the Muʿtazila

Shia Islam (12): Succession to the Prophet Ayatullāh Jaʿfar Subḥānī With the exclusion of the ʿAjārida sect of the Khawārij and Ḥatim al-ʿĀsamm of the Muʿtazila, all Muslims agree that after the Prophet there must be a leader…

Chapter 11: The principal beliefs of Shīʿa A brief study of the history of religions and sects would reveal that all the sects of Islam were produced as the result of theological debates that took place in the first three centuries of…