Description
Featuring over 250 key thinkers both major and less well-known, and spanning three centuries, this is a comprehensive survey of early Shi'ite literature, and the first of its kind. For each figure, the author offers a summary of their life and achievements, before outlining their literary and scholarly contributions to the canon, and documenting all sources for their writings, even those long-since vanished. Each entry includes information on further reading for the figure in question, in addition to detailed footnotes and a full bibliography.
Author: Hossein Modaressi
Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.44lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.18w x 1.75d
ISBN13: 9781851683314
ISBN10: 1851683313
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | General
About the Author
Hossein Modarressi is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the Princeton University; Mahdi Senior Scholar of Shi'ite Studies at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University; and Golestaneh Fellow in Islamic Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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