INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Madelung specializes in Islam and Shia studies and has written about 200 books and essays about these subjects throughout his career
His introduction of Shia to the West is also noteworthy.His view in comparison with other orientalists is more knowledgeable and fair but
approach of previous prophets in choosing the successor which states that they usually tend to choose one among their relatives as their
successor and had this idea that through those verses it could be concluded that the Holy Prophet was concerned with the severity of this
matter and had liked to choose a person among his family to be his successor, but before he was able to do so, his death arrived suddenly
Madelung had when writing the book
He argued that most Western historians mistrust Islamic sources of early Islam, which have been characterized as old myths
He sought to review the analysis of these events based on the most relevant sources of the period while maintaining a balance between
