Featuring over 200 key thinkers and spanning three centuries, this is a comprehensive survey of early ShiYi literature. For each figure, the author offers a summary of their life and achievements, before continuing to outline their literary and schol ...
Featuring over 200 key thinkers and spanning three centuries, this is a comprehensive survey of early ShiYi literature. For each figure, the author offers a summary of their life and achievements, before continuing to outline 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.
Hossein Modarressi is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Princeton; Senior Scholar of Shi'ite Studies in the School of the International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and Golestaneh Fellow in Islamic Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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