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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Principle of Ijtihad in Islam Footnotes Tehran, 1962. Lambton, A.K.S., 'A reconsideration of the position of the marja` taqlid and the religious institution., Studia Islamica, XX (1964), 115­135. (See also, al­Serat, Vol Vll, No. 1 (1981), p.

12­27) For further information on these two persons, refer to the section by Yann Richard on 'Contemporary Shi`i Thought' in: Keddie, N.R., Roots of Revolution: an Interpretative History of Modern Iran, New Haven, See the author's introduction to the new edition of: Mutahhari, M., "llal­Girayish bi Maddigari' Qum, 1980, pp. 8­9. The collection of orations, homilies and letters of the first Shi`i Imam, `Ali b. Abi Talib, compiled by the Sharif al­Radi (d. 406/1015).

For these and many other details of Mutahhari's life and times, reference should be made to the article 'Sayri dar zindigi­yi `ilmi va inqilabi­yi ustad shahid Murtada Mutahhari', in: `Abd al­Karim Surush (ed.), Yadnama­yi Ustad Shahid Murtada Mutahhari, Tehran, 1981, pp. 319­380. It was reopened after the revolution. For a complete list of his published and unpublished works, refer to: `Abd al­Karim Surush, op. cit., 436­556.

The translation of Qur'anic verses and hadiths has been made in accordance with the author's own Persian translation except where this is more an interpretation than a translation, in which case a more literal English translation is given. This address was given on 1 Urdibihisht 1340 Sh. (21 April 1961), three weeks after the death of Ayatullah Burujirdi. (Cairo, 1940) The main work in jurisprudence by Abu `Abdillah Muhammad b.

Idris al-Shafi`i (150/767 ­ 204/820), the founder of the Shafi`iya legal school. He laid the foundations for the systematic treatment of qiyas. The Sayyid `Abd al­Husayn al­Musawi Sharaf al­Din (1290/1873­4­ 1377/1957­8), born in Kazimayn, educated in Najaf, but subsequently resident mostly in the Lebanon.

He is popularly famous for his ''al­Muraja`at'' (Sayda, 1355/1936­7; frequently reprinted), which contains his detailed correspondence with the Egyptian scholar Salim al­Bishri in defense of Shi`ism. His "Al­Nass was l­Ijtihad" was published in Najaf in 1375/1955­6, and has also been reprinted several times. He is also the author of "Abu Hurayra" (Sayda, n.d.), a book about the controversial narrator of hadith. "Al­Kafi fi `Ilm al­Din", (ed `A. A.

Ghaffari, 8 vols., Tehran, 1377­9) the first and largest of the Shi`i collections of hadith, compiled by Muhammad b.