REFORM OR REBELLION?
By Shoaib Mazni

<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Reform or Rebellion?<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"> is a scholarly study of the historical and intellectual discourse surrounding the movement of Husayn ibn ‘Ali. It examines the historical reports, intellectual debates, differing views, and scholarly questions associated with this movement through the principles of riwāyah (transmission) and dirāyah (critical analysis), as well as the critical standards governing the evaluation of historical reports.<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Rather than proceeding from predetermined doctrinal assumptions or sectarian interpretations, the study adopts a scholarly perspective in order to re-examine historical and intellectual debates that have remained subjects of discussion in Islamic thought and history for centuries. <span lang="en-PK" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">&nbsp;