Recommended Reading
Including important ShiaChat threads and articles I tend to cite and recommend time and time again
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Table of Contents
Islam in General
The Revealer - Shaheed Baqir al Sadr
Islam - Inheritor of The True Shia of Jesus
Relevant Issues
Speakers and Querying Hadith Authenticity
Foundation of an Islamic State
Philosophy and Logic
Falsafatuna - Shaheed Baqir al Sadr
Logical Foundations of Induction - Shaheed Baqir al Sadr
Kalam and Aqeeda
Bab al Hadi al Ashar - Allamah Hilli
Commentary of Bab al Hadi al Ashar - Sheikh Shomali
Sharh al-Itiqadat by Ayatollah Hossein Najafi
Thomas Aquinas' Rejection of Infinite Regress
Divine Justice - Ayatollah Murtedha Mutahhari
Existential Inertia and the Five Ways - Edward Feser
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Allah Chose Prophets & Leaders With Consultation
Can We Disagree With the Ulil Amr?
Morality
Educating Juoy - A Critique of the Feminist Narrative of the Charles Juoy Rape Case
Sexual Behavior in Pre-Contact Hawaii - Milton Diamond
Screw Consent - A Better Politics of Sexual Justice - Joseph M Fischel
Do Muslim Women Need Saving - Lila Abu Lughod
Contest and Consent - A Legal History of Marital Rape
Promiscuity, Pedophilia, Rape, and the Significance of the Sexual
Foucault, Feminism, And Sex Crimes - An Anti-Carceral Analysis
Discipline and Punish - The Birth of the Prison - Michel Foucault
Just a Housewife - The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
The Issue of Slavery in Contemporary Islam - Mohsen Kadivar
Slavery and Islam - Johnathan AC Brown
Works by Sayyed Ali Sistani (H)
Sayyed Sistani on Usul al Fiqh in Twelver Shi'ism: Its Importance and Historical Phases
Sayyed Sistani on the Meaning of Ijtihad
Sayyed Sistani on Why Shi'a Hadith Contradict
Sayyed Sistani on Why Shi'a and Sunni Hadith Differ
Usul al Fiqh and Fiqh
An Introduction to Shi'i Law - A Biographical Study
Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought - Hossein Modarressi
Five Schools of Islamic Law - Jawad Mughniyya
Lessons in Usul al Fiqh - Shaheed Baqir al Sadr
Shara'i al-Islam Fi Masa'il al Halal Wal Haram by Allamah al Hilli (Volume 1 of Allamah Hilli's Resala)
The Manhaj of Sayyid al-Burujerdi
Principle of Leniency in Deducing Proofs for Recommended Acts (Al Tasamuh fi Addilat al-Sunan)
From Bid'ah to Sunnah - The Third Shahada in the Adhan - Liyakat Takim
History
Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shia Islam - Hossein Modarressi
A History of the Twelver Shiite Jurisprudence and Jurisprudents - Ja'far Subhani
Origins of the Shi'a - Identity, Ritual and Sacred Space in Eighth Century Kufa - Najam Haider
The Life of Prophet Muhammad - Sayyed Saeed Akhtar Rizvi
Ilm al Rijal
Intro to Rijal Studies - Sayyed Hossein Qazwini
Basic Rules in Ilm al Rijal (According to Al-Muhsini)
Kitab al Du'afa - Syed Asdaq Naqvi
Reviewing Ghizzi's Lectures Against Ilm al Rijal (Part 2)
Shia & Sunni Ahadith Grading Methods?
Response to Hadith Rejecters [sic]
Did Ayatollah Khamenei Really Reject Our Rijal Books?
Preliminary Topics in Ilm al-Rijal
Status of Hadith With a Majhul Narrator
The Authenticity of Ziyarat Ashura - Ayatollah Shubayri Zanjani
Personalities
Mufadhal b. Umar Sinner or Saint?
