# Bibliography of Rasul Jafarian

Bibliography of Rasul Jafarian is a list of books published by Rasul Jafarian (born 1964), cleric, translator, writer and researcher of Iranian history.
Jafarian is an Iranian prolific writer and has many works in the science of history. He started writing in 1985 with a book entitled An Introduction to the History of Islam. He has authored more than 90 books, some of which are in large numbers; for example, his book entitled Historical essays has been republished in more than 20 volumes.
Jafarian's works also succeeded in gaining honors; for example, the book Atlas of Shia (Persian: اطلس شیعه) was selected for Iran's Book of the Year Awards and won the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards and the Farabi International Award. What makes his work even more important is the translation of his books into other languages such as English, Arabic and Urdu.
Some of his works are among the academic course resources and the resources of master and doctorate in history field.
Jafarian's main research is on the history of Shiism, but he has also done a lot of research in fields such as the political history of the beginning of Islam and the history of the Safavid period. He has also published numerous researches and articles on the history of Iranian pilgrimage to Hajj.

## Works

Jafarian's works are divided into three general sections:
* Books
* Travelogues
* Translations

### Books

Books :
| Row | Title | Year of publication | Publisher | Description |
| 1 | An Introduction to the History of Islam | 1985 | Dar Rahe Haq | It was Jafarian's first book, which later became part of the introduction of the book Political History of Islam. |
| 2 | Western mentality in the contemporary history of Iran | 1986 | University of Isfahan, Department of Islamic Culture and Education | |
| 3 | The falsification of the distortion of the Quran | 1986 | International Section of Islamic Development Organization | In this work, the issue of distorting the Qur'an and quoting it to the Shiites has been raised and criticized. |
| 4 | A brief study on the relationship between Shiism and Iran | 1986 | Isfahan | Jafarian's first work on Shi'ism, which sought to answer the question: Is Shi'ism an Iranian religion or not? |
| 5 | Basic introductory to research methods in history | 1987 | Islamic Development Organization | In the introduction of this book, important issues in historiography as well as historiography of Islamic history are discussed; For example: "Compilation of history", "Compilation of history and Shia" |
| 6 | A review of the intellectual contexts of the new eclecticism in Iran | 1988 | Islamic Development Organization | |
| 7 | Evaluation of intellectual relations between Shahid Motahari and Dr. Ali Shariati | 1989 | Tehran Seda | The pretext for writing this book was a letter that Motahhari and Bazargan shared in 1978 about Shariati's thoughts. At the time, Motahhari was opposed to Shariati, but the atmosphere required a moderate talk about both the importance of his thoughts and his objections. |
| 8 | History of Shiism in Iran History of the seventh century AH | 1989 | Islamic Development Organization | This book is a research on the growth and development of the Shiite school in Iran |
| 9 | An introduction to the history of compiling hadith | 1989 | Fuad | |
| 10 | The intellectual and political life of Shia Imams | 1990 | Islamic Development Organization | This book was first published in two volumes. It was published in 2012 as an excerpt from the political life and thought of Shiite Imams by Maaref Publishing as an academic textbook. |
| 11 | History of Islam and Iran until the end of the fourth century AH | 1991 | Amouzesh va Parvaresh | This book was taught as a second year textbook for general secondary education in Iran, and those books changed when the high school education system changed. |
| 12 | Religion and politics in the Safavid period | 1991 | Ansarian | This book was later published in three volumes as Safavid in the Age of Religion, Culture and Politics by the seminary and university research institute. Then, with many additions, it was published in two thicker volumes by Elm publication as Religion and politics in the Safavid era. |
| 13 | Storytellers in the History of Islam | 1991 | Fuad | An overview of storytelling, its dimensions and lines in the history of Iran and Islam |
| 14 | The Struggle between Tradition and Modernity | 1992 | Raouf | |
| 15 | Reference, History and Thought | 1992 | Khorram | |
| 16 | The idea of religious understanding in the sixth and seventh centuries AH | 1992 | Islamic Development Office | |
| 17 | Study and research in the Iranian constitutional movement | 1992 | Toos | This book was written about the sit-in at the British embassy and was entitled British Involvement in the Constitution, which was published in 1992 under the name of Investigation and Research in the Iranian Constitutional Movement by Toos Qom Publications. |
| 18 | History of the spread of Shiism in Rey | 1992 | Mash'ar | Part of a research project on Shiism that was exclusively dedicated to the city of Rey and was later included in Shiite history. |
| 19 | The treatise of the king of medicine | 1992 | Marashi Library | |
| 20 | Historical and human geography of Shiites in the Islamic world | 1992 | Ansarian | It was part of the Shiite History Project, which looked at Shiite human and historical geography |
| 21 | Causes of the fall of the Safavids | 1993 | Islamic Development Organization | This was Rasool Jafarian's second collection of articles on Safavids. He had previously published religion and politics in the Safavid period. |
| 22 | Cultural relations between Mu'tazilites and Shiites | 1993 | Islamic Development Organization | It was an article written for the International Congress of Sheikh Mofid, which was held in 1413 AH. It was later published independently. |
| 23 | Friday Prayer, Historical Backgrounds and Bibliographic Awareness | 1993 | Friday Prayers Imams Policy Council | It is a bibliography compiled for the Secretariat of the Friday Imams. |
