The Examination and Criticism of the Viewpoint of Dr. Muhammad Abed al-Jaberi on Mahdawiyyah

Dr. Muhammad Abed al-Jaberi is one of the contemporary Arab Thinkers that, with his numerous and different compilations, could take a considerable place in both Arabic and western worlds. In order to go out the crises in the Arabian world, he examined the five heritages of Iran, Greece, Sufism, pure Islamic and the pure Arabian, and maintained that all the retardations of the Arabian world are rooted in the thoughts of Iranian (Ardshir) heritance, and people like Abdullah ibn Saba', Mokhtar ibn Abu 'Ubayd and the Yemenites, infiltrating in Islam, could preach the Iranian and Israelite teachings such as Mahdawiyyah, Rajah (Retuning of the dead to the world), Wisayah (executorship) etc. in the form of Shiism. In this paper, only the issue of Mahdawiyyah, considering its importance, is examined in the al-Jaberi's thought and in addition to an exact report of the teaching of Mahdawyyah in al-Jaberi's works, his mistakes, slips, claims of no evidences, and his incomplete presuppositions were shown on the basis of the Sunni authentic sources.