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== Abstract of chapters == | == Abstract of chapters == | ||
=== Chapter I: Introduction | === Chapter I: Introduction, Return to the Earliest Sources === | ||
The focus in this study is Imamology and, within this framework, the author defines <nowiki>''Imam" as well as can be done by using the words of the imams themselves and only the doctrine in its earliest formative phase will be considered (that is, the period covered by the lives of the historical imams). This chapter begins with an examination of the current point of view according to which Imamism is a "rational theology" of the Mu'tazilite type. The author thus first of all attempts to define '</nowiki>aql in the way that the imams meant it to be understood. | The focus in this study is Imamology and, within this framework, the author defines <nowiki>''Imam" as well as can be done by using the words of the imams themselves and only the doctrine in its earliest formative phase will be considered (that is, the period covered by the lives of the historical imams). This chapter begins with an examination of the current point of view according to which Imamism is a "rational theology" of the Mu'tazilite type. The author thus first of all attempts to define '</nowiki>aql in the way that the imams meant it to be understood. | ||