiʿi Isnād Analysis
Seyfeddin Kara
A Comparative Study of Islamic Feminist and Traditional Shiʿi Approaches
to Qurʾanic Exegesis
Mohammed Ali Ismail
Tafsīr al‑Ṭabarī and Shiʿa Tafsīrs
Morteza Karimi-Nia
Book Reviews
Ibn ʿArabī: Vida y enseñanzas del gran místico andalusí, by Fernando Mora,
2011 and Ibn al‑ʿArabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From mysticism to
philosophy, by Caner K. Dagli, Barcelona: Kairós, 2016.
Brian Welter
Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India, by Nile Green, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Hunter Bandy
Sufism and American Literary Masters, ed. Mehdi Aminrazavi, Albany: SUNY, 2014.
Julianne Hazen
Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The living links to the Prophet, ed.
Morimoto Kazuo, Routledge: New York, 2012.
Robert Riggs
Secularism and Identity: Non-Islamiosity in the Iranian Diaspora, by Reza Gholami, London & New York: Routledge, 2015.
Kathryn Spellman Poots
Book Notes
Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions, by Christian Lange, 2016. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Towards Eternal Life, by Muhammad Saeed Bahmanpour, trans. Abbas
Jaffer, 2016. London: The World Federation of KSIMC.
Amina Inloes
Foundations of Arabic Grammar: A Parallel English-Arabic Textbook, trans.
Mohammad Mehdi Baghi, 2016. London: ICAS Press
Mohammed Ali Ismail
Magic in Islam, by Michael Muhammad Knight, 2016. New York:
Tarcher Perigree.
Amina Inloes
Articles
Philosophy and Shiʿism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? [5-16]
Oliver Leaman
The Study of Shiʿi Islam in Western Academia [17-37]
Liyakat Takim
Right to Offense, Right to Shiaphobia: A Rhetorical Analysis of Yasir Qadhi’s Framings of Offense [39-62]
Shereen Yousuf
Struggling with Political Limitation: Shaykh al‑Mufīd’s Approach to Shiʿi Juristic Authority [63-94]
Ali Ahmad Rasekh
Book Reviews
An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 5: From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century, ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi, 2015 [95-99]
Muhammad U. Faruque
Female Personalities in the Qurʾan and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shiʿi Islam, by Rawand Osman, 2015 [100-105]
Asma Sayeed
Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft, ed. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, 2013 [106-108]
Antony Black
The Shiʿites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hizbullah’s Islamists, by Rula Jurdi Abisaab
and Malek Abisaab, 2014 [109-113]
Jehan Saleh Al‑Azzawi
The Other Saudis: Shiism Dissent and Sectarianism, by Toby Matthiesen, 2015 [114-118]
Alexander Khaleeli
Book Notes [119-124]
1. Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World, by Stephen P. Blake, 2016 (reviewed by Mohammad Mesbahi)
2. An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities, ed. and trans. by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith, 2014 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
3. Desire of the Aspirant: On the Etiquette of the Teacher and the Student, by al‑Shahid al‑Thani, trans. Alexander Khaleeli, 2016 (reviewed by Mohammed Ali Ismail)
4. Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue, by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz, 2015 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
Articles
Wealth and Poverty in the Qurʾan and Traditions of the Prophet, and How Those Concepts are Reflected in the Rasaʾil Ikhwan al-Safaʾ [263-287]
Ismail Poonawala
God and the Present Voice: An Investigation into the Dialogical Nature of the Qur’an [289-306]
Amer Gheitury
King of Men: ῾Ali ibn Abi Talib in Pamiri Folktales [307-323]
Abdulmamad Iloliev
Was Imam ʿAli a Misogynist?: The Portrayal of Women in Nahj al-Balaghah and Kitab Sulaym ibn Qays [325-365]
Amina Inloes
Book Reviews
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism by Patricia Crone [367-378]
Hamid Algar
Pearls of Persia: The Philosophical Poetry of Nāṣir-i Khusraw ed. Alice C. Hunsberger [379-385]
Daniel Beben
The Emergence of Modern Shiʿism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran by Zackery M. Heern [386-388]
Mohammad Samiei
Islamic Images and Ideas: Essays on Sacred Symbolism ed. John Andrew Morrow [389-395]
Rebecca Masterton
Book Notes [397-401]
1. Sons of Ishmael: Muslims through European Eyes in the Middle Ages, by John V. Tolan, 2013 (reviewed by Majid Daneshgar)
2. Benarkah Iskandar Bukan Zulkarnain: Membongkar Kewujudan dan Rahsia Sebenar Pejuang Agung (Was Alexander really not Dhu al-Qarnayn? Uncovering the Identity and True Secret of a Great Warrior) , by Afareez Abd Razak al-Hafiz, 2009 (reviewed by Majid Daneshgar)
3. Islamic Laws: According to the fatwas of His Eminence al-Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani, Volume One: Ritual Acts of Worship, trans. Mohammed Ali Ismail, 2015 (reviewed by Fazle Abbas Datoo)
The articles in this issue form a symposium relating to Shi’ism in Lebanon guest edited by Rola El-Husseini.
