Ibrahimiiyya School: An educational institution of Kerman Shaykhiyya in the Qajar period
Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation
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Keywords: Kerman, Ibrahimiiyya School, Shaykhiyya, Haj
, 
, Mohammad Karim Khan,
Abstract :
Ibrahimiiyya, the most important School in Kerman in Qajar era, wasestablished by the order of Ibrahim Khan Zahir al-Dawla, thegovernor of Kerman (1218-1240), for promotion of the Shiite sciencesand culture in this city. He also devoted some properties to the schoolso that the necessities of the duration of the activities could besupplied. In spite of this, it didn’t take much time and unlike itsfounder, Ibrahimiiyya was changed to a Scientific-Cultural center foractivity of new sect of Shaykhiyya and continued this role until theend of Qajar dynasty. Its founding show that Haj Mohammad KarimKhan, son of Ibrahim Khan, and after tending to Shaykhiyya religionand tendency for leading the Kerman branch of the said sect and withchanging the contents of the Devotion Letter of Ibrahim Khan, notonly he allocated the produced endowments to himself but also heappointed himself as the manager of the school. In addition to this, healso devoted new properties to Ibrahimiiyya. Therefore the saidSchool was changed to Scientific-Advertising center for the thoughtsof Haj Mohammad Karim Khan and his successors with sufficientfinancial support and without interference of experts of religion.
