Truth-Revealing Mirror: A Work in Defense of Shiism in India

One of the valuable works on Shiism in India is Āiine-ye Haqnomā (Truth-Revealing Mirror) by Najaf-Ali Fayzābādi. This book was written in response to Aqā Ahmad Behbahāni's remarks in his Merāt-al-Ahwāl-e Jahān-nomā and the treatise entitled Tanbih-al-Ghāfelin. In both of these works, Aqā Ahmad expresses doubts regarding the scientific competence and jurisprudential judgment (Ijtihād) of Sayyed Ali Nasirābādi, the only mojtahid of the time in India, openly denouncing the scientific mediocrity of a number of other Indian ulamā. Aiine has been written by way of rejecting Ahmad Aqā's statements.