Political Challenges in the Time of Minor Absence

Abstract

The research presented is a step in highlighting the role of the Imami Shiites in the time of the minor occultation and how these sects faced great and dangerous challenges in that historical period, which were led by unjust authorities and violated all norms in fighting the followers of the Imami school of thought.  Killing, displacement, and bloodshed without justifications, along with their supporters, against those groups, and history confirms the difficulty and danger of that stage and how the followers of Imam Mahdi, may God hasten his relief, were in desperate defense of their faith and their loyalty to the cause of Imam Mahdi during the minor occultation, so the research came to present part of those events in that stage.