Samarra Institute for Shi’i Studies

The Samarra Institute for Shi’i Studies is a research institution that, in the first step, aims to research the belief of Mahdism (Mahdaviat) in Islam and especially in the Twelver Shi’ism, and to peruse other fields of study related to it; such as the challenging ideas of Mahdism, the history and geography of the city of Samarra and other places attributed to the Twelfth Imam of Shi’ism, the seminary of Samarra and its effects on Shi’ism, the literature of this field of Shi’ism, and the like. The second step is to deal with other intellectual and historical characteristics of that religion and to provide admissible researches in the scholarly tradition of Islamic studies.
Our general goals are as follows:
1. Writing books and articles.
2. Writing bibliographical works and catalogues of manuscripts and printed books.
3. Translating scholarly works into Farsi and English.
4. Revival of unprinted manuscripts or those books that need reprinting.
5. Compiling of document collections.