Peshawar Nights ( Shab-hā-ye Pishāwar) is a written firsthand account by Sultan al-Wa'izin Shirazi ("Prince of Preachers from Shiraz"), recalling ten days of dialogues between two Sunni scholars and a Shia author about major topics relating to Shia Islam, which took place in Peshawar (now in Pakistan, which, at the time, was part of British India) beginning on 27 January 1927 and left some descendants in the city of Peshawar. The book was originally written in Persian and published in Tehran and has subsequently been translated into several languages, the first English edition was published in 1977 in Pakistan. Background It recounts a public debate between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims, that took place in the city of Peshawar in the North-West Frontier Province of British India (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) for ten nights beginning on 27 January 1927. The two principal participants from the Sunni side were Hafiz Muhammad Rashid and Sheikh Abdus Salam from Kabul. The discussions were attended by approximately 200 people (Shia and Sunni Muslims) and were recorded by four reporters published following morning in the local newspapers. According to the preface: English editions The title of the book is a translation of the original Persian title, Shabhaye-Peshawar. Sinc e its first translation, printing & publishing in English, it been re-translated, re-printed & re-published across the world several times. A few of the major English publications available are: A digest by Peermahomed Ebrahim Trust, Pakistan from the 1970s A translation by Hamid Quinlan and Charles Ali Campbell, published by Ansariyan Publications, Iran, from the 1990s From the UK in the 2000s Multiple times in the 2010s: In 2013, two parts; Part 1 & Part 2 In February 2014 In September 2014, two parts; Part 1 & Part 2 In July 2015, two parts; Part 1 & Part 2 In November 2015, two parts; Part 1 & Part 2 In 2017, two parts; Part 1 & Part 2 In 2018 Translations in other languages Apart from English, the book has been translated into several other languages from original Persian. It is available in: Persian () English () Urdu () Arabic () Azerbaijani ()) French () Spanish () Indonesian (, ). In Indonesian, it was initially translated as Mazhab Syia and was reprinted in 2009 under the title Mazhab Pecinta Keluarga Nabi: Kajian al-Quran dan Sunnah. Book's coverage The book is notable, it has not only been reprinted