The Book “The Islamic Institute between Authenticity and Development”

The book The Islamic Institute between Authenticity and Development, by His Eminence the great marjaʿ Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhammad Taqi al-Modarresi (may his shadow endure), which consisted of talks and visions for developing the Hawzas (seminaries) through the integration of the curriculum, in order to arrive at integration in the scholarly personality, so that it may be a beacon illuminating the paths,

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and so that the scholar may graduate from the Hawza as a scholar of the Mission, preserving authenticity by adhering to the purity of knowledge and of its source, keeping away from the intrusions of Greek philosophical ideas by which some curricula were influenced; and that the scholar may graduate as a man of the Mission, keeping pace with life, working in the way of Allah, and taking contemporary challenges into account.

This valuable book, which no Hawza student can do without, consisted of talks that the Marjaʿ al-Modarresi delivered to the students of the Hawza of al-Qaʾim (aj) in Tehran more than thirty years ago; they were printed in a book more than twenty years ago, and it has been printed several times. Now the book is being issued in a new garb, and its prominent title is: The Hawzas in the Face of the Challenges..

His Eminence the Marjaʿ al-Modarresi has accustomed us to his precedence in views of development and of grounding in authentic roots, which a number of scholars have recently begun to call for,, we ask Allah to grant all sincere scholars success in serving the sacred Law in the best manner.