The Mankind In The Worlds of "Shadows" and Souls": A Study of the views of the Last century scholars

Creation of the souls of mankind before the creation of their bodies, or coincident. withe it, are from the issues that have attracted the attention of the Shia scholars, with regards to the Islamic traditions that have talked about the creation. In the light of the said traditions, in this part of the article, the thoughte and views of the scholars of last century, in a chronological manner, from Seyed Ismail Tabarsi to Muhammad Asef Mohseni, are provided and briefly reviewed.The study shows that some of them have accepted the theory of coincident creation of soul and body, and therefore, have interpreted the traditions indicating advance creation of souls. The others have accepted the literal meaning of the traditions, and acknowledged that advance creation of souls is a reasonable case.