A Book Review of Donaldson's "The Shi'ite Religion"

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This is a book review of Dwight Donaldson's 1933 book "The Shi'ite Religion." The book provides an historical account of this sect of Islam from its birth at the beginning of Islam, and grounding during the first major civil war. The paper gives a brief account of historical, political and military evolution behind the Shi'ite religion. It also looks at its doctrines, practices and beliefs.

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"Dwight Donaldson's early 1933 "The Shi'ite Religion" is a comprehensive account of the history of the Shi'ite religion, in its heartland in Iraq and Persia. It covers three important aspects of the history of the Shi'ite religion: its political and doctrinal chronology, detailed descriptions of practices and places within the Shi'ite world and explanations of the doctrinal belief of the Shi'ite. The latter touches on the twelve Imams, the Wakils, other important religious figures and offshoots of Shi'a Islam such as the Isma'ilis and the Baha'i."

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