| 24 | History of the Transformation of the Government and the Caliphate from the Rise of Islam to the Fall of the Sufyanian | 1994 | Islamic Development Office | |
| 25 | Treatise on the biography of Mirza Shirazi | 1994 | Amirkabir | |
| 26 | Ali ibn Isa Arbali and the Kashf al-Ghumma | 1994 | Islamic Research Foundation | |
| 27 | Islamic works of Mecca and Medina | 1994 | Mash'ar | This book was written for the representative office of the Supreme Leader in the Hajj Organization and for the use of clerics and administrators, and it was always their exam book for dispatch. Many of the specific researches are local and a significant number of its images have been prepared by Rasul Jafarian. |
| 28 | Insight for the purpose of creation, Fazil Hindi | 1995 | Ansarian | |
| 29 | Biography of Bahauddin Mohammad Isfahani | 1995 | Ansarian | In the year that this work was published, a center was established in the Takht-e Foulad of Isfahan for the construction of that cemetery. They were also supposed to build the tomb of Fazil Hindi. So Jafarian published this biography along with several other treatises about him. |
| 30 | Political History of Islam | 1995 | Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance/ Dalile Ma | It is a two-volume collection, the first volume of which is entitled "The Life of the Messenger of God" in 700 pages and the second volume is entitled "The Life of the Caliphs" in 827 pages. This book has been translated into English, Arabic and Urdu. |
| 31 | Historical Articles (20 volumes) | From 1996 to 2011 | Alhadi/ Dalile Ma | Six volumes of this twenty-volume collection were published from 1996 to 1999 by Alhadi Publications and the remaining volumes from 2008 to 2011 by Dalile Ma Publications. |
| 32 | Search sequence on Shiite history in Iran | 1996 | Ansarian | Jafarian published the additions to the book "History of Shiism" under the title of this book. |
| 33 | Sources of Islamic History | 1997 | Ansarian | This book has been used for many years as a textbook as well as a source for studying master's and doctoral exams. |
| 34 | Shariati and the Clergy with a few other articles | 1997 | Ansarian | |
| 35 | History of Islamic Iran | 1998 | Andisheh Moaser | This collection was published in four volumes. The first volume is from the beginning of Islam to Islamic Iran, the second volume is from the beginning of the Tahirid dynasty to the end of the Khwarazmian dynasty, the third volume is from the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire to the decline of the Turkmens and the fourth volume is about the Safavid dynasty (from the beginning to the decline). |
| 36 | The role of the Karaki family in the establishment and continuation of the Safavid state | 1999 | Elm | |
| 37 | Constitutionalist closure at British embassy | 1999 | Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies | It is a book about the developments of the one-month sit-in of the constitutionalists at the British Embassy in Jamadi Al-Awali and Jamadi Al-Thani in 1324 AH. |
| 38 | An Analysis of Intellectual and Political Developments after the Messenger of God | 2000 | Supreme Leader Representation in Universities | The text of some of Jafarian's speeches on why Ali ibn Abi Talib did not become the Imamate after the death of Muhammad ibn Abdullah |
| 39 | The Virtues of Ali Ibn Abi Talib and the guardianship | 2000 | Dalil | A summary of the original book done by Zahabi |
| 40 | Shiite community of Nakhvaleh in Medina | 2000 | Dalil | |
| 41 | Safavids in the field of religion, culture and politics | 2000 | Research Institute of Hawzeh and University | The basis of this book is "The Book of Religion and Politics in the Safavid Period, and the Causes of the Fall of the Safavids". |
| 42 | History and political life of Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib | 2001 | Dalil | The "Imam Ali" section of the "Book of Political History of Islam during the Caliphate", as well as several other articles about Ali ibn Abi Talib, are included in this book. |
| 43 | Articles about Hijab | 2001 | Dalil | Contains 33 treatises and several speeches published in two volumes |
| 44 | Reflection on the Ashura movement | 2001 | Ansarian | The "Imam Hussein" section of the "Book" of the "Political History of Islam", in addition to the later articles written by Rasul Jafarian, is included in this work. Later, a new edition was published with corrections and additions by Elm Publishing. |
| 45 | Sultan Muhammad Khodabandeh "Öljaitü" and Imami Shiism in Iran | 2001 | Specialized library on Islam and Iran | This book was part of the Jafarian Shiite History Project; Because Öljaitü was the first official king of Iran to adopt the Imami religion. |
| 46 | Religio-political currents and organizations in Iran | 2001 | Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy/ Islamic Revolution Document Center/ Iranian Book and Literature Home/ Elm | The most important feature of this book is that it deals more with the cultural history of this period than the political history |
| 47 | A Review of the Role of Ulama in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution | 2002 | Headquarter agency of the Supreme Leader in the IRGC | |
| 48 | Haj Mehdi Seraj Ansari, a shining star in the religious press | 2003 | Tehran | |
| 49 | Assadollah Kharghani, a modernist cleric of the constitutional era | 2003 | Islamic Revolution Document Center | |
| 50 | History of Shiism in Jorjan and Astarabad | 2004 | Islamic Research Foundation of Astane Quds Razavi | This was part of the Shiite History Project, which was published independently and later included in Shiite History. |
| 51 | New discoveries about the Safavid era | 2004 | Center for the Study and Research of Religions and Beliefs | A collection of articles about Safavids and reasons for the fall of Safavids and about religion in this era... It was later published in three volumes in this book. |
