Shi‘a Sects (Kitab Firaq al-Shi‘a) Sistani The Life and Martyrdom of

The Life and Martyrdom of Hadrat Abu al-Fadl

and how they have used both fact and fiction together

and this book definitely puts all his greatness into perspective

he never pressured her

Among the topics investigated by the author are the methodology used to establish the reliability of narrators

Shi‘a Sects (Kitab Firaq al-Shi‘a) Sistani The Life and Martyrdom ofExperts on Islam consider Kitab Firaq al Shia a seminal work for two main reasons: First, it is the earliestwork on the subject that has survived in its entirety. Second, it is the earliest textbook that provides an Imami Shia perspective on the differences among, and origins of, the Islamic sects including a full exposition of various sects within Shiism. Since the German scholar, Helmut Ritter, published the first Arabic edition of the book in 1931,