Due to the plurality of the rulers’ religions, many of the religious miniatures in the hand-written copies at the beginning of the Ilkhanate period contained subjects relating to the prophets and different religions. In the second half of the Ilkhanate period, a new wave of Shi’ism appeared among the rulers that matched with their political and governmental intentions and thoughts. The question...

As the most fundamental source of Islamic Sharia, the Holy Quran has dealt with some overviews of jurisprudential provisions. Therefore, the first source of citation and extraction of the provisions is among the Fariqain jurisprudents. The present study is a comparison between two jurisprudential viewpoints of Fariqain in jurisprudential verses of Hajj. Despite the fact that there seems to be o...

Imam Ali (PBUH) has a great place in Sufi ideology. The reflection of Imam’s words in their works is a manifestation of this high status. One of the great Sufis is Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq Kashani (b. 650-660- d. 736 AH) is the inheritor of the Suhrawardiyah way and Ibn-Arabichr('39')s thoughts, whose special devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt (PBUT), especially Imam Ali, is reflected in his writings. Thi...

The narrations of the Immaculate, peace be upon them, in the process of transmission come in different manuscripts and various narrations. Sometimes one narration in one book or some books have been transmitted repeatedly and in some cases the different transmissions of one narration differ from each other in text or documents. Although the secondary sources of Shii hadith (unlike the primary s...