A Moslem seeker after God - Samuel Marinus Zwemer

1. Ihya ʾUlum id Din—(Revival of the Sciences of Religion).
2. Al Imlaʾ ʾAla Mushkal al Ihya—(supplement to above).
3. AlʾArbaʾîn—(on the Koran).
4. Asma Allah al Husna—(on the names of God).
5. Al-Iqtasad fi Iʾtiqad—(Speculative Theology).
6. Iljam al ʾAwam ʾan ʾilm al Kalam—(Warning against scholasticism).
7. Asrar Muʾamalat id Din—(Mysticism).
8. Asrar al anwar al ilahiya—(on the Koran).
9. Akhlaq al abrar wa najat min al ashrar—(Ethics).
10. Asrar itbaʾa as sunna—(Tradition).
11. Asrar al huruf wa ’l kalimat—(Koran Mysteries).
12. Ayyuha ’l walad—(O child!—written in Persian originally—Ethics and Manners).
13. Badayat al Hadaya—(Beginner’s book in religion).
14. Al Basit fi furuʾa al Madhhab—(Jurisprudence).
15. Bayan al Qaulain—(Creed).
16. Bayan Fadhaʾa al Abahiya—
17. Badaʾa as Saniya.
18. Tanbih al Ghafalîn.
19. Talbis Iblis.
20. At Takbir fi ʾilm al taʾabir—(Interpretation).
21. Tahafut al filasafa—(Against Philosophy).
22. Taʾliqa fi furuʾa al Madhhab—(Written at Jurjan against the Ismailite heresy).
23. Tahsin al Maqsud—
24. Tahsin al Adilla—(Sources of Islam).
25. Tafsir al Quran al ʾAzim—(Brief Koran Commentary).
26. Al Tafriqa bain al iman wa ’l zindiqa—
27. Jawahir al Quran—(Beauties of the Koran).
28. Hujjat al Haqq—
29. Haqiqat al Ruh—(Mysticism).
30. Haqiqat al Qaulain—(on the Creed).
31. Al Durra al Fakhira—(The Precious Pearl).
32. Khulasat ar Rasaʾil—(Jurisprudence).
33. Khulasat al-tasanif fi l-tasawwuf.
34. Risalat al Qudsiya.
35. Risalat al Aqtab.
36. Al Risalat al Laduniya.
37. Risalat at Tair—(Parable on the Birds).
38. Sirr al Maʾsun—(on the magical use of the Koran text).
39. Sirr al-ʿalamain wa-kashf ma fi ’l-darain.
40. Sharh Daʾirat ʾAli ibn Talib.
41. Shifaʾ al Ghalil—(On Logic).
42. ʾAqidat al Misbah.
43. ʾAjaʾib Sanaʾa Allah.
44. ʾAnqud al Mukhtasar.
45. Ghayat al Ghur fi Misaʾil al daur—(On Divorce).
46. Ghaur al Daur—(also on Divorce) written in Bagdad 484 A. H.
47. Al Fatawa—(One hundred and ninety questions answered).
48. Fatihat al ʾUlum—(Encyclopædia of Sciences).
49. Al Qanun al Kulli.
50. Qanun ar Rasul.
51. Al Qurbat ila Allah—(On Nearness to God).
52. Al Qistas al Mustaqim—(Sources of Islam).
53. Al Qaul al jamil fi radd ʾala man ghaiyar al Injil—(On the corrupting of the Gospel text).
54. Kimiya as Saaʾda—(The Alchemy of Happiness; written in Persian and afterwards translated).
55. Kashf ʾUlum al Akhira—(Eschatology).
56. Al Kashf wa ’l tabyin fi ghurur al Khalk ajmaʾin—(Mysticism).
57. Kanz al ʾIdat.
58. Kitab al ʾarbaʾin.
59. Al Lubab al Muntaqal fi ’l Jadal—(On Controversy).
60. Al Mustasfa fi ʾUsul al Fiqh—(Jurisprudence). His most important and largest work on this subject; several commentaries were written on it later.
61. Al Manqul fi ’l ʾUsul.
62. Al Maksud fi Khilafiyat bain al Hanifiya wa ’sh Shafiʾya—(on these two schools of jurisprudence).
63. Al Madadi wa ’l Ghayat fi asrar al Huruf al Maknumat.
64. Al Majalis al Ghazaliya—(Collection of his Bagdad sermons).
65. Maqasid al filasafa—(Philosophy).
66. Al Munqidh min adh-Dhalal—(His Confessions, Autobiographical).
67. Miʾyar al ʾIlm fi ’l Mantiq—(Logic).
68. Miʾyar al Nazir—(Logic).
69. Mahal al Nazir—
70. Mishkat al anwar fi lataʾif al akhyar—(Ethics).
71. Al Mustazhir fi radd ʾala ’l Batiniya—(Controversial).
72. Al-Madnun bihi ʾala ghairi ahlihi—Book to be kept from those unfitted for it. (Esoteric.)
73. Al-Madnun al-saghir—Book to be kept from those unfitted for it. (Esoteric.)
74. Mishkat al-anwar—(Mysticism).
75. Mizan al ʾAmal—(A compendium of Ethics).
76. Mawahib al Batiniya—(similar to No. 71, but abbreviated).
77. Al Minhaj al Aʾali—
78. Miraj as Salikîn—
79. Mukashafat al qulub—
80. Mufasal al Khilaf fi ʾUsul al Qiyas—
81. Minhaj al ʾAbidin ila Janat Rab al ʾAlamîn—(His last work: a popular epistle on the Mystic way).
82. Nasikhat al Muluk—(Written in Persian and called in the Arabic translation Al Tibr al Masbuk; a book of counsel for kings and princes).
83. Al Wajiz—(Jurisprudence). Several commentaries were written on this work and it is much used.
84. Al Wasit—(a celebrated book in Jurisprudence). Several commentaries.
85. Yaqut at Taʾwil fi Tafsir at Tanzil—(Commentary on the Koran in 40 vols.).

D. Comparative Table of Events

FOOTNOTES

[1] “Sketches from Eastern History,” Theodore Nöldeke. London, 1892, p. 98.

[2] “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

[3] “The Assemblies of al-Hariri,” trans. by Thomas Chenery. London, 1867. Vol. I, Introduction, p. 5.

[4] Der Islam, Band V, Heft 2/3; C. H. Becker, Strassburg, 1914, pp. 239, 291.

[5] Mediæval India, in “The Story of the Nations Series,” Stanley Lane-Poole, New York, 1903, p. 37.

[6] “The Caliphate, its Rise, Decline and Fall,” 1892, p. 578.