{"id":71475,"date":"2020-12-06T10:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T10:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71475"},"modified":"2020-12-07T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:07:07","slug":"a-history-of-the-shia-people-book-by-sayyid-saeed-akhtar-rizvi-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71475-a-history-of-the-shia-people-book-by-sayyid-saeed-akhtar-rizvi-released\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A History of the Shi&#8217;a People\u2019 book by Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-06_15-50-23-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-06_15-50-23-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-06_15-50-23-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-06_15-50-23-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-06_15-50-23-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-06_15-50-23.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>A new book titled, \u2018A History of the Shi\u2019a People\u2019 by Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi was released.<br>The book deals with the history of the Shia Ithna-\u2018Ashari Muslim community from the early days of Islam up to present day.<br>Starting with a brief note on the origin of the Shia faith, the book describes the early days of its followers\u2019 history from the 7th-11th century. From there, it focuses on regions; beginning with the history of the Shias of Iran, Iraq &amp; Afghanistan, reviewed together due to the multiple layers of mutual influences among them on socio-religious and political levels. Then it moves on to the Arab Middle-East &amp; Turkey; followed by the east, to the Indian Sub-Continent; and then to Sub-Saharan Africa; followed by a review of Shia communities in South-East Asia, Australia, and the Commonwealth of Independent States of the former USSR.<br>The book ends with a brief look at the emerging Shia communities in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book titled, \u2018A History of the Shi\u2019a People\u2019 by Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi was released.The book deals with the history of the Shia Ithna-\u2018Ashari Muslim community from the early days of Islam up to present day.Starting with a brief note on the origin of the Shia faith, the book describes the early days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,31],"tags":[2068,2069],"class_list":["post-71475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-news","tag-a-history-of-the-shi","tag-sayyid-saeed-akhtar-rizvi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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