Shi‘a Sects (Kitab Firaq al-Shi‘a) Sistani and how they have used

and how they have used both fact and fiction together

The current volume is a compilation of different poems composed in memory of the Master of Martyrs

these are the gifts which this book offers to its readers

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 and how they have usedExperts 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,