| Book Title | Peshawar Nights |
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Peshawar Nights by Sultanu’l-Wa’izin Shirazi Translated from the Persian by Hamid Quinlan and Charles Ali Campbell
PESHAWAR NIGHTS
The present work is based on the transcript of a dialogue between several Sunni divines and a 31 year-old Shi’ite scholar, al-‘Abd al-Fani Muhammad al-Musawi Sultanu’l- Wa’izin, of Shiraz, Iran, held over a period of ten nights in Peshawar, India, beginning on 27 January 1927.
The dialogues were a model of mutual respect, and in spite of the seriousness of the subject and the presence of an audience of some 200, there was no breach of decorum.
The author refers to himself throughout the book as “Da’i,” that is, one who prays for or invokes a blessing upon someone, translated here as “Well- Wisher.”
His success is indicated by the fact that at the end of the dialogue one of his Sunni opponents and five other dignitaries in the audience publicly acknowledged their conversion to the Shia sect.
A condition of the dialogue was that only sources acceptable to both sects would be cited. The dialogue was held in Farsi, 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 [1].
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