An Intellectual/Political Study on Imam Baqer's (PBUH) Period of Imamate

The focus of this writing is on a period of history of Islam in which Imam Baqer (PBUH) was responsible for the spiritual and political guidance of Twelve-Imam Alawites lasting for nineteen years. The intellectual and political events of that time, each according to its own special intellectual and theological basis, considered itself the most rightful inherit the prophet's caliphate. Therefore, special political conditions had been created by the ones who were in power and the ones who wished to seize. Imam Baqer (PBUH) who led the twelve-Imam Alawites took specific stands against each of these two processes: that is, adopting the strategy of concealment against the Umayyad governors and the strategy of illumination and reform for the other groups. In addition to the analysis of the origins, the bases and the revenue of the main intellectual-political thoughts and views at the period of Imam Baqer, this writing is to clarify and analyze the Imam Baqer's (PBUH) dealing with the intellectual-political events of this period of the history of Islam.