Râfıza isminin Şiî düşünce ve İmâmiyye ile iltisâkını araştıran bu makalede, söz konusu ismin türediği rafz kelimesinin içerdiği “reddetme”, “terk etme” “ayrılma” anlamlarının Şiâ uyumuna işaret edilmektedir. Bu bağlamda, kendilerine muhaliflerince verilen kaynağına dair rivayetlerden hareketle genel özel olarak iki farklı anlam içerdiği: anlamda Hz. Peygamber’den sonra imâmeti nas tayine dayan...

Class of 2008 Political Science The author examines visual and rhetorical strategies used by Iraqi and non-Iraqi groups in recruiting voters for the January 2005 legislative and presidential elections. Case studies include the USAID, various Shiite clergy groups, and Future Iraq Assembly, which is a non-governmental organization of activists, businesspeople, and academicians. Religious appeals ...

there are few  shiite poets or authors who have defended the holy prophet(pbuh& hp) and his household and have not been under various accusations. this paper examines the contradictory views of historians in introducing shiite   poets, among which de'bel kazaee (martyred 246 lunar) is selected. the paper tries to answer  the following questions: considering all these contradictions can one...

in the islamic civilization and our era, a lot of literary critics became famous, but we hardly ever remember the writer of alghadir, alameh abdulhussein amini, as a great literary critic. in fact he is skillful in his work and use exact meaning in his literature works. yet the writers have forgotten him as a literary critic or theyhave indicated that they forget him. in this essay, i would lik...

annulment is one of the institutions of contract cancellation in shiite jurisprudence and law. one of the primary questions about every phenomenon is the question of the nature and character. although traditionally shiite jurists have held comparative and critical approaches toward the common views of sunni jurists about the nature of annulment, they have not typically looked at the nature of c...