Sheikh Bahai's hesitations concerning cooperation with the Safavid government

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

Rafat  Khajeh yar ¹ (Faculty member of the history department of Abhar Islamic Azad University.)

Received: 2021-12-29 Accepted : 2022-02-14 Published : 2022-09-23

Keywords: Shiites, Shah Abbas, i, Safavid rule, Ulama, Sheikh Baha',

Abstract :

Safavid state formation and the recognition of the Shiite religion in Iran led to the presence of Shiite scholars even from the surrounding lands in Iran, especially during the reign of Shah Tahmasb, when many scholars of Jabal Amel turned to his court and became prominent religious officials, mostly in cooperation with the Safavid government. And the second and third generations of these scholars continued to cooperate with the Safavid government in the following decades.Sheikh Baha'i is a descendant of the Jabal Amel scholars who held the position of the highest religious official during the reign of Shah Abbas I. As a prominent Shiite scholar, he collaborated with the Safavid government, but He looks at it and even mentions it as polytheism. Using descriptive and analytical methods, this article uses historical sources to first present a picture of the Safavid rule during the reign of Shah Abbas I and then to analyze the performance of Sheikh Baha'i and his interaction with the Safavid state.