Rahat al-arwah wa-mu?nis al-ashbah

In Islam, Twelver-Shi?ism is based on the claim that the rightful successors to the Prophet were his son-in-law ?Ali b. Abi Talib (d. 40/661) and eleven of his descendants through his marriage with Fatima, ending with the grand occultation of the twelfth and last imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi in 329/940. In the centuries following the occultation of the last imam, there emerged a special type of hagiogr...