Shi'a Sects: (Kitab Firaq Al-Shi'a)Experts on Islam consider Kitab Firaq al-Shi'a a seminal work for two main reasons: Firstly, it is the earliest work on the subject that has survived in its entirety. Secondly, it is the earliest textbook that provides an Imami Shi'a perspective on the differences among, and origins of, the Islamic sects including a full exposition of various sects within Shi'ism. Since the German scholar, Helmut Ritter, published the first Arabic edition of the book in 1931, it has emerged as one of the important classics in its field and an indispensable tool for researchers on Islam. Properly introduced and extensively annotated, this edition is the first complete English translation of Kitab Firaq al-Shi'a. Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti was a tenth-century CE theologian and philosopher in Baghdad whose most important contributions were to the field of history of religions and sects. Kitab Firaq al-Shi'a is his only extant work. |
Contents
Translators Foreword | 8 |
Shia Sects Kitāb Firaq alShia 333 | 33 |
After the Assassination of Ali | 65 |
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Abbasid caliph Abbasiyya Abī Ṭālib Abū al-'Abbās Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Abu Bakr Abū Hāshim Abū Ja'far Muḥammad according Aḥmad al-Ash'arī al-Baqir al-Farq al-Firaq al-Ḥanafiyya al-Hasan al-Husayn al-Kashshi al-Ma'mun al-Mahdi al-Mughīra Al-Nawbakhti al-Qa'im Al-Radd ala al-Riḍā al-Ṣādiq Alī Allāh appointed ASSASSINATION az-Zubayr Bakr and Umar Başra Beirut believed blasphemous bodies brother Butriyya claimed the imāmate companions DEATH OF JA'FAR designated died dispute Divergence doctrine Exalted father fight Firaq al-Shi'a followers of Abū Ghulat governor ḥadīth heir Ibn Khaldun Ibrāhīm imām imāmate Imāmīyya Īsā Islam Ismā'il Ja'far al-Sadiq Jārūdīyya Kaysāniyya Khalid Khawarij killed Kitab knowledge Kufa major sects Medina Messenger of Allah minor sects mother Mu'awiya Mu'tazila Muḥam Muḥammad Murji'a Mūsā Muslim named opponents peace progeny Prophet prophethood Qum n.d. Qur'an Quraysh Rāfiḍa religious Rijāl Sa'd Ṣāliḥ saying scholars sect was called Shi'ite statement Sulayman taqiyyah three sects Twelver Shi'a Umar Umayyad Ummah Uthman Yazid Zayd Zaydiyya