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Review title: Informative... But intellectually useless.
Product review: This book is actually a direct translation of a major comparative study by the late shi`i scholar Muhammad Jowwad Maghniyyah. The original work as well as the translation simply list religious rules regarding certain cases and highlights the differences between the Sunni and shi`i scholars.The work rarely mention the reasoning behind any legal rule and the information is very brief. For practicing Muslims, the book can be a great source of information; for non-practicing Muslims, it is useless.The translation is not the best I have seen either, I have read better translations of the same work and this one is the worst.For the kind of information that is contained in the book, any online resource of Islamic law (of the same calible) will be more useful and save more time.
