Critical rewiew of book " Loyalty and Leadership in an early Islamic Society" and its translations

Islamic Society in the 3rd and 4thHijri centuries are important due to the dominance of the Buyid dynasty, Iranian and Shiite rulers in the Sunni Abbasid caliphate system and so, the matter received the consideration of Iranian scholars and Orientalists and Islamologists. The research and compilation about this period of history requires the accurate recognition of the Islamic society, Iranian society as well as the views of Sunnis and Shiites. For this reason, the Mottahedeh book, which takes approaches aboutthe two components of Loyalty and leadership, emphasizing the Buyid, deserves translation and critique. This critique is also about the content of the book in the original language and since the translation of the book is important in the proper transmission of the concepts of history, culture and the correction of the deficienciesin the original text,it evaluates two existing translations of the book by matching it with the original text as well as adapting the two translation texts.  Result shows that, lack of proper cognitionabout the Islamic society, the Iranian customs and culture, and the Buyid encountered problems in the text,despite the innovation and creativity in choosing social discussions. Although the translators of the first translation have not provided enough explanations to address the deficienciesof the content of the book, due to their consistency with the scientific expertise of the author, they have been able to provide more reliable translation.