The Thirteen Classics (I Ching, Book of Documents, Classic of Poetry, Rites of Zhou, Etiquette and Ceremonial, Book of Rites, The Commentary of Zuo, The Commentary of Gongyang, The Commentary of Guliang, The Analects, Classic of Filial Piety, Erya, Mencius)
The true core texts of the Yazidi religion that exist today are the hymns, known as qawls. Spurious examples of so-called "Yazidi religious texts" include the Yazidi Black Book and the Yazidi Book of Revelation, which are believed to have been forged in the early 20th century; the Yazidi Black Book, for instance, is thought to be a combination of genuine Yazidi beliefs and Western forgeries.[1][2]
Indian religions
Ancient style of scripture used for the Pāli CanonThe Chinese Diamond Sutra, the oldest known dated printed book in the world, printed in the 9th year of Xiantong Era of the Tang dynasty, or 868 CE.The Bhagavad Gita is Krishna's counsel to Arjuna on the battlefield of the Kurukshetra.Illuminated Guru Granth folio with Mul Mantar (basic religion mantra) with signature of Guru Gobind Singh.
A Sefer Torah opened for liturgical use in a synagogue service11th century North African Qur'an in the British MuseumChristian Bible, 1407 handwritten copy1841, first European (London) edition of the Book of Mormon, at the Springs Preserve museum, Las Vegas, Nevada.The Bible (left) and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (right) serve as the pastor of the Christian Science church.
Messages and writings of the Universal House of Justice
The scripture of previous world religions
Christianity
Bible
The contents of Christian Bibles differ by denomination.
The Canon of Trent defines a canonical list of books of the Catholic Bible that includes the whole 73-book canon recognized by the Catholic Church, including the deuterocanonical books. (In versions of the Latin Vulgate, 3 Esdras, 4 Esdras, and the Prayer of Manasseh are included in an appendix, but considered non-canonical, and are not included in modern Catholic Bibles).
Most Protestant Bibles include the Hebrew Bible's 24 books (the protocanonical books) divided differently (into 39 books) and the 27-book New Testament for a total of 66 books. Some denominations (e.g. Anglicanism) also include the 14 books of the biblical apocrypha between the Old Testament and the New Testament, for a total of 80 books.
Eastern Orthodox Bibles include the anagignoskomena, which consist of the Catholic deuterocanon, plus 3 Maccabees, Psalm 151, the Prayer of Manasseh, and 3 Esdras; The Fourth Book of Maccabees is considered to be canonical by the Georgian Orthodox Church.[lower-alpha 1] The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, is authoritative.
The Church of the East includes most of the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament which are found in the Peshitta (The Syriac Version of the Bible). The New Testament in modern versions contains the 5 disputed books (2 Peter, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, and Revelation) that were originally excluded.
The Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church has at various times included a variety of books in the New Testament which are not included in the canons of other traditions.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (and its daughter, the Eritrean Orthodox Church) accept various books according to either of the Narrower or the Broader Canons but always include the entire Catholic deuterocanon, the Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Ezra, 4 Ezra, and The Book of Josippon. They may also include the Book of Jubilees, Book of Enoch, 1 Baruch, 4 Baruch, as well as 1, 2, and 3 Meqabyan (no relation to the Books of Maccabees). The New Testament contains the Sinodos, the Books of the Covenant, Clement, and the Didascalia.
Some Syrian Churches, regardless of whether they are Eastern Catholic, Nestorian, Oriental or Eastern Orthodox, accept the Letter of Baruch as scripture.
Gnostic Christianity rejected the narrative in Pauline Christianity that the arrival of Jesus had to do with the forgiveness of sins, and instead were concerned with illusion and enlightenment. Gnostic texts include Gnostic gospels about the life of Jesus, books attributed to various apostles, apocalyptic writings, and philosophical works. Though there is some overlap with some New Testament works, the rest were eventually considered heretical by Christian orthodoxy. Gnostics generally did not include the Old Testament as canon. They believed in two gods, one of which was Yahweh (generally considered evil), the author of the Hebrew Bible and god of the Jews, separate from a Supreme God who sent Jesus.
Marcion's canon included only the Gospel of Marcion and a set of Pauline epistles which overlap with the canon of orthodox Pauline Christianity. His gospel was a version of the Gospel of Luke that did not contain any references to the Old Testament.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) uses the LDS edition of the King James Bible for English-speaking members; other versions are used in non-English speaking countries. The Community of Christ (RLDS) uses the Joseph Smith Translation, which it calls the Inspired Version, as well as updated modern translations, mainly the NRSV.
