The Hermeneutic Movement of Abbasids and the Cultural Revolution of Imam Hasan Askari

This paper tries to discuss how the hermeneutic movement was founded in the Abbasid period and to declare its motives and background and the manner of Imam ‘Askarī to contrast this event. The aim of the study is to find the function of the Abbasid regime and their hermeneutic method and social behavior of the elites and the actions and deeds done by the Imams and Shiites to confront the movement. After the Abbasid inauguration, an important movement was formed to translate the Greek and philosophical works. In this line, the Mu’tazilite received political support. Meanwhile, with the collaboration of foreign translators, especially the Christians, a hermeneutic movement founded and influenced the approach of all intellectual schools, even the Ahl al-Ḥadīth, the traditionalist, the opponents of Mu’tazilites, philosophers, and the reason-oriented currents. In this period, the oral system of Umayyad converted into the written one and this was the comprehensive plan to distort the religion and to eliminate the Shiite Imams. It should be noted, as the movement continued the acts of Shiite Imams and their companions. Imam ‘Askarī founded a written movement, which was unprecedented among the 250 years of the presence of Imams and contrasted the philosophical movement.