Introduction to the book 'Divine Guide in Shiism': The first fruit of applying the phenomenological method in a research on 'The First Imamiyyah' معرفی و نقد

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The application of this method for recognizing the essence and core of Shi`ism has yielded thought-provoking results, which the author, while presenting this writing, addresses by explaining these results and the position of the aforementioned method among the methods, approaches, and perspectives of religious studies. 2. This view was expressed by Maurice Jastrow in a book titled The Study of Religion (quoted from Religious Studies, edited by Mircea Eliade, translated by Baha al-Din Khorramshahi, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, second edition, 1375, vol. For example, if we describe the Hindu tradition and, by contemplating its manifestations, conclude that the Hindu tradition belongs to the category of divine religions, our study has resulted in typological phenomenology; and if a researcher carries out the work of examining and describing religion for this purpose, his method should be called by this name. The Story of Applying the Phenomenological Method in the Study of Shi'ism Orientalists and their followers, in the studies and research they conducted in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Iran and Arab countries regarding Shi'ism, have largely reduced Shi'ism, and especially Imamism, to a jurisprudential and theological religion, or a political movement. (6) Other Iranian and non-Iranian religious scholars have also followed this path; among them is Mohammad Ali Amir-Mo'ezzi, whose research on Imamism is the first clear example of applying the ontological phenomenological method. In this regard, examining his approach in the book "The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism" and the results he has obtained through this path leads, in an objective manner, to a better introduction of the phenomenological method.