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TAGS: - Islam; Akhbari (Shiite school); Iran (documents); Iraq; Jurisprudence; Shaykhism; Shia Islam (Shiism); Usuli (Shiite school)
Abstract:
A debate which came to shape Shi'i jurisprudence, between those who believed that only the Imams should be the source of law, vs. those who held that rational study of scripture could yield worthy principles. (No mention of the Bábí or Bahá'í faiths.)
Notes:

Shi'i Clerics in Iraq and Iran, 1722-1780:

The Akhbari-Usuli Conflict Reconsidered

Juan Cole

published in Iranian Studies

18:1, pp. 3-34

1985 Winter

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