Critics of Shiite Hadith; Analysis of the subject and the contexts of its emergence in contemporary Iran

The emergence of critics of Shiite hadith can be considered a trend that was formed in the contemporary period with the slogan of returning to the Qur'an, combating superstitions and the unity of Muslims and diminishing the role of tradition in the geometry of religious issues in Iran. The present study intends to enumerate the different spectrums and groups of this current of thought by introducing the trend of critics of Shiite hadith in the contemporary period of Iran and its differences with the Qur'an-oriented people. Finally, the most important areas and reasons for the emergence of this trend of thought, which are related to the second and third groups of this trend in this study, are divided into two general areas, which are religious reforms in Judaism and Christianity, familiarity with modernity and civilization in the West, Iranians' acquaintance and relation with the modern thinkers of the Arab world and the specific fields that include the influence of the critics of the Shiite hadith on the Wahhabi movement, the emergence of intellectual personalities and the abandonment of the Qur'an.