Shīʻite Islām
Subtitle: orthodoxy or heterodoxy?
By: Luis Alberto Vittor ; translator and editor, John Andrew Morrow ; prologue, Sayyid Muhammad Rizvī ; preface, Barbara Castleton
Contributors: Morrow, John A. (John Andrew), 1971-
Edition: 2nd emended and amplified ed.
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Qum, Islamic Republic of Iran
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789644388422
Subjects: Doctrines; Shīʻah; Shiites; Islam
Other titles: Shīʻah ḥaqīqah am bidʻah
Work titles: Islam shiita
Notes: English translation, revision, and annotation of author's article: El islam shiita : ¿ortodoxia or heterodoxia?, originally published in Epimeleia : revista de estudios sobre la tradición in 1994.

LC copy gift of the translator.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards a definition of heterodoxy in Islām; title: Towards a definition of Shīʻism; title: al-Ijmāʻ or scholarly consensus: an accepted method for controlling heresy?; title: The infallible divine authority: source of law and doctrine in Islamic ijmāʻ; title: Mukhtār al-Thaqāfī the enlightened messianic activist: the Shīʻite insurrection as political reaction, reparation and revenge; title: The caliphate at a crossroads: Abū Bakr and the collusion of the powerful classes; title: Prophethood and imāmate: two inseparable metaphysical realities; title: The wilāyah: the spiritual and temporal authority of the imāms; title: The imāmate: the esoteric inheritance or the bāṭin of the prophet; title: Conclusions.