Shiite Islam: Orthodoxy or Heterodoxy?

Author: Luis Alberto Vittor

Translator: John Andrew Morrow

Publisher: Ansariyan Publications - Qum

In this text, Luis Alberto Vittor clearly explains the essence of Shi'ite Islam on its own. Without the need of putting down any other sect of Islam, Shi'ite Islam can be understood truly for what its basic fundamentals and teachings.

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Chapters

  1. Transliteration
  2. Dedication
  3. About the Author
  4. About the Translator
  5. Exordium
  6. Opening Remarks
  7. Foreword
  8. Commendatory Preface
  9. Translator’s Preface
  10. Acknowledgments and Observations
  11. Genesis of the Work
  12. Author’s Preface
  13. Introduction: The Issue at Hand
  14. Chapter 1: Towards a Definition of Heterodoxy in Islām
  15. Chapter 2: Towards a Definition of Shī‘ism
  16. Chapter 3: Al-Ijmā‘ or Scholarly Consensus: An Accepted Method for Controlling Heresy?
  17. Chapter 4: The Infallible Divine Authority: Source of Law and Doctrine in Islāmic ijmā‘
  18. Chapter 5: Mukhtār al-Thaqāfī, the Enlightened Messianic Activist: The Shī‘ite Insurrection as Political Reaction, Reparation and Revenge
  19. Chapter 6: The Caliphate at a Crossroads:Abū Bakr and the Collusion of the Powerful Classes
  20. Chapter 7: Prophecy and Imāmate: Two Inseparable Metaphysical Realities
  21. Chapter 8: The Wilāyah: The Spiritual and Temporal Authority of the Imāms
  22. Chapter 9: The Imāmate: The Esoteric Inheritance or the Bātin of the Prophet
  23. Conclusions
  24. Bibliography

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