statements of Muhammad on Ali are examined in,
among others, Momen, Introduction to Shi’i Islam
and Jafri, Origins and Early Development.
People of the Cloak: See Jafri, Origins and Early
Development and Momen, Introduction to Shi’i Islam.
Nahj al-Balagha: Translated into English by Sayed Ali
Reza as Nahjul Balagha = Peak of Eloquence:
Sermons, Letters and Sayings of Imam Ali ibn Abu
Talib (Bombay: Imam Foundation, 1989). Shia
scholars refer to this collection as “the brother of
the Quran.”
44 Al-Fahisha: This usage is discussed in Spellberg,
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past and noted in
Fischer, Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution.Chapter 4
time and place ... not in dispute: Jafri, in Origins and
Early Development, notes that although Ibn Ishaq,
al-Tabari, and Ibn Saad did not record the events at
Ghadir Khumm, “as far as the authenticity of the
event itself is concerned, it has hardly ever been
questioned or denied even by the most conservative
Sunni authorities, who have themselves recorded
it.” Jafri gives details of those records.