- Peshawar Nights
"Peshawar Nights" is a Shi'a book by
Sultanu'l-Wa'izin Shirazi [ [http://www.al-islam.org/peshawar/ Peshawar Nights ] ] ("Prince of Preachers from Shiraz") [http://www.al-islam.org/peshawar/preface.html Translators' Preface] ] claiming to recount a public debate between Shi'aMuslim s and Sunni Muslims. The debate is said to have taken place in the city ofPeshawar in the Soba-e-Serhed (North West Frontier) province ofPakistan beginning on 27 January 1927. [http://www.al-islam.org/peshawar/preface.html Translators' Preface] ]History
According to the preface:
:"A condition of the dialogue was that only sources acceptable to both sects would be cited. The dialogue was held in Persian, commonly understood in the city of Peshawar. The transcript, made by four reporters and published in the newspapers daily, was published in book form in Teheran and soon became a classic authority in the East. The present work is based on the fourth edition, published in Teheran in 1971, the year in which Sultanu'l-Wa'izin died at the age of 75 [The [http://www.al-islam.org/peshawar/preface.html Translators' Preface] stats: The death of Sultanu'l-Wa'izin in 1971 is mentioned by
Michael M.J. Fischer in - p.178,Harvard University Press 1980.]unni view
Sunni Muslims claim that this book is a Persian forgery, first printed in
Teheran ,Iran . They say that there is no proof that any such debate ever took place in Peshawar, and that internal evidence from the book disproves its historicity. [ [http://www.ansar.org/english/beshawer.htm A Sunni refutation of "Peshawar Nights"] , [http://islamicweb.com/beliefs/cults/beshawer.htm Another Sunni refutation] ] . Sunnis argue that this is a fictional narration.hi'a view
The Shi'a view it as a good collection of arguments to consider in Shi'a-Sunni argumentations, and as historically authentic. The Sunni denial is considered as an attempt to dismiss the facts of history. Another view proposed by Shi'as is that regardless of whether Peshawar Nights is a forgery or not, the arguments put forth by the protagonists of the book cannot be denied. the only reasons sunnis deny it is due to the fact that the shia side emerged victorious
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List of Shi'a books References
External links
* [http://www.al-islam.org/peshawar/ Read online] on [http://www.al-islam.org/ Al-islam.org]
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