A Shi'i–Sunni dialogue

A Shī‘ī–Sunnī Dialogue, also translated as The Right Path, is a book written by the Lebanese Shī‘ī cleric and religious authority ‘Abdul-Ḥusayn Sharaf ad-Dīn al-Mūsawī in Arabic as al-Murāja‘āt (Arabic: المراجعات), then it has been translated to more than ten languages including English.

According to the author, he visited Egypt on 1913, and met Salīm al-Bishrī, who was the head of al-Azhar University, and had long discussions with him regarding controversial issues between Shī‘īs and Sunnīs.^[1] The outcome of their discussions and long correspondence resulted in this book, which is highly recognized and circulated among Shī‘īs.^[1]

The book takes the form of a collection of a series of 112 written communications between ‘Abdul-Ḥusayn Sharaf ad-Dīn al-Mūsawī (signing with the first letter of his name 'Sh') and Salīm al-Bishrī (signing with the letter 'S') (the letters sh and s also possibly allude to the Shī‘ī–Sunnī nature of the dialogue).

The book has been thoroughly criticised by Sunnī Muslims such as in the books Al-Bayyinaat fi-r-Rawddu 'alaa Abaatweeli-l-Murāwja‘āt (2 volumes) by Mahmood Al-Zu'bee in Arabic and Shattering the Mirage: A Response to Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi’s al-Murāwja‘āt^[2] in English which is still in progress.

• It is translated from the Arabic by Yasin T. al-Jibouri and published in May 1994 by the Imam Husayn (as) Islamic Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Ansariyan Publications published it in 2001 then in 2005 then in 2008 ^[3][4]
• World Federation of KSI Muslim Communities^[5]

• Peshawar Nights

• Full text Archived 2013-09-04 at the Wayback Machine on Al-islam.org
• Full text on najaf.org