A Report for the Review Sessions of the Book Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative 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 to 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 second chapter of the book "Gholov, Taghsir and Middle way" is a brief look at the evolution of the meaning of Gholov in the Shiite history up to the early period of short occultation. The meaning of Gholov, Tafviz and the mentioned traditions, in this part of the book have been chosen from tradition's source books suchas Al-Kafi by Al-Kolaini, Rejal by Keshshi and Ekhtiyar Marefat Al-Rejal by Sheikh Toosi.