Critique of Manhaj Qafari in his work the principles of Shia school of thought

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 پژوهشگر مؤسسه تحقیقاتی دارالإعلام لمدرسة اهل‌البیت و دانشجوی دکتری مدرسی معارف اسلامی پردیس فارابی دانشگاه تهران.
2 دکتری علوم قرآن و حدیث، استاد تمام پردیس فارابی دانشگاه تهران.
Abstract
One of the well advertised recent works written against Shia is a book written by Dr. Nasir Abudollah Ibn Al-qafari by the name of “the principles of orthodox Shia[1] school of thought” he has done an analysis of principles of Shia beliefs and according to what he claims, he has done his analysis by referring to the Shia sources. In the present writing some of the inaccurate methods adopted by the writer to refute Shia beliefs are analyzed. And an overall criticism is directed to the general method of the whole book. Some of the inaccurate methods are the following: distortion, contextomy[2], calumny, using defective narrations, relying on anti Shia sources.



[1]. The Twelvers


[2]. Quoting out of Context
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