muhammad ibn muhammad ibn numan, known as "shaykh mufid," one of the great imamiye theologians and jurists in the fourth and early fifth century , had comprehensive mastery of both rational and traditional topics and exerted his influence upon both his contemporary and future scholors. he is considered to be one of the top imamiye scholars who spent his lifetime teaching, learning and authorin...

One of the old Imamate works is Ubeidollah Ibn Abi Rafi’s al-Sunan wal Ahkam wal Qadhaya, a well-known work whose text existed independently till the fourth or perhaps the fifth century. Nevertheless in the circles of Imamate hadith, especially the four Books, the book has not been cited and in other Imamate books of hadith only three narrations rare elated in whose chains the name of Ubeidol...

Looking at the traditions about Imām al-Mahdi, peace be upon him, in the Sunni and Shii books one can see one common tern that is used for the appearance of Imām al-Mahdi , peace be upon him, which has a religious significant meaning. The term “Sending” which is used for him in many Prophetic traditions is precisely the same term which is used by people only for divine Prophets and ...

Imam Ali (peace be upon him) told that physicians must have pietism and don’t abstain from guidance, advice and diligence. Islam religion recognizes medicine as an allowable and necessary profession.  Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and Imams (PBUH) tell that sage physician status in their science, art and tasks like jurisconsult scientist status. More than one thousand years ago, Abubakr Rabei Ebne Ah...

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...