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Shi‘a Sects (Kitab Firaq al-Shi‘a) Sistani Among the topics investigated byExperts on Islam consider Kitab Firaq al Shia a seminal work for two main reasons: First, it is the earliestwork on the subject that has survived in its entirety. Second, it is the earliest textbook that provides an Imami Shia perspective on the differences among, and origins of, the Islamic sects including a full exposition of various sects within Shiism. Since the German scholar, Helmut Ritter, published the first Arabic edition of the book in 1931,