Considerations about Modarres Tabataba ee's Reading of Ibn Qibah

Ibn Qibah Rãzi is one of the most-known Imamieh theologians of the second half of the 3rd century a.h.; he has significant views concerning Imamat and thus has a special place among Imamieh theologicans. In his book Shiism in the Process of Evolution, Seyyed Hussein Mudarresi Tabataba’i –a comtemporary scholar of Shiism- tries to analyse the historical developments of Imamieh thought in its political-social background, by appeals to the works of Ibn Qibah and an examination of his treatises. This paper seeks to examine and criticize the claims of Mudarresi Tabataba’i and his interpretations of the works of Ibn Qibah.