This essay is an assessment of a part of School in the Process of Evolution within which a historical analysis has been conducted of “Shiites’ belief about the necessity of armed rebellion of Imams (AS)” and some aspects of the “belief in Mahdawyat [Messianism]”. In this part of the book the aforementioned issues are finally considered (or suggested to the reader to be) influential in the evolution of “Shiites’ Imamology”. In this critique the inconsistency of the book’s claims shall be demonstrated by showing the incompatibility of reason and claim and rereading the indicated documents in a part of footnotes (the part regarding the Imamate period of Imam Sadeq (AS), pp. 35-37) while some methodological errors in the compilation of book are mentioned.
-, -. (2012). A Critique of the Evolutionary
Hypothesis of Shiite Imamate
An Examination of the Documents of
"School in the Process of Evolution”
The Part Regarding the Imamate Period
of Imam Sadeq (AS). Emamat Pajouhi, 2(8), 207-246.
MLA
- -. "A Critique of the Evolutionary
Hypothesis of Shiite Imamate
An Examination of the Documents of
"School in the Process of Evolution”
The Part Regarding the Imamate Period
of Imam Sadeq (AS)". Emamat Pajouhi, 2, 8, 2012, 207-246.
HARVARD
-, -. (2012). 'A Critique of the Evolutionary
Hypothesis of Shiite Imamate
An Examination of the Documents of
"School in the Process of Evolution”
The Part Regarding the Imamate Period
of Imam Sadeq (AS)', Emamat Pajouhi, 2(8), pp. 207-246.
VANCOUVER
-, -. A Critique of the Evolutionary
Hypothesis of Shiite Imamate
An Examination of the Documents of
"School in the Process of Evolution”
The Part Regarding the Imamate Period
of Imam Sadeq (AS). Emamat Pajouhi, 2012; 2(8): 207-246.
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