Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

The Seventh Cause: The Effects of the Quṣāṣ (story tellers) 178
The Eighth Cause: Love for the World 180
The Ninth Cause: The Revolts of the ʿAlawīs 182
The Second category: Implausible causes 183
The First Cause: Competition between the Banū Hāshim and the
Banū Umayyah which existed in the days of Jāhiliyyah (ignorance). 183
The Second Cause: Killing of fathers and relatives 190
The Third Discussion - The Loci of Naṣb 195
The first category: Areas where the excommunicating Nawāṣib existed,
i.e. the Khawārij 199
The Khawārij in the East 199
The Khawārij in the West 206
The Second Category: Areas where Nawāṣib other than the Khawārij
existed. 218
The Nawāṣib in the East 218
Nawāṣib in the West 229
The Fourth Discussion - The Efforts of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah
in Refuting them 227
The First Category: 236
1. Narrating the merits of ʿAlī I and his household: 236
2. Authoring books regarding the merits of ʿAlī I and the
Ahl al-Bayt and their rights 240
The Second Category: Their Efforts in Countering the Detractors of
ʿAlī I and the Ahl al-Bayt 243
1. Narrating Aḥādīth which condemn the Khawārij and exhort
fighting them 244
2. Debating the Khawārij and Proving them Wrong In their Stances 246
3. Fighting the Khawārij 248
4. Condemning the Detractors of ʿAlī I and Rebutting their Claims: 249
5. Not Narrating from the Nawāṣib 263
The Third Sub-Chapter 271
The First Discussion - The Stance of the Umayyad Khulafāʾ 272
The first perspective: The Umayyads and the non-excommunicating
Nawāṣib. 273
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