Rasa?il-i Farsi-yi Jurjani

From the time that ?Ali b. Musa al-Rida (d. 203/818) was designated to be the successor of al-Ma?mun b. Harun al-Rashid (d. 218/833) and then murdered shortly after that, various Shi?a groups have been at odds with whoever opposed their claim to leadership in Islam. The author of the Persian dissertations contained in the present volume, the otherwise unknown Diya? al-Din b. Sadid al-Din Jurjani (...