The first part of this period coincides with the Safavid dynasty. The Safavid kings had a strong interest in knowledge and scholars; hence, great scholars such as Allamah Majlisi and others were paid special attention by the rulers, generally titled “Shaykh ul-Islam 43 .” Such attention paid to the scholars in this period led to the migration of many Shi’a scholars of Jabal Aamel in Lebanon to Iran and this caused the spread of the intellectual approach in Shi’a jurisprudence as opposed to the Akhbari 44 attitude.
Je kunaweza kubakia chochote katika kuelezea kubakia hai na kuwapo kwa Imam Mahdi a.s.? (6).Abu Abdillah Muhammad ibn Yusuf bin Muhammad Ghibhi Shafi'i Utunzi wake upo mashuhuri wa kifayat il-taalib na vile vile ameandika kitabu kingine albayan ambacho ameandika khususa juu ya hali ya Imam Zamana a.s. kuzungumzia Uimamu,kuwapo kwake,umri wake mrefu na akiandika na kutoa maelezo juu ya kuwapo kwake Imam al-Mahdi al- Maw-ud a.s.,anaandika: