Editing Shiʿa (section)

==Bibliography==

*Classic histories such as Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī's Tārīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk (History of the Prophets and the Kings) (2d ed., 10 vols., Cairo, 1979; translated into English as The History of al-Ṭabarī, Albany: State University of New York, 1985–), Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Yaʿqūbī's Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī (Yaʿqūbī's History) (2 vols., Beirut, 1980), and Abū Ḥanīfah Aḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawārī's Al-akhbār al-tiwāl (The General History), edited by ʿAbd al-Munʿim Amir (Cairo, 1960) give historical accounts of the political events and religious thought of the first three centuries of Islam.
*Some Shīʿī and Sunni works on heresies are Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ashʿarī's Maqālāt al-Islāmīyin wa-ikhtilāf al-musallin (Islamic Treatises and Controversies of the Worshippers), edited by Muhammad Muḥyīʿ al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd (2d rev. ed., Cairo, 1969), Abū Fatḥ al-Shahrastānī's Al-milal wa-al-nihal (Sects and Creeds), edited by Muhammad Sayyid Kīlānī (2 vols., Beirut, 1982), and al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā Nawbakhti's Firaq al-Shiʿa (Shīʿī Sects; 2d ed., Beirut, 1984); the first two give the Sunni account and the third the Shiʿa view of various Shīʿī sects which emerged in the first two centuries of Islam.
*Theological and creedal works of the Shiʿa include Shaykh Ṣadūq ibn Bābūyah al-Qummī's Risālāt al-iʿtiqād (Treatises on the Creed, translated by A. A. A. Fyzee as A Shiʿite Creed, London, 1942), Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥillī's Al-Bāb al-Ḥādī ʿAshar (The Eleventh Chapter, translated by W. M. Miller as A Treatise on the Principles of Shīʿ Theology, London, 1928), and Muhammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʿī's Shiʿa dār Islām (edited and translated by Seyyed Hossein Nasr as Shiʿite Islam, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1975); the first two provide the most authentic Shīʿī creed by scholars of the tenth century and the last a philosophical exposition by a modern scholar.
*Several modern studies include Syed Husain M. Jafri'sOrigins and Early Development of Shiʿah Islam (London: Longman, 1979), which examines the development of Shīʿī thought in historical perspective until the time of Imam Jaʿfar; and Moojan Momen's An Introduction to Shiʿi Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shiʿism (New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1987), which mainly gives political and dynastic history up to modern times.
*After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the 2003 Iraq War that freed that country's Shīʿī clergy from Baʿth regime constraints, several useful books were published on the mobilization of Persian and Arab Shiʿa, among them Robert Gleave, Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shīʿī Jurisprudence (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000); Kafkzli Seyyed Javad Miri Meynagh, Unknown: An Imami Shia's Quest for Enlightening Salvation in the Age of Major Occultation (New York: Xlibris, 2003); Raza Ali Hasan, Grieving Shias (Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Sheep Meadow Press, 2006); [[Yitzhak Nakash]], Reaching for Power: The Shiʿa in the Modern Arab World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (New York: [[Augustus Richard Norton|Norton]], 2007); and Jaʿfar Sobhani and Reza Shah-Kazemi, Doctrines of Shiʿi Islam (Qom, Iran: Imam Sadeq Institute, 2003).