Wadh.Minasian 48 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Summary of Contents: This book is one of the foundations of the Islamic jurisprudence. A set of jurisprudential principles are discussed therein from which the provisions of Islamic jurisprudence can be derived. These principles are of ultimate importance for the jurists who use them to figure out jurisprudential provisions through a comparative method. The author frequently discusses methodological topics in a digressive way and shows how these topics can lead the jurist to infer a subsidiary religious provision. Many appendices, glosses and commentaries have been written for this book, including "Jāmiʿ al-Maqāṣid", "Kashf al-Lis̱ām" and "Miftāḥ al-Kirāmah". It is said that the jurisprudential topics discussed in this book reaches an appoximate number of 660. Allāmah Ḥillī wrote this book around the time he was entering his sixth decade of life (about the year 698) upon a request from his son, Muḥammad Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn.

Summary of Contents: The book was written in the year 1648, and was presented to Shāh ʿAbbās II. Mullā Muḥsin says that 'I had written a treatise entitled Z̤iyāʾ al-Qalb in Arabic on the topic of how to recognise the articulate self of human and treat it in accordance with the provisions. When the Shāh learned of it, I decided to transalte its summary to present to his majesty. As it was attributed to the Shāh, I called it Āyīnah-'i Shāhī'. After this statement, he continues on his content in the treatise about wisdom, tradition and custom into the strata of provisions.

Summary of Contents: This is a brief treatise on potentials of days based on hadiths from the Shiʾa infallible Imams (AS) and credible principles from astronomers, which are collected under two sections: the first section discusses the potentials of times taken from the hadiths by the Shiʾa infallible Imams (AS) and consists of fourteen chapters, while the second section covers the potentials of hours taken from the credible principles presented by astronomers, consisting of three chapters.