The Imamate of the Awaited Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) In the writings of orientalists

Abstract

claims about the Mahdi’s doctrine and the Imamate of the Awaited Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) sought to distort and undermine that leadership in various ways, as Orientalists tried to strike that belief and build doubts about its validity. Al-Muntar (may God bless him and grant him peace) originally, although the old sources mentioned to us a large group of news that refutes the view of the orientalists in their writings, and the sources that narrated those news agree that they are sources for Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah or Imami sources , as the two groups agreed to prove the existence of the awaited Imam Mahdi (old) and his .