Human Pre-Existece in Kalami Schoool of Rey

The question of pre-existence, that is the existence of human beings in the antecedent worlds, is one of the key theological questions of the history of Imamite theology. Adopting any positive or negative position in response to this question inevitably determines the orientation of the rest of the theological discussions. Imamite scholars, in different successive schools, have taken different and even conflicting positions concerning this issue. In this research we have taken into consideration the views of the Rey school, which was flourished in the 6th century A.H. It is shown in this article that the majority of the scholars in this seminary, following the scholars of the school of Baghdad, denied the pre-existence of human beings in the previous world of particles. But it seems that, concerning the previous luminous world, a world in which the luminous entities of the prophet and his household lived before their descending to the material world, the scholars of Rey have adopted a rather opposite direction. They ıncluded, in their hadith books, unprecedented narrations of luminous creation without any negative annotation. This article concludes that these scholars, contrary to the scholars of previous school of Baghdad, either accepted the content of such narrations as valid and credible or preferred not to make any comment and avoid interpreting them as figurative expressions having no straight forward significance about previous worlds