professor abolghasem gorji was an outstanding professor and also an eminent jurist of contemporary iran whose valuable works were chiefly on jurisprudence and law and then on the quranic sciences – as his edition of quranic commentary jawami‘ al-jami‘ as well as annotations found in the end of a treatise entitled “criteria of veraciousness of commentaries” can clearly prove. presenting a biogra...

shiism, like other islamic sects, believed in the existence of sharia as a comprehensive guide from allah. in the islamic primary sources, as in quran and traditions which are the primary basis for the political fiqh, sharia entered the political life arena of the moslems. from the early second century so far, shiite political fiqh started developing. this trend towards political fiqh was stren...