Leadership in the view of Islam

This book is one of the works of Ayatollah Sobhani, including subjects on caliphate and Imamate, Islamic government after the death of the prophet.

The author

Ayatollah Jafar   sobhani  Tabrizi ,contemporary Iranian scholar. Born in 1930,  in Tabriz into a religious family. He studied in Persian literature, the  books “  Nasaab al- sebyan” , Abwab al- Jenan “ (the  doors of paradise) , “ Mo jam History” in the presence of “ Mirza Mahmud Fazel”.  Then he continued  his studies  in “ Tableiyeh school”  in Tabriz he was trained into presence  of great scholars : Ayatollah  Ruhallah khomenini, sheikh Hasan Nahwi and Mirza Muhammad Ali Modems khiyabani  Ayatollah sobhani is the founder of “ the center of Islamic  theological studies” and also one of the great teachers in “ Qom seminary.

His works

1- Theological books and Mujam al- Mutakallemin
2- Mosoueh
3- The eternal  light
4- wahhabism. etc.

The book structure

The book is composed in the following chapters:

1- Imamate and caliphate

2-shia and Sunni

3-Imam as the guard of Islamic principles and secondary articles of faith

4-Islamic domestic and foreign policy

5- The base of social and political development of Muslims

6- The base of Muslims knowledge about Islamic principles and secondary articles of faith

7- Leadership in view of the prophet and his companions

8- Spiritual evolution by Innocent Imam

9- How was the method of leadership in the early governments?

10- Is it possible to establish a divine rule without an innocent Imam?

11- Is it determined in the Koran and prophetic Hadiths the leader (of Islamic society) after the prophet?

12-The prophet appoints the leader

13- Thaqalayn Hadiths

14- Hadiths of Noah the (the prophet) ship

15- Qadir Hadiths (in which by a divine order Imam Ali was appointed as the Imam, by the prophet (after the death of the prophet)

16- The principles of Qadir Hadiths

17- The twelve caliphs in Islamic traditions

18-were the three caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar and Othman) appointed by people?

19-On saqifeh (the name of place where people after the death of the prophet gathered together in order to choose caliph after the prophet: while the caliph (Imam Ali) had been before appointed by the prophet in Qadir

20- After Saqifeh (in Saqifeh Abu Bakr was appointed as the caliph and all people pledged allegiance to him

The book was published in 1995 in Qom –Iran.

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