A Report of the Review Sessions on the Book Crisis and Consolidation in the For Mative Period of Shiite Islam: Abu Jafar ibn Riba Al-Razi and His conribution to Imamite Shiite

The book "Crisis and Consolidation..." was written by Husain Modarresi Tabatabai for two 1) Introducing the history of Shiite Islam as a theological trend in Islam, to western and non-Muslim addresses, 2) Knowing the process of forming the Thought of Shiite in the first 3 centuries of Islam. The first chapter of the book "The Rights and Responsibilities" includes a brief review on the history of Shiite up to the beggining of the short occultation of Imam Mahdi. The traditions quoted in the book of "Crisis and Consolidation...", on the subjects of Imamat, occultation of Imam Mahdi and etc hav been chosen from the traditional sources like "Al-Mahasen" Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khalid Baarghi, "Al-KÌfi" Sheikh Al-Kolaini, "Al-Gheibah" Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Na¨mani, and "Iktiyar Marefat Al-Rejal" Sheikh Tosi.