https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAfm6jXJqo&t=1s

"Imamate and Occultation and its History in Twelver Shia"
speaker, Dr. Hassan Ansari
Feb 14, 2025

🟥 Lecture in Farsi, can be watched with closed caption (CC) and auto-translate on our channel.

Description:
In this session, along with reviewing the two main chapters and the sub-chapters of the book Imamate and Occultation (written by Hassan Ansari, Brill, 2017), specific explanations were provided about the introduction of the book. Among the topics discussed were:

1. How and with what transformation were the sources of Hadith related to Imamate and Occultation in the first two centuries after the event of the Occultation (year 260 AH) compiled, and what sources were used in these books? How can we recover these lost sources?

2. What was the role of the Hadith scholars in providing explanations regarding the issue of Occultation during these two centuries?

3. Why can recognizing the sources of books such as Al-Kafi or Al-Ghayba (written by Al-Nu’mani) reveal the transformation of Imamate and Occultation thought over time?
In other words, with what tools did the Hadith scholars instigate intellectual transformations in their Hadith books or in the reworking of ancient Hadith texts, and how did they narrate, select, and choose Hadiths? How can Hadith books reflect this transformation?

4. What is the relationship between the transformation of literary genres and the formation of transformed religious identities (specifically in the issue of Imamate and Occultation)? How did various mechanisms work for the reconstruction/renewal and formation of religious identities in relation to pivotal historical events for ideological or religious schools? How were traditions eliminated or reconstructed in this regard, and how were overlooked potentials reconsidered?

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