Hadith al-Iftiraqis a famous hadith attributed to Prophet Muhammad (s) in many Shi‘i and Sunni hadith collections, as well as in heresiographical sources. Among many books written by contemporary heresiographers, few have failed to mention this hadith in their writings. Many Shi‘i and Sunni traditionists have collected the traditions that deal with the future of the Muslim ummah under such titl...

A disproportionate emphasis on the work of Western European and North American scholars has been a feature investigations into development academic study religion. This article seeks to examine how non-European intellectual, Syrian Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī (1876–1953), produced transmitted knowledge about religions in his encyclopedic historical topography ‘Greater Syria’—the Khiṭaṭ al-Shām (1925–192...