Shia and the Fall of Baghdad

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Introduction   In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful All praises are due to Allah, the Alternator of the night and day, the One who alternates the times, and the One who crushes empires. May salutations and peace be on His choicest, selected, and chosen creation, upon his family and Companions, and upon all those who are on his […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter One The catastrophe of Baghdad and the collapse of the caliphate The collapse of Baghdad into the hands of the Moguls was not just the collapse of a great city or the collapse of a capital of a country, rather it was the collapse of that symbolic sign which as long as it remained acted as a means of honour for Muslims […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter Two Nasir al Din al Tusi and Ibn al ‘Alqami   After mentioning these horrific incidents, we now come to the objective of this book which is the role of Nasir al Din al Tusi and Ibn al ‘Alqami in these happenings and their level of commitment to the creed they adhered to. It was none other than the creed of the […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter Three   Introduction Of the various names for the Shia creed is the name al Imamiyyah, and this is due to their belief, “Appointing an Imam is from the fundamentals of Iman”. Hence, they have been named al Ithna ‘Ashariyyah due to their belief in Twelve infallible Imams. The driving factor of this creed is the declaration to establish the leadership of […]

  BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Chapter 4 The accusations against al Tusi and Ibn al ‘Alqami   These two individuals face multiple accusations in relation to their participation in the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate. Some people have argued the accusations and attempted to justify the actions of these two individuals or deny whatever possible, while believing the reason of these accusations to be mere enmity and […]