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| Category | Examples of Texts / Topics | |-------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | | The Holy Qur’an (translation + commentary by S.V. Mir Ahmed Ali, Pooya, etc.) | | Hadith (Traditions) | Usul al-Kafi (excerpts), Bihar al-Anwar (selections), Nahj al-Balaghah (Sermons of Imam Ali) | | Fiqh (Jurisprudence) | Islamic Laws (Sistani, Khamenei, Khui, Fadlallah), Tahrir al-Wasilah (excerpts) | | History & Biography | The Life of Imam Husayn (Baqir Sharif al-Qurashi), The Message (Ja’far Subhani) | | Theology (Kalam) | Shi’a Islam (Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i), Peshawar Nights (Sultan al-Wa’izin) | | Ethics & Spirituality | Forty Hadith (Khomeini), Lantern of the Path (Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq) | | Du’a & Ziyarat | Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya , Mafatih al-Jinan (English translation) |

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: The book of supplications by Imam Zayn al-Abidin (as), often called the "Psalms of Islam". Mafatih al-Jinan

Beyond Hadith, spiritual and rhetorical masterpieces hold a central place. Nahj al-Balagha (The Peak of Eloquence), compiling the sermons, letters, and sayings of Imam Ali, and Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (The Psalms of Islam) by Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq's grandfather, Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn, are widely available in multi-language digital formats. 4. Contemporary Fiqh and Resalahs