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Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Shiʻi view of religion in general and Shiʻism in particular / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi
• The roots of Shiʻism in early Islamic history / Mahmud Shahabi
• The Shiʻi interpretation of the Qurʼan / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Murtada Mutahhari
• The Shiʻi interpretaion of Hadith literature / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & S.M. Waris Hasan
• The Nahj al-Balaghah and the teachings of the Imams / Syed Hussein M. Jafri & Imam ʻAli
• Doctrinal divisions within Shiʻism / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi
• Shiʻism and Sunnism / Hamid Enayat
• Shiʻism, Ismaʻilism, and Shaykhism / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi, Muhammad Ibn ʻAbd al-Karim al-Shahrastani, Marshall Hodgson, & Mangol Bayat
• Shiʻism and Sufism / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• The Shiʻi view of God / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & William Chittick
• The Shiʻi view of revelation and prophecy / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & ʻAllamah al-Hilli
• The Imams and the Imamate / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Henry Corbin
• Shiʻi hermeneutics / Henry Corbin
• Taqiyyah / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Hamid Enayat
• Mutʻah or temporary marriage / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Eschatology / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi
• Ijtihad and marjaʻiyyat / Mahmud Ramyar & Leonard Binder
• Prayers of Shiʻi imam & duʻa-i kumayl, religious rites, prayers, and supplications / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Diverse religious practices / Ayatollah Abuʼl-Qasim Khuʼi Mahmud Ayoub, E.G. Browne, Peter Chelkowski, Dwight Donaldson

• Jihad / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Shiʻi education / Roy Mottahedeh
• Shiʻi theology / W. Montgomery Watt, ʻAllamah al-Hilli, & Khwajah Nasir al-Din Tusi
• Intellectual sciences and philosophy / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi, ʻAbd al-Razzaq Lahiji, & Muhsin Fayd Kashani
• Shiʻi literature / Mahmud Ayoub, E.G. Browne, Peter Chelkowski, & Shaykh al-Mufid
• Shiʻism and art / Nader Ardalan & Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Shiʻism and the natural sciences and mathematics / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Continuity and change in the intellectual heritage / Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi, Sayyid Abuʼl-Hasan Qazwini, Murtada Mutahhari, & Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr.

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Contributors:

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza, 1960-

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Shīʻah

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 1999. Available via the World Wide Web. Available in multiple electronic file formats. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

Physical Description:

xviii, 401 pages ; 24 cm

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BP193.5 .S527 1988eb

ISBNs:

0585088608 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1021232121
42856281 [Invalid]