The Akhbaris are\none of the most powerful religious currents in Iran and they have considerable\ninfluence on the Hawaza in Iran. This has implications for politicians and\npolitics in the country. The current has shifted from a school of jurisprudence\nthat has its origins, and rules in understanding texts and jurisprudence – to a\ngeneral current resembling an ideological trend. It has transformed from a\nschool with hierarchical rules and restrictions into a popular and public\nplatform. As a result, the Akhbaris have influenced most currents and other\nschools even if they did not adopt all of their arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The revisions\nwithin this current have contributed to the setbacks it experienced after the Iranian revolution in 1979, and the\ndisappearance of its clerics and theorists from the religious and media scene\nin Iran as well as its dormancy in favor of theorists of the revolution and the\nnew religious elite. The Akhbaris dominated the Shiite religious scene for over\ntwo hundred years after it was first established by Istarabadi, before\nhis inactivity due to interrelated\nfactors<\/a>. Some of the reasons for its\ndecline were external such as political interference to strengthen the\nfundamentalist current at the expense of the Akhbari current. The other reasons\nwere internal such as the current\nholding firmly on old narrations without\nacknowledging changing religious and social realities. Therefore, the current\nas well as Istrabadi was incapable of providing juristic opinions and fatwas\nfor the general public. The role of the fundamentalist movement grew in\nsignificance when it adopted ijtihad and responded to the needs of the people.\nThe Hawaza and the religious scene would not have developed in Iran without this current along\nwith its ideas shaping the internal interactions of the Hawaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Akhbaris are one of the most powerful religious currents in Iran and they have considerable influence on the Hawaza in Iran. This has implications for politicians and politics in the country. The current has shifted from a school of jurisprudence that has its origins, and rules in understanding texts and jurisprudence – to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":7442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4123,4125,4124,1384],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centre-for-researches-and-studies","tag-akhbaris","tag-he-valayet-e-faqih","tag-political-dispute","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}