Exploring Imam Reza's Educational Methods on Establishing Islamic Lifestyle Based on the Content Analysis of the Prayers of Imam Reza's Supplications

One of the main tasks of the Imams (AS) was the promotion of Islamic teachings, paving the way for strengthening these teachings and educating the Islamic community to attain perfection and salvation. Undoubtedly, this strategy had been carried out through several measures, one of which was through teaching prayers and its promotion on different occasions so that the Islamic lifestyle be established among the public. Through systematic and analytical study of the propositions expressed in the prayers of Imam Reza (AS), this study aims to reexamin and deduce the functions of this religious and innate instrument for educating individuals in the Islamic community and to elaborate on educative methods of the Imam (AS) for the guidance of people and the Islamic community that is the very realization of an Islamic lifestyle. Therefore first, using content analysis method, the expressive forms and orientations of each of the prayers of Imam Reza were extracted and categorized by their subjects. Then, we analyze them to identify the ideological structures governing these prayers and to discover educational strategies which could be used in our own educational system and ultimately to promote the Islamic lifestyle.