Shiite Islam: Orthodoxy or Heterodoxy?

In this text, Luis Alberto Vittor clearly explains the essence of Shi'ite Islam on its own. Without the need of putting down any other sect of Islam, Shi'ite Islam can be understood truly for what its basic fundamentals and teachings.

• Transliteration
• Dedication
• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Exordium
• Opening Remarks
• Foreword
• Commendatory Preface
• Translator’s Preface
• Acknowledgments and Observations
• Genesis of the Work
• Author’s Preface
• Introduction: The Issue at Hand
• Chapter 1: Towards a Definition of Heterodoxy in Islām
• Chapter 2: Towards a Definition of Shī‘ism
• Chapter 3: Al-Ijmā‘ or Scholarly Consensus: An Accepted Method for Controlling Heresy?
• Chapter 4: The Infallible Divine Authority: Source of Law and Doctrine in Islāmic ijmā‘
• Chapter 5: Mukhtār al-Thaqāfī, the Enlightened Messianic Activist: The Shī‘ite Insurrection as Political Reaction, Reparation and Revenge
• Chapter 6: The Caliphate at a Crossroads:Abū Bakr and the Collusion of the Powerful Classes
• Chapter 7: Prophecy and Imāmate: Two Inseparable Metaphysical Realities
• Chapter 8: The Wilāyah: The Spiritual and Temporal Authority of the Imāms
• Chapter 9: The Imāmate: The Esoteric Inheritance or the Bātin of the Prophet
• Conclusions
• Bibliography