adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf al-Shīʿa
Adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf al-Shīʿa ( Arabic الذريعة إلى تصانيف الشيعة, DMG aḏ-Ḏarīʿa ilā taṣānīf aš-šīʿa 'The aid for the written works of the Shia', also called adh-Dharīʿa or az-Zareea ) is an Iranian bibliography of the Shia in 26 volumes with an additional three register volumes.
author
The author is the bibliographer from Teheran Moḥammad Moḥsen (1876–1970), known as Sheikh Agha-Bozorg Tehrani (also written: Aġā Buzurg Tihrānī). At the beginning of the 20th century he emigrated to Samarra and then to Najaf in Iraq . He has traveled to many countries and collected information on Shiite works and writings in Iran and Iraq as well as in India, Pakistan, Syria and Egypt in six handwritten volumes for over 30 years. His eldest son Alinaghi Monzavi (* 1921) completed, corrected and published this work in another 30 years.
history
The first three volumes are printed in Najaf in collaboration with father and son after the Iraqi King Faisal II banned the operation of a printing works owned by an Iranian. Agha-Bozorg had to sell the print shop and move to Najaf, where he was exposed to less pressure due to the higher proportion of Shiite population. Here, too, he was not allowed to own a print shop. His attempts to print the work nevertheless failed because the printing works were forbidden to print a book with the name of an Iranian on it. The first volume with an Arabic code name was published as the author.
Alinaghi Monzavi, the eldest son of Agha-Bozorg, returned home and devoted himself to the publication of the book in Tehran. With the permission of his father, he expanded, corrected and published volumes 4 to 26 (volume 9 is very extensive and had to be printed in three partial volumes) and three index volumes in the years 1936 to around 1980.
literature
- Biography & Academic Life of HABozorg Tehrani Tehran 1387 h.š [2008], ISBN 978-964-528-174-6
- adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf al-Shīʿa