Download or read book The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba', the Saba'iya and Early Shi'ism Between Myth and History written by Sean William Anthony and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of Shi'ism as the earliest sectarian manifestation of the Islamic religion remains on the more perplexing issues for modern historians of early Islam; this study attempts to address this problem through a fresh approach to the most prominent legend concerning the emergence Shi'i dogma.