Publish Date: 8/9/2018 Code: 66742

"A Selection from Radavi Book of Wisdom" Unveiled

A large part of this book is allocated to the debates and questions and answers of Radavi which happened in Marv and includes a lot of philosophies and discusses questions and doubts about monotheism, leadership and other intellectual challenges.

Radavi Book of Wisdom consists of a prelude, eight parts and 45 chapters. In the beginning, a brief outline has been provided about Imam Rida’s life (peace be upon him), the period of his leadership, His Compulsory journey to Khorasan, assent to Ma'mun’s authority, his practical and scientific magnificence, the hadiths quoted from him, his martyrdom and Pilgrimage to his holy shrine. Then the wise words left by him on reason, science, faith, politics, religion and medicine and ethics are reported in a novel order in eight parts.

 A large part of this book is allocated to the debates and questions and answers of Radavi which happened in Marv and includes a lot of philosophies and discusses questions and doubts about monotheism, leadership and other intellectual challenges.

The inclusion of all the Razavi narratives in one series and giving them a logical sequence and order has been the main goal of the present book of wisdom. Maybe, some of these narratives can be found in other sources too, but not in the logical order provided in the present book. In some sources, the narratives about his holiness Imam Reza are juxtaposed with narratives about other imams. Therefore, the purpose of bringing these narratives in order, giving them an organized shape and determining the Shiite legacy Imam Rida (AS) hadiths necessitated the compilation and publication of “Radavi book of wisdom”.

Radavi Book of Wisdom has been published in four volumes in Arabic and Persian by the Sciences and Hadith research institute under the supervision of Ayatollah Mohammadi Ray Shahri and a selection from it has been translated into English by Ahmad Rezwani