Investigating the evolution of Imamiyya occult studies with an emphasis on the theological method of Sheikh Tusi

Abstract

Abu Jaafar Muhammad bin Hassan Tusi, nicknamed "Sheikh of Al-Taifa", a famous Shia jurist, commentator, commentator and theologian in the fifth century of the lunar calendar, as a representative of the Baghdad school with the establishment of the Najaf branch, is the author of precious works of Shia in various religious areas; In Kalam and Hadith, his book "Al-Ghaibah", which is the subject of this article, is one of the most important Shia Mahdavi sources. Al-Ghaibah of Sheikh Tusi, as a comprehensive intellectual and narrative discussion on the subject of occultation, due to the theological arrangement of this book, as well as the Sheikh's different method of choosing religious traditions in the use of enlightening narrations, has added to the value and credibility of this book, as well as the extra-religious perspective. Shaykh compiled the book of Al-Ghaibah with regard to the typology of theological thought in the fifth century and the answer to the doubts of the deviant sects of Mahdism that branched off in the era of the Imams, the methods of bearing the hadith, his unified method of proving the occult, all of which are a distinguished work of his book as a representative The school of Baghdad has been exhibited and therefore deserves a modernist re-reading.

Keywords

• absence of research "imamiya"
• verbal method
• "sheikh tusi"