University of Sistan and Baluchestan Journal of Historical Researches of Iran and Islam 2345-2099 11 21 2018 02 20 Investigating the Concept of Zaidi Imāms and its Effect on Shaping Political-Social Movements of Shiites of This Sect in Second and Third Centuries AH Investigating the Concept of Zaidi Imāms and its Effect on Shaping Political-Social Movements of Shiites of This Sect in Second and Third Centuries AH 63 88 4025 10.22111/jhr.2018.4025 FA Yaghoub Panahi Mohammad Ali Chelongar Asghar Tabavar Vahid Saaeedi Journal Article 2014 10 22 <em>Transforming the concept of Imamate and the consequences of its different definitions is one of most challenging theological and historical issues among Shia religious scholars, orators, jurist and historians. The present study is to investigate briefly the concept of Imamate among Zaidi Shiites in the second and third centuries with a historical and systematic approach and then explain the role of the definition of Zaidi Shiites of the issue of Imamate and the status, duties and responsibilities of Imams in socio-political life of this sect in order to identify what effects have this definition left and basically what factors have been effective on the social upheavals of this sect in the first centuries other than the thought of Imamate.During the present study, it will be identified that Zaidi Shiites have interpreted the issue of Imamate as a socio-political necessity and the main condition of the legitimacy of Imamate of a person is his effort for establishing the principle of ordering the good and forbidding the evil by calling people to resistance. However the interpretation of this Shiites (Zaidi) of the concept of Imamate in the theoretical domain of their attitudes has given them a moderate approach, in practice, they have been led to political radicalism and pragmatism and the consequences of this pragmatism-indeed by the influences of temporal and spatial factors- have been the establishment of autonomous governments in different points of Islamic World. </em> <em>Transforming the concept of Imamate and the consequences of its different definitions is one of most challenging theological and historical issues among Shia religious scholars, orators, jurist and historians. The present study is to investigate briefly the concept of Imamate among Zaidi Shiites in the second and third centuries with a historical and systematic approach and then explain the role of the definition of Zaidi Shiites of the issue of Imamate and the status, duties and responsibilities of Imams in socio-political life of this sect in order to identify what effects have this definition left and basically what factors have been effective on the social upheavals of this sect in the first centuries other than the thought of Imamate.During the present study, it will be identified that Zaidi Shiites have interpreted the issue of Imamate as a socio-political necessity and the main condition of the legitimacy of Imamate of a person is his effort for establishing the principle of ordering the good and forbidding the evil by calling people to resistance. However the interpretation of this Shiites (Zaidi) of the concept of Imamate in the theoretical domain of their attitudes has given them a moderate approach, in practice, they have been led to political radicalism and pragmatism and the consequences of this pragmatism-indeed by the influences of temporal and spatial factors- have been the establishment of autonomous governments in different points of Islamic World. </em> https://jhr.usb.ac.ir/article_4025_4930151fa1086b6c158ace459291fc26.pdf