| 52 | The Story of Hijab in Iran Before the Revolution | 2004 | Islamic Revolution Document Center | This book is a report on a series of issues that arose about the hijab before the revolution. |
| 53 | Sun of Jey | 2005 | City Council of Khvorasgan | Collection of articles about the Jey area |
| 54 | An Urban Understanding of the Constitution Comparing the Constituency of Tabriz and Isfahan | 2006 | Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies | The original book was an article of the same name for the 100th anniversary of the Constitution at Cambridge University, in which Jafarian also spoke. It later became a book. In addition, several other articles were attached to this book. |
| 55 | Footnotes to the book "The Shiites" by Heinz Halm | 2006 | Markaze Adyan | |
| 56 | A Reflection on Prophetic biography | 2006 | Publishers Cooperative | The first part of the "History of Islamic Iran" was a four-volume book that was published independently and for presentation at the Iran book fair. |
| 57 | Rereading the Constitutional Movement | 2007 | Motahhar | This book is taken from Jafarian's lectures on the constitution. |
| 58 | Shiism in Iraq, authority and Iran | 2007 | Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies | The book was written in the wake of the US invasion of Iraq and the inauguration of a new government. (History of Shiism in Iraq, Authority in Recent Decades, and Developments in 2003) |
| 59 | Atlas of Shia | 2008 | Geographical Organization of the Army of the Islamic Republic | This work has been compiled on the recommendation of Ali Khamenei and on the order of National Geography Organization of Iran. The main purpose of this work is to present a geographical-historical picture of the Shiites throughout the history of Islam from the beginning to the present day. |
| 60 | False Mahdians | 2012 | Elm | |
| 61 | Selection of the political and intellectual life of Shiite Imams | 2012 | Ma'aref | Summarized for teaching in universities |
| 62 | Theory of connecting the Safavid state with the Sahib al-Zaman government | 2012 | Elm | This book has two parts, the first part is historical examples of the comments about the connection of the Safavid Empire with the Mahdi state (the twelfth Imam of the Shiites) and the second part is the treatise entitled "Resaleye Sharh Hadith Dolatana" from the period of Tahmasp, in which it is said that Tahmasp government will be connected to Mahdi. |
| 63 | Negar and Negareh | 2013 | Elm | |
| 64 | Historical Articles and Essays (9 volumes) | From 2013 to 2020 | Elm | In each volume of this collection, several historical articles and treatises have been written. |
| 65 | Comprehensive Introduction | 2013 | Elm | Contains 277 introductions to books published by Parliament |
| 66 | Articles on the Concept of Science in Islamic Civilization | 2014 | Elm | This book is the result of articles written by Jafarian from 2011 to 2014. |
| 67 | History of the Caliphs and the Murder story of Imam Hussein | 2014 | Elm | A text story from the history of the beginning of Islam and Husayn ibn Ali |
| 68 | Muslim-Christian Debate | 2015 | Elm | Book Review of Meshkate Sedq |
| 69 | Friendly correspondence between Dr. Seyed Hossein Modarresi Tabatabai and Rasul Jafarian | 2015 | Movarrekh | A collection of emails sent to each other over a ten-year period from 2005 to 2015. |
| 70 | Kelk and the book | 2015 | Movarrekh | It is a collection of notes, conversations and articles written by Jafarian during his four years as director of the Parliamentary Library. |
| 71 | History of Shiism in Iran from the beginning to the end of the ninth century AH | 2016 | Elm | This collection is two volumes. |
| 72 | From Darband to Qatif | 2016 | Elm | A report on Islamic, Christian debates of the Safavid dynasty and Qajar dynasty |
| 73 | History of Safavid Qizilbash in some historical-religious texts of the Ottoman Empire | 2017 | Movarrekh | This book reports several new texts about the Safavids. Two of them are two manuscripts written about the Qizilbash, and their point of view is to critique the Qizilbash religiously and also to express their historical roots. In the continuation of Safavid history, it has been reported from several texts from the Arabic histories of the tenth and eleventh centuries AH. |
| 74 | Application of story-history in religious propaganda of Mazandaran in the ninth century AH | 2018 | Movarrekh | |
| 75 | An Experience of Scientific-Religious Discourse in the Knowledge of the Atmosphere or Atmospheric Phenomena in Islamic Civilization | 2018 | Movarrekh | This book has tried to provide aspects of this discussion as an experience of scientific-religious discourse in the knowledge of atmospheric phenomena to those interested in the Islamicization of science. |
| 76 | The evolution of the concept of science in hadith, literary, theological and philosophical texts | 2019 | Movarrekh | |
| 77 | From Devil to Microbe | 2019 | Movarrekh | This book can be divided into two general sections; The first part is a detailed introduction entitled "Medical backwardness in the shadow of Islamic hygiene" and the second part of the book includes five texts in the field of "Islamic hygiene". |
| 78 | Mullah Aghaye Darbandi and Maqtal writing | 2019 | Movarrekh | This book is dedicated to the biography and opinions of Mullah Aghaye Darbandi. |
| 79 | Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh at the University of Tehran | 2019 | Movarrekh | The book was unveiled during the commemoration ceremony of Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh. |
| 80 | Ali Akbar Hakamizadeh in four scenes | 2019 | Movarrekh | |
| 81 | We have never taken science seriously | 2020 | Research Institute for Cultural and Social Studies of the Ministry of Science | A collection of ten years of Rasul Jafarian's notes on science and its margins has been collected in this book. |
| 82 | On the wings of angels | 2020 | Elm | Includes 29 articles in the field of Hajj and Pilgrimage |
* All books are in Persian and their titles have been translated for convenience.