Articles
Note from the Guest Editor [127-130]
Rola El-Husseini
Sayyid Musa al‑Sadr, the Lebanese State, and the Left [131-157]
Rula Jurdi Abisaab
A Shi’i Religious Perspective on Lebanese Sectarianism: The Islamic Shi’i Supreme Council under Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al‑Din (1978-2001) [159-191]
Farah Kawtharani
The Scholar’s Turban versus the Warrior’s: The Shifting Basis of Religious and Political Authority in Lebanese Shi’ism [193-207]
Samer El-Karanshawy
In the Wake of the Islamic State Threat: Repercussions on Sunni-Shi’i Competition in Lebanon [209-236]
Aurélie Daher
Book Reviews
Studies in Medieval Shi’ism by Wilferd Madelung, ed. Sabine Schmidtke, 2012 [237-241]
Arzina R. Lalani
Partners of Zaynab: A Gendered Perspective of Shia Muslim Faith, by Diane D’Souza, 2014 [242-244]
Yafa Shanneik
Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy, by Jonathan A. C. Brown, 2014 [245-249]
Scott C. Lucas
Book Notes [251-255]
1. Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order, by S. Sayyid, 2014 (reviewed by Imraan Sumar)
2. The Emergence of Modern Shi’ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran, by Zackery M. Heern, 2015 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
3. Sufism and American Literary Masters, ed. Mehdi Aminrazavi, 2014 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
4. Islam: An Introduction, by Catharina Raudvere, 2015 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
Articles
Selecting a Spiritual Authority: The Maraji‘ al-Taqlid among First- and Second- Wave Iraqi Shi‘a Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan [5-17]
John Cappucci
Latina Shi‘a Women in the United States of America: Converging Identities in the Twenty-First Century [19-33]
Maryam Shahmoradi & Hasan Hosseini
The Shi‘a Isma’ili Da‘wat in Khurasan: From its Early Beginning to the Ghaznawid Era [37-59]
Yahia Baiza
The Ethics of the Perfect Man: Maurice Blanchot and Ibn ‘Arabi [61-80]
Hossein Moradi
Book Reviews
The Thread of Mu‘awiya: The Making of a Marja‘ Taqlid by Linda S. Walbridge, 2014 [81-89]
Andrew J. Newman
Fatima, Daughter of Muhammad by Christopher Paul Clohessy, 2009 [89-98]
Afzal Sumar
The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition by Behnam Sadeghi, 2013 [99-101]
Omar Anchassi
Religion and Revolution: Spiritual and Political Islam in Ernesto Cardenal by John Andrew Morrow, 2012 [102-106]
Ali Shah
Encyclopaedia Islamica Volume 3 (Adab – al-Bāb al-Ḥādī ‘ashar) ed. Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung, 2011 [107-109]
Mousa al-Reza Wahdati
Book Notes [111-118]
1. The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World by John Andrew Morrow, 2013 (reviewed by Anna Maria Martelli)
2. Najaf: The Gate of Wisdom: History, Heritage & Significance of the Holy City of the Shi‘a by Yasser Tabbaa and Sabrina Mervin, photographs by Erick Bonnier, 2014 (reviewed by Faiyaz Jaffer)
3. Female Personalities in the Qurʼan and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi‘i Islam by Rawand Osman, 2015 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
4. The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics ed. Justin Jones and Ali Usman Qasmi, 2015 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
5. Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam: A History of Muslim Dreaming and Foreknowing by Elizabeth Sirriyeh, 2015 (reviewed by Amina Inloes)
6. Islamic Astronomical Tables: Mathematical Analysis and Historical Investigation by Benno Van Dalen, 2014 (reviewed by Mohammad Mesbahi & Amina Inloes)