The role of believing in absence in the dynamism of scientific and intellectual life of the Shiites in the third and fourth centuries

The background topics such as what and why always come with the issue of absence in a strong link. The believers are not the only people who are concerned and this is not limited only to the students of religious studies to do the inquiry, but everyone who is interested in history is inevitably grappled with the issue at some point. The representation of such beliefs is not the same in quality or quantity in all Islamic sects and it is more in Twelver Shiites. In the field of scientific and intellectual consequences of the absence the Imamate in Shiism requires deep reflection and dynamism. This article is a review of how Shiites in the third and fourth centuries developed these thoughts. The author's comments in response to why of this issue, paints a different picture of Mahdism which existed in the Shiite scholars. The findings of study are also stated one by one.