The Pearl of Great Price is authoritative in the LDS Church, rejected by Community of Christ.
Other, smaller branches of Latter Day Saints include other scriptures such as:
Lectures on Faith recognized in canon of Fundamentalists and some Prairie Saints.
The Book of the Law of the Lord used by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite). This sect likewise holds as scriptural several prophecies, visions, revelations, and translations printed by James Strang, and published in the Revelations of James J. Strang.[4]
The Word of the Lord and The Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel used by Fettingite branches.
Liturgical books
Liturgical books are used to guide or script worship, and many are specific to a denomination.
Catholic liturgical books:
Books of the clergy
The Roman Missal (The pope, archbishops, bishops, priests and deacons editions)
Book of Discipline (United Methodist) (John Wesley-1784, United Methodist Church-2016)
Numerous hymn, service and guide books (varies by church)
Southern Baptists:
Baptist Hymnal
Numerous hymn, service and guide books (varies by church)
Doctrines and laws
Various Christian denominations have texts which define the doctrines of the group or set out laws which are considered binding. The groups consider these to range in permanence from unquestionable interpretations of divine revelations to human decisions made for convenience or elucidation which are subject to reconsideration.
The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת, romanized: Aseret ha'Dibrot), also known in Christianity as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship.
The distinctive Calvinist doctrine of "double" predestination.
In Catholicism, the concept of Magisterium reserves matters of religious interpretation to the church, with various levels of infallibility expressed in various documents.
To the decisions of ecumenical councils in Catholic, some Orthodox, and some Protestant denominations, though the non-Catholic denominations only accept certain councils as genuinely ecumenical.
Transubstantiation and Marian teachings in Roman Catholic theology. The department of the Roman Curia that deals with questions of doctrine is called the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.[6][7]
The Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, along with the Bible, serves as the permanent "impersonal pastor" of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
The Methodist Church of Great Britain refers to the "doctrines to which the preachers of the Methodist Church are pledged" as doctrinal standards.[8]
Seventh-day Adventists hold the writings of Ellen White are held to an elevated status, though not equal with the Bible, as she is considered to have been an inspired prophetess.
The five universally acknowledged messengers (rasul) in Islam are Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus and Muhammad,[9] each believed to have been sent with a scripture. Muslims believe David (Dāwūd) received Psalms (Zabur)[10] (cf. Q38:28); Jesus (Īsā) the Gospel (Injil); Muhammad received the Qur'an; Abraham (Ibrahim) the Scrolls of Abraham; and Moses (Mūsā) the Torah (Tawrat).[11]
Al Jafr which is a book composed of letters of 784 tables (28 sections of letters × 28 chapters of letters) about Omniscience and it has its own grammars to answer many of questions about prophecy or fiqh or medecine or anything according to Jaffars and every table is composed of 28 × 28 for letters of line and of Khana (house) each Khana of 4 letters, however some Usuli scholars rejects it and it is only used by Irfani, Shaykhis and few of Akhbaris and Usulis.
Hadith
The Four Books
Kitab al-Kafi 8 Volumes
Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih 4 volumes
Tahdhib al-Ahkam 5 volumes
Al-Istibsar 4 volumes
Jawami' al Hadith
Bihar al-Anwar 25 large Volumes = 100 volumes, it is a general encyclopedia more than of Hadith
Awalim al-Ulum it is said that it was 400 volumes = 100 large volumes and it is an extended version of Bihar which once collected all of Hadith of Sunna and Shia and all of the sayings of historians, astrologers, doctors, philosophers and Clerics of Shia and Sunna of that time as explanation of Hadith but it was lost.
