Recommended Reading
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Table of Contents
Important Blogs and Youtube Channels
*Shiiticstudies - Ammar Muslim
*IqraOnline - Sayyed Ali Imran
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
Sayyed Ali Abul Hasan - Is it Correct to Relate Religion and Science? - Translation by HakiNinth
Epistemology In Sharif Murtadha's Dhakhira
Lessons on Epistemology and Badihiyyat - HakiNinth (Part 1)(Part 2) (Part 3)
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
Tashihul I'tiqadat - Sheikh Mufid
Doctrines of Shi'i Islam - Ja'far Subhani
Imami Aqida in One Answer by Shaykh Saduq
Thomas Aquinas' Rejection of Infinite Regress
Divine Justice - Ayatollah Murtedha Mutahhari
Existential Inertia and the Five Ways - Edward Feser
Allah Chose Prophets & Leaders With Consultation
Can We Disagree With the Ulil Amr?
Reconciling between Divine Justice and the role of environment of the Mukallaf - HakiNinth
Answer to the Problem of Evil - HakiNinth
"Loving Us Ahlul Bayt Removes Sins" - HakiNinth
Were the Imamiyyah Influenced by the Mu'tazilah? - HakiNinth
Why Did God Create Us? - HakiNinth
Is Allah Completely Dissimilar From His Creations? - HakiNinth
Why the First Cause Must be God - Robert Koons
Morality
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
*The Gnostic Heresy's Political Successors - Edward Feser
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
Sayyed Sistani on the Prophet's Legislative Authority (Part 2)
Sayyed Sistani on Evaluating the Impact of Taqiyya (Dissimulation) On Shi’i Narrations
Sayyed Sistani on Reason and Sharia
Sayyed Sistani on The Verse of Ikmal al Din
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
Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence - Allamah Hilli
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
Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Islamic Jurisprudence - Robert M Gleave
Eid of 9th Rabi al Awwal - HakiNinth
Khums: Islamic Tax - Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
Ritual and Spiritual Purity - Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
A Glossary of Shiite Methodology of Jurisprudence - Alireza Hodaee
Mukhtasar Muhimmat fi Usul al A'immah - Hurr al Amili
The Principle of Istishab and Its Types - Seth Carney
Has Khums Been Forgiven During the Absence of Imam Zaman? - Nasser Makarem Shirazi
On Saying 'Ramadhan' Without the 'Month' Prefix
Salat al Layl: Narrations Regarding it and its Excellence - HakiNinth
Introduction to Procedural Principles (Usul Amaliyyah) - Seth Carney
Introduction to General Legal Principles - Seth Carney
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
The Memory of Ali b. Abi Talib in Early Sunni Thought - Nebil Husayn
Ilm al Rijal
*Intro to Rijal Studies - Sayyed Hossein Qazwini
*Usul al Rijal - Sayyed Shubayri Zanjani, Translated by HakiNinth
Basic Rules in Ilm al Rijal (According to Al-Muhsini)
The Application of the Rijali Methodology - Sayyed Ali Abul Hasan
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
Technical Terminology (Mustalahat) For Rijal Criticism
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
Al Baheth - Defence of Zurarah - Translated by HakiNinth
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)
Ramadan or Month of Ramadan? - Hasan al Qadri
Al Sahih Wal Mu'tabar - 40 [Authentic] Hadith on Imam Mahdi
Imam Sadiq and the Ghulat - Selim Salhab
Sahih Hadith al Qudsi - Hamza al Amili
Ghadir: Twelver Tawatur - Noir
Shiite View and the Holy Books - Noir
The Torah in Our Narrations - Noir
Hadiths of Believer and Disbeliever Clays - HakiNinth
“Say about us whatever you like, and excuse us from Divinity” – Hadith Analysis - Thaqalayn.blog
Sahih Hadith Nabawi - Hamza al Amili
Kamalludin Wal Tamaman al Ni'ma (Part 1) (Part 2)
Divisions of a Day: Reconstructed Narration
Prophets - Excerpts from Masharat Bihaar al Anwar - Hamza al Amili
Did the Sahaba Become Kafir? - Ammaar Muslim
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
*Guide to Types of Hadith - Hamza al Amili [Explanation of Hadith jargon]
Qara'in Method of Hadith Verification - Noir
Quran
Quranic Verses Compilation List - Anonymous
Prophets in the Quran - Hamza al Amili
Guidance: Qur'an's Methodology - HakiNinth
Al Bayan Fi Tafsir al Qur'an - Ayatollah Khoei
Trends of History in the Qur'an - Shaheed al Sadr
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
Hijab in the Quran - HakiNinth
Freedom of Belief in the Quran - HakiNinth
Guidance and Misguidance in the Quran - HakiNinth
*Anthropomorphism in the Qur'an - HakiNinth
Uzair the Son of God? - Yahya a.k.a Waeizullah
Was the Quran Revealed All at Once? - HakiNinth
Imam Khomeini’s Fearless Attack on Muhaddith Nuri’s Scholarship
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
Imamah in the Qur'an (Ayat al-Wilayah) - HakiNinth
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
Proving the Prophethood of Muhammad (s) - HakiNinth (Part 1) (Part 2)
Imam Hussain (AS)
Karbala: Sacrifice, Suffering, and Beauty
Ashura: Misrepresentations and Distortions - Murtadha Mutahhari (Part 1) (Part 2)
Chronicles of the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain - Ayatollah Rayshahri
Safeguarding Azadari against Wrong Practices
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
*Predictions in Hadith - Contemporary Doubts About Imam Mahdi - Al Baheth
*Existence of Al-Qa'im - Ibn Mukhtar (Sirius)
Waqifa
Shaykh al-Tusi's Argument Against Waqifism
Polemics
Refuting LeftShiism - HakiNinth
*Proof that Imam Ali (AS) Was the Foremost in Knowledge After the Prophet (SAW)
Mutah in the Fiqh of Ahlus Sunnah - Hafiz Ibn Farooq
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
Was Ibn Taymiah From the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama'ah? - Abu Bakr Ghazipuri al-Ansari
Origins of Sunnism - Ahab Bdawai
Response to the Claim That All the Sahaba Besides Three Apostated
Marja Resalas
Sayyed Sistani (Main)
Taqi Modarressi (Includes Narrations and Proofs)
Greater Sins - Sayyid Abdul Husayn Dastghaib Shirazi (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
New Convert Resources
Welcome To Shia Islam (Prayer, Fasting, Wudhu, etc.)
Rationality of Islam - Ayatollah Khoei