Style Imam Ali in cooperation with the Ahl e Ketab

Imam Ali (peace be upon him) attained imamate after twenty-five years distance from Islamic politics and a return to pagan and perversive traditions from Quran’s principles. Imam had to perform a new cultural program to reform Islamic society. This program consisted of social, political, cultural and economic systematization. One of the characteristic of social systematization was regularization of relationship with “People of the Book”; this was because of the presence of various religious minorities that were significant in Imam Ali’s caliphate. These minorities were consisted in the Jew, the Christian, the Zoroastrian and the Sabean. Therefore, balance and regularization of civil, social, economic and cultural relationship with “People of the Book” was impossible. His Holiness believed in social rights for everyone, especially social freedom for minorities, this means that he recommended his governors to observe rights of “People of the Book”, and abstain from oppression. So it seems Imam Ali acted moderately towards “People of the Book”. Therefore, this research is to study the operational and theoretical nature of Imam Ali towards “People of the Book”, and also his interaction with religious minorities. The study will discuss different rights of minorities and will explain the model of cultural eminence in the view of interaction with “People of the Book”.