It is especially appropriate to address in this publication questions concerning the complex relationship between religious traditions and intellectual life. Too often such traditions are still viewed as providing fixed and final answers to questions whose force and meaning do not depend on these traditions. This overvalues traditions in one respect and undervalues them in another. As a set of ...

This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants past during broad debate on historical evidence in late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: unintentionality testimony. Beginning early modern period, growing awareness partiality literacy narratives regarded as intentional testimonies well interest nonwritten pasts have led consideration other kinds ...

the extent of “benefits”, as the subject of khums, is one of the controversial discourses among the imāmī jurists, which is of great importance because of its applicability. the “acquired benefits” and “benefits in general” are the two significant views in the discourses concerning khums. in this research, the evidences for any of these two views are critically reviewed. for the first view, two...