Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Shiite Islam :Orthodoxy Or Heterodoxy?

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• Transliteration
• Dedication
• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Exordium
• Opening Remarks
• Foreword
• Commendatory Preface
• Translator’s Preface
• Note
• Acknowledgments and Observations
• Genesis of the Work
• Author’s Preface
• Notes
• Introduction: The Issue at Hand
• Notes
• Chapter 1: Towards a Definition of Heterodoxy in Islām
• Notes
• Chapter 2: Towards a Definition of Shī‘ism
• Notes
• Chapter 3: Al-Ijmā‘ or Scholarly Consensus: An Accepted Method for Controlling Heresy?
• Notes
• Chapter 4: The Infallible Divine Authority: Source of Law and Doctrine in Islāmic ijmā‘
• Notes
• Chapter 5: Mukhtār al-Thaqāfī, the Enlightened Messianic Activist: The Shī‘ite Insurrection as Political Reaction, Reparation and Revenge
• Notes
• Chapter 6: The Caliphate at a Crossroads: Abū Bakr and the Collusion of the Powerful Classes
• Notes
• Chapter 7: Prophecy and Imāmate: Two Inseparable Metaphysical Realities
• Notes
• Chapter 8: The Wilāyah: The Spiritual and Temporal Authority of the Imāms
• Notes
• Chapter 9: The Imāmate: The Esoteric Inheritance or the Bātin of the Prophet
• Notes
• Conclusions
• Notes
• Bibliography