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The origins and early development of Shiʻa Islam / Syed Husain Mohammad Jafri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jafri, Husain M.
- Series:
- Millennium series
- The Millennium (Series)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shīʻah--History.
- Shīʻah.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 332 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This book reconstructs the development of an Islamic ideal in the form of Shi'ism It traces the Shi'a response to this ideal, from its origins among a group of the Prophet's Companions until the Imamate of Ja'far as-Sadiq, by which time all the fundamental elements of Shi'ism had appeared.
- Notes:
- Series title from jacket.
- Originally published: London : Longman, 1979.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195793870
- OCLC:
- 59549658
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