SHIITE ISLAM:ORTHODOXY OR HETERODOXY?

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SHIITE ISLAM: ORTHODOXY OR HETERODOXY?

Author: Luis Alberto Vittor

Translated, Edited and Annotated by: John Andrew Morrow

With Forward by: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi

Preface by: Barbara Casteton

Publisher: Ansariyan Publications

First Edition 1427 -1385 - 2006

Sadr Press

ISBN: 964-438-842-9

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to our Master Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi

(May Allah hasten his return)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Luis Alberto Vittor is a Professional Technical Support Person for Scientific Research at the Center for Research into the Philosophy and History of Religion (CIFHIRE) [Centro de Investigaciones en Filosofía e Historia de las Religiones] which forms part of the Department of Philosophy of the School of Graduate Studies at John F. Kennedy University of Argentina. He is a writer, research scholar, lecturer, cultural journalist, and translator. His areas of expertise include medieval literature, religious symbolism, and the philosophy of Eastern religions, particularly in relation to Islam, the Middle East, Asia, and the Far East. He has reading comprehension of classical and Semitic languages.

From 1989 to the present, he has served as a Professional Technical Support Person for Scientific Research. He has collaborated on the Critical Spanish Edition Project of the Coptic Library of Nag Hammadi under the direction of Dr. Francisco García Bazán. This project is sponsored by the National Commission of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), an organism dependent on the Secretary of Science and Technology (SECYT) of the National Government of the Republic of Argentina. As part of his work as a Professional Technical Support Person for Scientific Research, he edits and reviews work in his areas of expertise, including graduate and post-graduate research projects. In his role as Professional Technical Support Person for Scientific Research, he has contributed to many different projects, including, Dr. John A. Morrow’s Allah Lexicon Project at Northern State University’s Department of Modern Languages in South Dakota.

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