The Life and Religion of Muhammad 'Allama Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi

The Life and Religion of Muhammad by 'Allama Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi The Zahra Trust 1982 Translated by Rev. James. L Merrick Softcover 483 pages Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge. A well read copy. Mohammad Baqir Majlisi (b.1628-29 – d.1699) known as Allamah Majlisi, was a renowned and very powerful Iranian Twelver Shia Scholar and Thinker, during the Safavid era. He has been described as "one of the most powerful and influential Shi'a ulema of all time", whose "policies and actions reoriented Twelver Shia'ism in the direction that it was to develop from his day on."