Shii News – ‘The Rehabilitation of ʿAlī’ – N. Husayn

The Rehabilitation of ʿAlī in Sunnī Ḥadīth and Historiography | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society | Cambridge Core

After the Prophet Muhammad, the most contested figure in Islamic history would be his son-in-law, ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. ʿAlī’s political rivals staunchly denounced him, his family and his partisans as impious criminals in his own lifetime and after his death.

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