Investigating the Historical evolution of the Ghulat issue in the three Kufa, Qom and Baghdad theological schools.

The issue of exaggeration (ghuluww) and its typical examples has always been discussed during the history of the Imamia religion, and there has been a discrepancy about the extent of its existence. So that, Some beliefs were sometimes ghuluww and sometimes not ghuluww. In the paper, we were going to investigate the Historical evolution of the Ghulat issue in the three Kufa, Qom and Baghdad schools, and find the origin of some differences between them. Besides that, we sought to know which important characters were in these schools, and what their views were accused of ghuluww. In this article, we studied in the Kufa theological schools some characters such as, Jabir ibne-Yazid al- Jafi, Mufadla ibne-Omar, Ibne- abiyafour, and Hisham ibne- hakam. In addition to, In the Qom theological schools, Sheikh Saduq, and in the Baghdad schools, Sheikh Mufid were studied. The research was conducted in a descriptive and analytical as a library one. As a result, It seems that Some people who quoted special Hadiths of Ahl al-Bayt about their Fazail(who were Secret Owners of Imam) , caused people to tell them Ghali. Also, some beliefs, (such as Sahv Al-Nabi) were considered ghuluww in a school while in another one, it was not ghuluww.