The translating of life styles and spiritual (sirah & manaqib) books of the Twelve Imams during the Safavid era

During the Safavid era, different actions were taken to improve and stabilize Shiism in Iran. One of these actions was to translate idealistic and religious texts of Shiite into Persian with the aim of generalizing the Shii culture. In this way, some books about Sira and Manaqeb related to the Imams were translated. Among these books were, kashf-o al-qome fi maarefate al-aema written by Ali ben Isa al-Erbali arose the interest of the translators far more than other texts did, resulting in the appearance of many Persian of that one text. Although these translations helped improve general awareness of shii but it caused scientific degradation of the source texts due to the omission of stated facts and temptations towards epic literature.