Explanation of the Shia-Sufi discourse from the point of view of Seyyed Heydar Amoli

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1 Advertising and Communication, Culture of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Bagheral Uloom, Qom, Iran

2 Islamic history, history and political science, Bagheral Uloom University, Qom.

3 bent alhoda

10.22081/hiq.2023.66742.2336

Abstract

With the invasion of the Mongols on Iran, in addition to the political conditions, the religious relations also changed due to the realized conditions. In this arena, the atmosphere of the presence of three discourses of Shiism, Sunan and Sufism prevailed, and when faced with the conditions resulting from this invasion, each of them tried to read their thoughts before the foreign rulers.At this time, Sufism emerged as its equivalent discourse, Shiism and affinity with it after gaining hegemony in confrontation with Sunni discourse, in which Seyyed Haider Amoli in his valuable work "Jami al-Asrar and Source of Al-Anwar" at the beginning of this affinity He prepared and by drawing the prominent features of the "testing believer" next to the central sign of Wilayat and Shiite Imamate and equating it with the central sign of Sufism discourse, in attracting different classes of society, including Shiites and Sufis, under a single flag in the process of becoming hegemonic. The discourse in question tried that, meanwhile, a society full of discursive contradictions with alienation pushes other discourses to the sidelines.

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History of Islam

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