Intellectual, Political And Social Status Of The Shiites On The Verge Of Occultation

Abstract

In this paper, the author studies a very important part of the history of Islam, that is, the period of the lives of Imam Hadi (AS) and Imam Askari (AS), and the efforts these two Imams made to develop a network of agents (wukalā) to prepare the Shi’a community for the era of the occultation of Imam Mahdi (AS).