Document Type : Original Article
Author
Associate Professor, Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
Abstract
Shiite leadership for the first time in the era of Imam Javad (A.S.) faced different questions. This led to a special position for the Imam. Although, he achieved the successorship (Imamate) at early ages, he was successful in facing the forthcoming problems, both in politics and society and beliefs and thoughts. He directed Shiite successorship in an appropriate path in a way that there was no other persistent split in Shiite religion and Imamate. Imam Javad (A.S.) had a particular mission compared to other Imams due to his presence in a special period of history; which was the mission of being a role model and making role modeling for the future of religious thinking. This continued to the absence of the twelfth Imam. This article attempts to demonstrate him being a role model briefly and to answer this question that why this Imam has been distinguished to such a concept? The main hypothesis of this paper is that Imam Javad (A.S.), due to his presence in the period of rationalism and influx of critical thoughts, took the position of cleaning the Islamic thought by presenting an excelled criterion and could turn to a persistent role model in Shiite history despite all political and intellectual invasions.
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