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Readers to whom the Arabic original is inaccessible now have a serviceable translation of this valuable work at their disposal.’\u003cbr clear=\"none\"\u003e\u003cbr clear=\"none\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Hamid Algar, \u003c\/strong\u003eProfessor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Word from the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ‘This is a summary of the accounts of [the Battle of] Basra, the reason for the civil discord there and the doctrines of the theoreticians in judging the civil discord there.  We have reported them with brevity. The reports which we have presented are on the authority of the non-Shī‘a narrators to the exclusion of the Shī‘a narrators. 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