TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Imam Ali’s (AS) Nahj-ul-Balaghah was entirely published in circulation of 1,500 copies by the Culture of Religions Publications, a Chinese publisher affiliated to China’s Religions Organization, in late September, announced the publisher on Friday.

The book has been translated into Chinese by Mahmoud Shams al-Din, a Chinese Muslim and retired professor of University for Religious Minorities.

Shams al-Din has translated the second Shia holy book from the versions compiled by Ibn Ab al-Hadid and Mohammad Abdo.