review and critique of the book Twelve Infallible men MATTHEW PIERCE critique and review book:Twelve Infallible Men
- Author:
- Zahra Mosafer
- Level:
- Master
- Field of study:
- History of Shiism
- Language:
- Farsi
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Shi’i Studies
- Year:
- 2021
- Publisher:
- URD Press
- Supervisor(s):
- Hussein Abdul Mohammadi, Mohammad Ghafouri Nezhad
The purpose of this research is to report، explain، critics and examine the views of Matthew Pierce، a Western Shie’ scholar، and his book “Twelve Infallible Men”، looking into the role of five Shie’ hagiographer authors and their books “Esbat of Al-Wasayah Mas’udi”، “Dala’il Al-Imam Tabarsi”، “Al-Arshad Sheikh Mofid”، “Al Aalam’ al wara ibn Jarir Tabari ” and “Manaqib Al-Abi Talib ibn Shahr Ashob”.
Also in this book، their pivotal role in the identity of the shie’ society of holiness and the innocent findings of the Imams and the creation of the holy history، the boundaries of the Shie’ doctrinal-practical and non-Shie’ and the formation of oral history، social identity and the holy Shie’ history has been addressed in the absent era of 12th Imam That is made By the stories and fiction of these authors. In addition، different and specific shie’ indicators and variables are presented from other Muslims and known such biographic stories far better devotion than a theological treatise.