The Institution of Shiism in Iran:Challenges and Opporatunities

In this article, the author takes a close look of the two centuriesof governship in the Shiism which subscribed the legitimacy ofgovernment in the occult era and also the Safavid achievementsfor the then governments. He also focuses his attention on thedebate evolution of political origins of Shia, to address the Safavidaccomplishment to mark the conclusion of “new pardigm” in Shia’spolitical philosophy and specially its foremost infulence on the statuesof Shia government in this period. The author is of the believe that thereason of methodical Islamic jurisprudence victory over narrativism,the stabilization of imitation and exertion principle the experssionof the Twelve-Imam theory and fagih (jurists) gurdianship traditionis because of the main debate which history had at the Safavid era.He conculdes that this debate was essentially ensused of these facts:Safavid founders claim about the relationship with the PromisedImam (Mehdi), their claim for supremacy and communication withthe dessendants of Prophet Mohammad and the existence of IslamicJurists in this period.