Undoubtedly Sayed Abo-Al-Reza Ravandi is one of the incredible characters in sixth century A.H. who has a great role in expanding the Shia hadith heritage. His services to Shia hadith heritage can be divided into two major parts. First, quoting the Hadith heritage of the past and passing it on to the future generations functioning as a bridge between past and future. Some know him as the furthe...

The narrational exegeses are a set of sources which Sheikh al-Kuleini has used in the composition of his …. . Some of these works are those of Hisham Ibn Salim, Yunis Ibn Abdol Rahman, Hussein Ibn Saeed, Abu Hamzeh al-Thomali, Mo’lla Ibn Muhammad, Muhammad Ibn Khalid al-Barqi, Wahib Ibn Hafs al-Jariri …. Muhammad Ibn Hassan…., Abdol Rahman Ibn Kathir, and some of the ...

Fabrication of Hadith is a problem with which the early Islamic society had confronted, and among the causes, character assassination of religious and political leaders could be pointed. Imam Hassan (pbuh) was a best moral pattern for the people, but fabricated hadiths degraded his spiritual and scientific character. Both Shi'a and Sunni sources, with different ways, reported by Imam Sadeq (pbu...

By studying "Kitab al-Ma'a" the enduring work by Abu Abdullah Muhammad Azdi, we find that this treatise is not just a medical encyclopedia based on medical prescriptions and the treatment of physical and mental diseases; rather, its admirable author, sometimes in the guise of a well-versed jurist, and a scholar of hadith, and a defender of the rights of the patient, created a work with  accumul...

Al-Shaykh al-Saduq is a Shia leading scholar with many works in different areas of religious knowledge among which Kamal al-Din wa Tamam al-Ni'mah ("the perfection of the religion and the end of the blessings") is regarded to be one of his most famous books. This book has been dedicated to Shia perspective about the occultation and age of Imam Mahdi including logical arguments along with many t...

the issue of curriculum and syllabus evaluation and revision has been in center of attention right from when curriculum came into attention of educational institutions. thus everywhere in the world in educational institutions curricula and syllabi are evaluated and revised based on the goals, the needs, existing content, etc.. in iran any curriculum is designed in a committee of specialists and...