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50 Ibid.
51 Today the books on Shi'ism, those treasures of the ancients, are
scattered and many are inaccessible. When one thinks about all the
scholarly libraries on Islam still to be built, about the research on
Muslim learning which hardly exists, about all the scholarly infrastructure
that no one takes the trouble to set up and support, one realizes
to what an extent the Muslim heritage is hostage to political opportunism.
All the politicians speak in the name of this heritage and try to
usurp the role of the intellectuals in its name. However, none of
them dream of investing a part of their oil fortunes in saving it and
systematizing it for coming generations in comfortable libraries with
the latest technology or in cultural centres where film-makers, theatre
men and women, teachers, and writers of books for children and adults
could come for inspiration and archival research at little cost and
without spending hours waiting at the few existing libraries, which are
neglected and deserted by the experts, but which are all we have at
the moment.
52 Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, vol. 3, p. 411; Hanbali, Shazarat, vol. 3, p.
346.
53 Ibid.
54 Hanbali, Shazarat, vol. 3, p. 346. While Hanbali speaks of Isma'iliyya,
Ibn Khallikan speaks of Imamiyya, which is another name for the
Shi'ite doctrine centred on the idea of the imam.
55 Hanbali, Shazarat, vol. 3, p. 347; Zarkali, A'lam, vol. 4, p. 328;
'Alawi, Tarikh Hadramawt, p. 340.
56 Hanbali, Shazarat, vol. 3, p. 347.
57 Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Baghdadi, Kitab al-mukhabbar (Beirut: Al-
Maktab al-Tijari, n.d.), p. 307.
58 Ibn Sa'd, Al-tabaqat al-kubra (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1980), vol. 1, pp.
216ff. See also Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 2, pp. 230ff.
59 Hanbali, Shazarat, vol. 3, p. 347.
60 Ibid.
61 Ibid.
62 Ibn al-Athir, Kamil, vol. 8, p. 363.
63 Ibid.
64 Kamil, Yaman, p. 168.
65 Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, vol. 3, pp. 412, 413; Hanbali, Shazarat, vol.
3, pp. 347, 348.
66 S. Lane-Poole, The Mohammadan Dynasties: Chronological and
Genealogical Tables with Historical Introductions (London: Constable,
1894), pp. 89ff.
67 Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, vol. 3, p. 413; Hanbali, Shazarat, vol. 3, p.
347.
68 Kamil, Yaman, p. 169.
69 Ibid.