Bihar al-Anwar
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Allama Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi
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- Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut
1Bibliographic record1The Author's Introduction6Chapter One: The primary sources and the books drawn upon26Chapter Two: The reliability of those books, and the differences among them46Chapter Three: The sigla assigned to those books48Chapter Four: Conventions adopted for abbreviating the chains of transmission57On the shared single-letter sigla62Chapter Five: Necessary remarks drawn from the prefaces of the source books79Index of source books81The Book of Intellect, Knowledge and Ignorance81Chapters on Intellect and Ignorance81Chapter 1: The merit of the intellect and the censure of ignorance96Chapter 2: The reality of the intellect, its nature, and the beginning of its creation105Chapter 3: God's argument against mankind by way of the intellect106Chapter 4: The signs of the intellect and its hosts161Chapter 5: Miscellaneous reports162Chapters on Knowledge: its etiquette, its kinds and its rulings162Chapter 1: The obligation of knowledge, the duty of seeking it186Chapter 2: The classes of people with respect to knowledge196Chapter 3: Questioning the scholar, studying with him198Chapter 4: Discussing knowledge, keeping company with scholars206Chapter 5: Acting without knowledge209Chapter 6: The sciences people are commanded to acquire221Chapter 7: The etiquette of seeking knowledge and its rulings229Contents of this volume231Sigla used in this book