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Origins and Early Development of Shi'a Islam

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	Origins and Early Development of Shi'a Islam karbala-najaf.org by S.H.M. Jafri	Views: 20618
	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.