Impact of Spirituality and Mysticism on Iraqi Shiites' Economy during the First Half of Third Century Hegira

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Fatemeh Okhravi ¹ , shhrbanoo debrary ² , Tahereh Azimzadeh ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری گروه تاریخ وتمدن ملل اسلامی، واحد مشهد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، مشهد، ایران.
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3 - دانشیار گروه تاریخ وتمدن ملل اسلامی، واحد مشهد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، مشهد، ایران.

Received: 2021-06-20 Accepted : 2021-06-20 Published : 2021-06-22

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Abstract :

The economic status of Shiites during the Islamic Imams, despite having farmlands at hand and the abundant water flow of Tigris and Euphrates for farming in Iraq, and taxes including Khums and Zakat and the like that Muslims used to pay is important for investigation. Also, donors gave endowments with spiritual, divine, and mystical motivations such as fighting with internal souls, taking stages of divinity, giving services to public exclusively for the sake of God that had an impact on the economy. The writer of the paper that used the analytic descriptive methodology has assessed the factors effective on the economy of Shiites in Iraq and has concluded that undoubtedly the establishment of divine government that meets the every goals of human beings is only possible through chaste imams because human based governments have always gone through the personal interests of a specific individual or group. Therefore, Islamic government is an important issue that Muslims are dealing with and that a portion of the pillars this type of government is founded on economic issues because the first requisite for the independence of an establishment is economic independence whereby it is applied well in the world of Shi'ism via zakat, khums, (Anfal) spoils of war, and (Kharaj) land taxes