The era of confusion, terminology and phenomenon, a new reading in the early narrative history of the Imami Shiites

Abstract

Many historical and doctrinal sources have been concerned with studying the era of occultation in its various intellectual and doctrinal aspects, whether they were Arabs or foreigners, due to its historical importance, in addition to being an important part of the human heritage. It is clear from that era, and that some of it is ambiguous and requires a new re-reading in accordance with the concept of the text and its implications, or the social, intellectual and political conditions in which it was written, and what resulted from it with features some of which differ from the other depending on the different contemporary historical stages in which this was recorded. The text or that, even if the phenomenon of this disagreement constitutes another burden on the researcher through the time he spends in investigating recurring cases, researching the vocabulary of texts, and dismantling many narratives in a way that requires reaching the truth he is looking for, and this gives a general impression of the trends recorded in it. These studies regardless of sectarian tendencies or bias towards this or that.