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H.S.] For an account of Muhammadan sects, see section viii of the Preliminary Dissertation in Sale's Koran, entitled, 'Of the Principal Sects among the Muhammadans; and of those who have pretended to Prophecy among the Arabs, in or since the Time of Muhammad'; and T.
P.Hughes, _Dictionary of Islam_ (1885).

The chief sects of the Sunnis, or Traditionists, are four in number.

'The principal sects of the Shias are five, which are subdivided into an almost innumerable number.' The court of the kings of Oudh was Shia.

In most parts of India the Sunni faith prevails.
The relation between genius and insanity is well expressed by Dryden (_Absalom and Achitopfel_): Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
The treatise of Professor Cesare Lombroso, entitled _The Man of Genius_ (London edition, 1891), is devoted to proof and illustration of the proposition that genius is 'a special morbid condition'.