Document Type : Original Article
Author
Member of the High School of Education, Daneshgah, Noushirwani Sanati, Babylon
Abstract
One of the researchers who has studied the history of Shiite thought is Seyyed Hossein Modarresi Tabataba'i, the author of the School in the Process of Evolution. The author of the book, based on his own intellectual environment and space and under the influence of the principles and methods of modern historiography, has begun to rewrite Shiite history, in which the presence of sacred matters and superhuman personalities is less visible in this history; in this way, by bringing secondary sources and selectively choosing historical sources and eliminating proven preconceptions in theology in discussing the comprehensive knowledge of the Imam, the infallibility of the Imam, and the Imam's authority on earth, etc., and ignoring many of the opposing historical sources, he has tried to draw a typical face of the Imam; the most important methodological criticism of the author of the book is how and why he has taken steps based on the method of modern historiography, while Western historiography does not make room for sacred matters and divine personalities in history; therefore, this research, which was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method with textual investigation; It aims to state, with rational and narrative evidence, that the method in which the author believes and on which he built the foundations of his theory is distorted, and that this type of historiography has a deep gap and gap with the theoretical foundations of Shiite Islam.
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