Keywords = Imam Reda
Number of Articles: 2
“The elements of morality
in the political teachings of Imam Reza”

“The elements of morality in the political teachings of Imam Reza”

Volume 5, Issue 18, Autumn 2017, Pages 179-215

Mustafa Ahmadifar, Hamid Hussein Nejad Muhammad Abadi, Muhammad Ali Reza’ee Esfahani, Reza Haghpanah

Abstract  
One of the important matters in the life and social relations of the mankind is how to manage the acts based on stabilization in the political power, and the principles and criteria ruling on these relations especially in the field of commanding. Islam as the last divine religion and the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as the last prophet and his family as the divine leaders have given a high position to morals in managing the social and political relations, and Imam Ali-Ibn-Musa-Al-Reda (AS) has showed during his life especially after nomination as deputy of the Calif a clear picture of necessity of using the moral-based methods in politics by adding two important elements of the social life, i.e. ethics and politics. The aim of this paper is to study morality in politics according to Imam Reda’s (AS) manner and statements and has tried to generally discuss the most important elements of this view from his perspective.

Imam Reda and his confrontation with Ahlulhadith’s wrong uderstanding of predicative attributions

Imam Reda and his confrontation with Ahlulhadith’s wrong uderstanding of predicative attributions

Volume 4, Issue 14, Summer 2016, Pages 57-74

Rasul Mohamadjafari

Abstract  
One important theological sects in ege of Imam Reda was Ahlulhadith.they had attended to appearance of verses and narrative and according to issue of predicative attribution , they presented physical imagination for god or by demonstrating attributes without explaning it .in face of such approach , Imam Reda expressed his right oponion about predicative attributions and interpreted verses and narratives of prophet.so ,this research seek to answer this question how is the methods of Imam Reda and his confrontation with Ahlulhadith’s wrong understanding of predicative attributions? study the narrative of Imam Reda in this issue representative that Imam Reda used two ways for interpretation of verses.first is quran to quran (the method of referring allegorical verses todecisive ones) and second is rational interpretion of verses to express none physical verses relate to predicative attributions and in his confrontation Ahlulhadith’s narrative in predicative attributions,some of them were apocryphal and distroted and others explained properly by Imam Reda.