- BOOK ID
- point
- Preface
- Author’s Introduction
- Chapter 1: Contemporary Religious Movements
- Contemporary Religious Movements
- Fundamentals of Shi‘ite and Sunni Political Thought
- Different Views
- Religious Leadership
- The Reign of the Elite
- The Youth Come on the Scene
- The Developments in the Eastern Bloc
- Noncreative Inharmonious Development
- Sensitivity to the Heritage
- Towards the Original Values
- Islam, Christianity and the Modern Civilization
- Further Return
- Roots of the Ideological Differences
- Chapter 2: The Historical Perception
- Attitude towards the Early History of Islam
- Selection of Abu Bakr
- The New Rendering
- Tribal Rivalry
- ‘Umar’s Time
- Extraterritorial Threats
- The New Situation
- ‘Uthman to Take Power
- Deep and Rapid Developments
- The Great Crisis
- Public Perception
- ‘Ali and Accepting the Caliphate
- Sociopsychological Disorders
- The Disrupted Society
- The Origin of the Problems
- A Distorted Picture of Reality
- Confronting ‘Ali’s Personality
- Increasing Importance of the Companions’ Position and Stature
- Development in the Understanding of the Religion
- The Other Critics
- The Intellectual and Ideological Consequences
- Chapter 3: Government and the Ruler
- Government and the Ruler
- Status of Caliphate
- Sanctifying Early Islam
- Later Events
- Emotional Attractions
- Inability to Judge Properly
- Hesitating on the Issue of ‘Ashura
- A New Perception in the Light of the New Experience
- The New Ways of Sayyid Qutb
- Importance of Sayyid Qutb’s Thought
- Blaming Historical Critiques
- ‘Abdu’r-Razzaq’s Historical Perception
- The Sunni View about the Ruler
- The Government and the Ruler
- The Shi‘ite View
- Two Views
- Fatalism
- World Knowledge of the Arabs in Old Times
- Promoting Determinism
- Historical Examples
- Forging Sayings of the Tradition
- Suspensionist [irja’] Thought
- Chapter 4: Power And Justice
- Power and Justice
- The Concept of Justice
- Results of the Two Different Interpretations
- Jurisprudential Concept of Justice
- Denying the Justice Qualification
- Importance of Denying the Justice Qualification
- Deeds and the Conditions of Deeds
- Duties of the Government
- Vastness of the Muslim World
- Threat of Christian Powers
- Power and Security
- Ghazali’s Theory
- Preserving the System
- Ibn Qayyim’s Theory
- Seeking Justice and Ambition of Power
- Channels for the Manifestation of the Revolutionary Potential
- Seeking Devotion
- Ideology of the Ruling System
- New Objections
- The Shi‘ite Stance
- The Safavids and the Shi‘ite Clergy
- Shi‘ite Isolation and Its Consequences
- New Pressures and Necessities
- Thought of an Islamic Government
- Fall of the Caliphate
- Influence of Western Laws
- Conformity to the Shari‘ah
all-encompassing school [maktab], which embraces the different branches of Islamic knowledge. This school has been able to train many talented personalities by quenching them with this gushing fountain. This school has presented scholars to the Muslim ummah who, by following the Holy Prophet’s Household (‘a), have occupied the station of clarifying doubts and skepticisms brought forth by various creeds and intellectual currents both inside and outside Muslim society. Throughout the past centuries, they have presented the firmest answers and solutions to these doubts.
Anchored in the responsibilities it is shouldering, the Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) World Assembly has embarked upon defending the sanctity of risalah [messengership] and its authentic beliefs—truths which have always been opposed by the chiefs and leaders of anti-Islamic sects, religions and trends. In this sacred path, the Assembly regards itself as a follower of the upright pupils of the school of the Ahl al-Bayt (‘a)—those who have always been ready to refute those accusations and calumnies and have tried to be always in the frontline of this struggle on the basis of the expediencies of time and space.
The experiences in this field, which have been preserved in the books of scholars belonging to the school of the Ahl al-Bayt (‘a), are unique in their own right. It is because these experiences have been based upon knowledge [‘ilm] and the preeminence of the intellect and reasoning, and at the same time, they are completely devoid of blind prejudice, whim and caprice. These experiences address experts, scholars
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