Wasa'il al Shia 24 volumes
Kitab al Wafi 12 volumes
Kitab Mustadrak al Wasa'il 12 volumes
Safinat al Bihar
Tafsir al-Burhan 10 volumes
Jami' Ahadith al Shia 20 volumes
Min Fiqh Ahlil Bayt by Syed Muhammad al Shirazi 40 volumes
Mawsu'at (Encyclopedias)
Masānīd Ahlil Bayt by Azizullah al Utaridi 70 volumes contains all of Shia Hadith
Mu'jam al Ahadith al Mu'tabara by Asif Muhsini 8 volumes
Prayer books
Mafateh al Jinan
Kamel al Ziyarat
Kutub al Masabih
Thamarat al Awād
Kutub al Ziyarat wal Udyiat wal Salawat
Hagiografies
Kitab Manaqib Āl Abi Talib
Kutub al Maqatil
Kutub waqa'at Siffin, Nahrawan and Jamal
Kutub al Gharat
Kitab al Khara'ij wal Jara'ih
Kitab Mashariq Anwar al Waqin
Kitab al Hidayiah al Kubra
Kitab Uyūn Akhbar al Rida
Kutub al Ghayba
Of Al Nu'mani
Of Al Saduq
Of Fadl ibn Shadhan
Of al Tūsi
Of Ibn Tawus
Kutub al Raja'a
Usul Arba'mi'a only few of it survived
Qurb al Isnad
Tafsir al Imam al Askari
Al Usul al Sitat Ashar
Kitab Sulaym ibn Qays
Asl Isa
Al Jafaryiat
Kitab al Mahasin of Ibn Khalid al Barqi Called as the Fifth Book
Nawadir of Sa'd al Asha'ri
Al Risalah al Dahabyiah
Sahifat al Rida
Mukhtasar Basa'ir al Darajat
Basa'ir al Darajat
And Others
Alawites
Quran (for Zahiris it is the main Scripture but for Batinis it is a very minor Scripture)
Kitab al Hidayah al Kubra (for Zahiri Alawites)
Kitab al Majmu (for Batini Alawites).
Batini Scriptures (Only for Makhusi Sheikhs it is forbidden for Murid or women or non Alawites to read or hear it)
Kitab al Sirat
Kitab al Haft
Kitab al Maratib wal Duraj
Kitab al Ruq'a (Talisman)
Kitab al Ta'a Fi Ma'rifat al Sa'a
Kitab Adab Abi Talib
Kitab al Alāma fi Ma'rifat Yawm al Qiyama
Kitab al Lahut
Kitab Mubtada' al Nur wal Zulmah
Kitab al Abwab
Kitab al Mahmud wal Mazmum
Kitab Nur al Qulub
Kitab al Wasāyah fi Ma'rifat al Khafāya
Red Jafr (Book of Prophecy and part of al Wasayah)
White Jafr (Magical letters talismanic book)
al Suluk fi Ma'rifat Awakhir al Muluk
al Risalah al Ristpashiyah
Fiqh al Risalah al Ristpashiyah
Kitab al Akwar wal Adwar (of Major and Minor Cycles of time and reincarnation)
Kitab al Surah wal Mithal
Kitab al Jawharah al Taliqaniyyah
Kulazi Batini Scriptures (only for The Kulazi Shiekhs and it is forbidden for Murids or women or non-Alawite to read or hear it)
Hazrat Ali Cenkliri (Military Career Biography of Imam Ali)
Haci Bektash Kumru (about Karbala')
Kenzul Mesayieb
Huseynie
Vilayet Nameh
Musebyyi Nameh
Fazilat Nameh
Akhirat Nameh
Javedan Nameh
Saqi Nameh
Battal Nameh
Abu Moslem Nameh
Sal Nameh (Of Sadridden)
Divans of 7 Saints
Divan Hatai
Divan Sultan Abdal
Other 5 Divans
Kitab Cabbrkulu
Mira'tul Maqasid
Mevlevi Order
Quran
Masnavi
Fihi Ma Fihi
Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Ismailism
In Ismailism Quran is divided into Tanzil (Original Quran) which is the law of 6th Natiq Prophet Muhammad and Ta'wil (Exegesis) which is the law of the 7th Natiq and al Qaim Imam Muhammad ibn Ismail and his children and grand children (the Imams after him) this is One Scripture (Quran) :
↑Eastern Orthodox also generally divide Baruch and Letter of Jeremiah into two books instead of one. The enumeration of the Books of Ezra is different in many Orthodox Bibles, as it is in all others: see the naming conventions of the Books of Esdras.
↑Angell, Stephen W (2015), "Renegade Oxonian: Samuel Fisher's Importance in Formulating a Quaker Understanding of Scripture", in Angell, Stephen W; Dandelion, Pink, Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought 1647–1723, Cambridge University Press, pp. 137–154, doi:10.1017/cbo9781107279575.010, ISBN9781107279575