Mirza Muhammad al-Akhbari

Mīrzā Muḥammad al-Akhbārī, or in full, Mīrzā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Nabī ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣāniʿ Nīshābūrī Astarābādī (, 1178–1233 AH/1764–1817 AD)), was a Shia jurist, theologian and muhaddith. He has been called the last significant representative of the Akhbārī scholar in Iraq and Iran.

Works
al-Akhbārī authored most works in Arabic and some in Persian.

In print

 * A'īne abbāsī dar namāyesh ḥaqshenāsī, also indexed as Amāli Abbāsī. This book is in Farsi and was written by the order of Abbas Mirza to refute the beliefs of Jews, Christians and Magi, and to prove prophethood.
 * al-Burhān fī al-taklīf wa al-bayān, printed in Baghdad, 1923. A polemic work, establishing the Akhbārī school and rejecting the mujtahids.
 * Dawā'ir al-ulūm wa-jadāwil al-ruqūm also known as Tuḥfat al-khāqān. Published in Qom, 1982. In this book, the author has gathered materials from various sciences in circular diagrams and tables, with a list at the beginning of the book.
 * Fatḥ al-bāb ilā al-ḥaqq wa’l-ṣawwāb, published in 1924.
 * Iqāz al-nabīyya, on jurisprudence, published in Egypt, 1937.
 * Maṣādir al-anwār fī al-ijtihād wa al-akhbār, printed in Baghdad, 1923 and in Najaf, 1924.

In manuscript

 * Dhakhīrat al-albāb wa bughyat al-asḥāb, a book in which he presents knowledge in circles and tables, like in his Circles of Sciences.
 * Ḥijr mulqam, on the history of ijtihad and twelve reasons for its rejection.
 * Ḥurmat al-tanbāk wa al-qahwa, a collection of hadiths and narrations that the author cites to prove the lawfulness of using tobacco and drinking coffee.
 * Tuḥfa amīn or Durr thamin, answering twelve questions raised by Muḥammad Aminkhān Ḥamadānī.
 * Tuḥfa jahānbānī (Persian), in proving the Imamate of Ali and other issues in uṣūl al-dīn.
 * Tuhfa lārīya also known as lārīya and Mukhtaṣar lārīya.
 * Uṣūl dīn wa furū'-i ān, a treatise on the principles of faith.