### Travelogues

Travelogues :
| Row | Title | Year of publication | Publisher | Description |
| 1 | With Ibrahim's caravan | 1992 | Mash'ar | A report on the Hajj of 1992 by Rasul Jafarian. |
| 2 | With the caravan of love | 1993 | Mash'ar | A report on the Hajj of 1993 by Rasul Jafarian. |
| 3 | Towards Umm Al Qura (Four Hajj Travelogues) | 1994 | Mash'ar | This was the first collection of travelogues published by Jafarian. The first of those travels was from him, which was published as an appendix to three other travelogues that also had a large volume. |
| 4 | Travelogue of Mecca in 1996 | 1996 | Mirase Eslami | A report on the Hajj of 1996 by Rasul Jafarian. |
| 5 | With Safa Caravan | 2003 | Mash'ar | A report on the 2003 Hajj by Rasul Jafarian. |
| 6 | The way of Hajj | 2010 | Geographical Organization of the Ministry of Defense of Iran | This work was about the path of Hajj based on travelogues that Jafarian had previously written. Different routes, sea and land. Iraq, Istanbul, India and... |
| 7 | Fifty Qajar Hajj Travelogues | 2014 | Elm | It is a collection of eight volumes that has been published about Iranian Hajj pilgrimage in the Qajar period. |
| 8 | Remember of the friend and the land | 2014 | Movarrekh | It is a collection of twenty travelogues to Saudi Arabia, nineteen of which were for Umrah and Hajj. |
* All books are in Persian and their titles have been translated for convenience.

### Translations

Translations :
| Row | Title | Year of publication | Publisher | Author |
| 1 | History of Mecca | 2006 | Mash'ar | Ahmad Al-Sabaee |
| 2 | Tohfatol Haramein | 2004 | Miqat | Yusuf Nabi |
| 3 | Shiism in Andalusia | 1997 | Ansarian | Mahmoud Mekki, Izzedine Umar Musa |
| 4 | Ottoman government from authority to dissolution | 2000 | Office of Cooperation between the seminary and the university | Esmaeel Ahmad Yaqi |
| 5 | Abbasid Caliphate and Fatimid Caliphate rivalry in sovereignty over the two holy shrines | 2006 | Mash'ar | Soleiman Alkhrabsheh |
| 6 | Ibn Tawus Library | 1992 | Marashi Library | Etan Gulberg |
| 7 | Shiite written heritage from the first three centuries AH | 2004 | Specialized library on Islam and Iran | Hossein Modarressi |
* All books are in Persian and their titles have been translated for convenience.