“Studding the Theological Ideas of Allama Hasan Shaarany”

This thesis is about Zifunoun Shaarani. He is a great contemporary scholar. The thesis is presented in two chapters. The first chapter addresses the biography of Allameh Shaarani and his epistemological basics. In this chapter, it is attempted to address his comparative study about the ultimate of religions and challenging the other religions, then it studies his views about the principles of religion and definition of theology.  Dividing into four parts including, theology, guidology, anthropology and eschatology, the second chapter is about Allama’s theological ideas. The first part consists of the subjects about being an innate knowledge of God, the monotheism and its stages, the relation of attributes and the divine essence and the invisibility of the Divine. The bulk of this part is about Nabovvat and Imamat and addresses their reasons. Discussing Imamat, Allameh Shaarani uses the Lotf argument, being a rational method, and then adds anecdotal discussions by the holy Quran. Finally, the conditions of Imam are addressed. Common matters such as Determinism and free will, Badaa, Hosn and Ghobh are put in next chapter. Finally the second chapter ends with the issues about hereafter, resurrection, celibacy of the soul, life after death, invalidation of reincarnation and … .