Translated, Edited, and Annotated by: John Andrew Morrow
With a Foreword by: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
The book is the first English edition of an article which was published in an academic journal in 1994. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that Shi'ite Islam is a genuine, legal and spiritual expression of traditional Islam, both in orthodoxy and orthopraxy. The goal of this book, as the writer says is to manifest that Shi'ite Islam is the living expression of original Muhammadan Islam, perfectly preserved by his successors, the Holy Imams from the Prophetic Household.