Introduction and Brief Review of the Book Aqidat al-Shi'a معرفی و نقد

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Introduction and General Review of the Book The Shiite Creed (23) Dr. Hassan Hosseinzadeh Shanehchi Assistant Professor at Islamic Azad University, Dehaqan Branch Abstract Keywords: Introduction One of the fields that Orientalists, especially in recent centuries, have paid great attention to is the subject of Shiism from its historical and doctrinal dimensions; so much so that numerous books on this subject have been written by Western researchers; however, among works related to Shiite studies, research concerning Twelver Shiism has been less frequent compared to similar works on other Shiite sects; as Edward Browne, the English researcher and Iranologist, points out this deficiency and says: "We have always been in need of a comprehensive and authoritative book on Shiite beliefs in any European language" (Donaldson, 1410, p. 102 and 158); for example, regarding the Shiite belief concerning the Imamate of Hazrat Ali عليه السلام, he says: his position in Shiite narrations is shrouded in a halo of myths; then, in order to provide evidence of these myths, he brings narrations from Sunni books such as Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd, Tarikh al-Khulafa by al-Suyuti, and Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and even refers to the Encyclopedia of Islam and a book by Wensinck, a Dutch orientalist (ibid. In the chapter related to Imam Ali عليه السلام regarding the emergence of the Shiite belief based on the premise that Imamate is a divine right for him, he provides detailed information about the personality of Abdullah bin Saba and cites the writings of Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari, Mirkhwand, Wellhausen, and Nicholson in this regard (Donaldson, 1410, p.