Renewal of competition between Osuli and Akhbari at the beginning of the Qajar period

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

Elham Amiri ¹ , Gholamhossein Zargarinejad ² , Sina Foroozesh ³

1 - PhD Student in Islamic History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor of History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-02-13 Accepted : 2022-02-22 Published : 2022-09-23

Keywords: Qajar Era, Ijtihad, clergy, Akhbari, Mirza Mohammad Astarabadi,

Abstract :

Renewal of competition between Usuliyan and akhbarians at the beginning of the Qajar periodAbstractDisagreement between the two schools of jurisprudence, Akhbari and Usuli, before the end of the 12th century AH, the series of challenges between the two schools in the 13th century begins again. In this process, the relative and causal connections between the fundamentalist clerics led to the strengthening of the mujtahids and their unity against the views of the Akhbari clerics. With the advent of Mirza Mohammad Astarabadi (in the thirteenth century AH and during the Qajar period), a new round of intensification of the confrontation between akhbarian and fundamentalist scholars took place. discussions about both fundamentalist and akhbarian ideas in the Qajar period had various political and religious consequences, especially in the field of incitement related to the clerical apparatus in spreading the ideas of ijtihad and imitation, strengthening the institution of authority and influence of the clergy among the Tuido people and confronting The government, part of the fundamentalists clergy, appeared to enlightenment and new ideas and to welcome some manifestations of modernity. Political developments in the region, including the Iran-Russia wars, were the cause of rivalry between the fundamentalists and the Akhbaris. This article tries to follow the existing similarities between religious scholars about the causes of akhbarian tendencies among the clergy of the Qajar era and to examine the renewed competition between these two sects in the field of intra-organizational developments of the clergy.Keywords: Akhbari, Ijtihad, Astarabadi, Clergy, Qajar era