Shiìte Islam
By: by 'Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i. Translated from the Persian and edited with an introd. and notes by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Persian studies series : -- no. 5
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng; per
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Shiàh.
Work titles: Shiàh dar Islam.
Description: Despite a growing interest in the last hundred years in both orientalism and comparative religions, and the fact that there are over fifty million Shi'a Muslims, until now there has been no thorough and objective study of that part of Islam called Shi'ism for Western scholars. The present work provides a clear account of the origin, history, and doctrines of an important sector of the Muslim religious community. It is written by a distinguished leader of that community, who, in addition to possessing a thorough knowledge of its traditional history and literature, presents its rational-philosophic, traditional-legal, and gnostic-mystical elements with warmth and sympathy.
Notes: Translation of Shiàh dar Islam.

Bibliography: p. 239-244.