Tuḥfat al-azhār wa-zulāl al-anhār fī nasab abnāʾ al-aʾimma al-aṭhār: al-muǧallad aṯ-ṯānī, al-qism al-aual, fī nasab abnāʾ al-Imām al-Ḥusain Ibn-ʿAlī

In: Persian E-Books Miras Maktoob, ISBN: 9789004365452

In: Persian E-Books Miras Maktoob

Abstract

In traditional societies, ancestry is an important organising principle, often determining the lives of individuals or groups from the moment that they are born. In the Arab world, nasab (pl. ansāb ) or lineage was and to some extent still is, a major factor in the distribution of wordly and religious power, while administrative positions, trades, crafts and certain offices in the world of scholarship, too, often devolved along hereditary lines. Among the Shīʿa, where blood ties with the family of the Prophet through ʿAlī and his descendants are highly regarded and a source of authority and social standing, we find a number of ansāb works that focus exclusively on the genealogy of the twelve imams. Born into a Shīʿite family of ansāb scholars in 11th/17th-century Medina, the author of the present work travelled extensively in the Shīʿa world in his search for information. The result is a voluminous work, rich in material, genealogical and historic. 3 volumes andamp; supplement al-Rawḍ al-miʿṭār fī tashjīr Tuḥfat al-azhār ; volume 2