Qiyas & The Mysterious Case of Ibn al-Junayd
Muhammad b Sinan - A Controversial Narrator
Hisham b. Hakam: Arch Heretic? - Alexander al Khaleeli
Hadith
The Hijab and the Divine Cloak
Dietary Advice of the Ahl al-Bayt
The Movement of Aql in Sunni Hadith
A Comprehensive Compilation of Reliable Narrations
Translation of Ma'rifat Al-Hadith by Behbudi
Al Kafi Mentions: Imam Died When They Wanted [Re?] [sic]
Al Sahih Wal Mu'tabar (Authentic and Accepted Hadiths About Imam Mahdi)
Hadith Studies
Some Thoughts on the Number of Reports from Imams
Why do Some Narrations Differ?
Belief in the Authenticity of Al Kafi
Conflicts Between the Jurists and the Ghulat in the Time of Imam al Sadiq
In Praise of the Few - Etan Kohlberg
Contested Boundaries The Reception of Shia Narrators in Sunni Hadith - Michael Dann
The Four Hundred Usul - Sayyed Ali Shahristani
Preface to Al Kafi - Rizwan Arastu
Quran
Al Bayan Fi Tafsir al Qur'an - Ayatollah Khoei
Introduction to the Science of Tafsir of the Qur'an
Early Debates on the Integrity of the Qur'an - Hossein Modarressi
Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an - Arthur Jeffreys
Important Tafsirs of Selected Verses
An In-Depth Analysis of the Verse of Tathir: Who are the Ahl al-Bayt? (Part 1) (Part 2)
Tafsir Noor al-Thaqalayn: The Verse of Purification (33:33)
A Detailed Analysis of Ayah Tabligh
A Detailed Analysis of the Verse of al Muwaddah fi Qurbah
Prophet Muhammad (SAW)
Did the Messenger Die a Natural Death?
How Many Daughters Did the Prophet Have?
[Video] How Many Daughters Did the Prophet Have?
Prophet Muhammad a Mercy to the World - Sayyed Sadiq Shirazi
Imam Hussain (AS)
Karbala: Sacrifice, Suffering, and Beauty
Imam Mahdi (AS)
Hadith of Twelve Imams in Books Prior to Ghayba
The Occultation of the Twelfth Imam (A Historical Background) - Jassim Hussein
Twelver Tawatur: Imam al Mahdi (AS) - Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani
Waqifa
Shaykh al-Tusi's Argument Against Waqifism
Polemics
Modern Muslim Objections to Bukhari - Nebil Husayn
Ibn Jawzi and the Cursing of Yazid
In Praise of the Caliphs: Re-Creating History from the Manaqib Literature
Was Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal an Anthropomorphist?
The Authenticity of the Book "Kitab as Sunnah" of Imam Abdullah Ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal
The Prophet's Seating on the Throne
The Evil Consequences of Taqleed, Hizbiyyah and Partisanship
Mut'ah in the Fiqh of Ahlus Sunnah
Saduq's Polemical Sunni Chains
Answering the Response to the 17000 Hadith
Tirmidhi's Chapter on the Virtues of Ali
Response to Narrator Criticism in Sunni Rijal
Abu Hanifa and the Permissibility of Alcohol
Necessity of Imamah (An Intellectual Argument)
Shia Authorities Relied Upon by Sunnis
Imam Ali (as) and Shura Consultation
If Mawla=Leader/Caliph Then Ali is Not Your Mawla
Imam Ali Said for Guidance Prophet Left Only Quran
Ghadir Was Not About Caliphate or Leadership
Belief of True Shia Concerning Bibi Aisha
Beware of Ghulat/Exaggerators/Boasters
Rules for Understanding Quran: A Task for Shias
Marja Resalas
Sayyed Sistani (Main)
Taqi Modarressi (Includes Narrations and Proofs)
New Convert Resources
Welcome To Shia Islam (Prayer, Fasting, Wudhu, etc.)
Rationality of Islam - Ayatollah Khoei