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  1. Publications
  2. Al-Qalam
  3. Volume 2
  4. Vol. 2, No. 1

Al-Qalam Journal of Advanced Islamic Research

Vol. 2, No. 1

Three research articles on the authentication of Shīʿī supplicatory and ziyāra texts and on early Twelver biographical compendia, a research note on the state of Islam in English, and three reviews.

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Contents

Articles

  • 11–57

    Assessing the Authenticity of the Ahl al-Bayt's Supplications: A Case Study of Duʿāʾ ʿArafa

    Hamid Khani (Farhang Mihrwash)

  • 59–94

    The Final Passage in Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ: Original or Additional?

    Sayyid Mahdi Mahmoudi

  • 95–121

    A Typological and Statistical Analysis of Early Twelver Biographies of the Imams: Focusing Upon al-Kulaynī's al-Kāfī, al-Ṣadūq's ʿUyūn Akhbār al-Riḍā and al-Mufīd's al-Irshād

    Rouhollah Towhidi-niya and Muhammad Muhammadifar

Research Notes

  • 125–149

    Some Notes on the State of Islam in English (Including a New Translation of Munājāt Shaʿbāniyya)

    Aun Hasan Ali

Reviews

  • 151–191

    Contemporary Ḥadīth Studies in Iranian Scholarship: The Reconstruction of Early Textual Sources

    Mostafa Bargahi

  • 193–197

    Living Shiʿism: Instances of Ritualisation Among Islamist Men in Contemporary Iran

    Zahra Naghshband

  • 199–204

    Material Culture and Rethinking the History of Shīʿīsm

    Hossein Mohseni

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