Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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I have given a brief introduction to the various sects and denominations
which appear in the book.
I have likewise given brief details regarding places and cities and have
explained the less common words which appear in the discussion.
10. I have delayed the detailed descriptions of the various references and
sources till its bibliography due to my distaste for repetition and the
elongation of the study.
Furthermore, although I have presented the manner of the study, but I am quite
sure that treading the path accordingly is not going to be easy. Rather there will
be a number of difficulties which will be encountered. Most prominent among
them is the following:
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This topic has not been isolatedly studied and academically researched in
a way that would make it easy for the researcher to tread the path.
There are no references which specifically provide information regarding
Naṣb wherefrom the researcher can draw his information directly, and
whereupon he can rely when discussing various aspects of the topic. Hence
one can only learn of the various positions and beliefs of the Nawāṣib by
way of an array of means and sources.
Undertaking a study of this nature demands the exertion of ones
capabilities and application of ones strengths. This is in order to have an
encompassing idea of the sources pertaining to the various spheres of
knowledge and to undertake a lengthy journey through the commentaries
of ḥadīth, the transmitter biographies, the specific and general books of
heresiography and the sources of history, all of this in an effort to put
together what is scattered in different places and to link everything which
has some sort of relationship to the topic.
Moving on, the choicest and the purest of praises all belong to Allah E Who
has favoured me by enabling me to study this topic and complete it. To Him
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