Document Type : Original Article
Author
Associate Professor, Department of Shia Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
A serious question has always been raised that what are the currents of thought regarding the category of Mahdism and expectation? Especially in the last half century, when a more accurate understanding and attitude has been created with the development of the Islamic revolution in Iran, therefore, we tried in this article with the descriptive-analytical research method, the three main intellectual currents of modernists and traditionalists, and Muslim civilizationists. , let's analyze these three schools of thought, the results obtained by combining the data and summarizing can be presented in such a way that the majority of modernists have a secularist view of the religious space, so some people in this school either do not believe in Mahdism at all, or The minimalist view, and the mainstream of relativists look at the appearance of humanity, and interpret Mahdism with a minimal view and sometimes as a negative expectation of corruption, but the intellectual approach of the civilizationists, who with careful effort to Islam and according to the social and political rules Islam provides a more precise definition of Mahdism.
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