Home›Sources›Al-Shaykh al-Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, The Book of Guidance, trans. I.K.A. HowardSourcesAl-Shaykh al-Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, The Book of Guidance, trans. I.K.A. HowardScholarly translation, medieval primary textCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Al-Shaykh al-Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, The Book of Guidance, trans. I.K.A. Howard." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/al-mufid-kitab-al-irshad-howard.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Al-Shaykh al-Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, The Book of Guidance, trans. I.K.A. Howard. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/al-mufid-kitab-al-irshad-howardCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-al-shaykh-al-mufid-kitab-al-irshad-the-b, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Al-Shaykh al-Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, The Book of Guidance, trans. I.K.A. Howard}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/al-mufid-kitab-al-irshad-howard}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXShaykh al-Mufid's Kitab al-Irshad (The Book of Guidance), composed in the eleventh century, is the classical Twelver Shia account of the lives of the twelve Imams, and I.K.A. Howard's translation for the Muhammadi Trust makes the text available in English. Its strength is that it is the standard reference within the Shia tradition itself for the Imams' biographies, drawing on earlier collections of reports. Its limit is that it is a devotional and doctrinal work written from within the tradition it describes, centuries after the earliest Imams it covers, rather than an independent historical study.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (13 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2The standard classical Shia biographical source for the Imams, in a scholarly published translation, weighed against its status as a devotional work of the tradition it describes rather than an independent historical analysis.NotesWell-attestedScholarly translation of al-Mufid's classical Twelver Shia biography of the twelve Imams, the Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.CitationAuthorWell-attestedal-Shaykh al-Mufid (trans. I.K.A. Howard)PublisherWell-attestedThe Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern IrelandPublication YearWell-attested1981Source TypeWell-attestedPrimary text in translationClaims Backed By This Source (13 claims)This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Figures, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 general references.Well-attested10FiguresHasan ibn AliHusayn ibn AliMusa al-KadhimSourcesAl-Shaykh al-Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, The Book of Guidance, trans. I.K.A. HowardGeneral References3FiguresHasan ibn AliHusayn ibn AliMusa al-KadhimComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year