The intellectual and political life of Shia Imams (Persian: حیات فکری و سیاسی امامان شیعه) is the name of a book by Rasul Jafarian that has been written with the aim of investigating the political and intellectual aspects of the life of the Shiite twelve Imams.
[10][11] Excerpt and summary of this book in 400 pages has been selected by the Research deputy[12] of Islamic Maaref University[13] as a textbook in universities of Iran for history of Imamate course.
[14][15][16][17] The author, Rasul Jafarian, writes in a part of the introduction of the book:[18] "The Imamiyyah branch is a ritual based on the teachings of the Quran, the Prophet and the manners and methods of the Ahl al-Bayt.
A religion that, according to the Quranic view, pays attention to all aspects of human life and, while emphasizing Shiism as the superior Islam, has laid the foundation for the whole of Islam.
[19] In this way, first, he provided information about their birth and personality, and while pointing to the most prominent feature of each of them, then he studied the political and social situation of the time of that Imam.