Al-Islam.org by the Ahlul Bayt DILP

Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project

06 June, 2013
26 Rajab, 1434

Origins and Early Development of Shi'a Islam

Search Al-Islam.org

	Origins and Early Development of Shi'a Islam balagh.net by S.H.M. Jafri	Views: 27426
	Excerpts from the preface: In these pages...an attempt is made to trace out and reconstruct those earliest tendencies and ideas which gave Shi'a Islam its distinctive charcter...My aim has been to reconstruct and present the development of an Islamic ideal--that of a particular vision of religious leadership that first appeared after the Prophet's death--based on the testimony of the historical sources.