Examining the Imami Theologians’ Approach in Baghdad to the Mu’tazilites converted to Shi’ism (with an emphasis on Seyed Murtaza, Ibn Rawandi and Abu Eisa Warraq)

The Mu’tazilites converted to Shi’ism are a culture-making group in the course of Imami thought in the third/tenth and fourth/eleventh centuries that their comparison to the theologian heritage of Imami theologians in Baghdad can aids to recognition of their place and role in the history of Shi’a thought. The current writing, by examining the available reports in the works of the Nawbakhtis, Sheikh Mufid and Seyed Murtaza, tries to analyses the kind of their encounter to Abu Eisa Warraq and Ibn Rawandi from the two aspects of personality and scholarship. It also tries to map out their place through explaining the judgments of Baghdadi theologians about the Mu’tazilites converted to Shi’ism. Furthermore, in a more enormous view, it tries to show the trend of Imami Kalam from the third/tenth century to fifth/twelfth century and reconstruct a scene of the history of Shi’a Kalam. The result is that one cannot see a homogeneous position about Abu Eisa Warraq and Ibn Rawandi in the remained heritage of Imami theologians in Baghdad; although there can be seen some signs of kinship in the issue of Imamah.