The Quality of Respecting the Rituals and Elements Involved in its Legitimacy (From the Perspectives of the Imamiyyah Jurists and Jurists of the Maghreb)

After the conquest of the western lands by the Muslims and following the fall of the Umayyad and the Abbasids and the coming to power of the Moravids who spread the Maliki religion, the people of the Islamic Maghreb chose the Maliki jurisprudential religion. The influence of Maliki jurisprudence prevented the influence of other jurisprudential religions in this country, but historical documents indicate the influence of the Jafari jurisprudence and Shiism among groups of people in the Maghreb. What is unfortunate is the extensive activities carried out by the extremist sect of Wahhabism to propagate the teachings of Wahhabism in this land. Surprisingly, Wahhabi scholars have made extensive efforts to prove the convergence of the jurists of the Islamic Maghreb with the teachings of Wahhabism. Since one of the most important parts of Wahhabism’s efforts is aimed at proving the polytheism of some examples of respecting rituals, it is necessary to investigate the quality of respecting rituals and the elements involved in its legitimacy from the perspective of the Maghreb jurists to conclude the invalidity of the convergence of their views with those of the Wahhabism. Based on the analytical findings of this study, the Maghreb jurists not only do not converge with Wahhabism, but also are in relatively complete convergence with the jurists of Imamiyyah. Here, intention, embedded title, and the form of respecting the rituals are the three elements involved in the legitimacy of their examples from the perspective of the Islamic Maghreb jurists and the Imamiyyah jurists.