Background, status and range of Imamate in science word

Imamate and research about Imamate has a special place in ‘Kalam’ discipline, the discipline of seeking theological knowledge through debate and argument. It extracts, explains and set the doctrinal concepts and teachings with the help of Islamic texts, and establishes them according to different methods and approaches within as well as beyond religion and responds to the opposing views and clarifies protestant doubts. There has been discussions about Imamate from the first centuries of Islam, which been raised as the difference between Shia and Sunni. Shia scholars have written books to defend this important belief in early centuries, as the opponents have written works in rejection of Imamate. In addition to doubts spread by the Khawarij movements, Sunnism, Kasraviism, Wahabiism, the position of Imamate in Quran and Hadith also reveals and reinforces the necessity of addressing research on the doctrine of Imamate. The religious texts reveal that Imamate has been a fundamental principle of Islam. Topics in Imamate in both the general and particular would range in three explanatory, proving and defensive. The defensive topics of Imamate also come in four categories of questions. Epistemic position of Imamate is one of the debates be considered in studying Imamate. The question is whether Imamate is a main issue or one of the finer points of religion and whether it is a theological or juridical issue. Islamic thinkers have raised perspective into this issue that will be explained in detail.