Era of Reappearance and Creation of Islamic Civilization with Emphasis on Conceptual Category of Entezar in Islamic Thought of Ayatollah Khamenei

The conceptual reading of the Entezar (Expecting Imam Mahdi) during the occultation period has been accompanied by different intellectual and practical approaches, which the Shia scholars have adopted the necessary and appropriate scientific and practical struggle in order to organize and demarcate the Shia identity and reform their religious knowledge so that the Shia religion finds an independent and demarcated identity in this field and does not deviate from its framework and fundamental principles. This article seeks to address the construction of Islamic civilization and the rule of Islamic values by proposing an institutional and duty-oriented approach, as well as constant endeavor with the scientific and practical struggle of society. Therefore, to reach the peak of human advancement in the new Islamic civilization, the theory of Entezar has a cognitive function for reforming religious knowledge, a motivational function in providing hope and empowerment for action and liberation from the futility of humanity, and a functional function for building the destiny of humanity and standing up and fighting against injustice and arrogance. And considering the objectivity and existence of Messianism in the Shia school, there is an appropriate existential training ground for building a civilization. This article seeks to analyze the conceptual category of the Entezar to determine the why and how of the optimal and superior construction of Islamic civilization concerning the era of reappearance, and to analyze the mentioned issue with a qualitative approach and data collection in a library and analytical-logical method.