Paying homage of teimourids to the holy imams & its reflection on propagating imamiyeh shiism

Shiite Imams’ thoughts and practices have been over-lasting and very inspiring for different generations. Freethinkers who supported Ahl e Bait and all their families could be of great prominent services and guidance for the rest of people during long past and present history. Thinking freely without any prejudice in religion has been also numerous arts and logical thoughts including of the vital factors and preferences of Shiite Imams to all. Teimourids, one of the dynasties governing Iran are not considered Iranians. They must be considered some free thinkers who provided a lot of cultural, scientific advances and also numerous arts and logical thoughts including Shiite issues. The main question in this study is “whether this open space of thinking included Shiite thoughts or not”. “How much paying homage to and praising Teimourids of The Holy Imams have been successful in providing an appropriate background to strengthen Shiism?” This study which is based on analytical-descriptive methods shows that praising and paying much homage to Shiite Imams had a rising attitude leading to officially recognizing Shiism as an official religion and expanding its beliefs and principles during Safavid dynasty.